Prime Minister,
114 files relating to the historic abuse of children, which have “gone missing” since Margaret Thatcher’s time in office, cannot possibly be seen as merely lackadaisical performance on the part of Home Office staff. (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/westminster-abuse-claims-probe-114-files-lost-002113318.html) It positively reeks of blatant attempts to pervert the course of justice by people whose public image would be forever ruined should that information have ever reached the courts. Whether they were, themselves, directly responsible for the removal of the material, or paid those with authorised access to remove it for them, they must now face the consequences of their actions.
When even a former Minister says that covering up such matters was “the instinct of people at the time […] to protect ‘the system’ and not to delve too deeply into uncomfortable allegations” (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/06/child-abuse-coverup-1980s-lord-tebbit) it is surely time to do the decent and honourable thing and get the over-arching enquiry demanded by the public underway as quickly as possible, if not quicker. Such wilful negligence was nothing less than the deliberate aiding and abetting of criminals. It has now become crystal clear that there will be no chance for the government to wash its hands of this sordid affair, and all that is happening now is that the motives of those who still seek to block an enquiry are being called seriously into question. The truth needs to come out, and if that means that respected names will fall into the slime, then that must happen, because what was done to the children involved was totally, completely and unequivocally WRONG.
Not only children either. Adults were allegedly abused as well, as this report informs us: (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/brittan-quizzed-over-rape-claim-052502890.html) The Harris, and other so-called “celebrity cases” brought to court by the police, has demonstrated that there is no danger of “trial by media” when the names of those involved are brought forward, so let’s be getting on with clearing out this filth from the system once and for all. The days when plebs were considered as available for the masters’ pleasure went out with the abolition of slavery, and it is long past time when that attitude was forever erased from the corridors of Whitehall and Westminster as well, even though your Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, along with his Ministers, has done his level best to return slavery to society since 2010.
It has been said that the government is concerned about a wide-ranging enquiry possibly damaging the police investigation. I suggest that if the government is concerned that an over-arching enquiry would prejudice a police investigation, then surely the obvious solution is to place a committee of police officers, ideally below the rank of Chief Inspector, at the head of that enquiry, teamed with the MPs who have initiated the whole process – Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk – and have them made answerable ONLY to the Prime Minister. And, if it keeps the government happy, include the Conservative former Child Minister who’s just stuck his tuppence-worth into the mix as well. The rules? Any sign of an attempted cover-up by any appointed official, and the three MP’s would have the written and formally contracted right to expose the whole issue and findings to the press, without fear of libel suits being raised against them by any suspect named as a result. I am sure they would know how to word their concerns in an appropriate manner.
There is too much hedging going on with regard to this issue, and all that tells us is that there are people who really, REALLY do not want their identities connected with historical (and maybe even contemporary) sexual wrongdoing. We are now seeing, in the government’s handling of this disgusting matter, the obvious equivalent of worms wriggling on hooks and drawing up their lower ends as high as possible in order to to delay the plunge into disgrace and penalty for as long as they possibly can. Those who are shielding those people have to be questioned under caution to determine their motives and, quite possibly, their own sexual inclinations because their actions have condemned more children to the horrors of sexual abuse than there already were. Further covering up of this crime will condemn still more, and that is completely unacceptable.
The UK public wants a final and conclusive answer to the questions that have been raised by your government’s handling of this affair, Prime Minister. We now require you to provide the full and transparent answer that we have called for, and we require you to be “very clear” in its delivery.
Sincerely,
Darren Lynch
