The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?

[Jan Klimkowski]

The copies of Geoffrey Dickens MP's dossier of elite paedophiles have been destroyed: to protect the criminals, and in the case of the family's copy, out of fear.

My emphasis in bold.

Tory MP warned of powerful paedophile ring 30 years ago

New evidence supports claim former backbencher's life was threatened

Friday 22 February 2013 The Independent

A burly veteran of scores of amateur boxing bouts, the Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens was best known during his bustling 16-year career in Parliament as a pugnacious right-winger who supplied "hang em and flog em" quotes to the tabloids.

Eighteen years after his death, however, the backbencher's reputation as a political lightweight is being revised in the wake of a Scotland Yard investigation which is exhuming a scandal long buried in the Westminster of Margaret Thatcher's premiership.

New evidence suggests that Dickens stumbled upon an Establishment paedophile ring in the early 1980s and that his efforts to expose a cover-up left him in fear of his life. Dickens told fellow MPs that after warning of the existence of the network, he had received threatening phone calls and been burgled twice. He also claimed he had been placed on a "hit-list", he told the House of Commons in a little-noticed speech.

For four years between 1981 and 1985, Dickens railed in Parliament against a paedophile ring which he claimed was connected to a trade in child pornography, then controlled by gangsters.

In 1981 Dickens had used Parliamentary privilege to name a diplomat and MI6 operative, Sir Peter Hayman as a pederast and demanded the Attorney General explain why he had escaped prosecution over the discovery of violent pornography on a London bus two years previously.

Two years later, in 1983, he warned a paedophile network involved "big, big names people in positions of power, influence and responsibility" and threatened to expose them in Parliament.

In 1984, he campaigned for the outlawing of Sir Peter's Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) organisation. He also handed a dossier containing allegations of abuse of children in local authority care to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan.

After a 30-minute meeting with Sir Leon, Dickens said he had been "encouraged" but later expressed concern that the Cabinet Minister had not banned the PIE.

Last month Metropolitan Police began Operation Fernbridge into allegations that residents of a childrens home in Richmond, west London, were taken to the nearby Elm Guest House in Barnes, where they were abused. Pornography involving adults having sex with children was allegedly shot at the property and then circulated commercially.

Sir Peter was among the visitors to the property. Others, according to a list seized by Scotland Yard last month, were the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith, the former Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt, a Sinn Fein politician, a Labour MP, and several Conservative politicians.

After neighbours complained about the arrival of children, the police raided the guesthouse in 1982 but the operation was mysteriously cut short. A 2003 investigation also failed.

During a debate on child abuse in the House of Commons on 29 November 1985, Dickens warned that paedophiles were "evil and dangerous," adding child pornography generated "vast sums."

He went on: "The noose around my neck grew tighter after I named a former high-flying British diplomat on the Floor of the House.

"Honourable Members will understand that where big money is involved and as important names came into my possession so the threats began.

"First, I received threatening telephone calls followed by two burglaries at my London home. Then, more seriously, my name appeared on a multi-killer's hit list."

The Independent can find no corroboration for Dickens' comments.

However twenty-eight years after he made them, Scotland Yard officers kept their new investigation secret for weeks, fearful that it would be closed down like earlier inquiries.

In a blog on his website, the Labour MP Tom Watson whose claims of a powerful paedophile network prompted the new inquiry said that he had been advised by childcare experts who have tried to expose the scandal to be careful about his personal security. He has asked the Home Office for the dossier presented by Dickens to Sir Leon, but it has not yet been found.

Dickens does not appear to have raised the issue in the Commons again prior to his death in 1995. He told friends he was surprised he had never been made a minister.

The MP: a man of verve

Geoffrey Dickens was one of the most colourful characters in the Commons during the 1980s and 1990s. Born in London in 1931, he was raised in foster care until he was eight.

He suffered polio at the age of 13 but recovered to become a heavyweight boxer. Mr Dickens was elected MP for Huddersfield West in 1979 and for Littleborough and Saddleworth in 1983, which he represented until his death in 1995.

His obituary in The Independent concluded that whatever might be said of him, Dickens was "a man of colour, verve and dedication who stood out often for the wrong reasons among the dull Parliamentarians of our time."

[Jan Klimkowski]

The official version is pretty damning.

And it is of course an official version.

Aka limited hangout.

BBC News

The allegations uncovered by HMIC include:

A missed opportunity to investigate Savile in 1963 when a male victim reported to Cheshire police that he had been raped by Savile. An officer told the victim to "forget about it". Cheshire Police says it can find no record of the allegation.

A man who reported to police in London that his girlfriend had been assaulted at a recording of Top of the Pops and was warned that he "could be arrested for making such allegations" and sent away

In 1964 intelligence about Savile was entered into a ledger used by the Met's paedophile unit. It said the DJ had visited an address used by girls who had absconded from Duncroft Approved School in Surrey. There is no record of any investigation

Anonymous allegations sent to the Met in 1998 in a letter that described Savile as a "deeply committed paedophile"

In 2003, the Met also compiled a crime report relating to a complaint about a 1970s incident

In 2007, Surrey Police compiled a report after complaints from three victims and the following year a Sussex report focused on a complaint from one victim.

Pursue Savile and you'll be arrested.

Is that clear?

Jimmy Savile police 'reluctant to investigate because of celebrity status'

Watchdog highlights failures in information sharing between forces and reveals DJ could have been stopped in 1964

Josh Halliday and Haroon Siddique
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 March 2013 08.59 GMT

Jimmy Savile's celebrity status contributed to the police's failure to prevent him sexually abusing hundreds of young people over five decades when they could have stopped him in the 1960s, the compiler of a highly critical report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has said.

The watchdog's inquiry into the police's handling of Savile revealed that the disgraced DJ, who died in October 2011, could have been stopped as early as 1964 but police mishandled evidence and dismissed victims.

Drusilla Sharpling, from HMIC, said police appeared to be reluctant to investigate Savile because of his high public profile.

"It is clear that because of several Savile's celebrity status and the power, maybe people do look for that extra piece of evidence, behaving with an extra sense of caution, because of the power he wielded," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday.

In a 61-page report to the home secretary, Theresa May, HMIC raised fresh concerns about information sharing in the police and warned that officers could fail to prevent a Savile-like scandal happening again.

The inspectorate described a "cultural mistrust" of evidence from children, warning that procedures adopted by various agencies over many years had left vulnerable young people unprotected by the criminal justice system.

"The findings in this report are of deep concern, and clearly there were mistakes in how the police handled the allegations made against Savile during his lifetime," said Sharpling.

"However, an equally profound problem is that victims felt unable to come forward and report crimes of sexual abuse."

She said there were two key recommendations identified by HMIC. The first was an obligation on those who, in the course of their professional duties, become aware of information or evidence that a child is or has been the victim of abuse, to notify others. The second was to make the management of information on the Police National Database (PND) "slicker and more comprehensive".

Five allegations of sexual assault were recorded against Savile in his lifetime, according to HMIC compared with the 600 made since October last year, when the Metropolitan police launched its Operation Yewtree investigation.

Meanwhile, eight victims have so far come forward with concerns about how their allegations against Savile were handled and the inspectorate revealed examples of how a series of complaints about him were dismissed by police officers.

In 1963, a Cheshire man was told by a police officer to "forget about it" and "move on" when he reported an allegation of rape by Savile, according to HMIC.

Another man who tried to report an assault his girlfriend had suffered at a recording of Top of the Pops was told by police he "could be arrested for making such allegations" and dismissed.

The inspectorate investigated seven incidents including five sexual assault complaints by victims and two pieces of intelligence and concluded that a failure to join the dots left police unable to derail Savile's five-decade reign of abuse.

In an alarming finding, HMIC warned that inconsistencies in intelligence-sharing by police forces meant there was a "distinct possibility" the failure to identify Savile's pattern of abuse could be repeated.

HMIC said it was sufficiently concerned that it will review information management in the police later this year just two years after the PND was set up.

Referring to Michael Bichard's recommendations to reform intelligence sharing in 2004, the HMIC report said: "It is a matter of some concern that, in 2007, in the post-Bichard era, the failures of the past may still have been repeated."

Evidence uncovered by HMIC suggests Savile was known to Met officers investigating child sex offences as early as 1964 the same year he presented the first edition of Top of the Pops.

The inquiry also turned up an anonymous letter received by the Metropolitan police in 1998, which it said was "never properly investigated", despite suggesting that Savile changed his telephone number as a result of a blackmail attempt.

HMIC's report also raises further questions for West Yorkshire police, which said in February that some officers regularly visited Savile's Leeds home while on duty.

Two former West Yorkshire police officers and a relative of an officer have come forward to state they were aware of concerns surrounding Savile's contact with young girls, the report said.

As the force for the area where Savile lived throughout his life, West Yorkshire should have received three key pieces of intelligence, according to HMIC, but has only been able to confirm receipt of a letter from the Met in 1998.

An inspector from the force who may have "acted on behalf" of Savile is under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

Chief Constable Mike Barton, who speaks on intelligence for the Association of Chief Police Officers, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was confident improvements had been made. He said if allegations were reported anywhere in the country and similar allegations were made simultaneously elsewhere, they would now be able to "join the dots".

[Malcolm Pryce]

Yes, and note too the sleight of hand in spinning it as his celebrity status that protected him, rather than people in positions of power. It's more comforting to know it was something as benign and amorphous as celebrity status; and you can't put 'celebrity status' on trial. It's like the WMD debacle where mistakes were made, but no one made them.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Yes, and note too the sleight of hand in spinning it as his celebrity status that protected him, rather than people in positions of power. It's more comforting to know it was something as benign and amorphous as celebrity status; and you can't put 'celebrity status' on trial. It's like the WMD debacle where mistakes were made, but no one made them.

Indeed.

Savile procured for those more powerful than him.

And his "celebrity halo" was added protection for those powerful ones.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The truth the powerful are still trying to bury:

Police failings put dozens of children at risk from notorious paedophile ring

Documents reveal some visitors at Elm Guest House went on to commit series of child sex offences

Martin Hickman The Independent

Sunday 03 March 2013

Scores of children might have been protected from kidnap, rape and indecent assault if the police had smashed an alleged establishment paedophile ring operating at a suburban house in London in the 1980s.

At least three men listed in documents as visitors to Elm Guest House in Rocks Lane, Barnes, were later convicted of multiple sex offences against children, The Independent can disclose.

A team of detectives in Scotland Yard's Paedophile Unit is investigating historic allegations that powerful individuals linked to Buckingham Palace, the Conservative Party and the legal profession routinely abused children at the three-storey property in the early 1980s.

The guest house was established as a refuge for homosexuals in the 1970s, but soon became a place where men had sex with young prostitutes and later, allegedly, boys and girls from the now-closed Grafton Close children's home in nearby Hounslow. Police raided the property in 1982 and charged its owner, German-born Carole Kasir, with keeping an immoral house but did not arrest any guests.

Childcare professionals liaising with the current Metropolitan Police investigation, Operation Fernbridge, claim that the inquiry in 1982 and another one in 2003 were stymied by an establishment cover-up.

It can also be disclosed that two children disappeared in south-west London during the heyday of Elm Guest House.

Martin Allen, a 15-year-old boy, vanished on 5 November, 1979. A member of the public saw an apprehensive boy fitting his description with a man on a Tube train travelling towards Earl's Court. On the evening of the Royal Wedding in 1981, eight-year-old Vishal Mehotra went missing in Putney. Neither boy was seen again.

While the Metropolitan Police told The Independent that the boys' disappearances were not being re-investigated, the predatory nature of some of those who stayed at the Elm Guest House will raise concerns that they could have been targeted.

Anthony Milsom, a paedophile from Hull, who is alleged to have stayed at the property, later moved to Newtown, Powys, where he was convicted of a string of sex offences dating back to the 1990s, including 21 counts of making indecent photographs of children and five counts of indecent assault on a girl when she was aged between 4 and eight. He was jailed indefinitely at Mold Crown Court in March 2011, but six months later appeal court judges reduced his sentence to three-and-a-half years. Another alleged visitor was Colin Peters, a Foreign Office barrister, who was jailed in 1989 for being part of a network which molested hundreds of boys. Reports at the time said the ring "was used by highly placed civil servants and well-known public officials".

The most infamous alleged visitor to Elm Guest House was Warwick Spinks, a violent paedophile who in 1995 was jailed for a series of sexual offences on boys, including serious sexual assault at knifepoint, taking a child without lawful authority and taking indecent images of children. Lewes Crown Court heard that he had he drugged a 14-year-old boy and "sold him" to a gay brothel in Amsterdam.

According to documents kept by a former children's worker, visitors to the property included the Soviet spy Sir Anthony Blunt and the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith, who is now thought by Manchester police to have assaulted teenage boys.

Another was Sir Peter Hayman, Britain's former High Commissioner in Canada.

Brittan has 'no recollection' of dossier

A senior minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet handed a dossier containing allegations of paedophilia in Buckingham Palace and the diplomatic and civil services says he cannot remember receiving the file.

In November 1983 Sir Leon Brittan, the Home Secretary, was given the dossier by the late Geoffrey Dickens, as part of his campaign against the Paedophile Information Exchange.

Asked by The Independent this week what the dossier alleged and what action, if any, he took, Sir Leon, a QC and later European Commissioner, replied by email: "I have no recollection of these matters. Sorry!"

[Peter Lemkin]

Tom Flanagan … is the neocon pope no more, having uttered the astonishing opinion at a seminar the previous evening in the deep-south Alberta city of Lethbridge that child pornography is, if not exactly OK, more of a freedom of expression issue than an exploitation of children issue. Not only that, but in response to a questioner at the University of Lethbridge seminar, Flanagan informed his audience he'd once been on the mailing list of the North American Man-Boy Love Association for two years. One can only hope this was in error, as he seemed to be implying. …

I it's been understood for a while that Flanagan hitherto best known for his role as self-proclaimed godfather to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political career, signatory to the Alberta separatist Firewall Manifesto, chief strategist of Alberta's far-right Wildrose Party and advocate of the assassination of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has a small problem with knowing when not to use his outside voice. But one would have thought that he would have realized by now in the age of the tiny phone-mounted digital camera that any voice one chooses to use even a whisper is in effect your outside voice. …

Perhaps the U of L's classroom ambience made the American-born neocon icon forget he was not back in the loving embrace of the University of Calgary, where his odious economic views have been treated as infallible and inspired by generations of students and administrators since the late 1960s? …

Alas for Flanagan, he is also known for controversial and unsympathetic views about First Nations rights, which inspired Idle No More activists to attend his lecture. One of them, a young man from the nearby Blood Tribe named Levi Little Moustache, brought a digital camera and asked an unsympathetic question although he, like many others in the room and out of it, gasped with shock when Flanagan uttered his career-ending opinion.

Within hours Flanagan discovered that even for a pal of the prime minister and comfortable senior Conservative party ideologue known as the Karl Rove of Canadian politics, there are limits to what may be said aloud without consequences especially when it's posted on Youtube.

In the hours after the video of Flanagan's remarks went viral, spokesthingies for conservative groups and political parties, previously obsequious media organizations and once-sympathetic employers were practically knocking over the furniture in their haste to be the first to tack their former neoconservative idol to the wall. …

[Jan Klimkowski]

Disenguous, self-serving and highly revealing garbage from the Archbishop of Durban.

Of course there's a cycle of abuse where the abused may become abusers themselves.

The Catholic Church should be striving to break that cycle of abuse, not perpetuating it by hiding the crimes of priests and allowing them to continue abusing.

Paedophilia is an illness NOT a crime, says cardinal just days after papal conclave

Claimed people abused as youngsters who then become paedophiles 'not criminally responsible'
Says paedophilia 'is an illness, not a criminal condition'
Says those people do not deserve to be punished because they are damaged


Pope Francis said that he wants a 'church for the poor'

By Anna Edwards

PUBLISHED: 09:02, 16 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:20, 16 March 2013

Daily Mail

A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis has described paedophilia as a psychological illness and not 'a criminal condition'.

The Catholic Archbishop of Durban, Wilfrid Fox Napier, told BBC Radio 5 live that people who were abused as children and became paedophiles were not criminally responsible for their actions in the same way as somebody 'who chooses to do something like that'.

Cardinal Napier, who was among the 115 cardinals in the conclave at the Vatican that elected Pope Francis earlier this week, called paedophilia a 'psychological disorder.

And just three days into the new role, the pope and the Catholic Church are now faced with fresh child abuse controversy after the cardinal's remarks.
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Newly elected Pope Francis (right), is given a yellow Catholic faith bracelet by Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of South Africa following a meeting at the Vatican (left). The South African cardinal claimed that paedophilia is an 'illness'

He said: 'What do you do with disorders? You have got to try and put them right.

'If I as a normal being choose to break the law knowing that I am breaking the law, then I think I need to be punished...

'From my experience paedophilia is actually an illness, it is not a criminal condition, it is an illness.'

The cardinal spoke of two priests he knew who were abused as children and went on to become paedophiles.

He told the BBC: 'Don't tell me that those people are criminally responsible like somebody who chooses to do something like that.


The cardinal said that in his experience, paedophilia is an illness, not a criminal condition, and the people who have been abused as children and then molest others are 'damaged'
Pope Francis explained to journalists in an audience today that he was a 'church for the poor'

Pope Francis explained to journalists in an audience today that he wants a 'church for the poor'

'I don't think you can really take the position and say that person deserves to be punished when he was himself damaged.'

Barbara Dorries, from the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests was abused as a child by a priest.

She told the BBC: 'If it is a disease that's fine, but it's also a crime and crimes are punished, criminals are held accountable for what they did and what they do.

'The bishops and the cardinals have gone to great lengths to cover these crimes to enable the predators to move on, to not be arrested, to keep the secrets within the church.'

The cardinal has made controversial statements before, maintaining that people should abstain from sex rather than use contraceptives, to stop spreading HIV.

He took the official Roman Catholic Stance and argued that government programmes to distribute condoms were ineffectual in stemming the spread of HIV.

Instead, he supported programmes based around abstinence.

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

The cardinal is a prolific Twitter user, and has kept his followers up to date about the conclave and his meetings with the newly ordained pope.

He wrote: 'Last 2 days quite unreal. Mass with Pope Francis in Santa Martha Chapel, Breakfast, Lunch & Supper with him sitting at a different table!

'What's it like in Conclave? Apart from NO radio or TV, NO newspapers or phone calls, Emails or SMS's, NO Twitter or Facebook, all is normal.'
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Pope Francis I sits in the Paul VI general audience hall during an audience for members of the media

The pope thanked the media and told them how he had come to choose his name, saying he wanted Francis of Assisi who represented 'poverty and peace'

'We chat, discuss, get to know each other. Meals are special times. We relax, share stories about our home Churches, dream about the future!'

Pope Francis has said he wants 'a poor Church, for the poor' following his election as head of the Catholic Church.

In a meeting with journalists, the Pontiff said he was inspired to choose the name Francis after the 12th Century saint Francis of Assisi.

He said when news broke that he had been selected, a Brazilian colleague embraced him in congratulations and whispered 'don't forget the poor', the BBC reported.

He chose the Italian saint because he represented 'poverty and peace'.

Newly elected Pope Francis waves as he held his first meeting with journalists - who praised him for his warmth and friendliness

He urged journalists to share the church's focus on 'truth, goodness and beauty', and thanked them for their hard work.

The pope shook hands, held them, embraced people and was warm.

A blind reporter who was accompanied by a guide dog met the pope, and he patted the dog and stroked it, to cheers from the audience, Sky news reported.

He is due to celebrate mass tomorrow and will take part in an inaugural mass on Tuesday.

Pope Francis will visit his predecessor at the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo next Saturday in a historic encounter that brings together the new pope and the first pope to resign in six centuries.

The meeting will be private, but every comment and gesture on the sidelines will be scrutinised for hints of how the unprecedented relationship will take shape between the emeritus pontiff and his successor.

Benedict has been out of the public eye since officially leaving the papacy on February 28.

The Vatican dismissed any suggestion that the former pope helped shaped the discussions inside the secret gathering of cardinals that selected Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio on Wednesday as the first pontiff from Latin America.

Vatican officials said there was no contact between the papal electors and Benedict before the conclave.

[Magda Hassan]

BREAKING: Australian Entertainer, 82, Arrested On Suspicion Of Sexual Offences

Written by Mike Hohnen on 29th March, 2013
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[/URL] The BBC have reported that an 82-year-old Australian entertainer has been arrested on suspicion of sex offences, as Operation Yewtree broaden their investigation into child sex claims against the late Jimmy Savile.
According to a police statement, released a few hours ago, an 82-year-old man from Berkshire, UK was arrested some time last night. The Met have yet to release the name of the individual involved.
Tom Savage, editor of The Daily Star newspaper, has tweeted that the man in custody is Rolf Harris.
This recent arrest comes from Operation Yewtree investigations under the category of "Others", defined as relating to alleged complaints against other people unconnected to the Jimmy Savile investigations but, according to the police spokesperson, "generally people who were in the public spotlight at around that time".
A bail hearing will be held some time in May.
More to come.

http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/breaking-a...-offences/


If only that was all he was touching.

[Jan Klimkowski]

As the song goes....

Two little boys had two little toys
Each had a wooden horse
Gaily they played each summers day
Warriors both of course
One little chap then had a mishap
Broke off his horses head
Wept for his toy, then cried with joy
As his young playmate said

Did you think I would leave you crying
When there's room on my horse for two
Climb up here, Jack and don't be crying
I can go just as fast with two
When we grow up we'll both be soliders
And our horses will not be toys
And I wonder if we'll remember when we were
Two little boys

[Magda Hassan]

THE PAEDOFILE: Downing Street accused of gagging' victim support groups

All Quiet on the Rocks Lane team as more history of blatant cover-up emerges

Recently, a paedophilia victims support group was raided by police, and evidence removed. This morning, Downing Street stands accused of restricting funds to help people sexually abused as children. The plan seems to be to starve the outers of the money they need to blow the whistle on a long-standing and appalling history of cover-up at the highest levels of government.
Just how long this history is becomes apparent when reading accounts like that of former Met cop, Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll. Way back in the nineties, Driscoll was given the task of finding out who the *paedophiles were preying on kids in Lambeth Council childrens' homes.
However, his superiors quickly decided they didn't like the names he came up with. He was summarily removed from the case and put on disciplinary charges. His crime was revealing the names of *politicians among the suspects. And at least one of those was rather too close to the police for comfort.
Disturbed that Clive had been sidelined, former Labour councillor Anna Tapsell got a less than friendly visit from senior Plod warning her not to make any complaints, after she raised concerns that detectives would turn a blind eye to allegations of *paedophile activity in care homes.
Clive Driscoll had an unblemished career in the Met going back twenty-five years or more, but he had a regulation 15 disciplinary notice dumped on his head after naming several politicians in a confidential' council *officials meeting in 1999.
And that was the end of that. The Home Secretary at the time was Jack Straw.
If nobody prosecutes, these deadly perverts escape unscathed. If nobody checks, they carry on as normal: last week a convicted paedophile called John Wills from Stowmarket in Suffolk was found in north Durham….operating as a scout leader for the 1st Chopwell scout group. No doubt he got the job using recommendations' from the Odessa-style network of powerful paedophiles who erase records, lose documents, destroy evidence, and blackmail fellow politicians.
This is how a civilisation sinks into the slime.
But those old, carefully buried files keep on being reopened. The Exaro team notes that police have restarted their investigation into disgraceful (and overwhelming) allegations of sexual abuse of the children unlucky enough to have been housed at the Kincora boys' home in East Belfast in Northern Ireland.
There are now thirty major police teams investigating abuse allegations within the UK care home, teaching, and local government professions. Sadly, investigate' is all the Plods ever seem to do. We must all keep up the pressure….and perhaps start by asking why Victim Support Grants are to be cut, while a bunch of plonkers like the British Council go from strength to strength.
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/...rt-groups/