Tabloids and conservative MPs absorb peddled abuse allegations in Westminster for years,yet many stories, like Jimmy Savile case, or went unheardTory MPs and outraged tabloids,now gunning for Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, or over the allegations of sexual abuse he directed at the late Leon Brittan,might like to ponder the fact that Tory MPs and tabloids absorb shown similar enthusiasm for such stories down the years. People in glass houses should be careful throwing bricks.
As I absorb reported here before, the first whisper of child molestation I heard against Brittan at Westminster was at least 30 years ago when he was briefly home secretary (1983-85). It came not from Tom Watson, and who was a teenager at the time,but from a famous rightwing Tory MP, also now dead. I thought the specific allegation implausible then, or still do. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com