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El Pibe

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it was nothing to do with the debate, just an aside regards first mates pondering that if westminster was found to be a hotbed of sexual abuse in the past, might that have some connection to the fact that almost all of them came through the public school system.


It didn't seem an entirely unreasonable hypothesis.


You then had a go at him for homophobia and equating homosexuality with paedohpilia, neither of which did he do, you just misunderstood the word fag.


At no time did you say 'oh yeah whoops my bad'.


I just thought you'd given the chap an unwarranted bashing.

steveo

steveo

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This takes the biscuit: I've just read that the Lord Chancellor Sir Michael Havers persuaded Geoffrey Dickens not to name the MPs in the house.


Baroness Butler-Sloss has just been appointed to lead the sex abuse inquiry. Who was her brother? The late Sir Michael Havers.


Excuse me for being a bit slow to take the idea of a vast cover up seriously

Louisa

Louisa

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DaveR not sure if describe the wearing of a baseball cap in the British sense as unique to any class demographic, it's more complex than that, it has affiliations with all sorts of groups as a form of head ware. However, I take your point. I'd probably go for some sort of arty cloth cap with working class origins but now associated with a more affluent group.


Louisa.

PokerTime

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Fair enough Jeremy and El Pibe. I will conceed that. I was thrown by the use of homoerotic, which still in my opinion has nothing to do with school bullying, and nothing to do with peadophilia. And in the past, peadophilia has been used to suggest homosexuality is akin to sexual criminality/ deviency (a ploy of homophobic lobbyists) - so that's where my accusation of homophobia stemmed from. A misjudged reaction I will though admit.
El Pibe

El Pibe

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Daver, indeed as far as anyone knows it's just Cyril but there have been hints recently that it goes a bit deeper and there were others who either knew or helped facilitate.

But rumours are often baseless so we'll just have to wait for any more detail.


For the record I doubt public school would have any greater correlation to sexual abuse except insofar as grooming people for positions of power means you'll end up with more people in positions of power, with concomitant opportunities for its abuse in one form or another.


We might as well say that public school causes expense fiddling :-)

Help-Ma-Boab

Help-Ma-Boab

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Fair Do's to you PT.


PokerTime Wrote:

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> Fair enough Jeremy and El Pibe. I will conceed

> that. I was thrown by the use of homoerotic, which

> still in my opinion has nothing to do with school

> bullying, and nothing to do with peadophilia. And

> in the past, peadophilia has been used to suggest

> homosexuality is akin to sexual criminality/

> deviency (a ploy of homophobic lobbyists) - so

> that's where my accusation of homophobia stemmed

> from. A misjudged reaction I will though admit.

Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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steveo Wrote:

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> This takes the biscuit: I've just read that the

> Lord Chancellor Sir Michael Havers persuaded

> Geoffrey Dickens not to name the MPs in the

> house.

>

> Baroness Butler-Sloss has just been appointed to

> lead the sex abuse inquiry. Who was her brother?

> The late Sir Michael Havers.

>

> Excuse me for being a bit slow to take the idea of

> a vast cover up seriously.


Hmm... Yes it's reassuring to know that in response of the government's paedophile cover-up stories the government has decided to order a new and comprehensive cover up.

adonirum

adonirum

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Connections connections, there's always close intertwined connections at "the top".


The barristers' chambers headed by Michael Havers back in the late 70's/early 80's also had as a member the shadow attorney general at the time, John Morris Q.C. (Labour). So all political legal advice was pretty well "sewn up" back then.


It was also the chambers where Margaret Thatcher gained her grounding in the law, along with Angus Maude ( the then Paymaster General) one of her closest confidante, and where his son Francis Maude, now a (semi) prominent politician, also practised from.

randombloke

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Louisa Wrote:

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> In a thread of such sensitivity, it seems a shame

> that once again the EDF swings wildly off-topic,

> with yet another self-indulgent game of cat and

> mouse tactics regarding misunderstanding of use of

> words. Just an observation.

>

> Louisa.


Well said!

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