Miss Anne Thrope

you sweet-talker, you...

The Dean

You missed out 'Irish lesbo'............ mind you, so did she............

I still think we are going to discover - via the police - that there is a huge name at the end of this particular rainbow............

Boomhauer

What if the end is anti-climatic, i.e. no big name comes forth? People would be calling the investigation a whitewash, and frankly I couldn't disagree.

Millhouse

Freddie Starr. I can't believe that one wasn't on my list.

Personally, I think that era is going to yield a lot of names, sadly.

typical

From Twitter:

Iain Overton ‏@iainoverton

If all goes well we've got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile.

The Dean

"If all goes well"?

Translation: "If the lawyers don't get an injunction issued......."

Who's Iain Overton anyway?

kimilseung

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...le-claims.html

typical

... and if the Beeb don't get too scared (like they did over the Savile expose in the first place).

Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Millhouse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20182106

"a leading Thatcher-era Conservative politician took part in the abuse"

Boomhauer

"In the home it was the standard abuse which was violent and sexual. Outside it was like you were sold, we were taken to the Crest Hotel in Wrexham, mainly on Sunday nights, where they would rent rooms," Mr Messham recalled in this latest interview.

"One particular night that I always recall is when I was basically raped, tied down, and abused by nine different men."

lullabelle

Not just one. This ties into some major allegations that were doing the rounds at sky back in the early 90's. Very big names, a veritable web of deception that covers VIP's, Diplomats and lots of politicians and tory party grandees of the thatcher era (and still around.) It was called a rent boy ring though, I don't remember it being called a paedophile ring.

I'm hearing that the papers are going to go for it this time as they they were muzzled back then. I'm not so sure. It is so damaging to brand Britain that it could all get hushed up again. Having said that, it's all available to read about online, easy to find. So perhaps it will all finally come out. People didn't have that option back then and I remember discussing it with my parents and they flat out didn't believe me.

Millhouse

I've read a lot of this online stuff... always question the source / allegation etc. but if its true... jesus, it'll be a shocker.

The Dean

Why do/should the papers care about Brand Britain? They love an excuse to knock the country.

lullabelle

Sorry maybe that wasn't clear. It's not the papers who care about brand Britain but the politicians and big businessmen, especially after this Olympic summer where a huge amount of time effort and money went into improving trade links etc. A scandal of this magnitude would damage that.

Miss Anne Thrope

I consider myself pretty well versed in politics and I was an even more keen observer in the 1980's (since I was an idle student then, sadly, I even used to watch the daytime party conference coverage - which reminds me, why do Labour conference speakers pronounce "composite" to rhyme with "parasite"?...never understood that..anyway...).

However, I had to rack my brain to place the PM's aide whose name was the only one I could find when trawling for this as the still-living big name Tory involved (there is a dead guy also whose name I have yet to uncover). I can remember most of Thatcher's cabinets and this bloke was not one of the big figures in any of them though I guess he was a more behind-the-scenes operator but even then no Parkinson or Ingham or Cosgrove or the like.

Have I missed something then?