@spocko
We had a chap whose catchphrase was "Jim will fix it". (I see #Trump is presenting a corresponding phrase on his podium.)
It didn't end well.
Jimmy #Savile was a prolific paedophile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scandal
@bullivant from Sam Freedman's book discussing #APCareHomes safeguarding failures surrounding care of children (girls age 12-16) in their #Wilmslow, #Cheshire care home.
He reflects on the 'blatantly ill-qualified people' - such as owners #AmpikaPickston and her fiance - convicted Pimp, Pornographer and #WestHamUnited CEO #DavidSullivan, that #Ofsted licensed to own them!
Would UK authorities allow people like #Savile, #HughHefner etc., to open girls care homes I wonder?
Politicians and NHS criticised as they fail to carry out actions urged by Jimmy Savile inquiry after 10 years | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/jimmy-savile-nhs-lampard-inquiry-b2550966.html
#Politicians
#NHS
#Savile
#Pedophile
#Letby
#UKGov
#Tories
#Labour
#Collins
#Celebrities
#VIPs
#InfectedBloodInquiry
#Shipman
#SexualAbuse
#Paterson
The irony of "conservative officials" and #Johnson trying to recruit the ghost of #Savile , because the donkey-field slur didn't stick, is simply grotesque.
I've got better things to do than make a list of right wing sexual predators exposed, or exposing themselves, over recent years, but Peter #Bone , the Importuner of Wellingborough, hails from perhaps the richest #Tory tradition.
In other news, I've just watched all episodes of the #BBC show #TheReckoning
Jesus... #Coogan is a great impressionist and actor. But the things he did in those shows... ouchie.
And they're based in fact of what #Savile actually did to vulnerable people.
I'm watching #TheReckoning
It's brilliantly acted, but fucking hell, it makes your skin crawl.
#Savile
Russell Brand: ‘Jimmy Savile police unit’ working with Met on allegations | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/russell-brand-jimmy-savile-hydrant-b2415684.html
#Brand
#Savile
#MET
#Police
#HydrantProgram
#HydrantProgramme
#OperationHydrant
#NHS
#BBC
#Channel4
#SundayTimes
#Davie
The #BBC was 50% of UK TV in the 1970s - ITV had other scandals ( EG Barrymore) - it was not just the BBC where it happened - it was the hospitals which #Savile visited "for charity"
#RussellBrand was more associated with Channel4 than BBC TV - tho admittedly he did have a radio show. I do not think this has any impact on BBC funding
Both gave me the pip well before any scandal in any case
I just watched a 30-minute video on #Peter #Gabriel and his artistic split from Genesis, and all of the ramifications of where it led his and other people's music, and even international awareness (his #Biko was instrumental in helping draw the world's attention to #apartheid in South Africa, and in fact #Bono of #U2 said he learned about apartheid in South Africa from Biko).
One thing I wasn't aware of was that Britain's Top of the Pops wouldn't play Gabriel's video for Jeux Sans Frontieres because they felt that the clips of Gabriel moving around a table with children seated around it, an allegory on the childishness of international relations, was in some way creepy and prurient. This is INCREDIBLY ironic in light of the fact that #Jimmy #Savile, creep par excellence and a major figure in Top of the Pops, would eventually be arrested for a long-standing pattern of child sexual abuse.
I guess it's one of those "eye of the beholder" things. If that is how you think, that is what you will see, whether it's really there or not.
Labour’s attack on Sunak is as bad as the Jimmy Savile slur used against Starmer | The Independent
#AttackAd
#Labour
#Sunak
#Savile https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-starmer-jimmy-savile-rishi-sunak-b2315950.html
Why can't people get his name right? It's not Saville, it's #Savile
