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originally posted by: Kester
a reply to: Soloprotocol
Unfortunately it's a reflection on my experience investigating and whistleblowing.
originally posted by: Soloprotocol
BBC Scotland this morning discussing Jerermy corbyn's clothing choice....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
originally posted by: woodwardjnr
originally posted by: Soloprotocol
BBC Scotland this morning discussing Jerermy corbyn's clothing choice....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
If only he wore a nice pair of shinny boots like hitler.
Demetrious Panton, a survivor of abuse who told Corbyn in August 1992 that ‘very bad things had happened’ to him when he’d been living at an Islington care home several years earlier.
Now a successful barrister, he has spent much of the past 20 years campaigning for justice for fellow child abuse victims, many of whom were Corbyn’s constituents, and says he has no recollection of the MP ‘making any public comments’ about it.
‘This was despite the fact that a major child abuse scandal had taken place in his constituency,’ Panton comments.
‘I am not aware that he ever deployed his obvious zeal and effort to ensure that the human rights of his constituents who were abused while in the care of the London borough of Islington, were protected.’
It was early 1993 by the time Corbyn met Eileen Fairweather, agreeing to see her in the Palace of Westminster to discuss the scandal.
A veteran Left-winger, who had previously worked for the feminist magazine Spare Rib....
‘He took me to a cafeteria, and we sat in a quiet corner with our backs to a wall,’ she recalls. ‘I took him through the whole story and laid out the evidence, piece by piece.
‘He was perfectly nice. Very cordial. I really thought I was getting somewhere. He gave me the impression that he took the whole thing seriously and said he would go away and make inquiries.’
‘That was the last I heard from him,’ she says. ‘He never wrote, never called and never said a thing about it in public. I rang him some time later and got short shrift.
‘My best guess is, frankly, and I feel sad to say this, is that he lacked strength and discernment. That he was too trusting, or fell for lies, or didn’t want to rock the boat and put people’s backs up. What I think he did, sadly, was to just hide.’
forums.digitalspy.co.uk...
‘After that meeting, we never heard another thing,’ Davies recalls. ‘There was no letter. No phone call. I never, ever saw him speak about it.
‘In fact, whenever I saw Jeremy afterwards, sometimes years later at Stop The War marches and events like that, I’d always go up to him and say: “This scandal is still going on, Jeremy.” He’d be very polite, but he never seemed to do anything.’
The Evening Standard reported Corbyn saying a few days after the scandal broke....
Quote:
These allegations are extremely serious and must be properly investigated.’
www.publications.parliament.uk...
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Lab): I commend the Home Secretary, particularly for her earlier remarks about assessing the credibility of the accusations rather than the credibility of either the accuser or the accused. That is a very important starting point. She also seemed to indicate that there would be a degree of interim reporting, which I welcome, because this is clearly going to be a massive undertaking. Does she envisage that the whole inquiry could turn into almost a standing commission? That might not be a bad thing, because it might be necessary in the longer term.
Finally, in my own borough there have been complaints about Islington children’s homes in the past and the council has investigated them. The council is in a very different place now, but nevertheless it welcomes the inquiry and will co-operate with it. As the Home Secretary is fully aware, many of the children who were abused in children’s homes also went to homes in other parts of the country—in some cases to the Channel Islands. It is therefore very important that the inquiry is able to investigate across local authority administrative areas and, indeed, across jurisdictions to ascertain what happened, tragically, to many very vulnerable young children who were taken to homes in the Channel Islands.
However, of his alleged call for an inquiry into the all-important Islington abuse scandal, there appears to be no trace.
A spokesman for Corbyn was unable to identify, when asked this week, where or when he might have made such a call, or where a record of it might now be. However, his campaign insists their recent statement is accurate....