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Behind The Facade – Service Shenanigans

Thirty Years of the Mental Health Services – Mostly in North Wales

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Behind The Facade – Service Shenanigans

Tag: Dave Basnett

Remember Girls – Never Get Into A Car With A Stranger!

I mentioned in a previous post that when I was young I was keen on a comic called ‘Bunty’ which was substantially composed of stories of girls in boarding schools tackling serious organised crime. Along the top of the pages featuring the crime-cracking school girls were words of advice to the readers which frequently included ‘Remember girls – never get into a car with a stranger!’. The ‘Bunty’ readers were sadly never warned against people traffickers who doubled up as Top Doctors, but then the criminals in ‘Bunty’, as with the criminals in Enid Blyton stories, were always a bit working class. The likes of Professor Oliver Brooke or his lawyers never got a look in.

Sadly, girls growing up in the 1970s were expected to graduate from ‘Bunty’ to a sickening publication called ‘Jackie’, which was the best-selling teenaged girls’ magazine at the time. I spent my teenage years sneering at ‘Jackie’ and I was lucky enough to have a close friend who also found ‘Jackie’ deeply vomit-inducing, with its advice on shaving one’s legs and armpits and reminding one that the most important thing in the world was gaining the approval of a 14 year old boy. My mate and I would sit in the classroom at school in the morning just before formal lessons began on the day that the latest issue of ‘Jackie’ would be available and just about every other girl in the room would have their nose stuck in ‘Jackie’. Years later I read Angela McRobbie’s work – which I think was based on her PhD thesis – ‘Jackie, A Study of Adolescent Femininity’, which very effectively analysed the toxic messages conveyed to girls by that publication. It was also more recently admitted that the notorious problem page in ‘Jackie’, the Cathy and Claire page, while only publishing readers letters which were concerned with a crush on a teacher or a drip of a boy whom the reader was too shy to approach, was receiving letters from girls who were being sexually exploited or who were suicidal but there was a policy of ignoring those letters. They were deemed ‘unsuitable’ for inclusion in the magazine and furthermore no-one even replied to those letters privately. I was interested to hear about this, because my anti-Jackie friend and I used to discuss the possibility that people with serious problems were writing into ‘Jackie’ but were being ignored.

For many years the Editor of ‘Jackie’ was Nina Myscow, who later found fame and fortune writing offensive things in the tabloids and insulting the wanna-be acts on ‘New Faces’. Perhaps Nina could let us know if those desperate readers whom we now know wrote to Cathy and Claire after being sexually assaulted named their assailants and if so were any of the people named known to the public as celebs?

The one thing that I did get wrong about ‘Jackie’ was my belief that it had a predominantly working-class readership. Because of the staggeringly bad ‘careers advice’ dispensed by Jackie – when girls wrote in expressing an interest in vet science or medicine they were always reminded that you had to be ‘ever so clever to do that’ and it was suggested that they should think about secretarial work or nursing instead, with no consideration at all that some of the readers will have been capable of achieving the A levels necessary – I presumed that ‘Jackie’ was aimed at girls in the sort of school that I attended, but I later found out that it did have a readership among girls who’s parents had professional jobs as well.

Recent revelations about the sexual exploitation of teenagers – boys as well as girls – over the past decades by people involved with the pop music industry makes ‘Jackie’ and other teen magazines of the recent past even more worrying in terms of their uncritical promotion of an industry which was grossly abusing people whom those magazines were targeting. One reason why Jimmy Savile was considered untouchable was that he was running a racket in which youngsters were being procured for the sexual use of ‘VIPs’. ‘VIPs’ including everyone from politicians to people involved with the music industry. Dafydd’s gang in north Wales, which had links to Savile, served the same purpose. The trade in young people for the music industry went back years, before the early 1960s, which was how Savile became so influential, he pioneered it.

My post ‘We’ve Been Expecting You…’ mentioned the paedophile/trafficking ring in Leicester and the fact that Lord Robert Kilpatrick, the Dean of Leicester Medical School, colluded with it. Kilpatrick’s wiki entry says very little about him, despite him having been such a big name in the medical establishment for so many years, so I haven’t previously blogged much about him. However Kilpatrick’s 2015 obituary published by ‘The Scotsman’ tells us more.

According to ‘The Scotsman’ Robert Kilpatrick was a ‘much-respected reforming’ President of the GMC, 1989–95 and ‘was instrumental in encouraging doctors at all levels to listen to their patients’. Kilpatrick was such a reforming President that the GMC continued to fail to take any action at all against Dafydd et al or indeed Harold Shipman and were also in possession of a forged document purporting to be a letter from me after Kilpatrick had done all that reforming (see post ‘The General Medical Council And Yet Another Forged Document’).

In 1993 Kilpatrick published the first ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’ report, which provided a universal curriculum for medical students, ‘recommending a greater emphasis on clinical and practical experience’, which ‘influenced medical training worldwide’. So what went wrong?

‘The Scotsman’  assures us that Kilpatrick was a ‘towering figure in UK medicine’, serving ‘with distinction’ as Dean of Sheffield Medical School, 1970-73, Dean of Leicester Medical School, 1973-89 as well as President of the GMC and of the BMA. So after concealing the paedophile gang that was operating in Yorkshire, in which Savile played a key role, Kilpatrick graduated to concealing the gang in Leicester which obviously had Leicester Medical School eating out of its hand from the day that the Medical School was established in Leicester University, which had been colluding with the gang for years (see post ‘Gwlad y Menig Gwynion’).

Finlay Scott was the GMC’s Chief Executive during Kilpatrick’s years and told ‘The Scotsman’ that: ‘Robert was an outstanding clinician and President of the GMC. It was his energy and drive that got the legislation through Parliament on performance procedures in the profession’.

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Robert Kilpatrick was born to a miner working in the Fife coal fields. He was a ‘star pupil’ at Buckhaven High School and at 16 he won a scholarship to Edinburgh University to read medicine. Being less privileged than many of his peers, he had to partly support himself and worked as a potato gauger and in local factories in the vacations. Kilpatrick was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Harvard. He returned to the UK in 1955, was appointed senior lecturer at Sheffield University and then became Dean of the Medical School. Kilpatrick was the first Dean of Leicester Medical School, ‘where his pioneering spirit and thirst to educate and improve methods were immediately recognised’. He turned ‘the fledgling school into a major force in the profession and it was soon hailed internationally’. I wonder how Kilpatrick achieved that then?

Even more intriguingly, Kilpatrick ‘introduced a highly innovative medical course and through persuasion and charm found the funding to support the programmes.’ So someone gave him dosh as well!

‘Over the ten years of his stewardship he furthered the role of research…and improved patient care in all the Leicester hospitals’. So that’s why the recent explosion involving Dr Bawa-Gharba and the death of her young patient revealed massive lethal failings throughout Leicester Royal Infirmary and negligence so serious that staff too frightened to be identified have stated that the hospital has been dangerous for many years but that this has been concealed (see post ‘We’ve Been Expecting You…’).

Kilpatrick became ‘so esteemed within the medical profession that he sat on several important advisory commissions. In 1989 he left Leicester to assume the post of president of the GMC’. Dr James Earp of the Towers Hospital Leicester concealed the criminality of Dafydd et al in the autumn of 1987 (see post ‘An Expert From England’). In 1989 the then biggest ever investigation into institutionalised child abuse was launched in Leicestershire. In April 1990 Leicestershire social worker Frank Beck was arrested for sexual misconduct in Leicestershire children’s homes during the 1970s and 1980s. Beck spent the next eighteen months on remand and on 29 November 1991, following an eleven-week trial at the Leicester Crown Court, Beck was sentenced to five life-terms for sexual and physical assaults against more than one hundred children in his care. He was sentenced to a further twenty-four years on seventeen charges of abuse, including rape.

In their book, Abuse of Trust, Mark D’Arcy and Paul Gosling suggest that in 1977, Beck and a co-worker, Colin Fiddaman, killed a 12-year-old boy, Simon O’Donnell, by throttling him whilst he was being sexually abused, though the subsequent inquest into O’Donnell’s death concluded that the boy had committed suicide after running away from a children’s home run by Beck. In 1998, a former resident, Peter Bastin, stated that he witnessed Beck and Fiddaman removing what he believed to be O’Donnell’s body from the home on the night before the child was found dead in a local factory. In the same year, Bastin was awarded a rumoured £50,000 compensation for the abuse and suffering he received from Beck.

Frank Beck maintained that he was innocent and had been fitted up. Beck was planning an appeal against his conviction when he was found dead in Whitemoor Prison on 31 May 1994. By 1994 the North Wales Police’s investigation into the abuse of children in care in north Wales had concluded, finding ‘no evidence’ of a paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire and the Jillings Investigation into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council had been launched in Jan 1994.

Some children who had been in care in Leicestershire who named Frank Beck as their abuser also named Beck’s friend, the Labour MP for Leicester North West, 1970-74 and Leicester West, 1974-97, Greville Janner. Janner denied everything. He was interviewed by the police in 1990 in the presence of his solicitor Sir David Napley, who was so certain that Janner would be charged that Napley retained George Carman QC. Napley and Carman had successfully defended Jeremy Thorpe, the Leader of the Liberal Party, when he stood trial for conspiracy and incitement to kill his former gay partner Norman Scott (see post ‘My How Things Haven’t Changed’). Janner wasn’t charged, although years later the CPS admitted that there was sufficient evidence to charge him and no-one could explain why he hadn’t been charged. Frank Beck was elected as a Liberal Party Councillor for Blaby District Council in 1983 and successfully defended his seat in 1987. Nigel Lawson was the Tory MP for Blaby, 1974-92 and was a Cabinet Minister in Thatcher’s Gov’t while Sir Peter Morrison, who was molesting children in care in north Wales, Cheshire and other locations, held a number of different roles in that Gov’t.

The Frank Beck case led to the Kirkwood Inquiry, Chaired by Andrew Kirkwood QC. Sittings were held in secret to protect innocent third parties, but not all evidence was released to the public. Kirkwood also held a meeting with Greville Janner in private and an agreement was made that Janner’s name would not appear in the Report. The Kirkwood Inquiry reported in 1993, was strongly critical of the management of Leicestershire Social Services during the 1970s and 1980s and of the conduct of several key managers as well as of the police. The Top Doctors were not criticised although it was known that mental health treatment of youngsters in care in Leicestershire had consisted of Top Docs having meetings with social workers not the children and advising the social workers on how to handle those terribly difficult children. Frank Beck abused children while giving them ‘therapy’. Before Beck was convicted, two Directors of Social Services for Leicestershire, Dorothy Edwards and Brian Rice, gave Beck glowing testimonials and references.

It was while Frank Beck was held on remand that I was forced out of my job at St George’s Hospital Medical School and told by Professor Nigel Eastman, who was providing a ‘second opinion’ on me, to go back to north Wales. In the spring and summer of 1990 and winter and spring of 1991 there were a number of attempts by Dafydd and the gang in north Wales to imprison me on the basis of their perjury. The Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services, Rob Evans, who was responsible for children’s homes in Gwynedd and then mental health services, trained as a social worker after studying Social Sciences at Leicester University in the mid-1970s (see post ‘I Know Nuzzing…’).

Richard Webster, who rubbished Alison Taylor (see post ‘Cottaging At Castle Gate’ and ‘Heart Of Darkness’) and maintained that allegations of a paedophile ring in north Wales were a result of mass hysteria and false memory syndrome, said very similar things about the allegations of serious abuse of children in Leicestershire.

 

Meanwhile Robert Kilpatrick developed a ‘towering reputation’ after his huge successes at Leicester Medical School. ‘The Scotsman’ tells us that Kilpatrick’s ‘earnest desire to raise the profile and expertise of the profession never ceased. Many colleagues recall how he had the knack of choosing the right Whitehall mandarin to approach. With his erudite and compelling manner (always free of medical jargon) he delivered his case which was listened to by ministers and their advisers. Baroness Jay, the Labour leader in the Lords, spoke for many when she said: ‘Sir Robert has been generous with his time and most courteous in answering detailed questions. In a way this bill is his Private Member’s Bill.’

Kilpatrick knew that he was on to a winner with Baroness Jay then. Baroness Jay began life as Margaret Callaghan, the daughter of Jim Callaghan, the former PM. Jim and Audrey Callaghan both concealed and colluded with the organised abuse of children (see post ‘Cry, The Beloved Country’). Margaret Jay is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford – like Thatch and Shirl – and between 1965 and 1977 Jay held production posts within the BBC. She then became a journalist on ‘Panorama’, Thames TV’s ‘This Week’ and presented the BBC 2  series ‘Social History of Medicine’. Elwyn Parry Jones, a paedophiles’ friend who grew up in Llangollen, worked as a journo for the BBC for years and was Deputy Editor of ‘Panorama’, 1977-85 (see post ‘The Turn Of The Screw’).

Margaret Jay ‘has a strong interest in health issues’, notably as a campaigner on HIV/AIDS. Jay was a founder Director of the National Aids Trust in 1987 and is also a Patron of Help the Aged. Between 1994 and 1997, Baroness Jay was the Chairman of the charity Attend (then the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends). In 2003, she was elected Vice-President of Attend.

After Blair’s General Election victory in 1997, Jay became Health Spokesman and Minister for Women in the House of Lords. From 1998 she was Leader of the Lords. Jay retired from active politics in 2001. Among the numerous non-executive roles that she has taken on since retiring from politics, Jay was a non-executive Director of BT Group. She was Co-chair of the cross-party Iraq Commission (along with Tom King and Paddy Ashdown) which was established by the Foreign Policy Centre think-tank and Channel 4.

Margaret Jay’s first husband Peter Jay was a friend of Dr Death and it was Dr Death who, in his capacity as Foreign Secretary, gave Peter Jay a job as Ambassador to the US. Peter Jay’s mother Margaret (Peggy) Jay was a member of the GLC, so she will have known about the abuse of kids in boroughs such as Islington, Lambeth and Hackney as well as the abuse of kids from London Boroughs who were sent to children’s homes in north Wales.

While in the USA, in 1979, Baroness Jay had an affair with the journo who exposed Watergate, Carl Bernstein. The Baroness didn’t think to ask Bernstein to expose the role that her own parents had in colluding with the sexual exploitation of kids in care then. Not one to be outdone, Peter Jay then had an affair with the family’s nanny, fathering a child in the process. Peter originally denied paternity, but I don’t know whom he tried to blame. The Jays divorced in 1986 and the Baroness lived for a while with the Cambridge economist Robert Neild. In 1994, the Baroness married Top Doctor AIDS specialist Michael Adler, who had been Chair of the National AIDS Trust when she was its Director. Neither Adler or the Baroness have acknowledged that many of the young men who died of AIDS in the late 1980s/1990s were rent boys who had been kids in care forced into sex work (see post ‘Apocalypse Now’).

No wonder everyone ‘listened to’ Robert Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick became Lord Kilpatrick in Feb 1996. William Hague announced the North Wales Child Abuse Inquiry on 17 June 1996, although Sir Ronnie Waterhouse seemed to know that he would be Chairing that Inquiry during 1995.

The Baroness Jay of Paddington:

Frank Beck:

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The Lord Lawson of Blaby
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The Lord Janner of Braunstone
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Marion Janner OBE with her ‘support dog’ Buddy, to whom Marion believes that she gave birth (see post ‘Have The Lambs Stopped Screaming?’)About - Star Wards

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the King’s Fund are as deluded as Marion – they think that Marion has ‘transformed patient care’ in her capacity as a mental health campaigner. Somehow Marion has managed to adopt two learning disabled children, as well as give birth to that dog.

Robert Kilpatrick’s superhuman qualities knew no limits. His ‘constant activity’ was achieved despite Kilpatrick suffering from type-I diabetes. He ‘regularly had to inject insulin but he followed a strict exercise regime and walked everywhere, both in London and Edinburgh’. Kilpatrick retired to a house in Edinburgh from where he made occasional trips to London to speak in the Lords, principally arguing against euthanasia, although Kilpatrick knew that witnesses to the wrongdoing of Dafydd et al were being unlawfully denied NHS care for life-threatening conditions.

Kilpatrick was a keen golfer throughout his life. He was a member of Edinburgh’s New Club as well as a member of the Royal & Ancient, ‘which he loved for its friendship and tradition’. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is now known as the The R&A. The Royal and Ancient had a male-only membership policy, this must have been one of the traditions which so endeared it to Kilpatrick. In 2012, former British PM Gordon Brown called on the club to abandon this tradition in favour of a non-discriminatory policy, as did Louise Richardson, the Principal and VC of the University of St Andrews. Louise Richardson was the first female VC of St Andrews, which caused a problem because the Royal and Ancient refused to let her cross their threshold what with her being in possession of ovaries, yet another tradition of the Royal and Ancient being that the VC of St Andrews should play a high profile role in the club. The policy was changed, along with the name of the club.

Professor Robert Bluglass, who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang in the summer of 1989 (see post ‘Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE’), was a student at St Andrews and is a leading light in their alumni network. It was in 1989 that the police investigation into child abuse in Leicestershire was launched and that was the year in which dear old Kilpatrick, being so esteemed, left his job of running Leicester Medical School to take up the office of Chair of the GMC.

Bluglass quaffing champagne at an Old Warwickians’ dinner:

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Lord Robert Kilpatrick in ermines:Democracy Live | Your representatives | Robert Kilpatrick

 

In February 2015 The R&A’s first female honorary members were announced. They included Princess Anne. In 2015, Lady Angela Bonallack became the first woman to take part in a match as a member of the club; specifically, she was the first woman to play in the club’s annual match against the Links Trust. Lady Bonallack seems to have been granted this honour as a result of being married to Sir Michael Bonallack, Secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1983-99 and Captain from 1999-2000. Sir Michael has also been President of the Golf Club Managers’ Association, 1974–84, Chairman of the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland, 1976–81, Chairman of the Golf Foundation, 1977–82 and President of the English Golf Union, 1982. He is the current President of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) and also served as President of the One Armed Golfers Society, the Professional Golfers Association of Europe and as Chairman of the advisory committee for the Official World Golf Rankings. Sir Michael is also President of the National Association of Public and Proprietary Golf Courses (NAPGC).

Michael Bonallack was given a knighthood in 1998. Presumably for services to golf-playing protectors of sex traffickers and paedophiles. In 1972, Bonallack was given the Bob Jones Award, the highest honour given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. He is a member of Augusta National Golf Club and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000.

Here’s The R&A clubhouse. It beats the shack which doubles up as the clubhouse of the Bangor Golf Club, of which so many of the associates of Dafydd’s gang are members (see previous posts):

 

Frank Beck’s seemingly bomb-proof invincibility saw him fend off a continued escalation of complaints about him abusing youngsters, until finally, in March 1986, his career in Leicestershire was ended by a complaint of sexual abuse made by two male residential social workers who claimed that Beck had made advances toward them during staff supervision sessions. This time, Beck was suspended from duty and he subsequently handed in his resignation rather than subject himself to investigations under the Council’s protracted disciplinary procedures and risk dismissal.

As the complaints rolled in about Beck, a senior solicitor for Islington Borough Council called Keith Vaz decided that he’d quite like to be the Labour MP for Leicester East and he was selected as the prospective Labour candidate for that constituency in 1985. At that time Vaz found a job as a solicitor at the Leicester City Council-funded Belgrave Law Centre. When Vaz worked for Islington Council, there had been a paedophile ring operating in the Council’s children’s homes. Before working for Islington, Vaz was employed as a solicitor to Richmond-upon-Thames Borough Council, while there was a paedophile gang operating in Richmond-upon-Thames. Vaz was elected as Labour MP for Leicester East in June 1987.

Vaz was recently placed under investigation by Parliament as a result of his shenanigans involving rent boys and the attempted procuring of drugs while he passed himself off as a washing machine salesman. The investigation was suspended when Vaz produced medical evidence from a Top Doctor.

My post ‘Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals’ mentioned that while the welfare services ran a paedophile gang in Leicestershire, Sue Townsend, the staunch socialist, supporter of the NHS and chronicler of teenage angst that caught the hearts of the nation in the form of the Adrian Mole books, lived in Leicester and rented out rather poor properties which were never maintained to her tenants for rather high rents. Townsend was from Leicester, left school at 14 and worked in a series of casual poorly paid jobs. She married young and had three children by the time that she was 23, at which point her marriage ended and she became a single parent, enduring the hardship which she later wrote about at every opportunity.

Legend according to Sue states that one day her 13 year old son asked why they didn’t go to safari parks at weekends ‘like other families’ and that it was this comment which began her writing that evolved into the Adrian Mole books, looking at life through the eyes of a teenager. Townsend then chose to ‘research the world of teenagers’ and started attending youth clubs as a volunteer organiser, which led to her training as a youth worker. She won’t have been able to have avoided knowing what was happening to teenagers in care in Leicester. While employed as a supervisor at an adventure playground, Townsend went on a canoeing course and met her second husband Colin Broadway. Their relationship took a while to get off the ground because Colin was married to someone else so Sue didn’t speak to him. She obviously didn’t keep her legs crossed for ever though, because Colin was the father of her fourth child, Elizabeth. Subsequently, Townsend became pregnant twice more, underwent abortions, but later realised that abortions were ‘wrong’ so wrote about that as well. 

Colin encouraged Townsend to join a writers’ group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, in 1978, when she was in her early thirties. Initially ‘too shy to speak’, she did not write anything for six weeks, but was then given a fortnight to write a play. This became the thirty-minute drama Womberang (1979), set in the waiting room of a gynaecology department. At the Phoenix, Shy Sue who couldn’t speak or write became the writer-in-residence and ‘Womberang’ subsequently won the 1981 Thames Television playwright award.

During her time at the Phoenix, Shy Sue was mentored by several theatre directors including Ian Giles and principally Sue Pomeroy who commissioned and directed a number of her plays. Townsend was also introduced to William Ash, then Chairman of the Soho Poly (now Soho Theatre), who also played a significant part in shaping Townsend’s early career. Bill Ash was a lifelong friend of Tony Benn and co-founded the Communist Party of Great Britain, which numbered among its members a great many people who knew about Dafydd and the gang in north Wales, as well as other organised sexual exploitation gangs, including the one in Leicestershire (see previous posts). Shy Sue met writer-director Carole Hayman ‘on the stairs of the Soho Poly theatre’ and went on to develop many theatre pieces with her and they later co-wrote two television series.

At the time of writing the first Adrian Mole book, Townsend was living on the Eyres Monsell Estate, near the house in which playwright  Joe Orton was brought up. Joe Orton came from Saffron Lane, a disadvantaged part of Leicester who’s residents were considerably stigmatised and known by other people as ‘Saffs’. It was the Saffs who got it in the neck from the likes of Frank Beck and the Social Services. The Eyres Monsell ward is adjacent to Blaby, which is where Frank Beck was a Councillor.

Joe Orton used to comment that he was never allowed to forget that he came from the gutter. Joe Orton was gay and famously promiscuous from a very young age. He died at the age of 34 in 1967 when his partner Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned Joe to death with a hammer at their home in Islington before killing himself with an overdose of Nembutal, or at least that is what the official story was. There are many aspects of the account which don’t quite add up and Joe and Kenneth will also have known the identities of some people involved in the gay/rent boy scene who really did not ever want that involvement becoming public (see post ‘Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals’).

The first two published stories of Townsend’s appeared in a short-lived arts’ journal entitled ‘magazine’, in the editing and production of which Townsend was involved, featuring the character then still called Nigel Mole. Actor Nigel Bennett, a graduate of the University of Wales, had given Shy Sue ‘help and encouragement’ to persist with the work and sent the script to John Tydeman, the Deputy Head of BBC Radio Drama. The character first came to national awareness in a single radio play, The Diary of Nigel Mole, Aged 13¼, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on New Year’s Day 1982.

John Tydeman was Deputy Head, Radio Drama at the BBC from 1979 and then Head of BBC Radio Drama, 1986-94. He joined BBC Radio Drama in 1960 and was responsible for commissioning and directing the early plays of Joe Orton and Tom Stoppard. Tydeman had introduced the theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay to Joe Orton. After Peggy Ramsay died in 1991, Tydeman became a Trustee for the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, leading to his continued support for new writing after he left the BBC, particularly through administering the Foundation’s annual grant to the Pearson Playwright’s Scheme, originally the Thames Television Theatre Writers Scheme, of which dear old Shy Sue had been a beneficiary…

Someone at the publishers Methuen heard the Radio 4 Nigel Mole broadcast and commissioned Townsend to write the first Mole book, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, which came out in September 1982. The publisher insisted on the change of name because of the similarity to Nigel Molesworth, the schoolboy character who was a 1950s version of Adrian Mole, created by Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans. A month after Shy Sue’s book’s appearance it had topped the best seller list and had sold a million copies after a year. Adapted as a play, the stage version premiéred in Leicester and ran at Wyndham Theatre for more than two years.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984) was reputedly based on Townsend’s children’s experiences at a comprehensive school in Leicester in the early 1980s. My post ‘Radical Leicester and Some More Free Radicals’ describes how people in teaching, teacher training and education in Leicestershire knew that there was organised abuse of children in the region. The Labour MP Lisa Nandy’s mum and dad worked with people who were concealing the abuse of children in Leicestershire. Lisa’s grandfather was Lord Frank Byers, who insulted Norman Scott so badly when Scott told a Liberal Party investigative panel about the harassment and threats that he had received from Jeremy Thorpe that Norman left the room and subsequently made a police statement (see post ‘My How Things Haven’t Changed’).

Townsend’s first two Adrian Mole books were adapted into a TV series, broadcast in 1985 and 1987.

So Shy Sue, the girl who grew up in Leicester, left school at 14 and lived with the Saffs, found that her career as a writer very rapidly took off after she found employment as a youth worker, at a time when Frank Beck and – according to most other people except for Greville Janners’ children – Greville Janner, as well as others, were very busy molesting disadvantaged young people in Leicestershire. How did Shy Sue from Leicester, who’s first attempts at the work which made her very wealthy and very famous seemed to equate to plagiarism of the Molesworth classics, so quickly grab the attention of big wigs in the theatre and the BBC? Shy Sue really hit the big time while huge efforts were being made to conceal the crimes of Frank Beck and co as people began to come forward alleging terrible abuse in Leicestershire which stretched back decades but had become particularly bad from the 1970s onwards…

John Tydeman’s career took a turn for the better immediately after he gave Sue a helping hand as well.

Socialist Sue was so distraught at the ravages of Thatcherism that in 1989 she wrote ‘Mr Bevan’s Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State’, a short book in the Counterblasts series. Sue did fantastically out of the welfare state, not only did she get the NHS treatment and care for her multiple health problems that the Saffs and kids in care so often didn’t, but her tales of poverty and hardship were lapped up by the swathes of welfare professionals and people in the liberal media who knew some of what was happening to vulnerable people and kids in care at the hands of celebs and ‘VIPs’…

The journalist Christina Patterson observed of Townsend in 2008: ‘Her heart, it’s clear from her books and a few hours in her company, is still with the people she left behind, the people who go largely unchronicled in literature, the people who are still her friends.’ Unless of course they were Saffs and kids in care being repeatedly sexually assaulted and trafficked by Sue’s social work colleagues.

It is quite extraordinary how frequently references to hearts are associated with those close to people who have concealed organised abuse:Cilla Black kept her love for Scottie Road even when she ...

Esther, who presented BBC’s ‘Hearts Of Gold’:

Esther Rantzen TV Presenter for BBC series Hearts Of Gold Stock Photo

Great Ormond Street Hospital: 

Love Hearts appeal

 

The Pheonix Arts Theatre is now known as the Sue Townsend Theatre and in 1982 staged Sue’s play ‘Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults’.

The MP who currently holds the seat of Leicester South, the neck of the woods where Sue Townsend lived and where the Saffs still do live, is Labour’s Jon Ashworth. Ashworth is the Shadow Health Spokesperson and bangs on endlessly about the marvellous Top Docs and Angels being in need of more dosh.

Ashworth grew up in Manchester, went to Bury College, then to Durham University and in 2000 served as National Secretary of Labour Students. In 2001 Ashworth began working for the Labour Party as a Political Research Officer, then worked as the Economics and Welfare Policy Officer, 2002-04. Ashworth was seconded to the Scottish Labour Party in 2003 to work on the Scottish Parliamentary election campaign where he worked closely with Gordon Brown.

In 2004 Ashworth was appointed Spad to Chief Secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng. Ashworth was a busy campaigner in the 2007 Crewe and Nantwich by-election. In May 2010 Ashworth became Political Secretary to Harriet Harman. He was described as a ‘key member’ of Ed Miliband’s team on the day after Miliband won the Labour leadership election. When Miliband won, he asked Ashworth to join his office as Head of Party Relations. In 2011 Ashworth sought selection in Leicester South and was immediately identified as the front runner and was backed by the major  trade unions, including his own Unite, UNISON and the GMB.

Ashworth is married to Emilie, the former East Midlands Regional Director for the Labour Party. She was Labour candidate for Sherwood in the 2010 General Election, but could not hold the seat. Gordon and Sarah Brown attended their wedding on 3 July 2010 in Derbyshire.

I really am fed up of Jon Ashworth bellyaching on about The Cuts and how those who work in the NHS are flawless. So here’s a few things for Jon to ponder on re his biography:

Manchester, where John grew up: Lethal mental health services, bullying and intimidation of whistleblowers; Dafydd’s mate Dr Bob Hobson worked there and formed an outpost of the abuse empire in Manchester. Durham, where Jon went to university: on the patch of major paedophile ring linked to the gang in north Wales, which was concealed by Labour MPs in the North East, including Ernest and Hilary Armstrong and Mo Mowlam, for years. Scottish Labour Party, 2003: Jack McConnell, FM of Scotland, went to Stirling University with my best friend from school, who had her career destroyed and was targeted by gangsters at the same time as me, after I refused to shut up about Dafydd; McConnell knew about organised abuse in Scotland and I rather think that Lord Jack knew what was going on in north Wales as well and knew that someone whom he knew at Stirling was close friends with a witness. Paul Boateng, Ashworth’s former boss: worked at lawyers Birnberg when Birnberg represented Mary Wynch against Dafydd et al for the first part of her legal action; Mary won, Birnberg dropped her, Mary was subsequently ruined by Michael Howard at the Home Office, despite winning her case. Crewe and Nantwich: centre of the Cheshire arm of Dafydd’s gang, the seat was held for years by Gwyneth Dunwoody, a corrupt old bag who was married to an equally corrupt Top Doctor and they produced Tamsin, who grew up into yet another corrupt politician; all the Dunwoodys knew about the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the role of the NHS in concealing it. Harriet Harman, Ashworth’s former boss: daughter of a Harley Street Top Doctor, who is as thick as pig shit and was involved with the NCCL when the NCCL was affiliated to PIE and fighting for paedophiles’ rights. Ed Miliband, Ashworth’s mate/leader: a goon who’s Uncle Harry worked as a Top Doc at Guys and Tommy’s with Dafydd’s mates and who’s dad knew about the Westminster Paedophile Ring as well.

Then Ashworth rocks up in Leicester, having had no previous links there, having been considering other seats. Leicester – site of a former paedophile gang which had close links to Westminster and was concealed by the NHS. Oh and Brown lives and works there as well, the Brown who, when Ashworth decided that Leicester was the place for him, had published with me on the abuses of the mental health services in north Wales and elsewhere. Jon Ashworth sought the nomination for Leicester when it became clear that Operation Pallial was going to re-open investigations into the abuse of kids in north Wales and that there was going to be a national inquiry into organised sexual abuse.

Unite, UNSON, GMB: unions with many members who have concealed or colluded with organised abuse.

Now for Christ’s sake Ashworth, piss off, bugger off, sod off. I’ve got 10,000 documents and you haven’t, all you can do is bleat about giving the Top Doctors more money. They are already among the most highly paid people in the country and the health outcomes for people in the UK are among some of the worst in Europe and it is nothing to do with Tory Cuts you big idiot. I’ve read some of your speeches re the NHS, your facts and figures are wrong, as are your conclusions but as you know nothing about the biomedical sciences that doesn’t surprise me.

 

When I lived in Leicester in the autumn of 1987, as well as Sue Townsend, there was another local person who had become famous whom I was told still had a house in Leicester and jetted back and forth between there and his place in the US – the old crooner Engelbert Humperdinck. Girls/women of my vintage howled with laughter at Engelbert Humperdinck, but for the generation before us he was promoted as highly desirable. Humperdinck is not one of those who has been named and shamed in the recent spate of stories regarding ageing stars who stand accused of sexual misconduct, but when he was younger, Humperdinck was involved in a spat with the mother of his illegitimate child, who had to take Humperdinck to court to enforce maintenance payments.

Just months after I heard about Humperdinck owning a house nearby when I was living in Leicester, I was working at the University of Surrey at Guildford and one of the PhD students said that there had been an Engelbert Humperdinck concert in Guildford the previous night and because the students thought that the very notion of such a thing was such a laugh, some of them went. Humperdinck was described to me in a highly negative way, as it was explained that during the concert he kept trying to grab hold of the young female students to drag them up on stage with him for a grope-lite fest, whilst he refused the many offers of women in their 50s who had paid good money to go and see him because they were actually fans of his, rather than because they wanted to experience the spectacle of a ridiculous old crooner with an equally ridiculous name.

Humperdinck is a Roman Catholic who makes a point of trying to visit a cathedral when he is on tour wherever he is on the planet. I am not someone who believes that all Catholic priests are molesters, but the combination of Englebert, Leicester and Catholicism is worrying.

In August 2005, Engelbert auctioned one of his Harley Davidson motorbikes to raise money for the County Air Ambulance in Leicestershire. Sue Townsend was no doubt proud of him. In 2006, Leicester University awarded Humperdinck an Honorary Doctorate.

Theophilus P. Wildebeeste PhD (Leics):

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck in photographed for Stuff Magazine in 2001 in Los Angeles California

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck in photographed for Stuff Magazine in 2001 in Los Angeles California

‘Jackie’ magazine never featured Engelbert during the course of its promotion of passive adolescent femininity, or if it did it was years before I saw people reading ‘Jackie’, but ‘Jackie’ did sell the Bay City Rollers to its readers in a big way. After the teenage craze for the Rollers had died a death, rumours were circulating that the Rollers had been used for gay sex by their manager, Tam Paton and his associates. I didn’t believe this when I was told it, I presumed that it was just another one of those tall stories with no basis at all that do the rounds about celebs. However, it was clear that the Rollers’ lives began unravelling even as they were still stars. Les McKeown, the lead singer, had several brushes with the law yet seemed to get off quite lightly. He ran over and killed an elderly lady in 1975 and not long after that he was charged with a shotgun offence, either possessing a shotgun without a licence or threatening someone with it, I can’t remember the details. In 1976, another member of the band, Eric Faulkner, nearly died at Paton’s Edinburgh mansion from a drug overdose.

The real Rollers bombshell came years after they had disappeared into obscurity when in 2000 Derek Longmuir, who had been the drummer, was convicted of possessing child porn, a great deal of it as well, after making some not very credible excuses as to why he had a house full of child porn (see post ‘The Bloody State We’re In’). Longmuir was by that time working as an Angel at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, having worked there since 1993. Longmuir began training as an Angel in 1990, after having done voluntary work at the Sick Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh. Despite having a mountain of child porn in the form of photos, videos and floppy discs and having admitted making indecent photos of children at his home in March 1998, Edinburgh Sheriff’s Court sentenced Longmuir to only 300 hours of community service. He was suspended from his job as an Angel but later returned to nursing.

The Rollers came from Edinburgh. The richest and most grandiose Top Doctors are to be found in London, but it is Edinburgh which has the traditional ‘reputation’ for medical excellence. Edinburgh medics see themselves as far superior to the vulgarians in London.

They do get things badly wrong in Edinburgh though, even in circumstances where one would imagine that the Top Docs would be taking extra care. In Oct 1988, John Smith complained of chest pains and went to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for advice. He was given an EEG and was told by the examining Top Doctor, ‘whatever it is, we don’t think it’s your heart’. Smith subsequently suddenly collapsed, was briefly unconscious and spent three days in intensive care, then ‘made a full recovery’. Over the next three months, Smith gave up smoking, lost three stone and began mountain walking. He returned to Parliament in Jan 1989. In May 1994, John Smith had a heart attack at his Barbican flat and was taken to Barts where Top Doctors ‘could not revive him’. See post ‘The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play’. One month after Smith’s death, Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, died of an ‘unspecified blood disease’. Four days after Arnold’s death, Peter Howarth, Arnold’s friend and colleague at Bryn Estyn and Paul Wilson, stood trial for sexually and physically abusing boys in care in north Wales (see post ‘The Banality Of Evil’).

A Top Doctor’s opinion was sought for the purposes of sentencing Derek Longmuir, so presumably there is a Top Doc somewhere who does not have a problem with someone who owns a mountain of child porn working as an Angel.

 

Regarding those rumours about the Rollers having been sexually used by their manager Tam Paton. Tam Paton was gay and upfront about it but Tam Paton didn’t live quite as most other gay men do. In 1982, Paton was convicted of gross indecency with two teenage boys aged 16 and 17, below the then-legal age of consent and he served one year of a three-year prison sentence. Paton was arrested on child sexual abuse charges in January 2003, but was later cleared of all allegations. In April 2004, Paton was convicted of supplying cannabis and fined £200,000. In 2003, the Rollers’ guitarist Pat McGlynn reported an attempted rape by Paton in an Australian hotel in 1977 but police found that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. In 2009, Les McKeown said that Paton had raped him.

In 2016, in the wake of the publication of a book about Paton and his success story with the Rollers, it was alleged by Gordon ‘Nobby’ Clark, the original singer with the band, that Paton had attempted to persuade the Rollers to have sex with the then Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning, who in 2016 was jailed for 13 years for sex offences against children. Clark said the incident happened when Chris Denning was the band’s promotions manager in 1971, while they stayed at Denning’s home in Surrey. According to Clark, Paton told the band – whose line-up at the time included brothers Derek and Alan Longmuir, Neil Henderson and Archie Marr – that ‘Chris would probably do more for us if one of us slept with him’. Clark stated that: ‘Paton had drawers full of Quaaludes (a sedative marketed in the UK as Mandrax). There was cocaine and cannabis. They would use sleeping tablets to spike kids’ drinks. Chris Denning was always there. He would come up from London especially. Whenever he saw a kid who was in a bad way from the sleeping tablets he’d be straight across. Then he’d drag them into one of the bedrooms.’

McGlynn told the author of the book – ‘The Dark History Of The Bay City Rollers’ –  that Paton was ‘drugging everyone he wanted to get his way with – drug them and abuse them. He was just an animal. Les [singer McKeown] pulled Tam off me a couple of times when he tried to rape me or he spiked my drink.’

In 2014 ‘The Express’ reported that Pat McGlynn had stated that he agreed with a former adviser to the Scottish Gov’t, Dr Sarah Nelson, that Paton had run a paedophile ring in Edinburgh. McGlynn claimed that he had witnessed high-profile individuals from entertainment, law enforcement, ‘genteel Edinburgh society’ and organised crime attend sex parties at Paton’s secluded mansion near Edinburgh. McGlynn alleged that police officers attended the parties, which were held between 1976 and 1981 and involved young boys as well as older men. McGlynn maintained that the scale of sexual exploitation as a result of Paton’s parties was enormous and that hundreds of young people were abused. McGlynn told ‘The Express’ that he had hoped that the launch of Operation Yewtree into the crimes of Jimmy Savile and others would finally expose Paton and his accomplices. Like Savile , Paton’s involvement in the music business went back decades, in Paton’s case to the early 1960s.
McGlynn said that he had been to the Edinburgh police every five years, ‘trying to get something done, hoping they would have some new evidence…The last time was about eight months ago and I told them they weren’t doing enough. They said they had done all they could, and until I could come up with some more evidence there was nothing more they could do.’

 

When Paton was jailed in 1982, an associate claimed that Paton had a ‘dossier’ of famous names who should have been jailed alongside him. After his release, Paton turned to drug dealing and running a network of rent boys, with one source claiming he became the ‘top man’ in the Scottish underworld. Paton always insisted that the boys at his parties – many of them runaways or children in care – were over 16 and willing participants. McGlynn insisted: ‘He was supplying the boys with drink and drugs. That’s the only reason they were there. They weren’t there because they liked Tam Paton. He would have a big punchbowl he would fill full of drugs – you wouldn’t even know what you were taking. He got you in a trap, he got you addicted to drugs. I remember being in the band, I’d have a few drinks and I’d wake up with that man on top of me, having to fight him off. He was vile. The boys were anything from eight up to, well, after 17 or 18 they were too old for him. He wasn’t interested. A lot of them would come to see the band and he’d get chatting to their parents and that’s how Paton would get his hands on them.’

Pat McGlynn also suggested that drug addicts would willingly bring their children to Paton in exchange for a free high, while still more youngsters were flown in from abroad – sent to Scotland by their unwitting families with hopes of achieving pop stardom.

In 1990, a 16-year-old boy from a children’s home was found at Paton’s flat on Palmerston Place. The boy had been drugged and repeatedly raped by a number of men, although the resulting Operation Planet investigation – which was rumoured to involve prominent legal figures – eventually led to just one man being jailed.

Dr Sarah Nelson stated that many survivors of the paedophile ring were afraid to speak out because they had become involved in drugs and petty crime and because they feared Paton and his associates. Pat McGlynn alleged that Paton was violent and kept guns at his house.

In the 2014 ‘The Express’ article, the then Scottish Labour Justice Spokesman Graeme Pearson said that the Paton allegations should be included in a full public inquiry into historic child abuse in Scotland.

They won’t be. Instead, Professor Alexis Jay, who has spent a career in social work in Scotland throughout these events and who was appointed to the very pinnacle of Scottish social work by Lord Jack McConnell when McConnell was Scotland’s FM, is Chairing the IICSA and is feigning horror at the abuse of youngsters by churchmen.

‘The Express’ article mentioned that Detective Chief Superintendent Lesley Boal confirmed ‘a report of an historic sexual offence’ which was made to Lothian and Borders Police in 2003. This was investigated and it was concluded that there was insufficient evidence at that stage’.

An article in ‘The Scotsman’ in 2007 reported that Paton was living in his mansion with a number of young men whom Paton claimed were homeless and had been cast out by their families, who appeared to be acting as servants for Paton. Paton and the young men co-existed with a number of Dobermans and Staffies. As well as ‘managing pop bands’ Paton had amassed an estimated £3 million fortune from his Edinburgh based property developing business and told ‘ The Scotsman’ that his lawyer had drawn up his will, leaving cash for various animal charities, including the Canine Defence League and something for the dog and cat home at Seafield, as well as a donation for the children’s hospice at Kinross.

Paton died at his Edinburgh home in 2009, after several years of serious health problems which, he boasted, were treated on the NHS, although he could have easily afforded private care.

Early last month – July 2018 – it was reported that Alan Longmuir, a founder member of the Rollers and the brother of the paedophile Angel Derek, had died. Alan was 70 and died in hospital after becoming ill in Mexico. Last week, it was reported in the Scottish press that another member of the original Rollers line-up had just died when his house caught fire. The report didn’t appear in many media outlets and there was no explanation regarding the cause of the fire or whether it was suspicious.

 

The success of the Bay City Rollers led to the formation of another Scottish band in 1974 with a similar image, Slik. Slik were favourites of ‘Jackie’. Slik were from Glasgow as opposed to Edinburgh but linked up with songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, who were writing for the Bay City Rollers. One member of Slik subsequently became a big name in more serious music circles and spoke of his embarrassment at being packaged in the way that Slik was – Midge Ure.

Ure enjoyed success with bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids and Visage, but most notably as frontman of Ultravox. Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was married to the daughter of light entertainment favourite Leslie Crowther, who objected so strongly to Lynott’s drugs excesses that for a time Crowther wouldn’t have anything to do with his daughter. Lynott was an alcoholic and heroin addict who collapsed at his home in Kew in Dec 1985. Lynott’s wife took him to a drug clinic at Clouds House near Shaftesbury and he was then taken to Salisbury Infirmary, where he was diagnosed with septicaemia. Lynott died in intensive care in Jan 1986.

 

In 1984, Ure co-wrote and produced the charity single ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, which has sold 3.7 million copies in the UK. The song is the second highest selling single in UK chart history. Ure co-organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Bob Geldof. Ure acts as Trustee, and serves as Ambassador for, Save The Children.

St Bob has famously lost both his former wife, Paula Yates and Peaches, one of his daughters with Paula. They both died of drug overdoses. Peaches died from a heroin overdose and no-one could understand why because she had given it up ages ago. Paula died after being in the care of Top Docs for serious depression after her partner Michael Hutchence hung himself. Paula maintained that Hutchence did not kill himself but she was denounced as a mad grieving woman. Paula was found dead after a heroin overdose. Paula’s friends all maintained that Paula had definitely given up heroin. Paula spent her early life in north Wales. She lived at Llandudno and went to the primary school in Rowen, the village where the family lived after moving from Llandudno, as well as to Ysgol Aberconwy and Penrhos College. Paula described herself as a groupie when she was young and also modelled for ‘Penthouse’ before she became famous.

When Paula was living in north Wales, Dafydd’s gang were busy. Lord Wyn Roberts, the Tory MP for Aberconwy and Welsh Office Minister who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang for years (see post ‘The Cradle Of Filth’), lived in Rowen.

For more information about the deaths of Michael Hutchence, Paula and Peaches and the numerous inconsistencies in the explanations for those deaths, see previous posts.

 

Ure has been the Musical Director and performed at The Princes Trust Rock Concerts 1986,1987,1988, 2010 and 2011. He performed at Music for Montserrat, September 15, 1997, to raise funds for the Caribbean island which had been devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and in 1997, Montserrat was practically destroyed by the volcanic activity. Ure himself lost a house that was destroyed in Montserrat.

On 24 July 1999, Ure was the Musical Director of the Wicked Women concert for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Charity held at Hyde Park in London. See post ‘Oh Lordy, It’s CR UK’ for details of the large scale research fraud in cancer research.

One of Midge Ure’s co-musicians was Steve Strange, who was born Steve Harrington, in Newbridge, Caerphilly. The family lived for a time in Aldershot and then moved back to Wales, to Rhyl. Steve’s parents divorced and he moved with his mother back to Newbridge. 

After attending a Sex Pistols concert at the Castle Cinema in Caerphilly in 1976, Harrington befriended the bass player Glen Matlock. He then arranged gigs for punk bands in his home town and befriended Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers before leaving for London where he worked for Malcolm McLaren. 

McLaren was callous and highly exploitative, as was demonstrated by his response to the disaster involving Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungeon. McLaren knew a lot about the sordid sexual exploitation of young people in the music industry at the time, but is no longer here to tell us all about it, although McLaren’s partner Dame Viv Westwood is. I am still waiting for Dame Viv to tell us all why some expensive Top Doctors went to the law to prevent Adam Ant aka Stuart Goddard from talking to the media and what happened to Stuart Goddard in an NHS secure unit after he had a breakdown that upset him and his friends so much. See posts ‘The Bloody State We’re In’ and ‘No One Is Innocent’.

McLaren and Dame Viv’s son used to revel in describing himself as a pornographer but he dresses it up as art these days.

 

In the late 1970s, prior to the success that Steve Strange and Midge Ure had with the group Visage, Strange and Visage partner Rusty Egan began to make a name for themselves as a nightclub host and DJ respectively. In 1978, they began organising “Bowie nights” on Tuesdays at Billy’s nightclub in Soho, before moving to the ‘Blitz’ club in London’s Covent Garden in 1979. ‘Blitz’ became an essential location in the rise of what would become the New Romantic movement. Following ‘Blitz’, Strange and Egan then fronted the “Club for Heroes” in London in 1981, before moving to the Camden Palace nightclub in 1982 for two years, attracting major celebrities on a regular basis. Their next club venture, “The Playground” in 1984, was less successful.

Later in the 1980s, Strange went to Ibiza and became an integral part of the budding trance club movement and hosting parties for celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone. During the mid-1990s, Strange promoted nights at the Emporium nightclub in Soho, London.

In November 2006 Strange took part in, and went on to win, the BBC reality series for Children In Need, ‘Celebrity Scissorhands’. He returned to the show in 2007 and 2008 as Assistant Manager/Image Consultant.

Steve Strange was bisexual and for many years was addicted to heroin. In later years he moved back to Wales, to Porthcawl, suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised in south Wales. In November 1999 Strange was arrested for shoplifting – he was caught stealing a Teletubbies doll for his nephew. In court, he was found guilty and given a three-month suspended sentence. On 12 February 2015, Strange suffered a heart attack while in Egypt and died later that day in hospital.

People in a position to name names re the sexual exploitation of youngsters in the 1970s and 80s really don’t last very long do they.

Steve Strange had a very bad relationship with his dad, who killed himself in Rhyl. Steve Strange might have hated him, but if his dad did have difficulties, there’d have been no help for him in north Wales.

Strange was mates with Paula Yates.

Boy George worked for Steve Strange at ‘Blitz’. By the late 1980s, George had been struggling with heroin addiction for many years. Addictions to other drugs soon followed. In 1986, Boy George was arrested for heroin possession as part of “Operation Culture.” In 1986, keyboardist Michael Rudetsky was found dead of a heroin overdose in George’s London home. Rudetsky’s parents filed a death suit in Britain against George, seeking financial damages for their son’s death. George won the court case against the Rudetskys and was not required to pay any damages. George lost another friend, Mark Vaultier, who overdosed on methadone and Valium at a party, George having never made it to the party, being arrested en route on suspicion of carrying drugs.

On 7 October 2005, George was arrested in Manhattan on suspicion of cocaine possession and falsely reporting a burglary. George denied that the drug was his. In court on 1 February 2006, the cocaine possession charge was dropped and George pleaded guilty to falsely reporting a burglary. He was sentenced to five days of community service, fined US$1,000 and ordered to attend a drug rehabilitation programme. On 17 June 2006, a Manhattan judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Boy George after he failed to appear in court for a hearing on why George wanted to change his sentence for the false burglary report. George’s attorney informed the court that he had advised George not to appear at that hearing.

On 5 December 2008, George was convicted in Snaresbrook Crown Court, London, of the assault and false imprisonment of Audun Carlsen, who was a  Norwegian who initially stood for a photography session with George, but on their next meeting George handcuffed him to a wall fixture, traumatising him and subjected him to violence. George’s defence gave the effects of his long-term drug use as a mitigating factor. On 16 January 2009, George was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment for these offences. He was given early release after four months on 11 May 2009. George was required to wear an ankle monitor and submit to a curfew for the remainder of his sentence.

On 23 December 2009, George had his request to appear on the final series of Celebrity Big Brother (to be broadcast on Channel 4) turned down by the Probation Service. Richard Clayton QC, representing the Probation Service, said George’s participation would pose ‘a high level of risk’ to the service’s reputation. Clayton argued that if he used the show to promote his status as a celebrity and earn ‘a lucrative sum of money’ it could undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system.

 

Another one of Midge Ure’s associates in the music business was Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet. Hadley was a big fan of Thatch and at one time, like the alcoholic wife beater Jim Davidson, aspired to be a Tory MP. I’m not sure why Hadley has given up pursuing that particular dream, he was hell bent on that for quite some time. Hadley enjoys telling everyone that he has never claimed benefits. I rather suspect that if he was ever in need of money, Hadley would be capable of doing something far more unscrupulous than claiming benefits. Hadley is the sort of aggressive unscrupulous person who describes himself as ‘competitive’. Some years ago he appeared in a real life documentary which was a singing competition between ‘stars’, the prize being to give the winning star an even bigger break. As well as Hadley, an actress from East Enders featured who was by far the most talented of anyone on the show and seemed a really nice, generous, fair player. Hadley behaved appallingly and used every dirty trick possible to put this young woman out of action. Towards the end of the competition, she remarked ‘Tony feels really threatened by me and he’s going to do absolutely anything to win this.’ I think that she just gave up trying because she just couldn’t bear Hadley’s naked aggression and near-cheating any longer. His behaviour was so bad that it would have warranted his removal from the show, but no, the big meathead won and was filmed gloating and banging on about his future as a Tory MP.

Perhaps Hadley would like to enlighten us about the drugs and trafficking scene of which he witnessed so much when he was singing those boring Spandau Ballet songs back in the 80s. Hadley grew up in the Islington area and his mother worked for the local District Health Authority. So Mrs Hadley will have known all about the paedophile/trafficking gang which operated in Islington and which was facilitated by the NHS in that area.

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 A rather different sort of star from the Bay City Rollers and Midge Ure who emanated from Scotland was the child star who became famous when she won ‘Opportunity Knocks’, Lena Zavaroni. Lena appeared on the show when she was about 9 yrs old, dressed up as a much younger child but singing a song about a man trying to get off with her. It was all seriously weird and I never worked out who voted for Lena in sufficient numbers to ensure that she won the show five weeks in a row because all the adults who surrounded me at that time were horrified at what someone had put Lena up to. Lena ended up in a very sad way. She developed anorexia when she was about 12, never recovered fully although she did stage a come back after she almost starved to death in her mid-teens, became very seriously depressed as a young adult, was unable to work and then died in the University Hospital of Wales after she had what was effectively a leucotomy but tarted up under a different name. Cardiff is one of the few places that still performs that operation and after Lena died ‘in their care’, it was obvious from the public statements that were issued by UHW that the truth was not being told about Lena’s death.

Lena came from the Isle of Bute, off the coast of West Scotland and had led a very quiet life until she was about nine. Her family seemed to do things like sing in pubs and other local venues and got her to do that as well, but when she was ‘discovered’ she was whisked off to London and paraded around TV studios, parties etc. I presumed that her parents went with Lena to London, but it transpires that they just took her there and stayed a few days before coming home, leaving her in the care of her manager, Dorothy Solomon, who very obviously had no idea about looking after a little girl.

Dorothy Solomon was the wife of Phil Solomon, the music industry executive who was co-director of Radio Caroline. Phil Solomon made his name and his money in the 1950s/60s and retired in 1970, but Dorothy continued working, ‘managing’ Lena.

Lena then never really saw her parents or Scotland again, she was being taken off to places like Japan and America and had her nose to the grindstone. There are numerous clips of interviews with Lena and they are gob smacking. When she was first interviewed after arriving in London, she couldn’t cope with roads which had so many traffick lights, not having seen such roads before. Then there were all the interviews with horrid old showbiz men who were asking Lena questions that a lot of people wouldn’t have felt were acceptable to ask a girl of her age. As Lena got older, she was interviewed on TV about ‘being fat’, about having anorexia and other weird topics for chat shows. It is very clear that there were what would now be called ‘child protection issues’ with Lena from the day that she left Scotland, God knows what was happening to her off camera.

Interviews with Lena’s dad after her death demonstrated that he had no idea what a leucotomy was and I doubt that Lena knew either. She just knew that she felt terrible, had heard that some people who get depressed have ‘an operation on their brain’ which ‘makes them better’. I cannot find any information regarding who referred Lena for such a procedure or what their rationale was. Before the leucotomy, Lena had been an in-patient at a rather whacky therapy centre in the US, run by people who were obviously out of their depth. After Lena died there were threats to take action against the therapy centre. No such threats were made towards UHW who had given a young woman a leucotomy, somehow killed her and had not told the truth about the circumstances of her death.

Lena died in Oct 1999, four months before the Waterhouse Report was published. The man who put Lena on her first steps to stardom was the presenter of ‘Opportunity Knocks’, Hughie Green, who was notorious for being sexually exploitative and was not a particularly pleasant character. Paula Yates was distraught when, as an adult, she discovered that Hughie Green was her real father, not Jess Yates, the man whom Paula had always thought was her dad.

 

Someone who knows the details of much of the wrongdoing detailed on this blog whom I have not blogged about yet is Clare Short, the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, 1983-10. Short held the seat during the years when kids in care were being abused in Birmingham and being sent to children’s homes in north Wales where they were abused and trafficked. Aston University is within the constituency which Clare held. Aston was a very troubled place from the early 1980s, as a result of the activities of the VC Sir Freddie Crawford, known as ‘Thatcher’s favourite VC’. Crawford’s managerialism was so savage that Dr Ron Easterby, a former colleague of Brown’s and member of staff who committed suicide, was said by his other colleagues to have been ‘killed by the University’ (see post ‘The White Heat Of This Revolution’). Professor Elwyn Edwards of the Psychology Dept was inviting male freshers to his room for a ‘welcome drink’, greeting them in a silk dressing gown and propositioning them and complaints about this were not dealt with. Aston had one of the highest suicide rates among students of any UK university and within the institution this was attributed to the bizarre ideas of Dr Philip Cauthery, the student physician, who doubled up as a ‘sexologist’ and was a member of the Editorial Board of ‘Forum’, the sex magazine. ‘Forum’ was not a magazine which endorsed paedophilia, but it was discovered that paedophiles were using the small ads in ‘Forum’ to network and sell/buy child porn. Alastair Campbell used to write for ‘Forum’.

Brown was forced out of his job at Aston unlawfully in 1995, two weeks or so after Sir Peter Morrison and Bing Spear, the corrupt mandarin who ran the Home Office Drugs Branch (see post Little Things Hitting Each Other’), were found dead within four days of each other.

Crawford’s son was involved with drugs and crime and used to boast that he got away with anything because of who his dead was. He was found dead in an hotel in Israel, allegedly after a heroin overdose. After he stood down as VC of Aston, Sir Freddie was appointed as Chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which angered a lot of people because of Crawford’s position as a leading Freemason.

All universities are dysfunctional, but Aston under Crawford was very worrying indeed. Clare Short never raised concerns about the activities of Thatcher’s Masonic henchman.

Short was born in Birmingham to Irish Catholic parents from N Ireland. She was supportive of peaceful Sinn Fein initiatives, although she was never a supporter of IRA violence. Short attended Keele University for a short time. At that time there were a number of people associated with Keele University who had concealed organised child abuse. Alun Michael, the Labour politician who was later imposed as FM of Wales by Blair went to Keele University at about the same time as Short. Alun Michael was a Councillor in Cardiff when that Council ignored the abuse of kids in care in south Wales. Michael inexplicably resigned as Wales’s FM when the Waterhouse Report was submitted to the Gov’t (see post ‘News From Sicily’).

When she was eighteen Clare Short married a fellow Keele student, after she had a baby when she was seventeen. The couple’s son was given up for adoption and did not make contact with his mother until 1996. Short discovered that her son was a Tory supporter who worked as a solicitor in the City of London. Short went public on her reunion with her son, as did Prezza when his wife Pauline’s son who had been adopted many years ago contacted her. Both Short and Prezza and Pauline welcomed their children and it was good to see that everyone was so happy to be in touch. Although I am sure that what Clare Short and Pauline Prescott went through when they felt obliged to give up their babies for adoption was bad, neither Prezza or Short have uttered one word about the many kids in care who were abused, trafficked and had their children forcibly removed in even more traumatic circumstances.

Short completed her degree at Leeds University and then worked as a civil servant in the Home Office. She was for a time Private Secretary to the Conservative Minister Mark Carlisle. Carlisle was the MP for Runcorn (later called Warrington South), 1964-87 and Risley Remand Centre was in or near his constituency. Dafydd and the gang used Risley as their personal prison for decades and scores of young people, including kids in care, were found dead in the ‘hospital wing’ there. It was Carlisle who was wheeled out in a Commons debate in 1973 to answer questions about the horrific conditions, practices and deaths at Risley (see post ‘Include Me Out’). The screw at Risley were violent and the prison doctor was corrupt and in cahoots with Dafydd and the gang. Clare Short will have had access to the full details and she has never ever said a word about any of it, although Short maintains that it was while working for Carlisle that she realised that she ‘could do better’ than many of the MPs whom she dealt with and thus decided to go into politics herself.

In 1983 Short was elected as MP for Ladywood, the area where she grew up. In 1983, when he was in his final year at Aston, Brown received his first murder threat, which I have now been told was related to what was happening to me at Bangor, as I had come to the attention of the trafficking gang. Our pleas for help after Brown was threatened were ignored by Aston and Bangor Universities and the Top Doctors. Brown spent as much time as he could at my house on Anglesey because he wasn’t safe in Birmingham and as soon as he sat his finals he moved in with us in north Wales. After Brown returned to the midlands to take up a lecturing job a few years later, the man who threatened to murder him attacked Brown in daylight in Nottingham city centre and tried to fracture Brown’s skull. He had previously nearly killed the old man who lived next door to him and the West Midlands Police admitted to Brown that Paul Bates was considered to be very dangerous.

Meanwhile Clare acquired a feminist following as a result of her campaign against ‘Page 3’ photos and became the go-to Labour politician for a quote on sexual violence against wimmin.

Clare gained some notoriety shortly after her election when she implied the Govt’s Employment Minister Alan Clark was drunk at the despatch box. Clark’s colleagues on the Gov’t benches in turn accused Short of using unparliamentary language and the Deputy Speaker, Ernest Armstrog, asked her to withdraw her accusation. Clark later admitted in his diaries that he had been drunk as accused.

No-one mentioned that there were many MPs at that time who drank heavily and a few – such as Nicholas Fairbairn and Charles Kennedy – who’s alcohol problems were so serious that they died as a result. I was told in the mid-1980s that there was one woman MP who was well-known for getting regularly completely plastered in the Commons bars – a Clare Short. I know that it wasn’t at the despatch box Clare, but I received first hand witness accounts.

Alan Clark wasn’t only a lazy drunk, he was a serial sexual harasser of women, including ‘women’ under 16 who could best be described as girls. He exposed himself to teenagers, he followed women around London whom he’d seen on public transport and liked the look of and he also had sex with at least two girls under 16. This is just what Clark himself admitted to. Clark’s conduct was no secret. No MP, not even Clare, commented about it, although when Clark was doing all this, the press ran silly articles about him being attractive to the ladies. It was all a rather posher version of Dafydd. A pain in the butt who committed sexual offences and who was constructed as being a source of desire for those unfortunate enough to be bothered by him. Clark’s offensive conduct only became a talking point when he had a public spat with a Judge – who was supposedly Clark’s friend – after the Judge discovered that Clark had shagged his wife and two daughters, one of whom was 15. The UK press considered that Clark was ‘one helluva guy’, the three women involved were called ‘old trollops’ by one UK newspaper and the Judge became an object of contempt. Clark’s snooty drip of a wife Jane referred to the Judge and his family as ‘downstairs people’. Clark’s diaries make reference to his relationship with these three women and describe how he impressed the teenagers into having sex with him by explaining that he was now a Gov’t Minister and taking them for rides in his expensive car.

Remember Girls – Never Get Into A Car With A Thatcherite Employment Minister!

As Dafydd once said, ‘Don’t ewe think I was handsome?’

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Alan Clark:

Dr Dafydd Alun Jones

 

 

Another Minister for Employment under Thatch was Sir Peter Morrison…

 

In 1986, Clare Short introduced a Private Members Bill in the House of Commons which proposed banning ‘Page 3’ photographs of topless models in the British tabloids, which resulted in an outpouring of abuse in her direction from the press which almost equalled their abuse of the Windbag. One paper bought and published alleged photographs of Short in her nightwear from her ex-husband, although she stated they were pictures of somebody else’s body with her face superimposed. Clare gave a definitive account of her attitude towards tabloid nudity and the negative role that pornography plays more generally in society in her introduction to the book Dear Clare (1991), which presents a selection of the many letters of support she received from women in response to her campaign. Those wimmin had no idea what Clare and the Windbag were keeping quiet about. The homes of my friends and I were bugged by the security services Clare, including our bedrooms, bathrooms and bogs. Brown found himself with a series of mad girlfriends who caused havoc whom we have now been told were working for the security services. All because, unlike you and the fucking Windbag, we would not keep quiet about the abuse of vulnerable people.

‘Dear Clare – people tried to kill us you weak hypocrite’.

Furthermore I was told a few weeks ago that at some point in the past, photos were taken of me and other young women of which we were unaware, I was told by hidden cameras and that those photos were passed on. I think that I was supposed to have a trauma, but not only was I not surprised, but once you’ve had a bunch of gangsters trying to murder you and your friends and no-one, no-one at all, will help, some photos are neither here nor there, no matter how much of a liberty they were. I presume that the photos were taken in somewhere like the North Wales Hospital. They were after all running an abuse ring out there and I’ve never stepped into a photographer’s studio in my life.

Short supported Prezza in the Labour Party Deputy Leadership election in 1988 and left the Socialist Campaign Group, along with Margaret Beckett and her caravan, as a result of Tony Benn’s decision to challenge the Windbag for the Party leadership.

Prezza came from Prestatyn in north Wales and studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, at the same time as Peter Howarth, who later went to prison for sexual assaults on boys in care in north Wales. Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, taught at Ruskin when Prezza was there and Arnold was one of Howarth’s tutors. For more details of Ruskin and its alumni, see post ‘A Study In Tyranny’. Prezza was MP for Hull East in Yorkshire, 1970-2010. Yorkshire was the base of an enormous trafficking gang within which Savile played a key role. Savile was friendly with many police officers in Yorkshire and also had links to Dafydd’s gang in north Wales.

Short supported Margaret Beckett and her caravan for the Labour leadership in 1994, against Blair and Prezza. Margaret Beckett has been the Labour MP for Lincoln, 1974-79 and has been MP for Derby South since 1983. There was a long-standing paedophile/trafficking ring in Derbyshire with links to the ring in north Wales. Some of those involved in the abuse of kids in north Wales were recruited from Derbyshire and John Jillings, who led the Jillings Investigation into the abuse of children in Clwyd, was the former Director of Social Services for Derbyshire. Jillings’s Report was damning, but many felt when, many years later, the Report finally became public, that Jillings hadn’t dared admit how bad the situation in north Wales was. Jillings refused to comment when he was asked if a paedophile ring was in operation in north Wales. See post ‘It’s A Piece Of Cake…’. Jane Tunstill, a member of the Jillings Panel, secured a Chair in Social Work at Keele University.

Beckett was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 1992-94, under John Smith, when the North Wales Police investigation into child abuse in the region was taking place. One of Beckett’s Shadow roles was for Health, 1994-95, while the Jillings Investigation was underway. Beckett was Lord President of the Council, 1998-01. One of the roles of Lord President of the Council is that of visitor for Bangor University. When Beckett was Lord President of the Council, the VC of Bangor University was the craven paedophiles’ friend Prof Roy Evans, who did what the trafficking gang told him to do and promoted many of their associates to senior roles. Beckett’s time as Lord President of the Council spanned Ronnie Waterhouse’s writing of the Waterhouse Report and its publication.

 

In 1989 Clare Short raised the issue of abuse of police procedure and fabrication of evidence at the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, relaying concerns of Birmingham solicitors that many miscarriages of justice had taken place. It was eventually admitted that the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad had caused havoc and there were allegations of Masonic corruption. The Squad was dissolved and some of those who had been framed had their convictions overturned, including Ali Khan from Caernarfon. What received less publicity was that after Ali Khan had been awarded compensation, he was convicted of robbery and returned to prison. Ali Khan maintains that this was yet another fit-up as a punishment beating for daring to win against the West Midlands Crime Squad. I don’t know the truth behind Ali Khan’s allegations; the Khans are known as a ‘crime family’ in north Wales, but I do know that the West Midlands Police and the North Wales Police were corrupt and fitted people up, sometimes as a result of a joint enterprise. I had never heard of Ali Khan until the first occasion in 1986 on which Dafydd had me unlawfully arrested and when I was in the cells at Bangor Police Station I read the graffiti that Ali Khan had written and signed, detailing all the occasions on which he alleged that he’d been framed.

After the alleged clean-up of the West Midlands Police, Sir Ron Hadfield was appointed as Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police. He was in post from 1990-96. Immediately after retirement, Hadfield served as an adviser to the Waterhouse Inquiry, which says it all really. Another adviser to the Inquiry was Adrianne Jones, the former Director of Social Services for the City of Birmingham. Prior to becoming Chief Constable of West Mindlands, Hadfield had served with the Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Derbyshire forces. Hadfield was given a knighthood in 1995, after everyone had been reassured that there was no VIP paedophile ring in north Wales and when Hague et al were busy behind the scenes ensuring that the Public Inquiry which they knew would eventually be held would reach the same conclusion. Hadfield was International Vice-President of the  International Association of Chiefs of Police. 

 

Clare Short was a member of Labour’s NEC, 1988-1997, along with others who were allies of Dafydd and the gang, such as Gwyneth Dunwoody and Eric Heffer. Short was Chair of the NEC’s Women’s Committee, 1993-1996.

After Blair won the election in 1997, the Overseas Development Administration was given full departmental status as the Dept for International Development and Short was the first Secretary of State for International Development. She retained this post throughout the first term of the Labour Gov’t and beyond the 2001 UK General Election into the second.

A few months after her appointment to DfID, the island of Montserrat (one of the UK’s few remaining overseas territories) was devastated by a volcanic eruption which rendered half the island uninhabitable; when the 4,500 islanders asked for more help from the DfID, Short was reported to have remarked ‘they will be asking for golden elephants next’ and refused to visit the island. She was probably far too busy Chairing a Wimmin’s Committee discussing topless photos to give a stuff about some poor sods who’s land had been burnt to a cinder.

On 6 November 1997, Short sent a letter to Kumbirai Kangai, Minister of Agriculture in Zimbabwe, in which she stated that ‘we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe.’ She went on to write ‘We are a new government from diverse backgrounds, without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.’ Good to know that Clare experiences Genetic Oppression which absolves her from any temptation to make herself useful in diplomatically sensitive situations. In the same letter Short did, however, offer qualified support for land reform: ‘We do recognise the very real issues you face over land reform… we would be prepared to support a programme of land reform that was part of a poverty eradication strategy, but not on any other basis.’ This letter caused a rift with the Zimbabwean Gov’t, which asserted that the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 had contained a continuing pledge from the UK Gov’t to assist in land reform. Well they could all sod off, Blair’s Gov’t of Diversity, Wimmin and Peter Mandelson didn’t worry about matters historical and definitely wasn’t interested in keeping things like promises. 

In December 1997, Short signed the UK into the Ottawa Convention, banning the production, handling and use of anti-personnel mines. In 2001, she wrote that the ‘ready availability of small arms has a direct and negative impact upon levels of crime and conflict in developing countries. We (the DFID) are supporting various peace building and disarmament initiatives.’ The following year, she claimed that Britain was ‘committed to combating small arms availability and misuse’.

Short approved of the  NATO bombing of the HQ of Serbian state TV in which sixteen media workers were killed and sixteen others wounded, because the station was ‘a source of propaganda’. As is Clare Short.

On 9 March 2003, Short threatened to resign from the Cabinet in the event of the UK Gov’t going to war with Iraq without a clear mandate from the UN. This looked set to be a reprise of her previous resignation as party spokesperson during the Gulf War of 1991 as a protest against the Labour Party’s stance, although in 1999 she had publicly supported the NATO attack on Serbia. However, on 18 March she announced that she would remain in the Cabinet and support the Govt’s resolution in the Commons. Which resulted in a lot of wisecracks about Clare Short saying no when she meant yes.

Short remained in the Cabinet for two months after her decision to back the 2003 Iraq War. She resigned on 12 May. Her letter stated: ‘In both the run-up to the war and now, I think the UK is making grave errors in providing cover for the US mistakes rather than helping an old friend… American power alone cannot make America safe… But undermining international law and the authority of the UN creates the risk of instability, bitterness and growing terrorism that will threaten the future for all of us’.

On 26 February 2004, Short alleged on the ‘Today’ programme that the British security services regularly intercept UN communications, including those of Kofi Annan, then Secretary General. Reacting to Short’s statement, Blair said ‘I really do regard what Clare Short has said this morning as totally irresponsible, and entirely consistent [with Short’s character].’ Is that why you appointed her then Blair?

Blair also claimed that Short had put British security, particularly the security of its spies, at risk. The same day, on ‘Newsnight’ BBC’s Short called Blair’s response ‘pompous’ and said that Britain had no need to spy on Annan. The only reason they had to spy on my friends and I Clare was to gather info to stop the trafficking ring that you, Blair and many others were keeping quiet about, but they didn’t stop them or indeed the many bent politicians who knew damn well what was happening.

On 29 February 2004 Short appeared on ITV’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme. She revealed that she had been written to by the Cabinet Secretary Andrew Turnbull. Turnbull’s confidential letter, which Short showed to Dimbleby, and which was quoted on the programme, formally admonished her for discussing intelligence matters in the media, and threatened ‘further action’ if she did not desist from giving interviews on the issue. Turnbull wrote that she had made claims ‘which damage the interests of the United Kingdom’ and that he was ‘extremely disappointed’. The ‘further action’ referred to in the letter has been interpreted as threatening either Short’s expulsion from the Privy Council (what was she doing in there in the first place?) or legal action under the Official Secrets Act. On 1 March 2004, a Downing Street spokesman refused to rule out such a step.

Andrew Turnbull will be after this blog next. Along with the Llangefni police (see post ‘A Letter From The North Wales Police’)….

Short also admitted that her original claim that Britain had eavesdropped on Annan may have been inaccurate. The security services were far too busy bothering us Clare. By the way, wasn’t Kofi implicated in corruption?

In December 2004, Short was reportedly critical of US efforts to dispense aid to countries devastated by a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean. She was quoted as stating that the formation of a group of countries led by the US for this purpose was a challenge to the role of the UN, which she believed was uniquely qualified for the task. The UN could go to the rescue as they had previously, with ‘peacekeepers’ standing by while people were butchered a la Srebrenica or exchanging food rations for sexual favours from 12 yr old girls…

On 12 September 2006, Short announced that she would not be standing at the next General Election, stating that she was ‘ashamed’ of Blair’s Gov’t. On Friday 20 October, Short resigned the Labour whip and announced that she would sit as an Independent Labour MP. After Gordon became PM, Short said that the change offered ‘a new beginning’ and hinted that she might re-join the parliamentary Labour Party if Brown changed the policies that had caused her to leave.

On 2 February 2010, Short appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry and repeatedly criticised Tony Blair, Attorney General Peter Goldsmith and others in the UK Gov’t for allegedly deceiving her and other MPs in an attempt to obtain consent for the invasion of Iraq.

Short has condemned Israel as being guilty of “bloody, brutal and systematic annexation of land, destruction of homes and the deliberate creation of an apartheid system.” She has also stated that “the EU and Britain are colluding in this operation and the building of a new apartheid regime” because they give Israel privileged trade access. Short has expressed support for a boycott of Israel, stating at the 2007 UN International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace that “The boycott worked for South Africa, it is time to do it again”. She also told the conference that Israel is “much worse than the original apartheid state” and that Israel “undermines the international community’s reaction to global warming”.

Regarding the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Short stated that “Israel is out of control and our Government and the US is giving them a green light to continue” and that “Britain clearly now just backs President (George W.) Bush in whatever he does, in automatically backing Israel in breaching international law, in disproportionate attacks on Lebanon and attacks on Gaza”.

According to ‘The Guardian’, Short accepted £1,580 worth of flights, hotel accommodation, food and travel expenses from Hezbollah-affiliate al Manar Television in Lebanon in 2008. Al-Manar was described by the US Gov’t as a terrorist entity in 2006.

On 1 March 2011 Short was elected as Chairwoman of the EITI (the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) at the EITI Global Conference in Paris.

Since 2006, Short has been a member of the Cities Alliance Policy Advisory Board and subsequently chaired the Policy Advisory Forum, described as a “platform for public discussion, debate and knowledge sharing” on urban poverty and the role of cities.

Clare Short’s second husband was Alex Lyon, whom she met when she worked at the Home Office and married in 1981. Lyon was the Labour MP for York, 1966-83, right at the centre of Savile-land.

Lyon was educated at West Leeds High School and UCL. He became a barrister and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple. Lyon was a member of the Bar Council and of the Fabian Society. He was a Methodist local preacher and Secretary of Leeds North West Constituency Labour Party. Lyon will have known the child molester George Thomas, who throughout the middle years of the 20th century was one of the UK’s most well-known Methodists and who preached all over Britain (see post ‘It Wasn’t On Our Radar’).

Lyon was Minister of State at the Home Office, March 1974 – April 1976, under that Home Secretary who was most helpful to Dafydd and the gang, Woy Jenkins (see post ‘We’ve Been Expecting You…’).

In 1971 Lyon introduced the United Reformed Church Bill, which became the act which created the United Reformed Church from a union of Presbytarian and Congregationalist churches in England and Wales.

Lyon lost his seat in the Commons on the day in which Short gained hers. Lyon then ran Short’s constituency office and returned to the Bar for a short while until his health caused him problems. Lyon had developed Alzheimers and died in 1993.

In 2004, Clare published her book ‘An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power’. 

If Clare was deceiving anyone honourably, she didn’t manage to put an end to some truly dreadful matters.

In 2006 an article in ‘Femail’ ‘appeared about Short, entitled ‘I’ve fallen in love again’ – us ladies would be instantly drawn to such an article obviously – which detailed how Clare Short had now found happiness with her mate Mo Mowlam’s with widower Jon Norton. Jon was the City banker who made himself so useful to the Labour Party when they decided to make friends with global capitalism rather than those who were being harmed at the hands of the Top Doctors. ‘Femail’ observed that Mo and Clare ‘were two of a kind’. I expect that ‘Femail’ meant that they were ‘Strong Feisty Wimmin’ but I think that the they had a lot more in common in terms of being female politicians who made much of their status as Wimmin in a Men’s World who were Fighting For Other Wimmin, while they ignored the role that the welfare services played in a pan-European trafficking ring in their own constituencies.

 

To return to the Labour Party in Wales ignoring Dafydd et al. In 1991 I was invited to join Ogwen Valley Labour Party, on the grounds that things had been very bad under Thatcher and would continue to be particularly bad for Wales under John Major, who had just been elected. I had been forced out of my job at St George’s Hospital Medical School and had returned to live near Bethesda on a permanent basis. I was being arrested on a regular basis at the behest of Dafydd et al, the cases against me collapsed but of course no-one asked any questions. I knew that virtually no politicians were showing the interest that they should have been showing in what was happening to some people at the hands of the NHS and social services, but I had no idea of the degree of collusion with serious crime which was taking place.

I was invited to join the Ogwen Valley Labour Party by my neighbour at about the time that the North Wales Police launched their first investigation into the possibility of a VIP paedophile/trafficking ring in north Wales. This neighbour knew what was happening to me at the hands of the mental health services and was horrified. She showed me a great deal of support and friendship and dared challenge a member of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team over their mistreatment of me and another person who lived in our village. She was told that it could not be discussed because it was ‘confidential’. This was at a time when the Arfon CMHT were telling my other neighbours that I was a danger to their children. My neighbour was working as a support worker for Cartrefi Cymru, in the ‘independent housing’ that had been provided for people with learning disabilities who had previously lived in Bryn-y-Neuadd, the long-stay hospital at Llanfairfechan and was frank in her opinion that the management of the ‘supported housing’ was so chaotic that it constituted abuse of clients.

I accompanied my neighbour to a few meetings of the Ogwen Valley Labour Party. It was certainly a very small party, there were only about six people at each meeting. Much time was consumed by things like ‘the minutes’, which I know have to be done, but did seem to take up a great deal of time. In 1991 in north Wales, the local economy had collapsed, a vicious trafficking gang dominated the region, the police were investigating, every category of vulnerable person was being grossly abused, the regional NHS was lethal and bankrupt and had the poorest clinical outcomes in the UK for many conditions and many local businesses were exploiting the people who did have jobs on a massive scale, including big companies like Euro DPC in Llanberis who had relocated to north Wales after being given huge business support grants from bodies like the WDA.

The Ogwen Valley Labour Party was Chaired by a man involved with the trade union movement but I can’t remember if he was a TUC rep or a rep from a specific union. Their was only one cause which he maintained needed fighting in the area and that was a company called Thistle Trading on the Llandegai industrial estate in Bangor. The Chairman was very vexed about Thistle Trading and maintained that the ‘ladies’ – to be fair, the Chairman was about 65 and people of his generation would have talked about the ladies, as would many of the ladies themselves – who worked for them were being underpaid. He had declared war on Thistle Trading and he seemed to have had a degree of success. The ladies got a pay rise and were so chuffed that they were singing the Chairman’s praises. Because I found the meetings so boring and because the Chairman was only interested in the sins of Thistle Trading and once he’d won that one he didn’t see any other causes to fight, I stopped going to Ogwen Valley Labour Party meetings. My neighbour persisted for longer, but she too gave up because there didn’t seem to be any action happening.

The ladies of Thistle Trading may have been underpaid, but kids in care in Gwynedd were being beaten, raped and forced to work for local businesses for as little as 30-50p/hour or no pay at all.

The Chairman of Ogwen Valley Labour Party never spoke to me or my neighbour and neither did the Secretary, although it was they who had begged local people to ‘get involved’. I can’t remember the Secretary’s name, but I do know what she did for a living. She was a lecturer at the Normal College in Bangor. The teacher training college, which employed scores of people who colluded with the paedophile gang, including Dafydd Orwig, a Plaid Councillor who lived in Bethesda.

‘We didn’t know’. You bloody well knew what was happening to me because that neighbour of mine was terrified and was telling people.

The Windbag was Labour leader when the Ogwen Valley Labour Party prioritised the pay of the ladies of Thistle Trading above fighting a trafficking gang who were murdering people. The Windbag must have known the Chairman of the Ogwen Labour Party, he was obviously quite a big figure in the trade union movement in north Wales and Baroness Glenys Windbag came from Holyhead. But then the Windbag knew Tony Francis who was one of those facilitating the gang, as Francis used to remind his patients.

My neighbour’s husband stopped speaking to me a few months later and never spoke to me again. I didn’t know why, I hadn’t fallen out with them and my neighbour carried on being perfectly friendly to me. A reader pointed out the other day that my neighbour’s husband decided that I was best ignored after he got a job at the Psychology Dept in Bangor University. The Psychology Dept which for years had been dominated by Dafydd, but by then had been taken over by Professor Fergus Lowe, who used his knowledge of Dafydd’s crimes to build his own empire after overthrowing Dafydd. The Psychology Dept was training clinical psychologists who were on placement at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. The dungeon for Dafydd’s victims was still in operation at the time.

Perhaps Dave Lane, who was a neighbour of two people who’s lives were being wrecked by Dafydd and the gang and who subsequently purchased a house from another person who had been destroyed by the same gang, could let us know who threatened or bribed him and how. Before Dave Lane purchased the house from the man who had been destroyed by Dafydd et al, he rented a house from another man, Dave Hardwick. Dave Hardwick was a bit of a hippy and started up the Bethesda Food Co-Op. He was always very friendly and pleasant and had a son with mental health problems whom he was very caring towards and tried hard to support. When Dave Hardwick’s son grew up, Dave went into nursing. Mental health nursing. Dave Hardwick became a senior Angel at the Hergest Unit. Dave was on duty when Angels were ordered to perjure themselves in an attempt to have me imprisoned. He also worked as a Charge Nurse on Taliesin Ward, where patients were being assaulted by the staff. Not by Dave, he was much better than the rest of them and he was never abusive. But he knew what the others were doing.

One of my friends has known Dave Hardwick for decades, from their hippy days. Before I left Wales, he told them that he hated working at the Hergest Unit because patients were treated so badly there and he couldn’t wait to retire.

 

Now that the cracks in the NHS are canyons which cannot be concealed any longer by the usual methods, I was interested to discover that the GMB have sworn that they’ll ‘fight the Gov’t’ to ensure that the NHS gets the money that it needs, the latest few billion to plug yet another gap – on top of the pay rise for Top Docs and senior managers – being insufficient. I found this out because someone from the GMB has published an article on the website ‘Open Democracy’. I do read ‘Open Democracy’ from time to time, because Dr Minh Alexander, a consultant psychiatrist who lost her job after raising concerns about patient safety, writes some excellent articles for that website, but sadly Dr Alexander is virtually a lone voice among many on ‘Open Democracy’ who maintain unproblematically that the NHS is as pure as the driven snow and all would be well if only it were given yet more dosh.

It is usually the BMA who are demanding the dosh, the Top Doctors having a rather more wholesome media image than other trade unions ‘who hold the country to ransom’.

I wonder if the BMA have had to back off in the light of revelations that they have done some pretty disgusting things in the course of their duty of protecting the jobs and pensions of Dafydd et al? UNISON and UNITE are usually the unions coming to the aid of the NHS, rather than the GMB. Could the BMA have possibly done a little deal with the big wigs of the GMB and reached an agreement that it will be the GMB rather than the Top Docs with their gobs stuffed with gold who will ‘fight for the money that the NHS needs?’

Lest anyone believe that the noble GMB would not be capable of such a sordid arrangement, I will remind them that David Basnett, who was the General Secretary of the NUGMW, 1973-86 – the NUGMW officially became known as the GMB in 1987 – and who served as President of the TUC in 1978, had a number of meetings with Thatcher’s hatchet man Ian MacGegor during the NUM strike of 1984-85. In his autobiography, MacGregor observes that Basnett was ‘quite approachable and open on the subject of the NUM strike’ and that ‘Basnett takes life very seriously and was really worried about finding a solution to the Scargill problem’. MacGregor met Basnett and Buckton because he agreed to meet a ‘few of the TUC people’ to ‘discuss grounds for talks’ and was delighted to discover that they agreed with MacGregor that the only problem was Scargill. MacGregor also met the Windbag ‘for an introductory chat before the strike began’.

MacGregor claims in his autobiography that on the first occasion that he met Scargill after the strike was called, it was at Hobart House, the HQ of the NCB, which at the time had an NUM picket permanently outside. Scargill was refusing to cross a picket line, so to enable Scargill to enter Hobart House to meet MacGregor without upsetting the NUM by crossing the picket line, the picket was removed for that day. MacGregor claims in his autobiography that all this happened after ‘pressure’ from the Windbag. Not that the Windbag’s bright idea came to anything; MacGregor grumbled that not only were the whole NUM executive in the room which MacGregor couldn’t cope with, but MacGregor maintains that because of the timing of the meeting, he was in a relatively strong position with regard to holding out against the NUM.

Dave Basnett grew up in Liverpool and became the Regional Officer of the NUGMW in 1948. In 1955 Basnett was appointed national education officer, then in 1960 national industrial officer. In 1966, Basnett was elected to the General Council of the TUC. In 1970, he negotiated a settlement regarding a major dispute at Pilkington, which was the springboard to him becoming General Secretary in 1973. Trevor Jones, a leading light from Pilkington’s off-shoot in north Wales, was a big ally of Dafydd and the gang (see post ‘A Vampire At Glyndwr University!’).

Basnett was General Secretary, 1973-86 and during that time, the union was involved with numerous mergers with smaller unions and became the GMUW. Basnett also sat on the National Enterprise Board and National Economic Development Council. In 1979 Basnett founded ‘Trade Unionists for a Labour Victory’ and spent much of next decade promoting conference between trade unionists and Labour Party members. Frustrated by the lack of progress – perhaps the Windbag could tell us why Basnett’s initiative didn’t lead to a Labour Victory – Basnett took early retirement in 1986. As with the Windbag and Mrs Windbag, Basnett’s complete ineffectiveness didn’t stymy him and in March 1986, Dave Basnett became Baron Basnett of Leatherhead in the County of Surrey.

Leatherhead is on the River Mole no less and the UK and Ireland HQ of Unilever plc are at Leatherhead. It was Unilever who bankrolled the expansion of the Psychology Dept at Bangor University under Prof Fergus Lowe, when Philip Lever aka Lord Leverhulme was Chancellor of Liverpool University, Dafydd’s old alma mater, which at that time was still employing numerous people in senior positions who were concealing Dafydd’s crimes (see previous posts).

Baron Basnett of the Wealthiest County in the UK died in 1989.

The GMB describes itself as ‘a general trade union in the UK which has more than 631,000 members. GMB members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution and the utilities, social care, the NHS and ambulance service and local government’. The GMB represents another group of workers as well which it doesn’t boast about as much as it does its members who are NHS workers. The GMB represents sex workers and has since 2002 when the International Union of Sex Workers became affiliated to the GMB, four years before the Ambulance Service Union did.

The website of the International Union of Sex Workers tells us that not only does it have official recognition as the sex industry branch of the GMB – the GMB is divided up into different branches, eg. ‘service industry’, ‘security industry’ etc – but various services for sex workers are offered by the GMB including self-defence classes. Sex workers are subjected to violence, so if one is a union with members who are sex workers, self-defence classes could well be a good idea.

However, the International Union of Sex Workers supports the x:talk Project, ‘which provides free English language classes to migrant sex workers in London’. How many members of the GMB know about this? Even among those people who take a liberal approach to prostitution, there will not be many who think that providing such a service is a particularly good idea. There is a considerable problem with migrants being tricked and/or trafficked into sex work and a hot spot for traffickers is London. Those free language classes could be a God-send to people traffickers. I have discussed previously on this blog how the GMB ignored and concealed child abuse and trafficking (see post ‘Mary Turner – An Appreciation’), but those language lessons for migrant sex workers are taking the collusion with serious crime to a whole new level.

The International Union of Sex Workers website advertises another service as well – free advice and support on criminal prosecution from an ‘award winning legal firm’. This is an ‘automatic benefit of GMB membership’, which can be acquired for £6-50/month. The website has a pdf which can be downloaded for sex workers who wish to join the GMB. Again, free legal advice and support could be a lifeline for sex workers who have been fitted up by the police – but what if it is a trafficker or a pimp who is being prosecuted? Furthermore, an award winning legal firm will not come cheap, the GMB will be subsidising that to a great extent.

The GMB’s wiki entry tells us that membership of the GMB costs full-time workers £13/month. Which is rather more than the sex workers who are members of the GMB have to pay for their free legal advice. Sex workers who are not being trafficked and robbed will earn considerably more than most GMB members.

Not only have the GMB been spectacularly bad at defending the interests of most of their members who do work in the NHS or social care – the pay and conditions of the sort of workers who are likely to be members of the GMB, as opposed to the BMA or RCN, are dreadful and have been getting worse as those jobs are increasingly outsourced – but those members are now possibly subsidising people traffickers or the legal help given to sex workers who earn a great deal more than NHS workers. I am wondering if the GMB is one of the unions which as part of its pay packages for senior officers of the GMB provides private healthcare cover, as unions which represent senior NHS staff nearly all do now.

John Edmonds was the General Secretary of the GMB when the International Union of Sex Workers became affiliated to the GMB. Edmonds is an Oxford graduate. Surely he could have predicted this minefield?

The current General Secretary of the GMB is Tim Roache. His wiki entry describes him as a ‘father and a husband’. He is also extremely gullible.

The GMB is one of three largest affiliates to the Labour Party and donates up to £2 million/yr to the Party, being the third largest union donor.

 

The Guardian Online continues to provide free PR for people who’ve been named and shamed on this blog. One of their recent offerings was a ‘profile’ of Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who is a colleague of Professor Mark Williams, the man who perpetrated that research fraud which was Mindfulness when Williams worked as a clinical psychologist at Bangor, alongside those facilitating the trafficking gang in north Wales (see post ‘The Biggest Expert Of The Lot’). Sarah-Jayne and Mark Williams received much money from the Wellcome Trust for their ‘research’ into Mindfulness and school pupils. Sarah-Jayne works at UCL where she is responsible for the, er, Wellcome funding programme.

‘The Guardian’ described Sarah-Jayne as an ‘expert on teenagers brains’ and just to ensure that we get the message, Sarah-Jayne was pictured fondling one of those layman’s white casts of a human head and neck with the different regions of the brain sketched on it. I saw one for sale in a gift shop in Hebdon Bridge a few years ago. Not only has Sarah-Jayne carried out a major project with Dafydd’s former colleague Mark Williams, but other colleagues of Sarah-Jayne’s, including her ‘mentor’ Una Frith, trained at the Maudsley, along with yet more mates of Dafydd and Tony Francis who then concealed their crimes, as detailed in previous posts.

In ‘The Guardian’ interview, Sarah-Jayne talked about her own adolescence and her intense embarrassment when her father, Professor Colin Blakemore, was targeted by animal rights activists. Colin Blakemore was indeed given a terrible time, there were attempts to kill him.  When Blakemore was being targeted I was still working in medical research and I remember even other people who were carrying out animal work maintaining that Blakemore was cruel and that his experiments could not be justified, including someone who had been a colleague of Blakemore’s at Cambridge. Sarah-Jayne remembered worrying that her classmates were ‘judging’ her. Whether they were or not I don’t know, but her teachers definitely were. Sarah-Jayne went to school in Oxford, everyone knew who her father was, well he’s that clever scientist isn’t he, OF COURSE Sarah-Jayne must go to Oxford for her psychology degree, particularly now that Oxford will be developing their huge research centre spearheaded by one Colin Blakemore, Head of the MRC…

People who were familiar with Colin Blakemore’s animal research used to wonder how he got away with it all. Perhaps Sarah-Jayne who has been embarrassed all the way to those massive research grants and a Chair at UCL – which was where Fergus Lowe’s mistress Professor Pauline Horne did her MSc before she changed path and went to do a degree in psychology at Bangor with Fergus and Dafydd (see post ‘Feet In Chains’) – could take us back to her teenage years and let us know.

Who are ‘The Guardian’ going to profile next? Dafydd himself? ‘Lucille, the lady in my life’ would make a nice feature…

 

BBC News Wales online reported that extra NHS funding is to be made available for ‘specialist GPs’ to provide services to ‘trans teenagers’ in Wales. By definition GPs aren’t specialists, that is why they are called GENERAL practitioners. The BMA are supporting the plan. My how things have changed. Not only did many – if not most – BMA members used to be utterly hostile to transgender people, but the BMA gave their full support to Dafydd, who tried to encourage a teenaged boy to undergo gender reassignment surgery in 1991 because he was gay. The BMA also gave Dr Sadie Francis and her colleagues advice on how to best bring criminal charges against me or have me transferred to a secure hospital although they knew that they had lied repeatedly – including on oath – about me. At one point, Sadie doubled up as a gender identity expert in north Wales. Sadie did not know anything about gender identity, but then most of her colleagues didn’t know anything about anything either. With the exception of David Healy, they were not very bright not very competent dysfunctional doctors who washed up as psychiatrists in north Wales because they very obviously couldn’t make it in any other sphere. Their ‘training’ at most consisted of a short stint at the Maudsley, which was a highly dysfunctional institution itself and colluding with the abuse of vulnerable people (see post ‘A Galaxy Of Talent’) but more usually Mickey Mouse short ‘courses’ taught by one of the other paedophiles’ friends in north Wales. According to Dafydd’s gang, they were all experts in de-escalation skills, in borderline personality disorder, in dealing with dangerous patients, in CBT, in DBT, in ‘psycho-social treatment for psychosis’, in ‘early intervention’, in of course Mindfulness and latterly in gender identity problems. Their patients died while the experts ran a trafficking/paedophile ring. Sadie wasn’t as downright obnoxious to talk to as many of her colleagues were and she wasn’t covered in Brylcreem or dandruff, but she knew what the others were doing and she lied on oath and to patients, I suspect because she was ordered to do so by the big boys.

There is another gender identity expert in north Wales as well, who pre-dated Sadie’s expertise – the dreadful Kenny Midence. For a long time, Midence was listed as the only gender identity expert in the whole of Wales. At least two patients told me that they felt that Midence breached professional boundaries and may even have been preparing them for a relationship with him. When they complained – not about him but about the chaos of the ‘service’ – in both cases Midence dropped them and cut off all contact. Both ended up suicidal. Midence does however have some rave reviews online. Midence seems to have been accepting ‘referrals’ from far and wide to carry out ‘psychological assessments’ on people who want to undergo gender reassignment surgery. They love him – judging from the comments left online, you just pop up to north Wales, hand your fee over and Kenny OKs a sex change. Kenny himself is a bit of a globe trotter and travels to Brazil and other such places for ‘conferences’.

The last that I heard, Kenny was in a relationship with a female Angel, Jan Stanley-Smith, which surprised me a bit because Kenny Midence is more like someone out of the Village People than anyone whom I have ever met. Jan Stanley-Smith has worked as a mental health Angel in north west Wales for years. Jan worked in the old psychiatric wards in Ysbyty Gwynedd before the Hergest Unit was built, she then worked in Hergest, she worked as a lecturing Angel in the School of Healthcare Sciences in Bangor University when Dafydd’s old colleague from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, Ruhi Behi, was Head of that School and bullied her out of her job and then she joined the thugs of the Arfon CMHT. Like Dave Hardwick, Jan didn’t directly abuse patients herself, but she worked with a great many people who did and watched them do it.

There is no real expertise in gender identity disorders in Wales. So presumably the dosh will be going to Kenny Midence to ‘train’ the ‘specialist GPs’ in one of the most difficult, sensitive conditions that a young person can experience and one that, if not handled very carefully, can have dreadful consequences.

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After hearing Paddy Ashdown on Radio 4 stating his interest in forming a new centre party – obviously the one that Paddy himself led between 1988-99 hasn’t done what Paddy hoped that it would – I quipped on this blog that surely Dr Death would soon appear as he always does in times of political crisis. So I was entertained when only days later Radio 4 did indeed broadcast an interview with Dr Death, although I presume that the programme must have been recorded some while before the present outburst of in-fighting on the part of all the main UK parties. Nonetheless it was good to hear that Dr Death is still alive and kicking and available for BBC interviews to explain how he played a crucial part in Britain’s history, saved the Labour Party from destruction and revived social democracy. Most people I know believe that Dr Death merely wreaked havoc and achieved nothing but ensured that Thatcher won successive General Elections.

Dr Death appeared on Radio 4’s programme ‘The Reunion’ on Sunday morning and what a trip down memory lane it was. The Reunion in question was a reunion of the movers and shakers behind the launch of the SDP in 1981. Obviously the whole Gang of Four couldn’t appear because Woy is dead, but we were treated to much archive sound track of Woy at his best lest we had forgotten Woy’s stellar performances after a few bottles of the best claret. Dr Death, Shirl and Bill Rodgers were there in person. The programme made me aware of two other people who played key roles in the SDP who had gone under my radar, Mike Thomas and Dick Newby.

I have blogged about Dr Death, Shirl and Woy but have paid less attention to Bill Rodgers, as he never quite hit my consciousness in the way that Dr Death, Shirl and Woy did. The other members of the Gang of Four elbowed Bill Rodgers out of the Gang but they never explained what Bill did to be jettisoned from the brave new world of social democracy. Bill admitted on ‘The Reunion’ that for many years the relationship between Bill and Dr Death were so bad that when they bumped into each other the exchanges did not go beyond ‘Hello Bill’ and Hello David’. Bill might like to take a leaf out of my own book when people who have colluded with a trafficking ring try and exchange pleasantries after one has found out what they’ve been up to – ‘Fuck off, I don’t want to know’ conveys one’s feeling far better than ‘Hello David’.

On Radio 4, the Gang of Three reminisced about the time that they were at the centre of the universe and how at that meeting at Dr Death’s house in Limehouse on 25 Jan 1981, Dr Death’s residence was besieged by journalists for hours and Shirl realised that she ‘had nothing to wear’, presumably having popped over to Dr Death’s place in her bra and knickers, so Dr Death’s wife Debbie the American millionairess lent Shirl a little something to enable Shirl to appear in front of the cameras. The Gang of Three maintained that they were completely taken by surprise when the media laid siege to Dr Death’s house and it was then that the Gang of Four realised that they had been handed the remit of saving the nation. The media scrum in Limehouse may have been something to do with Dr Death et al summoning them all there. Why the media hung around outside for hours while Dr Death kept everyone waiting I cannot understand, it wasn’t as if they were Dr Death’s former patients in the out-patients at Tommy’s waiting for the great man himself to condescend to turn up to hold the clinic, but they did indeed wait until those who broke the mould of politics appeared and made history.

The declaration was launched on a small bridge in Narrow Street, Limehouse. Organisation ‘was very last minute with Matthew Oakshott being sent to make photocopies of the statement at the Savoy Hotel, ‘it having the closest available photocopier’. Where no doubt Woy et al all later enjoyed a good meal, after Oakshott had done the photocopying for them. If I was breaking the mould of politics and saving the country from the clutches of The Far Left and Michael Foot, I suspect that I might have done my photocopying the night before, but then I wouldn’t have known that photocopying facilities were available at the Savoy.

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One week later, on 5 February 1981, an advertisement was published in ‘The Guardian’ under the name of the Council for Social Democracy announcing that the Gang Of Four had received 8,000 individual messages of support. The advertisement listed one hundred of their names, which included thirteen former Labour MPs, four of whom had been Cabinet ministers including Lord George-Brown, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. George Brown was known for being so perpetually bladdered that, when in a previous time George Brown and Harold Wilson were considered to be the two obvious candidates to lead the Labour Party, Tony Crosland observed that the choice was ‘between a crook and a drunk’. The crook won the battle.

In ‘The Reunion’, the Gang of Three demonstrated that as ever their perception of their activities differed from that of most of the rest of the planet, although they did all remember how much they were loathed by people ‘on the hard left’, which just went to show how much the Gang of Four were needed. Many other people remember something rather different, including ‘Private Eye’ being able to mine a rich seam of satire for years as a result of the handiwork of the Gang of Four. On Radio 4 Dr Death made reference to the subsequently created Alliance between the SDP and the Liberal Party as being ‘a partnership of principle’. The Eye ran a cartoon entitled ‘Forbidden Alliance’ for quite some time, the theme being Doc n Dave and Shirl competing in the disco dancing championships. When the Alliance received their thrashing at the polls, ‘Forbidden Alliance’ featured Shirl collapsed on the dance floor with the Alliance claiming ‘a moral victory’. Which is pretty much what Shirl said on Radio 4 on Sunday.

After the Partnership of Principle ended up with everyone at each others throats, the SDP and the Liberals merged to form the Lib Dems. Except that Dr Death refused to join in and carried on flying the flag for the Continuing SDP with a few die-hards. I think that it was after Dr Death’s Continuing SDP polled fewer votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party in the May 1990 Bootle by-election that ‘Private Eye’ published a cover featuring a grim looking Dr Death underneath the headline ‘Ta Ra Luv’, a skit on a headline ‘Ta Ta Pet’ that one of the tabloids had run after the death of a Coronation Street star. Unfortunately it wasn’t a case of Ta Ra Luv, Dr Death turned up in the Lords and has made a nuisance of himself there ever since.

The level of political apathy at Bootle was high and Bootle was traditionally one of Labour’s safest seats nationally. The little media attention that the by-election attracted was focussed on a bizarre row between Labour and the Raving Loonies. Relations between the Labour Party and the Loonies had never been good, but they reached a new low when the Labour agent tried erroneously to have the Loony candidate, Screaming Lord Sutch, arrested for breaking an electoral law that had been changed in 1987. He attempted to have Sutch charged with the former offence of using a public house as an election campaign headquarters. The main by-election headlines in the tabloid newspapers referred to ‘Kinnock’s Killjoys’ for the campaign’s duration. In the event, when the votes were counted the SDP candidate, Jack Holmes, finished far behind the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and the SDP suffered even worse publicity than Labour. Within a week of the result, Owen announced that the party’s National Executive had voted to dissolve the party, saying that it could not possibly continue after finishing behind the Raving Loonies.

The mirth at the Monster Raving Loony Party out-polling the SDP eclipsed something very much more worrying concerning that by-election. Precisely that the by-election had resulted from the death of Michael Carr, the Labour MP for Bootle, after he had been in office for only 57 days. Mr Carr had dared take on Militant in Liverpool and died after Walton Hospital, which was pretty much run by Militant, subjected him to such gross negligence that the most likely explanation was that it was deliberate. Attempts by Mr Carr’s family to extract an explanation for Walton Hospital’s inexplicable lack of care of Michael Carr when he was seriously ill came to nothing.

The circumstances of Carr’s death required an inquest and one was convened on 26 Feb 1991. When the full story emerged, the Merseyside coroner Roy Barter postponed the inquest to consider criminal charges for negligence against some of the health care personnel involved. The DPP decided that no charges should be brought and the inquest was resumed on 9 April 1992, when the coroner again postponed the hearing after referring three points of law to the High Court. Carr’s family then successfully sought a judicial review of this decision which was held on 28 May 1993. A file was sent to the DPP, although insufficient evidence was found to prosecute. The judicial review nullified the proceedings at the first inquest and ordered a new one under a different coroner. This second inquest opened on 20 Feb 1995. On 23 Feb 1995, a verdict of death by natural causes was recorded.

Neither Thatcher, the Windbag, John Major, John Smith or Blair – the main party leaders throughout the sad events at the time of and following Michael Carr’s death – let alone anyone from the SDP or Lib Dems, made a comment regarding the slaughter of Michael Carr by Walton Hospital. The DPPs involved were the endemically corrupt Sir Allan Green and the endemically corrupt Dame Barbara Mills. Both were DPPs when serious complaints about the abuse of children and vulnerable people in north Wales were ignored yet ludicrous trivial prosecutions of those doing the complaining were mounted. Allan Green resigned in a scandal after he was caught ‘approaching prostitutes’ in Kings Cross. Green’s wife was found dead in very troubling circumstances. Dame Babs was the wife of New Labour bank roller and Camden Labour big wig John Mills, who was the brother of David Mills, Tessa Jowell’s husband, the David Mills who famously escaped prison on a technicality after receiving a bribe from Blair’s mate Silvio Burlesconi. For details of the previous of Allan Green, Dame Babs and Tessa’s clan, see previous posts.

The NHS on Merseyside at the time of the events surrounding Michael Carr’s death was a branch of Dafydd’s empire. See posts ‘These Sharks Are Crap As Well’ and ‘In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen’.

For further details of the terrifying circumstances of Michael Carr’s death, see post ‘News From Sicily’.

Screaming Lord Sutch himself met an untimely and unfortunate end in June 1999, just seven months before the publication of the Waterhouse Report. David Sutch was found hanging, having ‘committed suicide’. He had been under the care of Top Docs for clinical depression. A lot of people will have breathed a sigh of relief at the death of David Sutch, because he was a close mate of Cynthia Payne, who ran the brothel at Ambleside Avenue in Streatham and at one point Sutch lived at Ambleside Avenue with Cynthia. Ambleside Avenue was of course the brothel for VIPs and police raids on the brothel found politicians, senior clergymen, police officers, lawyers and judges within. That brothel was also used by Top Docs from St George’s Hospital Medical School, but they were never mentioned in any press report. I do not have a problem with people using brothels if those employed within the brothel are consenting adults who have the opportunity for alternative work if they wish. The problem with Ambleside Avenue was that it was serving as a networking opportunity for some very corrupt, powerful people who were involved in facilitating the abuse and trafficking of children/vulnerable people and the associated serious organised crime. Cynthia served a prison sentence and knew what would happen to her if she ever blabbed about the identities of those who had frequented her brothel and David Sutch is dead, as I bet are any of the other folk who worked at Ambleside Avenue who dared tell anyone who the clients were. So the plebiscite still do not know which of the Great and the Good were furthering their careers as corrupt professional people via Cynthia’s brothel. See post ‘The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III’.

 

In the wake of the Bootle result, Dr Death told everyone that he wished that he had remained in medicine. Dr Death’s short time working in psychiatry had included a stint of three years or so in the mid-1960s as research registrar to the lethal Dr William Sargant at Tommy’s. William Sargant is now one of the most discredited Top Docs of recent history. He brutalised and effectively tortured patients and carried out experiments upon them which resulted in a number of deaths. Medicine has done its best to forget that Sargant ever existed and he has been air-brushed out of recent textbooks. However, there are many accounts of the appalling things that Sargant did online, some informed by surviving patients and their relatives or staff who witnessed what went on at first-hand. Sargant was considered even by the standards of his time to be a dangerous doctor and as with Dafydd, the attempts to reign him in simply consisted of people doing their best to ensure that he didn’t get his hands on anyone important or their relatives. Dr Death has described Sargant as ‘brave’ and the sort of Top Doc who is sorely needed. For more details of Sargant’s butchery and Dr Death’s enthusiastic support for it, see post ‘Dr Death’.

Sargant’s empire was at Tommy’s. Tommy’s is the most elite of the London teaching hospitals and is also the one that has a very cosy relationship with Westminster. Tommy’s concealed the organised abuse of vulnerable people and the Westminster Paedophile Ring. Dafydd’s mate Professor Jim Watson held sex education/sex therapy clinics there, after doing the same at the Maudsley and St George’s Hospital Medical School (see post ‘A Galaxy Of Talent’). Watson and his colleagues colluded with Dafydd and the gang in north Wales, as well as with the linked abuse/trafficking gang in south London. Ed Miliband’s Uncle Harry aka Prof Harry Keen was a consultant at Guy’s/Tommy’s (the two institutions merged in 1993) when Jim Watson worked there.

Sargant was quite seriously ill himself and prescribed himself cocktails of medication, including amphetamines. I am fairly sure that Dafydd was taking amphetamines as well. Anecdotes of Dafydd’s floridly manic/psychotic behaviour are legion in north Wales – not only among patients – and having witnessed Dafydd’s punishing schedule over years, which involved ward rounds and visits to patients at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh in the early hours of the morning, clinics across the UK, clinics in France, midnight visits to prisons and police cells, TV appearances and all this while driving back to his home on Anglesey at frequent intervals, the most likely explanation is that Dafydd was ripped to the tits on artificial stimulants. As was Margaret Thatcher, it was the basis of the myth of the Superwoman who only needed three hours sleep per night. It was openly discussed in London medical circles that Thatch was running on amphetamines and those drugs are readily available in Harley Street and from other private practices.

Dr Death had personal links with some of the Top Docs who were facilitating the trafficking gang in north Wales.

In one media interview years ago, Dr Death boasted that one of his proudest moments was having an article published in an academic journal of psychiatry and neurology. I remember Dr Death saying that it was a jointly authored article published in the 1960s and I wondered whether if it might illuminate Dr Death’s proud years in medicine in the way that Cilla’s friend Geoffrey Chamberlain’s 1965 published article detailing experiments on a seven month old foetus whom he then killed would have shed much light on why things went so wrong in Chamberlain’s Dept at St George’s had anyone publicised that article. Brown and I have searched databases for Dr Death’s article but we can’t find it. I wonder what is going on. Has someone kindly deleted that entry from the database because what was described in the article was so grim that Top Docs and others might not want it known that a man who served as Health Minister and Foreign Secretary was involved in such work? I think we should be told. Send me the reference Dr Death, I am in need of your expertise!

 

David Hole, the corrupt MSF rep who worked at St George’s Hospital Medical School and was concealing the criminal activity there, including organised abuse, was a leading light in Wandsworth SDP. One of the contingent from Somerset whom I discussed in previous posts (eg. ‘Upper Class Twit Of The Year – Shooting Themselves’) who received much money in return for keeping quiet about what was happening to me in north Wales became very friendly with a distant relative of mine – one of my father’s cousins – at that time and I never understood why they became such good mates because father barely kept in touch with that cousin. The cousin in question was an SDP activist in her community. My father’s cousin may not have been involved in any skulduggery at all and she is almost certainly dead now, but I have mentioned this friendship because I have been made aware that virtually every friend and relative of mine and Brown’s was targeted by the security services and either came under attack if they were loyal to us or were bought off in return for smearing us/keeping quiet if they did not stand by us. I have been told that one of Brown’s cousins, an LGBT activist, was also approached because of her work with Centrepoint in the 1980s/90s. Centrepoint concealed the Westminster Paedophile Ring. I have no idea whether Brown’s cousin did succumb to corruption but she seems to have disappeared off the planet. She was called Katie Dent and in the 1980s was the President of the Gay Soc at Oxford University, but I suspect that she is now using another name.

 

The Partnership Of Principle was of course with Sir David Steel. Who was portrayed as weak and in Dr Death’s pocket on ‘Spitting Image’, but who it is now known very effectively concealed Cyril Smith’s sexual assaults on children for years. I discovered the other day that it was David Steel who conducted negotiations with the press to ensure that the allegations of Cyril Smith’s sexual assaults went no further than the radical newspaper in Rochdale which published the story in 1979. Steel was very worried indeed because the Smith story emerged in Rochdale at the same time as Jeremy Thorpe was due to stand trial for conspiracy and incitement to murder Norman Scott. I seem to remember that the corrupt barrister George Carman QC was approached to keep Cyril Smith’s hobby out of the media because of the enormous damage to the Liberal Party which Steel feared would be incurred. Years after the Thorpe case, Steel commented that it had been a ‘tragedy for Thorpe’. Steel showed no such concern for Norman Scott, who’s life was wrecked by Thorpe and Thorpe’s mates for years (see post ‘My How Things Haven’t Changed’).

George Carman QC was Thorpe’s barrister. Tony Blair was one of Carman’s pupils and Cherie worked in Carman’s Chambers. At one point Jimmy Savile retained George Carman but it is said that Carman never actually acted for Savile. He wouldn’t have needed to, if word had got out that Savile had Carman ready and waiting, no-one would have dared publish a word about Savile’s crimes. Furthermore George Carman had a deep and meaningful relationship with Sue Cook, who worked for the BBC presenting ‘Crimewatch’. It was Jill Dando who was assassinated, not Sue…For further details of Carman’s violence, alcoholism, corrupt practices and his network, which included Top Docs, gangsters, corrupt police officers and journos, see posts ‘No Ordinary Methods’ and ‘No Ordinary Methods – Supplementary Post’.

George Carman lived in Wimbledon. As did many of the Top Docs of St George’s Hospital Medical School, including Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, who was concealing the crimes of Dafydd et al in north Wales as well as a linked gang in south London as well as patient harm and research fraud (see post ‘Now Then…’). John Moore, who was Secretary of State for the DHSS, 1987-88 and Secretary of State for Social Security (after the Dept was split), 1988-89, under Thatcher also lived in Wimbledon. Moore was Health Secretary when the DHSS was concealing serious organised crime in the NHS and social services, including that in north Wales and at St George’s…When Moore became ill himself, it was revealed that he was treated at the private Parkside Hospital, Wimbledon. There was a hullabaloo with accusations that Moore ‘didn’t trust the NHS’. You bet that he didn’t, he knew what was being concealed, he would never have risked his neck with the lethal people traffickers of St George’s. But then even the staunchest Labour Party NHS-supporting politicians, such as Rhodri Morgan, work very hard to ensure that they and their own nearest and dearest do not end up in the hands of the Dafydds or William Sargants. Those are Top Docs for the Little People.

 

The Radio 4 discussion concerning the formation of the SDP listed the names of PR gurus and leading figures in advertising who offered their services to the SDP without payment. The reasons for this were not explored, so I will try to discover more. The man who so helpfully put the Gang of Four in contact with so many effective propaganda merchants was David Kingsley.

 

Dr Death and David Steel were not the only people who colluded with the sexual abuse/exploitation/trafficking of children and young people. There were so many people at UCNW (Bangor University) involved with the gang in north Wales that in the 1970s the institution became deeply dysfunctional and Mary Wynch, a secretary in the Dept of Agriculture, was unlawfully arrested and imprisoned by Dafydd. The Plaid MP for Caernarfon, Dafydd Wigley, asked Shirl, in her capacity as Secretary of State for Education, to hold a Public Inquiry into the management of UCNW by the Principal, Sir Charles Evans. Evans was a Top Doctor who was autocratic and difficult, but the fact that great swathes of UCNW were being managed and staffed by those facilitating a trafficking ring was the major problem. Shirl refused to hold any inquiry. She knew what was going on at Bangor and she also knew that Carlo was the Chancellor, I really don’t think that Shirl was going to turn over any rocks. I don’t know the circumstances in which Dafydd Wigley made his request, but I don’t really think that Dafydd Wigley would have wanted the barrel of crap opened either. Many people from Plaid were colluding with the gang – Dr Dafydd Alun Jones had stood for election to the Commons for Plaid himself, in 1959 and in 1964 – and the gang were operating through Gwynedd County Council’s Social Services Dept. Gwynedd County Council was Plaid dominated and had it’s HQ in Caernarfon, just around the corner from Dafydd Wigley’s constituency office.

Shirl was the Labour MP for Hitchin in Hertfordshire, 1964-79. She was Minister for State for Education and Science, 1967-69, under Secretary of State Patrick Gordon Walker, in Harold Wilson’s Gov’t. Walker was Labour MP for Smethwick, 1945-64 and rose rapidly through the ranks of Clement Attlee’s Gov’t. In 1946 Gordon Walker was PPS to Herbert Morrison, Mandy’s granddad, when Morrison was Leader of the Commons. At the 1964 General Election, it was presumed that if Harold Wilson won as expected, Gordon Walker would be appointed Foreign Secretary. Although Labour did win that election, Gordon Walker lost his seat to the Tory candidate Peter Griffiths. Smethwick had been the focus of immigration from the Commonwealth and Griffiths ran a campaign critical of the opposition’s and the Gov’ts, policies, including on immigration. Griffiths was accused of exploiting the slogan ‘If you want a nigger neighbour, vote Labour’. Despite not being an MP or peer able to answer to Parliament, Gordon Walker was nonetheless appointed to the Foreign Office by Wilson. Gordon Walker subsequently stood for the safe Labour seat of Leyton in the Leyton by-election in Jan 1965, losing again, and was finally forced to resign as Foreign Secretary. After a sabbatical conducting research in Southeast Asia, Gordon Walker finally won Leyton in the 1966 General Election. It was after this that Gordon Walker eventually served as Secretary for Education and Science. Gordon Walker retired from the Commons in 1974 and received a life peerage in July of that year. He was also briefly an MEP.

There are archive clips available of Gordon Walker reporting on the liberation of Belsen. Gordon Walker was working for BBC European Service at the time, so Gordon Walker will have been working for the security services.

Gordon Walker’s predecessor as Secretary of State for the DES was the bisexual Tony Crosland, who at Oxford had been in a relationship with Woy. More worryingly, it was Tony Crosland who as Secretary of State for the DES has concealed the paedophile ring in the north east of England, which at that time involved Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth. In 1973, Arnold and Howarth relocated to work at Bryn Estyn in north Wales, where they joined and expanded Dafydd’s gang. It was Blair’s mate Ernest Armstrong, the MP for North West Durham, 1964-67, who used his links with Crosland to keep a lid on sexual exploitation of kids in the north east. Ernest’s daughter Hilary Armstrong succeeded her father as the Labour MP for North West Durham and was a member of Blair’s inner circle. It was Ernest who was a key mover and shaker in securing Blair the nomination as Labour candidate for Sedgefield. See post ‘The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III’.

Shirl will have known about the shenanigans in the north east which were being concealed by the DES.

Between 1969-70, Shirl was Minister of State for Home Affairs in Wilson’s Gov’t, under Home Secretary Sunny Jim Callaghan. Who not only continued the valiant Home Office collusion with the crimes of Dafydd and the gang in north Wales, but who, along with his wife Audrey, also had a close friendship with bent solicitor and Labour MP Leo Abse and did everything possible to help Abse develop what became the Children’s Act 1975, which resulted in hundreds of kids being handed over to John Allen and Dafydd’s gang in north Wales. Audrey had previously colluded with child abuse during her time as a member of London County Council and later as the PM’s wife she lent her glorious support to Great Ormond Street Hospital as Chairman of the Governors and by taking a leading role in GOSH’s fund-raising effortsTamara Ecclestone, GOSH Art Auction | Imitate Modern ...

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‘We Didn’t Know’.

Leo Abse was a close friend of the child molesting Labour MP George Thomas and threatened/bribed witnesses to Thomas’s crimes into silence (see post ‘It Wasn’t On Our Radar’). Abse has also been investigated for historical sex crimes himself. For further details on the sordid way in which Abse used Callaghan and Dr Death to ensure that the Children Act 1975 ended up on the statute books, see previous posts, including ‘Cry, The Beloved Country’.

Older readers will remember the tosser Callaghan singing ‘Waiting At The Church’ at a time of national crisis, of which there were quite a few as a result of Jim Callaghan. Here is the smug old bastard, looking like a hybrid between Gwynne the lobotomist and Sir Ronnie Waterhouse:

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After Labour lost power to Ted Heath in 1970, Shirl was Shadow Secretary of State for the DHSS, 1970-71 and then Shadow Home Secretary, 1970-73. Shirl was given a big responsibility in Jim Callaghan’s Gov’t in 1976 when she was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Science, a post which she retained until 1979 when Labour lost the General Election.

I was at school when Shirl was Secretary of State for the DES. I have discussed in previous posts and comments the brutal failing schools in Bridgwater that I and my friends attended, the fact that a small number of teachers were overtly abusive yet those schools and teachers received full support from Somerset Education Authority. I have explained how I have been told that one person who taught me at school was linked to Dafydd’s gang in north Wales and that people who knew me when I was at school and at Bridgwater College were approached to smear me and lie about me in the wake of my complaints about Dafydd and the gang.

In the way that many professional/middle class people ensured that their children did not attend the secondary schools in Bridgwater in the mid-late 1970s because those schools had such serious problems, there were some primaries which were avoided like the plague by parents in the know. One was Stogursey School. For many, many years, a great number of children left Stogursey unable to read and write. Their literacy problems were so well-known that the secondary schools automatically put the kids from Stogursey into the remedial stream until the odd few kids who were literate had proved themselves. I lived near Stogursey and I was well used to the appalling attitudes of the teachers to kids from Stogursey. They were thick and inbred – just like the kids from Newborough on Anglesey were -according to those who staffed the failing secondary schools in Bridgwater. There was one factor which was never mentioned. The Head of Stogursey School, Mr White. Mr White was a lovely old boy, the kids really liked him, but Mr White did not believe that children from Stogursey needed to learn to read and write because ‘they’re only going to work on farms’. He articulated this opinion to Brown’s mum – Brown’s brother was at Stogursey School at the time – and beamed his beatific smile as he did so. I see nothing wrong with working on a farm, but one can be a highly educated farm worker/farmer which increases one’s options. The irony was that the teachers of Somerset were deeply contemptuous of their former pupils who were working on farms or in factories in Bridgwater. Working on farms was for other people’s children whom they were paid to teach – or indeed not to teach – but not for their own.

This was happening when Shirl was Education Secretary.

At that time in north Wales, Dafydd’s gang were operating and many of those working in the schools of Gwynedd and Clwyd were well aware of what was happening.

Shirl was very opposed to grammar schools and fought hard for them to be dispensed with. She famously cited comprehensive schools as her greatest achievement, stating: ‘I have never in any way regretted them and I still believe strongly in them. The problem was that in many places they were heavily skimmed because people kept grammar schools in place beside them.’ As her daughter Rebecca approached secondary school age, Shirl moved into the catchment area of the state-subsidised Godolphin and Latymer School (which later became private in preference to becoming a comprehensive), allowing her daughter to gain a place there. Shirl didn’t relocate to Bridgwater or north Wales then.

Like Shirl I do not support dividing kids into those who attend grammars and those who attend secondary moderns after they have sat the eleven plus exam. That is because: it is not possible to meaningfully assess a child’s ability and potential when they are eleven and certainly not by the use of the eleven plus; children should not be made to feel more valuable as humans if they pass a particular test at 11; the schools which the children who failed the eleven plus attended were often vastly inferior to the schools attended by those who passed; the eleven plus was used to divide children socially and was accompanied by such a degree of social snobbery that kids who failed it often felt terrible about themselves and aspiring parents were so concerned for their children’s prospects if they failed that they frequently packed them off to a private school.

However the answer to all this was not to allow appalling, abusive comprehensive schools to continue to be appalling and abusive in the name of opposing grammar schools. Brown remarked after he left the school which put him through hell for five years that the best thing to do with that school would be to drop a bomb on it, not defend it as a symbol of equality.

Schools like the ones that Brown and I went to, as well as some of those in north Wales and others across Britain which were under-performing and in some cases facilitating the abuse of children, were not for Shirley’s kids, they were for us. Because our mothers weren’t Vera Brittain The Famous Feminist.

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Kids in care in north Wales whom Shirl ignored were found dead in Risley Remand Centre:

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The victims of Dafydd’s gang who’s screams for help went unanswered by Shirl and her mates also ended up here:North Wales Hospital, Denbigh - County Asylums

Leo Abse’s brother Dannie knew all about it, Dannie Abse was a Top Doctor with an interest in psychoanalysis. See earlier posts for Dannie and Leo’s previous.

In Nov 1981 Shirl won the Crosby by-election and became the first SDP member elected to Parliament. Two years later however, having become the SDP’s President, Shirl lost the seat in the 1983 General Election. Crosby was a Merseyside constituency but was substantially made up of affluent parts of the region, containing many middle class professionals, including Top Doctors. There was a branch of Dafydd’s empire on Merseyside. Dafydd was a graduate of Liverpool University and had numerous links with corrupt professionals on Merseyside. Crosby also contained a high proportion of Roman Catholics – Shirl is a practising Catholic and went down very well with them. The schools and children’s homes on Merseyside run by Liverpool Catholic Social Services had major problems with the abuse of youngsters which was acknowledged in the early 1990s and there were links between the staff of those institutions and Dafydd’s gang in north Wales/Cheshire, as detailed in previous posts.

Shirl was President of the SDP, 1982-87, while Dr Death and then Woy were the Leaders.

So what did Shirl do after a career of implementing policies which screwed up the lives of those on the receiving end of them and patronising any audience member on ‘Question Time’ who questioned this not very bright arrogant old bat? She took up a Chair at Harvard of course, in 1988, in the Kennedy School of Government, where she remained until 2001 and thereafter as Public Service Professor of Electoral Politics, Emerita. Nonetheless, Shirl remained active in politics and public service in Britain – having bagged a peerage in 1993 – as well as the US and internationally. Shirl helped draft constitutions in Russia, Ukraine and South Africa. Unbelievable isn’t it.

Shirl also served as director of Harvard’s Project Liberty, an initiative designed to assist the emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe; as a Board member and acting Director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Shirl returned to the UK in 1993 after that peerage; she needed to pick up the £300 daily allowance simply for turning up and clocking on and no doubt the lower orders in the UK were in need of their elder and better telling them what to do once after that absence of advice when Shirl was in the US.

Shirl has maintained a close association with Harvard University.

Shirl was Leader of Lib Dems in the Lords, 2001-04, under Charles Kennedy, who had one hell of a drink problem which no-one would admit until it was killing him.

In June 2007, after Gordon Brown replaced Blair as PM, Shirl accepted a formal Gov’t position as Adviser on Nuclear Proliferation, provided that she could serve as an independent adviser. Shirl remained a Liberal Democrat. She was a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.

Shirl’s interest and commitment to education continued and she served as Chair of Judges of the British Teaching Awards.

Shirl was originally opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill, describing it as ‘stealth privatisation’ during 2011. The Gov’t made some changes to the Bill, described by Shirl as ‘major concessions’, but dismissed as ‘minor’ by the Shirlesque Guardian journo Polly Toynbee. Not that either of them will be risking their neck with any NHS hospital in north Wales. Shirl urged Liberal Democrats to support the amended Bill during the conference in March 2012, saying ‘I would not have stuck with the bill, if I believed for one moment it would undermine the NHS’. Recent figures have demonstrated how much of the UK’s NHS services are now being commissioned by one private company alone, Branson’s Virgin Healthcare. Had Shirl et al not ignored serious organised crime in the NHS, no-one would have been conned by Branson and his ilk anyway.

Shirl spoke against gay marriage in the Lords, saying that ‘equality is not the same as sameness. That is the fundamental mistake in this Bill’ and that woman and men ‘complement one another’ – yes their genitals fit together nicely – so that marriage between people of the same sex should not be called marriage, but should have ‘different nomenclature’. In late 2015, the nation heaved a sigh of relief when Shirl announced her intention to retire from the Lords.

Shirl is the President of the Cambridge University Liberal Association.

 

Shirl’s partner in concealing crime, Woy, had a previous every bit as bad as Shirl. Woy always made much of his humble roots in south Wales, but although Woy’s dad Arthur Jenkins, an NUM official, was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his alleged involvement in disturbances, Arthur Jenkins later became President of the South Wales Miners’ Federation and MP for Pontypool, PPS to Clement Attlee and for a brief time, a Minister in the 1945 Labour Gov’t. Woy’s mother, Hattie, was the daughter of a steelworks manager. So by the time that Woy came along, they were in no way a disadvantaged family. Indeed they were considered by people in their community to be quite grand, particularly Hattie.

Woy went to Abersychan County Grammar School, University College Cardiff and then Balliol, Oxford. His fellow students at Balliol included Tony Crosland, Denis Healey and Ted Heath and he was friends with all three of them. During WWII Woy served in the intelligence services.

Woy was Labour MP for Southwark Central, 1948-50, so he would have known about the excesses of the nearby Maudsley Hospital and its role in colluding with the abuse of vulnerable people. Woy then served as MP for Birmingham Stetchford, 1950-77. By the early 1970s, there was a trafficking gang operating in the West Midlands with links to Dafydd et al and numerous kids in care from the West Midlands were sent to children’s homes in north Wales where they were abused and trafficked. Woy’s constituency was on the territory of the notorious corrupt, Freemason-heavy West Midlands Serious Crime Squad. Woy colluded with all this wrongdoing when he was Home Secretary, 1965-67 in Wilson’s Gov’t and again when he served another stint as Home Secretary under Harold Wilson, 1974-76. During Woy’s first go at being Home Secretary, Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth were abusing kids in their capacity as staff of Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead. When Woy had another turn at being Home Secretary, Arnold and Howarth were abusing kids at Bryn Estyn. Approved Schools were directly managed by the Home Office until 1971, so Axwell Park was down to Woy, as was the extensive police corruption and the corruption at Risley Remand Centre and Walton Prison which assisted Dafydd and the traffickers so much during Woy’s second go at being Home Secretary.

Woy was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1967-70, under Wilson and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 1970-72. When Wilson suddenly resigned as PM in 1976, Jenkins was one of six candidates for the Labour Party Leadership in March of that year, but came third out of the six candidates in the first ballot, behind Callaghan and Foot. Woy withdrew from the contest. He had wanted to become Foreign Secretary, but accepted an appointment as President of the European Commission after Callaghan appointed Tony Crosland to the Foreign Office.

The main development overseen by the Jenkins Commission was the development of the Economic and Monetary Union of the EU from 1977, which began in 1979 as the European Monetary System, a forerunner of the Single Currency or Euro. Woy was the first President to attend a G8 summit on behalf of the Community. Woy remained in Brussels until 1981, contemplating the political changes in the UK from there.

Woy attempted to re-enter Parliament at the Warrington by-election in 1981 but Labour retained the seat with a small majority. Risley Remand Centre is at Warrington and many of the staff lived in the constituency which Woy targeted. By 1981 it was very clear that Risley was being used as one of the personal prisons of Dafydd and the gang and this had come to public attention by 1981 as a result of Mary Wynch’s case. The abuse of inmates and the death rate at Risley were horrific (see post ‘Include Me Out’).

So both Shirl and Woy, under the SDP colours, targeted constituencies which were heavily populated by people who were part of Dafydd’s empire of crime. Were I blogging about people other than politicians who were Cabinet Ministers during the 1970s, I would put this down to coincidence. However because we’re dealing with Shirl and Woy here, I’m not going to.

In 1982, Woy was elected in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election as the MP for a previously Tory-held seat, after the death of the MP Sir Thomas Galbraith aka Tam Galbraith, who had held the seat since 1948.

Sir Thomas Galbraith
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Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith was a Scottish Unionist politician. The eldest son and heir of Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, Galbraith was educated at Aytoun House, Glasgow; Wellington College; Christ Church, Oxford and Glasgow University.

Galbraith served as a lieutenant in the RNVR, 1939–1946. He was Assistant Conservative Whip, 1950; a Government Whip from 1951–57; Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1957–59; Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1959–62; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, 1963–64.

Galbraith was the man who was named in the John Vassall spy scandal. In 1952, Vassall was appointed as a clerical officer, to the staff of the Naval Attache at the British embassy in Moscow. He became acquainted with a Pole named Mikhailsky, who worked for the Embassy and who introduced Vassall to the homosexual underworld of Moscow. In 1954, Vassall was invited to a party, where he was encouraged to become extremely drunk and where he was photographed in compromising positions with several men. The party, arranged by the KGB, had been a honeytrap. The Soviets used the photographs to blackmail Vassall into working for them as a spy, initially in the Moscow embassy and later in London, following his return there in June 1956.

Vassall returned to the Admiralty, where he worked first in the  Naval Intelligence Division and then, as the clerical officer assistant to the Private Secretary, in the Private Office of Tam Galbraith, then Civil Lord of the Admiralty. At the time of his arrest Vassall was working in Military Branch II. During his espionage career, Vassall provided the Soviets with several thousand classified documents.

During Galbraith’s time at the Admiralty, questions were raised about his connection to Vassall after letters from Galbraith were found in Vassall’s possession. It was thought odd that a Minister would communicate by post with an official of his own department and there was considerable speculation of impropriety in the press. Given Vassall’s known homosexuality, rumours began to circulate that Vassall and Galbraith were involved with each other and that Galbraith might have shielded Vassall from discovery. The committee of civil servants originally established to probe the Vassall affair investigated the correspondence and declared it innocent, but this verdict was not universally accepted. The PM, Harold Macmillan, was compelled to open a wider inquiry, conducted by three jurists. Eventually, the inquiry determined that Vassall had not been helped or favoured by any of his seniors. Being in the RNVR and at the Admiralty, Galbraith would have also known about the other shenanigans in those organisations, including those that were alleged to have involved Lord Louis Mountbatten. See post ‘The Defence Of The Realm’.

Vassall was identified as a potential spy after a senior member of the KGB defected to the US in 1961. The KGB, worried that Vassall would be exposed, ordered him to cease operations until further notice. Another defector added to the case against Vassall, but doubts about the evidence provided by both defectors persisted. Vassall soon resumed his work. It had become obvious to his colleagues that Vassall had some other source of income, because he moved to an expensive flat in Dolphin Square, took foreign holidays and was said to own 36 Savile Row suits. His annual expenditure was later estimated at about £3,000, when his official salary was £750.

On 12 September 1962, Vassall was arrested and charged with spying. He made a full confession and directed detectives to the cameras and films concealed in his flat. The documents which he admitted to stealing did not account for everything believed to have been taken however, which led to speculation that there was another spy still operating in the Admiralty. Some have suggested that Vassall was deliberately sacrificed by the KGB in an attempt to protect the other (possibly more senior) spy. In October 1962, Vassall was sentenced to 18 years in jail.

Vassall served ten years of his sentence and he was befriended in prison by Lord Longford. Vassall was eventually released on parole in October 1972. Vassall subsequently changed his surname to Phillips and settled in St John’s Wood, which was where Sir Ronnie Waterhouse lived at the time, along with a few other lawyers, judges and celebs. Vassall worked for a firm of solicitors in Gray’s Inn. A number of Dafydd’s umbrellas, including one of the biggest, Sir William Mars-Jones, were leading lights in Gray’s Inn. Vassall died after suffering a heart-attack on a London bus in November 1996: it was not until nearly three weeks later that the press became aware of his death. Vassall pegged out on that bus two months before his neighbour Ronnie Waterhouse opened the Waterhouse Inquiry.On the Buses (1971) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDb)PSV Buses apps - Kern Leisure - Business Solutions

 

Galbraith was President of the Scottish Georgian Society, 1970–1980 and was a Member of the Royal Company of Archers. He was knighted in 1981.

Galbraith married Simone Clotilde Fernande Marie Ghislaine de Blicquy on 11 April 1956. They had three children: (Anne Marie) Ghislaine du Roy Galbraith (born 1957); Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde (born 1960); Charles William Du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith (born 1962).

Galbraith predeceased his father, the 1st Baron. His elder son Thomas succeeded as 2nd Baron in 1985 and was subsequently a Conservative junior Minister, Chief Whip in the Lords and Leader of the House of Lords.

 

The 2nd Baron Strathclyde aka Tom Galbraith was educated at Sussex House School, London and Wellington College. Wellington College is in Crowthorne, Berkshire, as is Broadmoor Hospital, which housed some of the witnesses to the sort of wrongdoing that Tom Galbraith’s father and his associates were so desperate to keep quiet.

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Broadmoor Hospital:
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Tom Galbraith attended the University of East Anglia, graduating in 1982. He also studied at Aix-Marseille University. Strathclyde entered the Lords in 1986, becoming a Junior Whip in 1988, then Minister for Tourism in 1989. Between 1990 and 1992, he was Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries in the Scottish Office. Tom then served in the Dept of the Environment and the DTI, before being appointed the Conservative Party Chief Whip in the Lords in 1994. The next year, Tom was sworn of the Privy Council.

In 1998 Strathclyde, along with the Conservative front bench in the Lords, threatened to tender his resignation if the Party refused to accept a proposed compromise plan for reform of the Lords that had been negotiated with the Labour Party by Lord Cranborne, the Conservatives’ leader in the Lords, unbeknown to the Leader of the Opposition (in the Commons) William Hague and to his annoyance. Hague however accepted the proposals, dismissing Cranborne for the conduct in negotiations and Strathclyde was appointed to succeed him. Under Strathclyde’s leadership, Blair’s fudge the House of Lords Act 1999 passed: under this, Strathclyde was elected by other peers as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in the Lords.

When the Conservatives formed the Coalition Gov’t under David Cameron in May 2010, Strathclyde became Leader of the Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet. On 7 Jan 2013, Strathclyde announced that he would be stepping down as Leader of the Lords and resigning from the Cabinet with immediate effect, to pursue a second business career.

Strathclyde and his family live in Westminster and at the Galbraith family estate in Mauchline, Ayrshire. As Strathclyde has no sons, the heir presumptive to the peerage is his younger brother the Hon. Charles William du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith.

Lord Strathclyde is a Governor of Wellington College. He is a Director of Auchendrane Estates Ltd, a landowning company in Scotland. Strathclyde’s wealth is estimated at £10m. He was a non-executive Director on the Board of Trafigura’s hedge-fund arm, Galena Asset Management, 2004- 09. Trafigura defended court actions during the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump scandal.

The 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump caused a health crisis in Ivory Coast. A ship registered in Panama chartered by the Singaporean-based oil and commodity shipping company Trafigura Beheer BV offloaded toxic waste to an Ivorian waste handling company which disposed of it at the port of Abidjan. The dumping, which took place against a backdrop of instability in Abidjan as a result of Côte d’Ivoire’s first civil war, allegedly led to the death of 17 and the injury of 30,000. Trafigura originally planned to dispose of the slops – which contained 500 tonnes of a mixture of fuel, caustic soda, and hydrogen sulphide – at the port of Amsterdam. The company refused to pay Dutch company Amsterdam Port Services (APS) for disposal after APS raised its charge from €27 to €1,000 per cubic meter. The ship was reportedly turned away by several countries before offloading the toxic waste at Abidjan.

Trafigura denied any waste was transported from the Netherlands, saying that the substances contained only tiny amounts of hydrogen sulphide and that the company did not know the substance was to be disposed of improperly. After two Trafigura officials who travelled to Côte d’Ivoire to offer assistance were arrested and subsequently attacked in jail, the company paid US$198 million for clean-up to the Ivorian government, without admitting wrongdoing, in early 2007. A series of protests and resignations of Ivorian Gov’t officials followed this deal.

In 2008, a civil lawsuit in London was launched by almost 30,000 Ivorians against Trafigura. In May 2009, Trafigura announced that it would sue the BBC for libel after ‘Newsnight’ alleged the company had knowingly sought to cover up its role in the incident. In September 2009 ‘The Guardian’ obtained and published internal Trafigura emails showing that the traders responsible knew how dangerous the chemicals were. Trafigura agreed to a settlement of £30 million (US$42.4 million) to settle the class action suit against it. Law firm Leigh Day, which represented the Ivorian claimants, was found guilty of negligence after £6 million of the settlement funds were embezzled.

In the weeks following the incident the BBC reported that 17 people died, 23 were hospitalized and a further 40,000 sought medical treatment (due to headaches, nosebleeds, and stomach pains). These numbers were revised upward over time, with the numbers reported by the Ivorian Gov’t in 2008 as being 17 dead, dozens severely ill, 30,000 receiving medical treatment for ailments connected to the chemical exposure and almost 100,000 seeking medical treatment at the time.

Following revelations by local press and government on the extent of the illnesses involved, the nine-month-old transitional Gov’t of PM Charles Konan Banny resigned. The Gov’t vowed to provide treatment and pay all medical costs associated with the waste dump.

Faced with a libel case which under British law could drag on for years and cost millions of pounds, on 10 December 2009, the BBC removed the original story entitled ‘Dirty Tricks and Toxic Waste in the Ivory Coast’, along with accompanying video, from its website. The story claimed that Trafigura brought ‘ruin’ on the country in order to make a ‘massive profit’. The stories remain available on WikiLeaks. On 15 December 2009, the BBC agreed to apologise to Trafigura for the ‘Dirty Tricks’ report, pay £25,000 to charity and withdraw any allegation that Trafigura’s toxic waste dumped in Africa had caused deaths.

At the same time, the BBC issued a combative statement, pointing out that the dumping of Trafigura’s hazardous waste had led to the British-based oil trader being forced to pay out £30m in compensation to victims. ‘The BBC has played a leading role in bringing to the public’s attention the actions of Trafigura in the illegal dumping of 500 tonnes of hazardous waste’, the statement said. ‘The dumping caused a public health emergency with tens of thousands of people seeking treatment’.

The BBC did not agree to remove further allegations about the dumping such as the 16 September article:- ‘Trafigura knew of waste dangers’; this quoted from internal Trafigura emails which showed that the company knew the waste was toxic before they dumped it. In one, a Trafigura employee says ‘This operation is no longer allowed in the European Union, the United States and Singapore’ it is ‘banned in most countries due to the hazardous nature of the waste’ and another says ‘environmental agencies do not allow disposal of the toxic caustic.’

The BBC journos who exposed the scandal were Meirion Jones and Liz Keane, who were the only journos with the guts to expose Savile.

Here is one of the Trafigura Directors at the time of the dump:

The Lord Strathclyde
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Lord Strathclyde won Channel 4 ‘Peer of the Year 2000’ and ‘The Spectator’ ‘Peer of the Year 2004’. What criteria were used in the judging is unclear.

 

It cannot have been coincidental that Woy succeeded Tom Galbraith’s dad  in Glasgow Hillhead.

Woy was Leader of the SDP, 1982-83, his Deputy being Dr Death. During the 1983 General Election campaign Roy was appointed PM-designate for the Alliance, which must have given a great many people a good laugh. Woy’s role as PM-designate was questioned by his close colleagues, as his campaign style was by then regarded as ineffective; David Steel was considered to have a greater rapport with the electorate. The electorate didn’t know at the time that David Steel was concealing Cyril Smith’s sexual assaults on children and that he felt sorry for that nice Jeremy Thorpe.

After the 1983 General Election, Dr Death succeeded Woy as Leader of the SDP unopposed.

Woy continued to serve as the SDP MP for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 General Election by George Galloway, after boundary changes in 1983 ‘had changed the character of the constituency’. It’s good to know that boundary changes were to blame, rather than the electorate preferring George Galloway to Woy. George Galloway has a habit of defeating fakes at the polls, although George is frequently charged with the same crime. In 2005 George defeated the sitting Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, Oona ‘I’m just a little black Jewish woman who wants to help the poor’ King. Oona’s dad was a Professor, her aunt is the Top Doctor and writer of owner’s manuals for menopausal women Miriam Stoppard who was married to playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. After Tom dumped Miriam, he moved on to Felicity Kendal, but in 2014 he hit the jackpot with Sabrina Guinness, an old flame of Carlo’s. Oona was educated at that institution which specialises in teaching the children of the privileged who identify with the plebs to such an extent that they want to be Labour PM, Haverstock Comprehensive School. At Haverstock, Oona was a contemporary of Ed and David Miliband. Oona’s official deprivation narrative maintains that at Haverstock she told her careers teacher that she wanted to become PM, but librarian work was suggested instead. No Oona, that won’t have happened, not to you at Haverstock. It was far more likely that all you not very bright kids from the Labour aristocracy were told that you would become Labour PM.

Brown, when he was attending Haygrove School in Bridgwater, living Shirl’s dream, was advised to work in a wet fish shop. I was told various things, including that by the time that I was 19 I’d be married to a farmer with five kids or that I’d become a prostitute or end up in prison. One of my friends who ended up with a 2:1 from Stirling University when she was 22 was prevented from sitting O levels by Chilton Trinity School because she wasn’t clever enough for such things. She was entered for CSEs in every subject and was then accused of plagiarising her English course work because her teacher couldn’t believe that a kid from Bridgwater was capable of writing to such a high standard. Not all of our teachers held out such high ambitions for us, but if we’d announced that we had wanted to become PM we’d have probably been given a detention for taking the piss, not told to consider librarianship. After all Philip Larkin was a librarian…

Sir Tom Stoppard was appointed President of London Library in 2002.

In 2008, PM Gordon Brown appointed Oona to act as his Senior Policy Adviser on Equalities and Diversity and Faith. In January 2009, King was appointed Head of Diversity at Channel 4. In 2010, King unsuccessfully challenged Red Ken for the Labour Party nomination in the 2012 election for Mayor of London. King’s first campaign speech, at Haverstock School, focused on ‘engagement with young people’. That’s how diverse Oona is. I expect that she encouraged them to fulfil their potential by telling them all that they could become Labour PM. Particularly the girls.

Oona of the Common People has since found her true home in the Lords with Lord Strathclyde of Toxic Waste Dumping In Hot Countries.

 

Woy liked to believe that he was the architect of the permissive society, famously supporting David Steel’s liberalisation of the abortion laws and Leo Abse’s reform of legislation regarding male homosexuality. That Woy was a bisexual swinger was not a secret, neither were his many extra-marital relationships. Woy was filmed admitting to them in a TV interview but told the interviewer that he would not be naming the people with whom he had relationships. I accept Woy’s point there, it was between him and his wife and the other parties and nothing to do with anyone else. Sadly, although people enjoyed trying to make capital from Woy being a bisexual swinger, no-one mentioned that he played a key role in concealing the organised abuse and trafficking of children and young people by gangs who murdered some of the witnesses. Ignoring that whilst worrying about which consenting adults Woy was sleeping with was inexcusable.

Woy was Leader of the Lib Dems in the Lords, 1988-97 and Chancellor of Oxford University, 1987-03.

Here’s Woy with a message for those of us who complained about Dafydd et al:Roy Jenkins | Celebrities lists.

Woy’s useful life didn’t end with the demise of the SDP and the ineffectiveness of the Lib Dems. Woy acted as a mentor to Blair…

 

Now for Bill Rodgers, the member of the Gang of Four who was elbowed out. William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Lib Dems. Rodgers was educated at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool. Famous Quarry Bank old boys include Rodgers’s Labour Party colleague Peter Shore who concealed the sexual abuse of young people by Dafydd’s gang and others (see post ‘Apocalypse Now’) and the trade union leader Dave Basnett, who er concealed the sexual abuse of young people by Dafydd’s gang and others (see post ‘A Very COHSE Relationship With Some Very Nasty People’). John Lennon was Quarry Bank’s most famous former pupil. When they were still based in Liverpool, The Beatles were mates with Cilla, who when she was older and rich and had moved to a mansion in Buckinghamshire because she loved Liverpool so much was a friend of Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain of St George’s Hospital Medical School, when Chamberlain was colluding with Dafydd and the gang in north Wales and the linked gang of traffickers in south London.

Rodgers went on to Magdalen College, Oxford. He was General Secretary of the Fabian Society, 1953–1960 and was succeeded in that role by Shirl. Rodgers was then Chair of the Fabian Society, 1966-67. He was preceded as Chair by Peter Townsend, the sociologist who knew about the organised abuse of young people by political figures and others.

Rodgers was a Councillor on St Marylebone Borough Council, 1958–62. His patch will have covered Harley Street.

Bill Rodgers was the Labour MP for Stockton-on-Tees, 1962-83. Stockton-on-Tees is in the Cleveland area and was the location of a paedophile/trafficking gang while Rodgers was an MP. Rodgers served in Labour Governments under Wilson – Rodgers was Minister of State for Defence – and under James Callaghan, serving as Secretary of State for Transport, 1976-79. From 1979 to 1981 Rodgers was Shadow Defence Secretary.

At the 1983 General Election Rodgers lost his seat. After leaving the Commons, he was Director-General of the Royal Institute of British Architects and also became Chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority. In 1987 Rodgers was Chairman of the successful “Yes to Unity” campaign within the SDP in favour of merger with the Liberal Party.

Rodgers received a peerage in Feb 1992, two months before a firebomb killed five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal (see post ‘The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs’). Rodgers was the Liberal Democrats’ Leader in the Lords, 1997-01, which spanned most of the duration of the Waterhouse Inquiry and the subsequent publication of the Waterhouse Report.

 

Mike Thomas was another name mentioned on ‘The Reunion’. Michael Stuart Thomas identified with the Labour Party until 1981 and thereafter with the SDP. Thomas played a major role in both the establishment of the SDP and then in the SDP’s subsequent demise.
Thomas was educated at the Latymer Upper School and King’s School, Macclesfield.  He studied at Liverpool University, 1962-66. From 1965 to 1966 Mike Thomas served as President of the Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates and from 1966 to 1968 he was a member of the National Executive of the NUS.

Thomas initially made a career in political and social research, acting as Head of the Co-operative Party’s Research Department, 1966-68 and as a research associate with the predecessor body of the Policy Studies Institute, 1968-73. 

Thomas was elected as the Labour MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne East in Oct 1974, after the death at age 45 of the sitting Labour member Geoff Rhodes. Mike Thomas will have known about the paedophile ring in the north east, as will have Rhodes.

Thomas’s rivals for the Labour candidature included a number of local Party activists, notably the prominent local Councillor Jeremy Beecham. The talents of Jeremy Beecham were utilised by the Welsh Gov’t in 2006 when Jeremy Beecham was appointed to set up a Review to advise the Welsh Assembly Gov’t on the reform of public services in Wales, after scandal after scandal after scandal within those services.

Jeremy Beecham was the Labour leader of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne City Council, 1977-94. He had been a Councillor in Newcastle since 1967. Beecham was a Councillor in Newcastle throughout the years of serious corruption in the north east which was cultivated by and blossomed under T. Dan Smith, who was the Labour leader of Newcastle City Council, 1960-65 (see post ‘Another Episode Of Friends’).

Beecham went to the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and then to University College Oxford. After graduation he worked as a solicitor. He joined the Labour Party in 1959 and Chaired the Newcastle City Council Social Services Committee, 1973-77. Beecham Chaired that Committee whilst Brian Roycroft, the Director of Social Services for Newcastle, sent numerous kids in care on placements to the Bryn Alyn Community in north Wales, where they were abused and trafficked into sex work (see post ‘Another Episode Of Friends’). Kids at Bryn Alyn reported seeing Roycroft visiting and ignoring the dreadful conditions in which they were living. One boy at Bryn Alyn maintained that he had been forced into sex with an adult man at gunpoint.

For further details of the entrenched corruption in Wales’s public services upon whose reform Jeremy Beecham ‘advised’, see post ‘A Major Coup – Or A Complete Disaster?’.

 

As a new Labour MP, Mike Thomas served as PPS to Minister Fattersley, 1974-76. Fattersley was the MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook, 1964-97, while kids in care in Birmingham were abused in the city and sent to children’s homes in north Wales where they were also abused and trafficked and when the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad reached their zenith. Fattersley kept quiet about these matters as well as about the endemic corruption in civic life in Birmingham. However Fattersley did write a food column before everyone took to sending photos of their dinners to everyone else on social media. Fattersley was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party while the Windbag was Leader and he knew that the Windbag was concealing the en masse abuse of children and vulnerable people in north Wales. See previous posts for details of the full horror of Fattersley.

Once established as an MP, Mike Thomas soon became associated with the Campaign for Labour Victory group of right wingers in the Labour Party led by the then Environment Minister Bill Rodgers. In February 1981 Thomas left the party to found the SDP. Thomas declined to follow the advice of the constituency party that he should resign as an MP and contest a by-election and he remained in Parliament as an SDP MP where he acted as his new party’s Spokesman on Health and Social Services.

Thomas played a prominent role in the SDP’s successful launch in March 1981. As a member of the SDP’s national steering committee he advised on the selection of SDP candidates for the forthcoming General Election and led negotiations with the Liberal Party concerning the sharing out of constituency candidacies between the two centrist parties. The terms of an SDP/Liberal alliance was critical to the electoral success of both. Thomas quickly became known for his obduracy in the seat negotiations with the Liberals. In July 1981 it was reported that: ‘Senior Liberals were quietly seething… at the suggestion from Mike Thomas that half the prospective Parliamentary candidates already adopted by local Liberal associations should stand down in favour of SDP members.’ Many Liberals perceived Thomas’s approach as being ‘… a cynical electoral deal imposed from above’.

Thomas sought re-election at Newcastle East in the 1983 General Election as the SDP candidate, but lost to Labour’s Nick Brown, who years later, when a Minister, was at the centre of a scandal involving rent boys which was repackaged as a good news Gay MP Comes Out story by Alastair Cambell (see previous posts).  Mike Thomas stood for Parliament as an SDP/Alliance candidate in Exeter in 1987 but failed to be elected.

The SDP held its annual conference at Portsmouth in September 1987 and, by a 998-21 vote majority, delegates decided to open negotiations with the Liberal Party over a merger of the two Parties. Thomas and some other high-profile SDP members were opposed to this merger. Thomas engaged in a heated face to face exchange with Shirl, then the SDP President, over the use of a room at the conference centre for a meeting of those SDP members opposed to the merger. In full view of TV cameras, Shirl refused Thomas access to the room on grounds that his group’s meeting was not an official SDP function. Thomas initiated another heated disagreement at the Conference when he demanded access to the SDP’s central membership list in order to facilitate his campaign to keep the SDP as an independent party. This provoked a further confrontation with Shirl and Thomas moved a motion of no confidence in her Chairmanship of the Conference. In March 1988 a ballot of SDP members approved a merger with the Liberals by an 18,872 -9,929 vote majority.

Thomas became Vice-President of Dr Death’s Continuing SDP after the 1988 merger of the SDP’s main body with the Liberal Party to form the Lib Dems. He continued trying to negotiate deals whereby SDP and Liberal Democrat candidates would stand down in each other’s favour in particular constituencies, but his advances were largely ignored.

After losing his seat in Parliament in 1983, Thomas developed a portfolio of interests in journalism, corporate communications and management consulting.  In 1988 he established his own consultancy, Corporate Communications Strategy. 

Mike Thomas remained a prominent member of the SDP until the Party’s final demise in 1990. After 1990, unlike many former SDP leaders, Thomas did not immediately identify with any other political party. However, in 2009 he became site moderator of the Charter 2010 website which anticipated the result of the 2010 General Election and provided support for the political basis on which the Coalition Gov’t of 2010-2015 was founded. In 2010 Thomas joined the Liberal Democrats because he supported their decision to enter Coalition Gov’t with the Tories.

Dick Newby, the man who featured in ‘The Reunion’ of whom I was previously unaware, was educated at the Rothwell Grammar School, West Yorkshire, followed by St Catherine’s College, Oxford, graduating in 1974. So Newby may have been one of those students who came under the influence of Alan Bullock at Oxford and perhaps was recruited to MI5 by Bullock a la Mandelson (see post ‘A Study In Tyranny’).

Newby joined HM Customs and Excise, becaming Principal in charge of budget coordination in 1980. Post-SDP, Newby became Director of Corporate Affairs at property developers Rosehaugh plc. He subsequently became a consultant on corporate social responsibility. Newby worked extensively on programmes which used the power of sport to help motivate and educate children and young people. He was Chair of sport at The Prince’s Trust, 1997–2012, Chair of International Development Through Sport and Chair of Sport for Life International, of which he remains Patron.

Newby was Secretary of the SDP Parliamentary Committee in 1981 – David Owen described him as ‘an able young civil servant who resigned to come and work for us’ – and National Secretary of the SDP from 1983-88. From 1999 to 2006, Newby was Chief of Staff to Charles Kennedy and was instrumental in the process of managing the succession of leadership from Kennedy to Menzies Campbell.

Dick Newby received a peerage in Sept 1997, just weeks before Ronnie Waterhouse finished taking evidence from witnesses at the Waterhouse Inquiry. At the beginning of May 2012, Lord Newby was appointed the Lib Dem Chief Whip in the Lords and at the same time was appointed the Deputy Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords and Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard. In September 2012, Newby was appointed Treasury spokesman in the Lords. In September 2016 he was elected Leader of the Lib Dems in the Lords.

Lord Newby has been married since 1978 to the Rev. Ailsa Ballantyne Newby (née Thomson, now the Canon Residentiary of Ripon Cathedral). According to the House of Lords register of members interests, he jointly owns, with his wife, two flats in Lambeth, which are rented out.

 

After my reading and research re the SDP, it became obvious to me that they were infiltrated by the security services, who probably were responsible for the implosion of the SDP. That was very much appreciated security services, but you did not stop the organised crime against children and vulnerable people that the Gang Of Four were fully on board with. You will have known that Dr Death was a personal friend of some of those Top Docs in north Wales who caused my friends and I so much grief and who were responsible for a holocaust… Those Top Docs are still practising.

 

A selection of news from the media over the past few days:

The ongoing saga of Little Nell Hodge and her hurt feelings which were dealt with by lawyers to the Royals Mishcon de Reya (see post ‘A Vortex Of Eternal Shame’) seems to have dropped off the radar. After being on the receiving end of Little Nell’s wrath and her very expensive lawyers, Jeremy Corbyn is now under attack for refusing to apologise for being in the vicinity of the laying of a wreath at the site of a memorial. Jeremy has said he was present but not actually involved at a wreath-laying for individuals behind the group that carried out the Munich Olympic massacre, a partial admission that has led to a row with Israel’s PM. Jeremy had been asked if Palestinian leaders linked to the Black September terror group were also honoured at a memorial event he attended in Tunisia in 2014, at which victims of the 1985 Israeli airstrike in Tunis were remembered. I haven’t kept up with the latest on this particular row, there’s no telling what will have happened by the time that I post this up. Jeremy is coming under fire for numerous things at present, yet no-one is asking him to explain why he ignored a paedophile gang on his turf who killed their victims. Perhaps because a lot of other people ignored that gang or linked gangs.

‘The Guardian’ reported that social housing residents will be ’empowered’ to take on rogue landlords under a new strategy by the Gov’t, but campaigners have criticised the plan which offers no new funding. The social housing Green Paper has pledged to offer all tenants a “springboard” into ownership, with new shared ownership schemes that allow residents to buy as little as 1% of their homes each year. However, the Green Paper will say no social housing tenant should feel a “stigma” about council renting and the Department said it would “challenge the stereotypes that exists about residents and their communities.” Housing campaigners, including Shelter and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), said the reforms would not be effective without substantial new funding for council house building. I’m glad that someone has mentioned the obvious, but I’m wondering why Shelter and the JRF have not made a great deal more noise about this before now. The Shadow Housing Secretary, John Healey, called the proposals “pitiful” and said that they failed to tackle the crucial question of a lack of supply, as the number of new social rented homes built last year hit the lowest level since records began. Someone needs to remind John Healey that when last in Gov’t, the Labour Party ignored the housing crisis as well. They blamed the shortage of housing on immigrants from East Europe or on baby boomers refusing to move out of their own homes. Prezza suggested that developments of static caravans on brown field sites would be suitable for housing teachers and Angels. Euan, the son of Prezza’s former boss Blair, part owns, along with his mother Cherie, a house worth more than £3.6 million. Euan is in his early 30s and is not a teacher or an Angel.

‘The Guardian’ also published an article concerning suicides in mental health units, which stated that more than 200 patients killed themselves in mental health units over seven years. Data collected by the CQC showed that 224 people died of self-inflicted injuries between 2010 and 2016 in mental hospitals in England alone. The numbers ‘appear to be falling’ – yes, it has been even worse than this – and the fact that among inpatients more women than men have begun taking their own lives (a trend at odds with men’s much higher risk of suicide generally) has led campaigners to label the NHS’s care of women facing mental health issues as ‘not fit for purpose’. No it is isn’t, but then neither is the NHS’s care of men with mental health issues. Do we not worry so much about that because they are men? The 224 deaths involved 134 men and 90 women, according to the figures, which suggests that there is a great deal to be concerned about with regard to men’s healthcare.

The annual largest number of suicides was 41, in 2010. There were more than 30 suicides each year between 2011 and 2015, except for 2014, when the number was 23. However, 2016 saw the numbers drop significantly to 16. In 2015, the pattern of deaths changed and, for the first time, more women (20) killed themselves than men (15). The same was seen in 2016 when 10 women died compared with six men.

Vicky Nash, Head of Policy and Campaigns at MIND, stated that ‘it’s good to see the rates of self-inflicted deaths are declining. However, we’re concerned to see increased deaths among women. Regardless of gender, every death is a tragedy and one is one too many’. Then why have MIND ignored this scandal Vicky? You knew that it was happening and you’ve also known for years that the suicide rate in north Wales is particularly terrifying. You have refused to support the bereaved or publicly condemn the lethal ‘services’. MIND is ‘co-delivering’ parts of this killing machine in partnership with the NHS/private sector. Including in north Wales – MIND has a partnership with Dafydd’s charity CAIS…

The deaths involved people who had been detained under the Mental Health Act for compulsory treatment because they were deemed to pose a risk to themselves or others. Which confirms what I have maintained for years – people are being forcibly detained in units where they are not safe and no-one is being held to account. Some of the deaths were of frighteningly young people – over the seven years covered by the figures, nine young women and girls aged under 20 died in mental health units compared with four young men in the same age group.

 ‘It is appalling that we are seeing so many self-inflicted deaths of women and girls detained under the Mental Health Act’, said Katharine Sacks-Jones, the Chief Executive of Agenda, which campaigns ‘on the risks in society faced by women and girls’. ‘Many will have been detained precisely because they were at risk to themselves, yet the Mental Health Act is not keeping them safe and is failing to support and protect them’.

Did you really believe that it ever was Katharine or indeed ever even designed to do that? It was written by Dafydd’s mate Prof Robert Bluglass who was colluding with a trafficking gang and perjury.

Katharine continued: ‘NHS care of women with serious psychological or psychiatric problems needs to take much greater account of the fact that many female patients have suffered violence or abuse. The reality is that the conditions under which the Mental Health Act are enforced are not fit for purpose for women and girls’. They are not fit for men and boys either. Furthermore, patients of both genders sometimes suffer violence from mental health staff and no campaigners mention that ever. All we hear is crap about low paid caring Angels and Top Docs being prevented from doing their best by Cuts.

‘The Guardian’ revealed in March that coroners had found that at least 271 mental health patients in England and Wales had died between 2012 and 2017 after sometimes multiple failings by NHS staff and bodies, including mental health trusts, GP surgeries and ambulance services.

So why haven’t we heard much, much more about this from ‘The Guardian’?

Deborah Coles, the Director of Inquest – who is just about the only person regularly commenting in the media who has ever shown any understanding that the mental health services are killing people in substantial numbers – called for the introduction of mandatory independent investigations into deaths in places of mental health care. ‘Our casework bears witness to the escalating rise on the number of highly vulnerable women and girls dying in places where they should be safe,’ she said. ‘Critical to this is the need for greater oversight, accountability and learning. The lack of an independent investigation system for deaths in mental health settings, unlike that for deaths in police or prison custody, undermines this necessary scrutiny.’

Deborah has highlighted for years the fact that the mental health services kill people and are not even investigated by an independent body after they do so. The police and prison service at least have to do their best to conceal what has happened, the mental health services don’t have to explain the death to anyone.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: ‘Inpatient suicides are at an all-time low. However, every suicide is a tragedy, which is why we recently announced a zero suicide ambition for mental health inpatients.’

Everybody repeats that every death is a tragedy, but those deaths are clearly not such a tragedy that an independent investigation is warranted, let alone disciplinary action or prosecutions.

An independent review of the Mental Health Act ordered by Theresa May Chaired by Prof Sir Simon Wesseley, the former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, is due to report soon. Would you like me to tell you what Sir Simon is going to say Theresa? Because I suspect that I know. Sir Simon is married to Lady Clare Gerada, who is the former President of the Royal College of GPs, who are just as responsible for the killing fields as the Royal College of Psychiatrists are.

One wonders why there has been such silence about this atrocious state of affairs for so many years on the part of everyone but Deborah Coles.

Luciana Berger, a Jewish Labour MP, has demanded that Jeremy Corbyn apologise for his wreath-laying habits, because she is offended as a Jewish woman. Well as an Empowered Service User who is now in hiding Luciana, I would like you to apologise for not mentioning this slaughter of innocent people by the mental health services when you were Jeremy’s spokesperson on mental health. The dodgy deal with other people who also ignored the abuse of vulnerable people in which Luciana participated in order to become a Labour MP was detailed in an earlier post.

It has been reported that a new drug to relieve pain during childbirth that works better than pethidine – which has been in widespread use since the 1950s – is now available. ‘The Guardian’ reported that the new drug may be better than pethidine, which ‘it has long been known it does not help all women’. That has long been known, but most people are unaware of that, because Top Docs and Angels don’t tell them. The worst thing that can happen with pethidine is that the patient still feels the pain but becomes ‘drunk’ on pethidine and is unable to control their bodies. I watched one such birth at St George’s. The staff all knew what had happened because one of them explained to me why things were going so badly wrong, but nonetheless one Angel helpfully said to the patient ‘For God’s sake stop thrashing your legs around you stupid bitch’.

Ah, your life in their hands!

The new study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, shows that remifentanil, which women control by pressing a button when they feel pain, appears to be more effective than pethidine. It is claimed that women using remifentanil were half as likely to end up asking for an epidural, which blocks all pain and sensation and often leads to a forceps delivery.

Dr Matthew Wilson, a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield, was the lead author of the study, which was published in ‘The Lancet’. Matthew commented that ‘More than a quarter of a million women in labour are given pethidine each year in the UK, even though up to 40% do not find it helpful. Some women do not report any useful pain relief at all and it has significant side effects. That includes sedation and potentially affecting the baby.’

And being sworn at by the midwife, who gave one the pethidine in the first place without warning one what might happen.

Matthew observed that ‘Epidurals are by far the most effective form of pain relief, but women who have them are more likely to end up with their baby having a forceps or vacuum delivery. That can sometimes cause damage to the mother and have long-term consequences, including sexual problems.’

Furthermore, women who have been told that an epidural is available if the pain is really bad often find that there is no anaesthetist to give them the epidural, something that was never mentioned in the ante-natal classes or on those visits to the hospital to look at the birthing pool.

However, it seems that remifentanil is yet another medical breakthrough that may not be all that we are being told that it is: ‘It is being used in some maternity units, but there has not yet been sufficient proof that it is better than pethidine. Because women are attached to a drip with remifentanil, controlling the dose that goes into their body using a hand-held device, while pethidine is given as an injection, it was not possible to disguise which drug women received in the trial.’

OK, so this trial is invalid…

Furthermore, ‘one downside is that remifentanil can lead to low oxygen levels. That happened to 14% of women taking the drug, compared to 5% of those on pethidine and all were given additional oxygen. In the trial, women received one-on-one care from a midwife who could check on their oxygen levels, which is recommended for all NHS maternity units but is not always the case.’

The researchers called for a rethink on pain relief for women in labour: ‘The use of remifentanil as a first-line opioid for pain relief in labour in preference to pethidine would reduce the need for epidurals, instrumental deliveries and consequent morbidity for large numbers of women worldwide. The implications are that a fundamental re-evaluation of opioid pain relief in labour is required, challenging the routine use of pethidine in childbirth’.

Women should have the choice, said Dr Wilson. ‘Is it reasonable to persist in offering pethidine as standard now that we know remifentanil is superior?’ he asked.

Except that we don’t know that remifentanil is superior, because the trial was scientifically invalid.

Some maternity units stock remifentanil as an alternative for women who cannot have an epidural. ‘I think our study potentially provides the evidence that the units that currently have the ability to give it should seriously consider opening up to maternal request, provided they can offer the same stand of safety we did [including one to one midwife care],’ said Wilson.

Many NHS maternity units – probably most – do not now offer one-to-one midwife care.

Pain control in childbirth will always be a difficult one, because some women experience a great deal of pain, yet pain relief has to be sufficient to control the pain but not do damage to the baby. Top Docs cannot be blamed for this situation. But there needs to be a lot more honesty regarding the state of NHS care and very much more sensitivity and transparency when the birth has been mismanaged.

 

Media reports this morning are stressing that the singer Adele has ‘spoken out’ about her friend’s postpartum psychosis, because ‘talking about it helps’. Not if no-one will listen it doesn’t Adele. And believe me, no-one will listen. We’ve had years of ‘talking about it because that helps’ and just look at the mess.

‘The Guardian’ also reported that thousands of former prisoners are sleeping rough. More than 100,000 prisoners – almost half of those who left detention – left prison for unsettled or unknown accommodation over the last three years, Ministry of Justice figures have revealed. Around one in six former prisoners were classified as unsettled, likely to mean sleeping rough or another form of homelessness, between April 2015 and March 2018. The figures were obtained by the Lib Dems through an FoI request and also revealed that HMP Norwich released 72% of its prisoners to unsettled or unknown accommodation over two years.

Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats’ Home Affairs spokesman, whose party analysed the MoJ figures, said he was concerned that those prisoners ‘who had fallen through the cracks’ would not be able to access vital rehabilitation services.

No-one fall through the cracks Ed, they are shoved over into the ravine. Everyone knows that it is happening and they do not give a stuff, because politicians believe that the only vote winner re penal policy is ‘Tough on crime, tough on causes of crime’…

On Monday, the Gov’t announced it would invest £3m a year over two years in a pilot scheme for dedicated officers in prison to equip inmates for life outside, with a focus on getting those serving short sentences into suitable housing. Wasn’t rehabilitation always part of the prison officers’ remit? They have not fulfilled that remit for decades, so now we are told that another £3 million is needed. No, the issue at stake is that the training of prison officers has not been what it should be, but no-one has admitted that.

Prisons minister Rory Stewart said ensuring prisoners had a stable home was vital to avoiding re-offending. ‘Too many rough sleepers come straight from prison – moving from their jail cells into this outdoor life of isolation, vulnerability and addiction’ he wrote in a blog for the MoJ. ‘On the streets, without a job, without mental health support, or a bed for the night – they are sucked back into a criminal life, reoffend, and soon end up back in prison.’

Many people are in prison because ‘mental health support’ has sent them to prison Rory. Not by accident, but as a policy, which, if a helping hand is needed, also involves perjury on the part of those delivering ‘mental health support’.

Can I ask why Theresa May removed Michael Gove from the post of Justice Secretary? Michael Gove was completely mad as Education Secretary but he was brilliant in Justice. Gove showed a real understanding of the inhumanity and brutality of the ‘justice system’ but he was removed and replaced by a series of numpties.

 

Yesterday thirty seven people in Yorkshire were convicted of sexual and trafficking offences against girls. The list of names of the convicted suggests that every one of them was South Asian/South Asian-British.

My how things haven’t changed.

Dafydd will still be Chairing CAIS.

Dr Dafydd Alun Jones

 

The biggest medical story of the last few days has been that of Dr Bawa-Garba winning her High Court appeal after she was struck off by the GMC. Dr Bawa-Garba is the junior Top Doc who was struck off and faced prosecution after a little boy in her care died at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Dr Bawa-Garba was distraught and maintained – and later proved – that she was left alone to carry the can for a hugely dysfunctional hospital in which scores of people, many much more senior and highly paid than Dr Bawa-Garba, were not doing their jobs. The debates around Dr Bawa-Garba’s case included institutionalised racism in medicine and ‘under-staffing/resourcing’.

Leicester Royal Infirmary was not under-staffed or under-resourced. Dr Bawa-Garba’s mentor, the consultant on call, was not available for her, although she did her best to seek advice. The consultant, Stephen O’Riordan, was working at another hospital and claims that he ‘did not know’ that he was on call at LRI. Why didn’t he know? There has been no explanation for this crucial lack of knowledge. I think that O’Riordan has now left the country and is working elsewhere, which Top Docs often do when a mountain of crap has exploded on their watch.

A Top Doctor who has been communicating with me for sometime now has sent me details of numerous failures and possible lies told by O’Riordan that have not been widely publicised.

Staff from LRI who have been too frightened to identify themselves have claimed that LRI has been dangerous for years and that there has been a long-standing problem with junior Top Docs left out of their depth with no-one on call to advise. Some have suggested that LRI has been as dangerous as Mid-Staffs was, but guess what, it has been concealed.

Much as I am glad that a junior doctor for once has won the battle against being scapegoated for the failings of many others including her seniors, a little boy died when he should not have and those responsible need to be identified and held to account. This is not the first healthcare scandal that there has been in Leicester – my blog has previously detailed just a few of the others.

The NHS in Leicester has been riddled with malpractice for many years. Like north Wales, Leicester was the centre of a huge long-standing paedophile gang – with links to Dafydd and co in north Wales – and the gang was facilitated by the social services and the NHS, although all other agencies were also colluding. A gang like that could not have operated if the Top Docs were not on board.

The Kirkwood Report which was published after the conviction of the social worker Frank Beck in 1991 for horrific abuse of children in care over many years made it clear that the police, the City and County Council, the legal and criminal justice services all knew what was happening but did nothing. Kirkwood only held back with regard to one person – Kirkwood made a private agreement with one Lord Greville Janner that he would not be named in the Report. Frank Beck always claimed that he had carried the can for a number of other people, including one Greville Janner. Beck was found dead in prison in May 1994 before he could do anymore mouthing off, what with all those criminal investigations in Leicester, north Wales, Islington, Lambeth…

I have previously blogged about the many people in Leicester University who colluded with the gang in Leicester, particularly in Leicester Medical School. Sir – later Lord – Robert Kilpatrick was the Dean of Leicester Medical School, which was supposedly a flagship institution. Kilpatrick was also President of the GMC when the GMC failed to take action against Dafydd et al. Kilpatrick, in 1993, published ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’, the plan for medical training…

Kilpatrick knew that Top Docs across the UK, including Dafydd, were facilitating child abuse, trafficking and associated very serious crime. Kilpatrick was at the pinnacle of the medical establishment.

Are we surprised that LRI has been dangerous for years and that a huge cover-up has been in place?

The LRI is a teaching hospital.

Furthermore, as the staff of LRI all seem to be fully aware of how dangerous that hospital was and still is, why have no Leicester politicians spoken out about this? Er, Keith Vaz? Liz Kendal?

Blair’s Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt was the MP who succeeded Greville Janner’s Leicester seat after Greville was off to the Lords.

Greville Janner didn’t stand trial for child abuse because he produced ‘medical evidence’ claiming that he was unfit to stand trial.

Greville Janner’s daughter Marion is a ‘mental health campaigner’ who praises dangerous services – including those in north Wales – and awards them stars. Marion is a Radio 4 favourite, as is her sister Rabbi Laura. Their brother Daniel is, like his dad, a barrister and has threatened to sue the arse off any former kids in care who claim that Greville molested them.

 

The Top Doc who wrote to me about Dr O’Riordan’s wrongdoing reassures me that although I have witnessed terrible things in medicine, he has no interest in child porn and always does his best for his patients. I believe him. I do not believe that every Top Doc is a criminal. But after I complained about some who definitely were, for more than 30 years, no other Top Doc dared contradict their lies about me, although nearly all of those Top Docs knew exactly what was going on. I understand that while a few of them were complete turds, many of them were simply terrified. That is the problem.

The medical establishment became corrupted many years ago and it is now rotten through and through. It is not Dr Bawa-Gharba who is the problem. It is the scores of people in very senior positions who have been involved in serious organised crime. The GMC needs to be abolished – no more public inquiries, they need to go – and the assets of the BMA need to be seized under the proceeds of crime legislation. The BMA advised doctors whom they knew were criminals on how to imprison patients who complained. There needs to be a whole new profession, trained by and staffed by very different people. There is no shortage of really good people who want to work in healthcare, but they have been systematically hounded out or bludgeoned into submission by a cadre of corrupt senior Top Docs and corrupt senior NHS managers.

A little boy has died, completely unnecessarily, in the care of the NHS. Another one. He won’t be coming back.

One Top Doctor who might be able to tell us all what has been going on in the NHS in Leicester is Dr Gareth Stables, who works there. Gareth’s mum is Liz Stables, who for many years was the Angel responsible for the Student Health Centre at UCNW (Bangor University) while the Top Docs in that Health Centre facilitated a trafficking ring. Liz was mates with Dafydd. Liz will remember when the gang killed my friend and housemate Anne Vernon. Days later, Liz took Anne’s file out of the filing cabinet and wrote ‘DEAD’ on the cover of it in big letters in front of me. Then Liz told me that I couldn’t hang about being miserable, there were things to do. Weeks later Dr D.G.E. Wood, the GP at the Student Health Centre, yelled at me to leave Bangor, forget about everything that had happened there and make a new life somewhere else. Liz told me that she never wanted to see me again, she was sick of my complaints about Gwynne the lobotomist.

Anne remained dead.

 

 

 

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