Labour: The Gay Divorce

Peter Brookes, The Times.

I hate Tom Watson so much.

VIP Paedophile Ring: Oops!

A key witness in the VIP paedophile scandal says that he can no longer stand by claims attributed to him that he was a witness to two murders.

The man, known as Darren, told The Times that in dealings with journalists, campaigners, politicians and police over the past two years he had felt under pressure to make allegations and disclose names. He said he wished he had never spoken out about his allegations of child abuse and wanted no further contact with detectives who were still trying to investigate his claims.

Darren said: “I feel like I’ve been used. Making the allegations has destroyed my life and left me vulnerable.”

He was also in email contact with Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, who raised the prospect of a Westminster paedophile ring in the House of Commons in 2012. The Times has seen a message to Darren in which Mr Watson offered to email the Metropolitan police to “chivvy them up a bit” in relation to one investigation...

The Times.

Surely it's time for the hysyterical witchfinder Tom Watson to resign?

Tom Watson: The Hardest Word

Yeah, right...

Great quotes of our time; 'I certainly did not want to take part in a baseless witch hunt...'

And I am Marie of Romania.

Hysteria Watch: Islamism Is The New Paedo Panic

Convicted terrorists and other extremists will be put on a register that mirrors the vetting regime used by authorities to check if a person has a conviction for child sex abuse.

It will ensure they are ‘automatically banned from working with children… in the same way as individuals convicted of sexual offences against children’, a Downing Street official said last night.

During a party conference speech earlier this month, the Prime Minister warned that ‘passive tolerance’ of extremism and a failure to make Muslim communities integrate had put Britain’s children in ‘danger’.

Today he will say the ‘stakes are rising’ and Britain can no longer ‘turn a blind eye’ to fanatics who are brainwashing children to take part in terrorism or become jihadis...

Daily Mail.

All sounds a bit Section 28 to me.

And rather McCarthyite.

How long before Tom Watson starts naming and shaming perfectly innocent people?

Tom Watson: A Heated Debate

David Aaronvitch debates those evidence-free VIP paedophile ring fantasies with some mad conspiracy theorist Peter Jukes - with hilarious results!

'I think there was a period of madness, and it also involved the press, we shouldn't just implicate politicians in this...' 

Mr Tinfoil-Hat's stunning argument is that when people call it a 'witchhunt', it suggests they believe that, like witchcraft, child abuse does not exist!

See also Tom Watson: The unacceptable face of the paedo panic, Tim Black, Spiked.

Fraser Nelson on Tom Watson's collusion with the cops.

Why won’t the Met speak out on Tom Watson’s biggest claim? The police have found no evidence for ‘a paedophile network linked to No. 10’. They should now admit it. Alistair Jackson, Panorama - the best summary of the case against Watson's claims there was a 'VIP paedophile ring'.

Und! Tom Watson Attacks Child Abuse Victim in Online Rant!!! Telegraph.

Dear Pot...

Sunday Times: Signs Of The Times

TWO key witnesses cham­pioned by the deputy Labour leader Tom Watson in the VIP paedophile sex abuse scandal are being helped by a charity that uses a controversial ther­apy experts fear could generate false memories.

The therapy, in which the victims are given the details of the effects of sex abuse suffered by their own counsellor, has prompted concerns of a repeat of previous scandals in which “recovered mem­ory” played a part in false claims of child abuse in cases such as the Cleveland child abuse scandal in 1987 and the Orkney satanic ritual case in 1991.

Matthew Scott, a barrister who has worked on a number of child abuse cases, said: “It would be hard to devise a form of counselling more fraught with the danger of producing unreliable evidence.”...

What could possibly go wrong???

Cyril Smith: The Disestablishment

Doubts have been cast over the Metropolitan police service’s claims that Cyril Smith attended a house in south London which was allegedly used by a VIP paedophile ring.

Statements released by the force in 2013 and 2014 claimed that officers had “established” that the late Liberal MP, who was known to be a child abuser, had visited Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London.

That claim has been repeated by campaigners who believe there is evidence of a cover-up of abuse at the home dating back 30 years.

But a statement released by the Met to the Guardian on Thursday removed the claim, casting doubt on whether the late MP for Rochdale was ever there. A Met spokesman said he could not “reaffirm” that the Met still believed that Smith attended the south London home.

It is understood that the original police assertion that Smith attended the home was based on the word of a single witness. That same witness has now made allegations of misconduct against police officers, a source said...

Guardian.

The prime mover behind the foundless claim?

Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative MP and London mayoral contender whose Richmond Park constituency includes the guest house, told MPs in November that he had been “reliably told” that 12 boys gave evidence in 1982 that they had been abused at Elm Guest House.

To a hushed Commons, Goldsmith said: “The Met has since confirmed that Cyril Smith visited... It is impossible to believe there was not a cover-up.”

Oops!

Tom Watson: A Message From His Number One Supporter

Of course, you don't have to be a tin foil hat wearing mad conspiracy theorist like David Icke to believe any of this utter nonsense...

PS On This Week this evening Beatrix Campbell OBE gave an impassioned defence of Tom Watson and Zac Goldsmith - apparently these noble truth-sayers are being attacked by 'the establishment'.

This is the same Bea Campbell who wrote the book, Unofficial Secrets, that presented the ludicrous fantasy and mass hysteria of 'satanic ritual abuse' as unchallenged fact.

Ann Widdecombe: What Happened?

WHEN Paul Gambaccini issued his account of being falsely accused of child abuse, he noted several instances of the police or CPS releasing news about dropped inquiries or rebailing to coincide with more successful or more sensational news of Operation Yewtree.
 
I shuddered when I read that because if either the police or CPS should be adopting “a good day to bury bad news” mentality or “guilt by association” news management then another precious cornerstone of our justice system is crumbling.

Justice agencies in this country should be concerned with justice and nothing else.
 
News manipulation should never be attempted and statements about the course of an investigation should be determined by facts not convenience...

Yet I suspended judgment because I had the fairness to accept that it could all be coincidence, even if the regularity suggested otherwise.

Now it looks as if that fairness was misplaced as I cannot have been the only person to notice that the long overdue apology to Lady Brittan for the police’s failure to tell her dying husband that he was no longer under any investigation (and had not been for quite some time) coincided with the news that a bishop had been convicted of sex offences.

Is that what they were waiting for?...

Ann 'Not Anne' Widdecombe, Daily Express.

Sad that this has divided people on party lines, and many Labour Party supporters knee-jerk that this is all a Conservative Party conspiracy to cover up some secret Tory paedophile ring.

Whilst much of it is partly just an excuse to bash Labour via its new deputy leader, it is obvious that Tom Watson is a power-crazed delusional thug who has behaved appallingly.

PS And not forgetting... Zac Goldsmith urged to withdraw paedophile ring allegations: Ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor says Goldsmith should rethink mayoral bid unless he retracts claims of VIP abuse at Richmond guest house, The Guardian.

While The Telegraph's rottweiler, Dan Hodges, urges - hilariously - Put down your pitchforks and stop the Tom Watson witchunt. LOL!

Mac: Hahaha!

The Daily Mail's hopelessly shit cartoonist, Mac.

Remember this classic? 

Papers are a bit boring gay-wise today, sorry - Fagburn might go on strike til the fantasist bully Tom Watson resigns.

Tom Watson: Cunt

Peter Brookes, The Times.

I don't think Fagburn will ever tire of saying what a colossal cunt this fucking cunt is.

Dear Tom Watson MP

Winston Churchill cut off my penis and ate it on toast with Alphabetti Spaghetti while Harold Macmillan and the Andrew Sisters watched, laughing, and then we were abducted by aliens.

No-one takes me seriously, not even David Icke, but I know you will.

yours

A Loon

Broadmoor.

Tom Watson: Bore Of Duty

Huffington Post.

Tom Watson is as close to evil as any human being could get.

Maybe people should now start spreading false and unsubstantiated rumours he's a kiddy fiddler in the interest of fair play?

Daily Mail: Sorry

Daily Mail.

With the help of the BBC’s Panorama this week, the full evil lunacy of the child abuse and murder conspiracy allegations relating to Dolphin Square, Elm House, Leon Brittan, Ted Heath, Field Marshal Lord Bramall etc is now emerging. There is a long, long way to go, however, before the names are properly cleared and the police have apologised for their disgusting behaviour. There also needs to be a long list drawn up of those in public life and the media who gave credence to these cruel fantasies. The behaviour of Tom Watson MP puts him in the same class as Titus Oates, Noel Pemberton Billing and Senator Joe McCarthy. Many of us tut-tut that Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour party, but it is far more shocking that its deputy leader is Mr Watson.

Charles Moore's Notes, The Spectator.

Post-Leveson score-settling from the Labour-bashing Mail and Moore?

Well duh, but this sorry, shitty episode shows the man is a power-crazed bully.

Oh. And erm Richard Littlejohn also hates the 'Nonce Finder General'...

I thought Orwell once wrote something along the lines of, 'Something is not necessarily false just because it's appeared in the Daily Mail', but I can't find it.

So can you just pretend he said it and nod sagely?

[Edit: And similarly, an accusation isn't necessarily true just because it's made against a public figure you despise].

Tom Watson: Abuse Of Privilege

Three days after Leon Brittan’s death in January this year, Tom Watson, a Labour MP and now the party’s deputy leader, said that the deceased peer was “as close to evil as any human being could get”. That was the opinion of one of the people who had told Mr Watson they had been raped by Lord Brittan, a former home secretary. Mr Watson wrote that he “stands accused of multiple child rape. Many others knew of these allegations and chose to remain silent. I will not.”

After many months of inquiries using dozens of officers, the Metropolitan police has informed Lord Brittan’s widow that its investigation into her late husband is now at an end for lack of evidence. Mr Watson might reflect that those “many others” privy to the allegations stayed silent because they judged them to be false.

Following the BBC’s Panorama revelation that one of Lord Brittan’s chief accusers now admits he may have been confused over his identification, having been encouraged to name him by campaigners, perhaps Mr Watson will consider that having quite properly passed on his information to the police, he should have remained similarly mute. That, surely, would have been the correct course. Allow the proper authorities to assess the veracity of the information and in the meantime keep his mouth shut.

Mr Watson, however, rather revels in keeping his mouth as open as possible, as often as possible. In 2012, he used the platform of prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons to refer to the existence of a “powerful paedophile network linked to parliament and No 10”. He wrote to the prime minister suggesting that the organised abuse of children might have taken place in Downing Street. He said that senior politicians, some of them still holding powerful positions, had been involved in widespread child abuse and its concerted cover-up. He added that he had been told these powerful people might kill him if he did not stop pursuing his allegations.

Conspiracy theories are precisely that — theories. They are often wildly implausible, spinning a vast web of conjecture from one or two isolated strands of truth. Such theories, fascinating while they may be to devotees, should never be employed to destroy a man’s reputation, unsupported as they are by anything worthy of the name of evidence.

From the cramped 18th-century coffee house to the 21st-century chatroom, public figures have always been the subjects of rumour, innuendo and gossip, only a fraction of which tends to be true. Not every well-known personality is a Jimmy Savile in waiting. Panorama exposed several other purported witnesses to, or purported victims of, Mr Watson’s alleged “powerful paedophile network” as either dubious or delusional characters.

Mr Watson’s final intervention before Lord Brittan’s death was to write to the director of public prosecutions demanding that he be interviewed by police. This served no purpose other than to ensure that the dying peer’s name became publicly linked to the investigation.

In the cause of righting what he considered an injustice, Mr Watson perpetrated an injustice himself. As a politician who has made something of a fetish of demanding apologies from various agencies for what he judges to be past wrongs, Mr Watson should now consider offering one to Leon Brittan’s family. 

The Times leader.

Worth publishing in full - and, yes, I know there's Murdoch/Watson beef - but the man, self-appointed Witchfinder General meets Citizen Kane, seems drunk on power.

PS Daft statement on the Panorama programme by the Met - issued before they'd seen it.

'Darren': Another Country, Another Planet

POLICE probing a VIP child sex abuse ring faced serious questions last night as a vulnerable man at the centre of allegations said North Korea offered him asylum.

The 39-year-old, who uses the name Darren, says he was assaulted by Tory politicians at a central London flat.

He also says he was forced to take part in a satanic ritual at the French Embassy and claims to have been abused by Peter Righton, a former member of the Paedophile Information Exchange.

But Darren now refuses to co-operate with the Met or Suffolk Constabulary after his case was dropped following an 18-month probe.

It came after he refused to hand over medical records when he was asked about a history of mental health issues...

Darren now says only North Korea believe his story and have invited him to live out his years in Kim Jong-un’s murderous regime...

The Sun.

Panorama's The VIP Paedophile Ring: What's The Truth? is on BBC1 tonight.

PS 'Darren' has now fallen out with Exaro News, the main pusher of his absurd fantasies.

@ExaroNews just to say your behaviour lately towards me and others has been controlling and manipulative, wrong + morally reprehensible

— Darren Thornham (@DarrenCSAS) September 26, 2015

BBC News.


PPS Another man, 'David', tells Panorama he made up the charges against Leon Brittan as 'a joke suggestion at first', and was egged on by campaigners,

Update: David Aaronovitch in The Times on the appalling behaviour of self-appointed witchfinder general (and now frighteningly Labour deputy leader), Tom Watson, and his current silence.

Daily Mail: Oops! Sorry Bout Dat

Scotland Yard is under pressure to shelve its VIP paedophile murder inquiry after it emerged detectives had ‘grave doubts’ about the testimony of the key witness.

Officers have not found a ‘shred of credible evidence’ to back up claims that a string of senior Establishment figures were responsible for murdering three boys in the 1970s and 1980s.

Many detectives believe the inquiry – which has already cost the taxpayer more than £1million – is doomed and should be wound up.

Senior figures in the separate judge-led public inquiry into historic child sex abuse and in the Crown Prosecution Service have been told informally that there appears to be no substance to the allegations made by a witness known only as ‘Nick’.

Nick is an alleged abuse victim who was described by a senior Met Police detective last year as being ‘credible and true’.

Amid claims that Yard chiefs are ‘too scared’ to pull the plug on the inquiry, 30 officers in the cash-strapped force are probing the astonishing triple-murder allegation, linked to Dolphin Square in Central London.

It can also be revealed that police initially took Nick’s account seriously because he has a respectable managerial job and does ‘not fit the stereotype of a child abuse fantasist’.

But there are now fears he is a ‘Walter Mitty’ who has made up the murder allegations

Police have not been able to identify any of the alleged victims, discover any bodies or find any credible independent witnesses.

Sources say a number of officers have ‘grave doubts’ about Nick’s account but fear that saying this in public could put child-sex victims off contacting police.

Details of the Met’s fears over the allegations have emerged after former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor accused police of a ‘gay witch-hunt’ when he disclosed that he had been questioned over the alleged murders.

Nick says he was abused at depraved sex ‘parties’ from the age of seven, and claims to have witnessed horrific acts at the luxury Dolphin Square estate between 1975 and 1984.

He has described being driven by a chauffeur, along with a terrified 12-year-old boy, to a luxury townhouse where he watched as a Tory MP strangled the other child.

Nick said he saw a second boy being murdered in front of a Tory Cabinet minister in 1981. A third boy died in 1979 after being run over by a member of the gang, he alleges.

In November last year, Nick told the BBC that his abusers ‘created fear that penetrated every part of me, day in day out’.

But the Mail has been told that when Nick is challenged on his version of events, he ‘becomes emotional and the interview is stopped’.

A source said: ‘When he contacted police, he had a well-rehearsed script and initially appeared believable. But when you scratch under the surface of his claims, there is nothing there.

'The notion of an organised paedophile gang of a former prime minister, MPs and Establishment figures is just nonsense.

‘Police have not been able to identify any victims. There is not one shred of credible evidence to support his allegations. The police investigation has been exhaustive but they have drawn a blank.’ ...

Daily Mail.

Quick summary for busy readers: The Mail here is kinda admitting it's been publishing a load of utter errant nonsense about Operation Midland and a supposed 'VIP paedophile ring' for years.

A six year-old could have seen this was all as laughable as an alien abduction story.

And shame on the Sunday People and Tom Watson MP for being such prime colluders in this lunatic - and yes, homophobic - episode.

Jeremy Corbyn: My Part In His Victory

Fagburn is thrilled to announce that his request to become a Labour Party supporter has finally been accepted.

Of course, he will be voting for Islington's Allende, Mr Jeremy Corbyn.

As for deputy leader, he will be voting for anyone but Tom Watson; the publicity-loving known lunatic who's been propagating fairy stories about a supposed 'VIP paedophile ring' led by Ted Heath and Harvey Proctor and Winston Churchill and Norman Tebbit, and whoever else some old drunk told him was in it during a slurred late-night phone call.

PS Illustration comes from the French left-wing paper, Liberation, yesterday.

Cos everyone's seen Private Eye's demolition job - which David Schneider's satire pre-dated.

Zac Goldsmith: And On That Blond Bombshell

The Independent.

No! Not the handsome billionaire Goldsmith, obvs.

Zac was giving evidence to parliament yesterday about the 'notorious' Elm Guest House yesterday.

Except - thus far  - no-one has produced any evidence.

Update: Tom Watson interview: ‘At least one politician abused kids’ The scourge of the phone hacker now has a new crusade: to get to the bottom of the claims of a Westminster paedophile ring.

Note the fall in numbers...

'Watson knows his critics tend to regard him as a credulous conspiracy theorist, and concedes that the hacking scandal may have left him unduly susceptible to unthinkable allegations...'

Daily Mail: Question Of The Day

Probably not, that's why you've phrased it as a question.

See also: Did Lassie shoot JFK?

Sunday People: Hotel Vacancy

The Sunday People used to be quite a good tabloid, as British tabloids go.
A sister paper to the Mirror, it used to do old-fashioned things like investigative journalism.
Not just silly kiss-and-tell and MP-caught-with-his-pants-down stories, but regularly exposing crooks and villains in business great and small.
Now it's mainly football, babes and showbiz gossip, and all done badly.
Today we are promised an "exclusive" - though the story comes from website Exaro; Paedo Brothel Advertised In Tory Leaflet: Party's gay link to guest house.
In fine, a gay-friendly small hotel in London once advertised in a tiny newsletter published by the Conservative Group For Homosexual Equality. 
In 1982, the owners of Elm Guest House in south London were convicted of running a "disorderly house" - meaning male prostitutes had worked there, basically.
A cynic might ask if there is a hotel in London not regularly visited by prostitutes.
Now, "Operation Fernbridge is investigating claims that boys who were in council care were brought to the Elm to be sexually abused by bigwigs and VIPs.
"It was launched after Labour MP Tom Watson claimed a paedophile ring used top-level connections to dodge justice..."
Such allegations have been doing the rounds via conspiracy theorists, Westminster village gossips and the wilder shores of the internet for decades.
Big names are invariably dropped - and are also invariably dead; Blunt, Heath, Cyril Smith, your funny uncle Tom Cobley and all...
The People teases readers with a blind list; "Among the names are two former Conservative Cabinet ministers and four other senior Tories.
"There is also a Labour MP, a prominent Irish republican and a leading National Front member.
"Others on the handwritten note are two members of the royal household – one a former Buckingham Palace employee – plus the owner of a multinational company and two pop stars."
They are terrible accusations - and they are only accusations at the moment - though tragically it wouldn't be surprising if it turns out children from a care home were being systematically sexually abused, and the establishment drew ranks to look after their own.
But this advert is hardly a smoking gun.