Posted on 02/02/2022 6:17:10 AM PST by RandFan
Boris Johnson has refused to retract his controversial disproven remark towards Labour leader Keir Starmer over the Jimmy Savile case.
Mr Johnson repeated a baseless claim on Monday, suggesting Sir Keir failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile during his time as director of public prosecutions.
However, during Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir accused the PM of using the "conspiracy theories of violent fascists" to score political points.
He said: "[The Tory party] is the party of Winston Churchill. Our parties stood together as we defeated fascism in Europe.
"Now their leader stands in the House of Commons parroting the conspiracy theories of violent fascists to try to score cheap political points. He knows exactly what he is doing.
"It is time to restore some dignity."
But Mr Johnson stood firm and refused to withdraw his comments.
He hit back saying he was told that "in 2013, he apologised and took full responsibility for what had happened on his watch. I think that was the right thing to do".
It comes after a Savile victim told LBC they were "absolutely furious" about Mr Johnson's "flippant" remarks.
He said in the Commons on Monday: "Instead this leader of the opposition - a former director of public prosecution who used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, as far as I can see - he chose to use this moment to continually pre-judge a police inquiry."
The woman, known as Miss A, said: "I thought this was a real cheap political issue against Keir Starmer and it was absolutely unnecessary.
"I was completely outraged by it – I was very upset by it – and I know other Savile victims still suffer life-long trauma from it as I do."
Sir Keir was director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013, however, he was not thought to have been involved in decisions relating to sexual offence allegations against disgraced entertainer Savile.
He acknowledged following a review of the case that Savile could have been prosecuted in 2009 - two years before he died - had police taken victims more seriously.
Sir Keir said at the time: "I would like to take the opportunity to apologise for the shortcomings in the part played by the CPS in these cases.
"If this report and my apology are to serve their full purpose, then this must be seen as a watershed moment."
Good for Boris
Yup.
It’s a fair comment IMO.
The guy was chief prosecutor and the buck stops with him. The media are trying to protect him over this.
Boris has post COVID ICU brain fog. Maybe, just maybe its beginning to lift. However its probably too late to save his career.
“Disproven” “Baseless”
Sounds familiar. You’d almost think the journalist is seeking to enforce a particular point of view with this report.
“Baseless” has become a word that, when used by the media, means “confirmed”.
Absolutely.
If the Director of Public Prosecutions had evidence suggesting that Saville was abusing kids and failed to act on it that's huge.
But then maybe Saville was giving money to the Labour Party...or maybe he knew of certain naughty things that members of the Labour Party were doing!
English-speaking governments, U.S, Canada, England, Australia, etc, are REPLETE with sodomites and child rapists.
Like Hollywood.
No wonder they so fervently defend each other.
Ironic that the BBC would report on this, seeing as how they were the ones who covered up for him all those years.
The only one who had any balls to say the truth about Savile all those years ago was Johnny Rotten.
“Good for Boris”
Agree. Starmer was the boss there and ONLY HE set the climate as to what to investigate and prosecute, as we see with Garland now. If Starmer didn’t want to have to answer for the people who work for him, he shouldn’t have taken that job.
““Baseless” has become a word that, when used by the media, means “confirmed”.”
Exactly, and why is the media DEFENDING a guy who led a department that didn’t think prosecuting pedophiles was necessary?
> “If the Director of Public Prosecutions had evidence suggesting that Saville was abusing kids and failed to act on it that’s huge.”
Would it have something to do with the reports that Saville was joined at the hip with the Royal Family?
Because, just like our media, half of them ARE pedos.
Yep. And the NHS covered for him as well.
The excuse they use is he wasn’t the “reviewing” attorney on the case
They’re blaming his underlings
I do find it hard to believe especially in a high profile case
When the media starts calling something “Disproven” or “Baseless” it pushes my belief of whatever is supposed to be “disproven” before I even know what they’re talking about.
See Tagline.
Rules: First person to throw out the word fascist is a fascist. Fist person to through out the term "conspiracy theories" is a marxist.
It wasn’t even debunked.
1. “Mr Johnson repeated a baseless claim on Monday, suggesting Sir Keir failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile during his time as director of public prosecutions.”
Since No ONE prosecuted Savile, ever, how can a claim that Keir did not prosecute Savile be “baseless”? The journalist is outright lying, and doing a poor job of it.
2. “However, during Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir ...said: “[The Tory party] is the party of Winston Churchill. Our parties stood together as we defeated fascism in Europe...Now their leader stands in the House of Commons parroting the conspiracy theories of violent fascists to try to score cheap political points. He knows exactly what he is doing.” “It is time to restore some dignity.”
Keir could start by addressing the real question instead of spewing Leftist cant about “violent fascists”. The way for Keir to stop Johnson is to state unequivocally that he (Keir) had no knowledge or hint of what Savile was doing until after his death, and never had any role stopping investigations, prosecutions, or discounting the victims’ complaints. But he didn’t say that — he hid deflected attention to “violent fascists” (how like a prosecutor to go for prejudice when facts are not amenable). I was giving Keir some benefit of the doubt before reading his dodgy riposte. Now I wonder if Johnson knows something. A witness on what Keir knew and when would be interesting. And Keir apologized in 2009 for his CPS disbelieving the victims.
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