Cyril Smith - the revellations

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55palfers

5,915 posts

165 months

Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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Something stinks doesn't it.

carinaman

21,332 posts

173 months

Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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Interesting timing after the Australian 60 minutes programme broadcast on Sunday.

They've conceded a bit of old news as a delaying tactic?

Hopefully someone will ask Dame Fiona Woolf about the Brittan stuff.

rover 623gsi

5,230 posts

162 months

Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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information revealed on the day after the Commons rose for its summer break...

convenient

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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rover 623gsi said:
information revealed on the day after the Commons rose for its summer break...

convenient
Someone is taking the piss out of all of us.

carinaman

21,332 posts

173 months

Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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desolate said:
rover 623gsi said:
information revealed on the day after the Commons rose for its summer break...

convenient
Someone is taking the piss out of all of us.
Justice Lowell Goddard 63rd of 63 on a league table of New Zealand judges. If I was her I'd be stretching it out for a decade too.

Fantic SuperT

887 posts

221 months

Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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desolate said:
rover 623gsi said:
information revealed on the day after the Commons rose for its summer break...
convenient
Someone is taking the piss out of all of us.
Lessons learned etc. etc.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

124 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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Sir Clement Freud exposed as a paedophile

Telegraph said:
Sir Clement Freud, the former broadcaster and politician, was exposed on Tuesday night as a paedophile who sexually abused girls as young as 10 for decades.

Freud, who died in 2009, spent years abusing a girl who he brought up as a daughter, and violently raped a teenager while he was an MP.

His widow, Lady Freud, has apologised to his victims, saying she is “shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry” for what her husband of 58 years did to them.

Don

28,377 posts

285 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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BlackLabel said:
Sir Clement Freud exposed as a paedophile

Telegraph said:
Sir Clement Freud, the former broadcaster and politician, was exposed on Tuesday night as a paedophile who sexually abused girls as young as 10 for decades.

Freud, who died in 2009, spent years abusing a girl who he brought up as a daughter, and violently raped a teenager while he was an MP.

His widow, Lady Freud, has apologised to his victims, saying she is “shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry” for what her husband of 58 years did to them.
Horribly disappointing news.

Edited by Don on Wednesday 15th June 06:58

rover 623gsi

5,230 posts

162 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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HIs wife's comments certainly suggest she either knew about it or had her suspicions

Digga

40,373 posts

284 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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Don said:
Horribly disappointing news.
I'd agree. Used to love his contributions to Just a Minute.

I guess now at least it is easier to understand his morosity. I have to say, there was something really rotten at the heart of the BBC.

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

153 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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The party have gone straight to apologise as well, rather than an attempt to defend his reputation.

There seems to have been an instant and total admission of guilt.

It all seems very strange. I usually don't like the accusation = definite guilt culture that is creeping in through the media (mass and social) - but the writing is definitely on the wall vis a vis his guilt if no one is contesting it.

But it does make you wonder why, when you natural instinct would surely to be to defend your loved ones reputation....



Edited by Vocal Minority on Wednesday 15th June 10:41

rohrl

8,746 posts

146 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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rover 623gsi said:
HIs wife's comments certainly suggest she either knew about it or had her suspicions
No they don't. The first word she says is that she is shocked.

Let's please not try to spread the blame onto her without any evidence whatsoever.

boyse7en

6,742 posts

166 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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rover 623gsi said:
HIs wife's comments certainly suggest she either knew about it or had her suspicions
No they don't at all! She says she is shocked, which implies that she had no idea about his actions.

Don

28,377 posts

285 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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It is entirely plausible that his wife and others knew nothing.

People are horribly good at compartmentalising their life. There's the husband, father, grandfather, friend, neighbour, and kindly old gent as well as the abuser.

Nearly all the time,as someone else, you will only see good facets. Sometimes he could probably convince himself that the bad part of him wasn't there...

FredClogs

14,041 posts

162 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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So Clement, tell us about your relationship with your Grandfather...

motco

15,972 posts

247 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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boyse7en said:
rover 623gsi said:
HIs wife's comments certainly suggest she either knew about it or had her suspicions
No they don't at all! She says she is shocked, which implies that she had no idea about his actions.
One of the accusers says Freud indecently assaulted her while his wife was present.

Thorodin

2,459 posts

134 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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And that she visited the marital bed making three of them. The wife allegedly left the bed to make breakfast.

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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Thorodin said:
And that she visited the marital bed making three of them. The wife allegedly left the bed to make breakfast.
Posh people have always done things differently to the rest of us.


Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

171 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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And the wife bedded Will Self's 16 yo brother reportedly.

Did Will Self know Freud, they both had/have the same affectatious pseudo-intellectual drawl?

Soov535

35,829 posts

272 months

Wednesday 15th June 2016
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Grim