He was a sexual predator who realised that he could gain access to young girls, through the abuse of his power and his position, much more easily than he could gain access, sexually, to older women. Let's be honest, the majority of older women, if propositioned by Savile, would tell him to clear off, because he was a weirdo and incredibly creepy. Whereas younger girls were probably blinded by his fame and found it harder to resist, particularly as he was apparently a very imposing and persuasive personality. You only have to look at the people who were taken in by him, such as royalty, the Torys and Thatcher to see that. Although the revelations involving the North Wales children s homes abuse case does throw up a very nasty stink around his association with Thatcher and theTorys.
Sexual abuse is not primarily about lust, it is about power. In fact that is true of nearly all types of abuse, whether it be bullying, spousal or partner battering, sexual abuse and rape or, the most frequent type of abuse, mental abuse between partners. Saville was a bully. Highlighted quite clearly in the anecdotes told about him in his days when he ran dances in the north. An example being, when he allegedly use to parade around the dance halls with a stick, supposedly looking for trouble makers.
The most important thing now, is that the true victims receive some sort of justice and are not swept away by a lot of so called 'celebs' jumping on the bandwagon to use this whole sorry episode as a way to either justify why they never said anything at the time or to use it as a way to raise their profile. Examples of bandwagon jumping such as z-list celebs claiming 'Jimmy Savile onced looked at me pervy' or 'I was on Jim'll Fix It and he held my hand two seconds longer than I considered acceptable', but never bothered speaking up about it at the time, are just people using it as an excuse to get back in the media and say, 'look at me I'm still around and available for work' Whereas the victims, who were genuinely abused by Saville, are pushed to the margins and forgotten, because apparently their experiences are not newsworthy enough in comparison to a z-listers vague accusations.
The people who claimed to have heard rumours or who actually had evidence of Savilles abuse, are a different more serious concern. In my experience there are only two reasons people do not report wrongdoing. Either they do not have a problem with whatever crime has or is being committed or it is in their own interests to stay quiet and not report it. The people who had knowledge of Saviles crimes fall into one or both of these category's and must feel a great deal of shame, that they will have to carry the knowledge that they failed to speak up , to their graves, unless they come forward with that evidence now.
Savile can never be brought to justice, but many of the victims are still alive, and require some sort of closure.
The Tories must be gutted.
The victory of Obama over Romney in the American General Election probably reduced many Tories, who would have been desperate for a victory for the knuckle dragging Republicans, to tears. America re elected a president who believes in a pluralist society, has moved towards socialised healthcare,believes in fiscal stimulus, that wealthy people should pay more taxes and that Hurricane Sandy and climate change were connected. Whereas in Britain, we have a government containing millionaire ministers, who have never had a proper job and have never lifted a finger to earn their massive wealth and privilege, a cabinet full of toffs that is a mirror image of any cabinet you would expect to see in the 1850's, i.e no non whites, no women ( I'm not sure Theresa May is female),no working class, no one who has had a proper job. A government that believes the poor should pay for the deficit while the rich are given tax breaks and that fiscal stimulus is a dirty word. A government that wants to destroy the socialist concepted NHS and introduce privatised healthcare through the back door, and has just made a climate sceptic the Environment Minister.
The Tories, like the Republicans, are a bunch of knuckle dragging, anachronistic throwbacks, stuck in the nineteenth century, yearning for the days of deference,when the plebs had to doff their caps, tug their forelocks and knew their place, and the children of the poor could be sent to work at the age of five rather than to school. To paraphrase a dalek,' Eradicate! Eradicate!'
What the American election tells us is that non progressive right wing party's are on the decline and that pluralists are looking towards progressive liberal politics that are inclusive and meritocratic and not political party's who base their idealogue around inherited wealth, a sense of entitlement through birth and privilege.
Mensch attacks Dorries.
Louise Mensch,the ex- Tory MP who couldn't even be bothered to serve her full term, so resigned and left her constituents unrepresented for nigh on 4 months, is criticising another Tory head banger, Nadine Dorries, for going into the jungle and leaving her constituents unrepresented for possibly a month.
Pot, kettle, pot, kettle, pot. kettle, po.......etc..
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