Rochdale Report Bbc2 Now!

[Peter Pedant]

BBC2 - big policeman pours sackcloth and ashes on other people and himself ( not  me I  wasnt there) - over  Rochdale

Maggie Oliver in an unscripted speech ripping into ex tempore - I have never seen a scripted PR event go so wrong

on now!

News Report

[ladybirder]

Thanks PP.  Watching now.  *** disgraceful.

[Peter Pedant]

she is beiung given her say

 a lot was 'voluntary'  - in the subsequent inquiry, which saves big money ( big parallels with Post Office maggie  says) and time

has it taken 12 y ?

" no one who eports a burglary is assumed to lie" - yeah I am afraid they do, maggie, from my own experience in Manch

[Hymie]

As Ian Hislop of Private Eye said, people committed perjury that resulted in many Post Office sub-post masters/mistresses being jailed – no one seems much interested in bringing these perjurers to justice.

 

Similarly, the Windrush scandal drags on with very few paid compensation for the serious wrongs they suffered, and of course there is the contaminated blood scandal.

 

ITV could fill a years’ TV schedule with programmes similar to the Post Office scandal, with each one resulting in government ministers denying any knowledge (and promising to move heaven and earth to fix things), while actually doing nothing.

[Peter Pedant]

oops she has just finished.... silence

Hi - me - perjury is .... difficult. If a child eats a cake and says he he hasnt  - that is not paediatric perjury

governed by the 1906 Act - it requires a witness to the event complained about (not the  LIE ! in court) - besides the two complaining. - In fact this is difficult. Few convictions and cases, and the lucky winner - - - usually  goes to prison. As here, it  is only used if something has to be unwound. ( "oops judgie baby, we got this one wrong")

even in this, it is difficult. as with IRA - some judges so wise in their robes have said  " well we dont think you have, appeal dismissed!"

and lastly..... as TTT might ask - "why no Gareth Jenkins?" - he is the chief software  architect at Fujitsu, and MIGHT have swworn that there was nothing wrong "wizz heez leedol baby" Horison software that is!

because he is being investigated for .... perjury

[piggynose]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-67967919

[naomi24]

//GMP has apologised //

 

Fat lot of good that does.  Sickening.

[ToraToraTora]

Funny how none of the reports mention that the perps are all muslims. eg https://news.sky.com/story/children-left-at-mercy-of-rochdale-grooming-gangs-and-dozens-of-men-still-pose-potential-risk-report-13048713

TR may have had a point.

[naomi24]

^People from other Asian cultures have complained for years about that blanket term 'Asian' being applied in these cases.  

[youngmafbog]

The problem for the Old Bill is they are damned if they do and damned if they dont when dealing with certain 'untouchable' communities.

And of course comments from people that can see this are often removed from social media too.

 

[Peter Pedant]

 comments from people that can see this are often removed from social media - -  I am shocked to see that suggested - you mean censorship for reasons other than rank obscenty -  surely not surely not !

During our wonderful British Raj ( ended 1947) oops must be careful here! - Indian covered everything. Now the pakistanis loudly protest ( et vice versa) that they are not Indian - threw in Bangla.

Asian I thought were Chinese - they arent

Language changes - sometime quickly

[Peter Pedant]

//GMP has apologised // ....   Fat lot of good that does.  Sickening.

Maggie Oliver draws ( a rather tenuous) link with Horison, which is unfolding as we speak, -  and the lack of contrition in ALL the witnesses ( in that one) is - er- striking