UK General Election thread

[kentonio]

Which party plans to ban more types of porn but expand the MP child rape ring?

If the 80's MP child sex ring is ever successfully exposed, then we can basically rip up everything we've said here in terms of election possibilities. Supposedly Ministers, MP's, top police, army leaders and churchmen were all involved, and its supposed to include murders. Which is why it'll probably never be fully exposed.

[Dauphin]

I'm curious if the Chilcot inquiry will be published by the deadline date to avoid interfering with the election.

Actually, I'm not curious, I know it won't get published.

[C0ckney]

I'm curious if the Chilcot inquiry will be published by the deadline date to avoid interfering with the election.

Actually, I'm not curious, I know it won't get published.

the chilcot inquiry is straight out of yes minister.

[History049]

If the 80's MP child sex ring is ever successfully exposed, then we can basically rip up everything we've said here in terms of election possibilities. Supposedly Ministers, MP's, top police, army leaders and churchmen were all involved, and its supposed to include murders. Which is why it'll probably never be fully exposed.

Think it's true? Quite fascinating. UK media has barely covered it.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Whut? Yes it has. This is why UK readers are informing you of it.

[kentonio]

Think it's true? Quite fascinating.

Yes I do think it's probably true, and it's not fascinating it's utterly horrifying and repellent.

[History049]

Yes I do think it's probably true, and it's not fascinating it's utterly horrifying and repellent.

So why doesn't the damn media there name the people involved?

[kentonio]

So why doesn't the damn media there name the people involved?

You can't name people before an investigation and charges have been laid. Unless you want a trip straight to a libel court.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Here is something recent

In my view the main issue are the politicians still in power who are involved, and IMO it is still going on, but likely a bit underground for the time being until the storm passes over, and the current participants get to focus the enquiry on those who are already dead, like this guy, or get it dismissed entirely.

[Sava]

General Election, WE SALUTE YOU

[Dauphin]

Here is something recent

In my view the main issue are the politicians still in power who are involved, and IMO it is still going on, but likely a bit underground for the time being until the storm passes over, and the current participants get to focus the enquiry on those who are already dead, like this guy, or get it dismissed entirely.

Makes House of Cards (Ian Richardson version) seem thoroughly tame by comparison.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I haven't watched the series (a good idea though - I could check it out). As the saying goes, reality is stranger than fiction - the phrase makes me think of Saville's interviews from 00's.

In bed with Jimmy

Jimmy Savile has been a bizarre icon for six decades. Miner, wrestler, cycle racer, dancehall manager, marathon man, Britain's first DJ, Mensa member, book reviewer, Top of the Pops presenter, fundraiser extraordinaire, and perhaps most famously the fixer, the man who would one day realise our childhood dreams. Savile rises from the bed to tell an anecdote from his book-reviewing days. "After a couple of weeks I said, 'I want to expose a book. It's for children and it's dreadful; there's this girl who's well underage and she takes up with a geezer who's yonks old and eventually they schlep off together.' "

What's the book?

"Wait a minute because you're the audience now," Savile chides. "Now bear in mind this was live TV, and I'm saying, personally, I don't think it's a good thing because I don't think an underage girl should be exhorted by her parents to strike up a relationship with a guy five, six, seven times older than she is. And the book - Peter Pan! I got the sack for that." He loves the story, laughs himself silly and hops back on to bed.

Jim the fixer. Is Jimmy Savile just a fantasist ... or is the truth even stranger than fiction?

But the former Radio 1 DJ, best known still for the TV programme Jim'll Fix It, has bizarrely claimed in an interview this week that alongside his career as an entertainer, he has secretly served as an adviser to world leaders and royalty alike.

"I guess I am like Forrest Gump," he told Esquire magazine.

"I am like a sewing machine needle that goes in here and goes in there, but I am also the eminence grise: the grey, shadowy figure in the background. The thing about me is I get things done and I work under cover."

ehhh...

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

MORI polls are suggesting the SNP will take 52 of 56 seats in Scotland, with Labour holding the remaining 4.

[Dauphin]

Miliband as PM and Salmond for deputy PM. I'll move to Canada rather than London once my current project finishes if that happens.

[C0ckney]

more likely labour/tory coalition with the SNP as the official opposition.

(though i don't think the SNP will do that well).