What are people's opinions of Tom Watson? Is he one of the good guys?
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/
Well... Today he brought up the paedophile ring, headed by it's fixer Jimmy Saville, and it's links to Edward Heath and other MPs. He didn't mention the specifics I just have, but he alluded to the rumours we have heard. He wants an investigation...! He was also rather vocal against News International, so I don't know if he is actually a good guy, or if he has an agenda, as good guys seem to be in short supply within the walls of Parliament.
Here is the article -
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-8224702.html
A powerful paedophile network may have operated in Britain, protected by its connections to Parliament and Downing Street, a senior Labour politician suggested today.
Speaking from the back benches of the House of Commons, Tom Watson, deputy chairman of the Labour Party, called on the Metropolitan Police to re-open a closed criminal inquiry into paedophilia.
Indicating his anxiety that there had been an establishment cover-up, Mr Watson referred to the case of Peter Righton, who was convicted in 1992 of importing and possessing illegal homosexual pornographic material.
Righton, a former consultant to the National Children's Bureau and lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work in London, admitted two illegal importation charges and one charge of possessing obscene material. He was fined £900.
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Watson, who fought a long campaign for a new police inquiry into phone hacking at News International, said the evidence file used to convict Righton “if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring.”
He told a hushed Commons: “One of its members boasts of a link to a senior aide of a former prime minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad.
“The leads were not followed up, but if the files still exist, I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it, and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and Number 10.”
In the aftermath of Mr Watson’s remarks, media outlets speculated that he was referring to the late former Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath - who was the subject of unsubstantiated rumours about sex with under-age boys - or to Sir Peter Morrison, a former Downing Street aide who died in 1995.
In her new autobiography, serialised in a newspaper at the weekend, the former Conservative minister Edwina Currie claimed that Sir Peter had sex with under-age boys during the 1980s but had been protected by “a culture of sniggering” from colleagues. At the time the boys were aged 16 and the age of consent was 21. Police were apparently aware of Sir Peter’s activities but declined to act.
However, The Independent understands that Mr Watson’s comments were not aimed at either Sir Edward or Sir Peter, but at a living person associated with Margaret Thatcher’s administration.
They are thought to involve the activities of the Paedophile Information Exchange, a pro-paedophile group in existence between 1974 and 1984, which believed there should be no age of consent.
Responding to the remarks, David Cameron said the MP had raised “a very difficult and complex case,” adding he was unclear which former prime minister Mr Watson was referring to.
Mr Cameron, who declined to act at the time on Mr Watson’s allegations about phone hacking last year, added: “But what I would like to is to look very carefully in Hansard to the allegations you have made, the case that you have raised ... and to see what the Government can do to give you the assurances you seek.”
Earlier, the Prime Minister had told MPs that the Metropolitan Police inquiry into the TV presenter Jimmy Savile must find out how he had been allowed to abuse children for so long.
On Monday, BBC’s Panorama suggested that a paedophile network had operated at the BBC without detection.
Criticising the BBC’s record on Savile – who was never caught and died last year aged 84, the Prime Minister said: "These allegations do leave many institutions - perhaps particularly the BBC - with serious questions to answer - I think above all the question, 'How did he get away with this for so long?'.”
He told MPs: "The most important thing is that the police investigation is properly resourced and is allowed to continue.”
I've bolded a bit in the article that is sure to appeal to the Anti-Thatcherites.
This is also a direct quote from Tom Watson regarding the abuses in care homes. It seems all these paedophi1es in the 70s were linked into one huge ring. The article it is from has been removed from his website. Or at least moved as the link is now dead.
Duncroft School, run by Barnardos "Latest I heard ... is that several boys from Barnados and another home are suing the BBC for protecting Jimmy savile after he abused them." Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, is President of Barnardo's. Martin Narey, formerly of the prison service, is the chief executive of Barnardo's. "A couple of friends were brought up in a Barnardo's home in my home town of Kidderminster. "They used to talk about the vicious predatory paedophile who was one of their care workers."- Tom Watson
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