BBC to out Senior Political Figure as Paedophile

[Cool Box]

Nom de ploom said:

I think I read somewhere that Saville was a personal guest of Thatcher at the tory christmas parties for some years...

He was a regular New Year's Eve party guest at Chequers.

[elster]

Hasnt this story just been killed

[turbobloke]

tvrtim said:

Now 7/4

Not any longer

[maxxy5]

If newsnight don't broadcast the name, this is going to go the way of the Ryan Giggs affair.

[petemurphy]

hope its not the forest fan

[don4l]

rohrl said:

I wouldn't call Cyril Smith a senior politician but I did read something about his penchant for spanking boys yesterday.

Reminds me of a 1970's joke.

Q. How do you get 4 Liberals on a bar stool?
A. Turn it upside down.

[williamp]

I must admit, rather then move the spotlight off the bbc, I feel it puts more light onto them: why were they keeping this information all this time? Just how high up does the cover-up go??

[Derek Smith]

williamp said:

I must admit, rather then move the spotlight off the bbc, I feel it puts more light onto them: why were they keeping this information all this time? Just how high up does the cover-up go??

There is always a way of turning everything round to suit.

[Cool Box]

williamp said:

I must admit, rather then move the spotlight off the bbc, I feel it puts more light onto them: why were they keeping this information all this time? Just how high up does the cover-up go??

The BBC were taken in by his charm, just like Thatcher and the Royals.

[DonnyMac]

NewsNight... This will be interesting, McShame gets caught 'fiddling'...

Not the best time to get busted defrauding the tax payer when breaking news of a political figure gets outed for playing with kids.

[Victor McDade]

Bit of an anti-climax.

[lenny007]

So they don't have the evidence to name names but do have enough to state it was a senior Tory.

Yeah, can't see anyone thinking there's bias at the Beeb at all.

[Astacus]

They are not going to name him are they

So all that liberal hand wringing and cries of "wont somebody think of the children" is all hipocritical hogwash isnt it.

Well done BBC, thats what I call the fourth estate, speaking truth unto power and holding the powerful to account.

Hurrah for good old Auntie

[rover 623gsi]

super injunction

[eharding]

Very odd that all of the on-location and interview footage seems to have been recorded with the full expectation of not being able to name this High Profile Figure - unless, possibly, they recorded numerous versions and didn't decide which ones to air until half way through the preceding episode of QI.

As it stands, it appears that the BBC rolled a hand-grenade into the Tory Elder Grandee Tent, but lacked the bottle to actually pull the pin out beforehand.

[DonnyMac]

Disgrace and now potentially complicit.

[Pesty]

Seems a repeat of what happened in teh late 90's when all this was brought up before.

[petemurphy]

DonnyMac said:

Disgrace and now potentially complicit.

this.

either name a name - as an allegation not fact unlike the tweet - or dont show it at all. papers always happy to print accused normally so why not now. heads should roll. again.

[Derek Smith]

Politicians have criticised the BBC for not naming Savile.

The BBC want to name a senior tory and they are stopped doing so, presumably by an injuntion.

I think the BBC have put their case clearly.

[dave stew]

Just watch Esther Rantzen squirm out of this. "I never knew anything" etc...