Scotland Yard is under investigation for protecting paedophiles.

LONDON — Scotland Yard is being investigated over extraordinary claims that police officers were guilty of suppressing evidence, halting investigations, and colluding with politicians to cover up a pedophile network operating at the heart of the British government.

At last, the spotlight will fall on senior officers who have been accused of turning a blind eye to allegations of murder and child abuse because the men were considered too powerful to touch.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), Britain’s version of the internal affairs division, announced on Monday that they were investigating 14 alleged incidents of corruption between 1970 and 2005. The alleged breaches were uncovered by detectives who are probing the existence of a VIP pedophile ring that was allegedly protected by the Thatcher government.

“These allegations are of historic, high level corruption of the most serious nature,” said Sarah Green, the IPCC deputy chair. “Allegations of this nature are of grave concern and I would like to reassure people of our absolute commitment to ensuring that the investigations are thorough and robust.”

The hunt for officers who protected child abusers comes after a growing body of evidence emerged to suggest that some of the most powerful people in Britain were aware of the systematic abuse of children and did nothing to stop it. The investigation into police collusion in the cover-up promises to be one of the most explosive in Scotland Yard’s history.

One of the incidents centers on a luxury apartment block near Westminster where boys were allegedly taken to regular sex abuse parties attended by Members of Parliament. The IPCC will investigate claims that a police operation at Dolphin Square “was stopped because officers were too near prominent people.” The building, on the banks of the River Thames, is popular with MPs who need second homes in London close to parliament. One survivor claimed boys aged to 16 were raped and even murdered by politicians inside the complex.

Investigators say they will also probe an allegation that Special Branch, a now defunct intelligence and national security unit of the police, snatched an incriminating file of evidence from a newspaper editor. Papers given to the journalist by a Labour politician showed that a network of pedophile-friendly MPs were operating within the Houses of Parliament, and that senior law enforcement officials knew about it. Don Hale, the editor concerned, told The Daily Beast earlier this month that he had been stunned when officers barged into his office and seized the papers: “These bully boys come storming in, they said, ‘We’re not here to negotiate. Hand them over or we’ll arrest you now.’”
The IPCC have published a list of the 14 claims they have decided are worthy of investigation. Detectives from Scotland Yard passed on a further two which the independent investigators said they were still assessing.

One of the allegations concerns “an investigation into a pedophile ring, in which a number of people were convicted, [but officers] did not take action in relation to other more prominent individuals.” In 1978, an envelope of obscene images was discovered on a London bus that belonged to Sir Peter Hayman. After a subsequent investigation, a number of the people he was sharing such correspondence with were prosecuted. Hayman, who was one of the top officials in MI6, not only escaped prosecution but his name was withheld from the court.

Hayman had been High Commissioner in Canada and reportedly Britain’s top liaison with the CIA. Thatcher later told aides to make sure that his crime was not disclosed.
The Daily Beast has been told on numerous occasions that police investigations into pedophile rings were halted by unnamed senior officials. Some of the survivors of abuse in the 1980s have refused to come forward again after their trust in the authorities was destroyed when they reported crimes at the time.  Scotland Yard hopes this independent investigation will convince potential witnesses that current detectives are worthy of their trust.

If the allegations are examined thoroughly, however, it seems more likely that the reputation of the police is set to suffer even further. Simon Danczuk, one of the Labour MPs who have led the charge to hold police officers and politicians to account, said: "I think we are on the cusp of finding out exactly what went on in the ‘70s and 1980s."

So the fact that we have idiots means we should punish every single person in a state by revoking disaster preparedness funds? Really.

If anything it'll cost more in the long-run; FEMA is still obligated to supply relief.

It's not that.
It's just that I hear them saying the MOST outrageous shit in comparison to other parties.

You're kidding, right?

A UKIP councillor saying gays caused the floods in Yorkshire, and then getting fired, is more outrageous to you than serving former-Nazi Labour councillors? Or a Lib Dem planting bombs?

Quote from: BrenMan 94 on March 22, 2015, 10:55:46 AM

Republicans haven't been fiscally conservative for decades.

but muh farm subsidies

You're just a kid on an edgy moral high horse

So thinking adoption > IVF is an "edgy moral high horse".

agreeing that IVF is a selfish route compared to adoption.

Well that's all right then.

To me, picking out parents is more controversial than genetically modifying an existing embryo. Say for example you take embryos and filter out disorders and other undesirable medical traits; compared to picking out a sperm and ovum from donors who possess desirable traits (be it medical, athletic, or otherwise), the former is much more defensible than the latter.

I don't see what this has to do with the topic at hand. I'm missing your point.

So the Conservatives are the only good guys left!!

Eh, not really.

The Health Minister believes in homeopathy.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on March 22, 2015, 11:12:49 AM

If anybody here can vote in the Republican primaries, please vote Bush or Walker >.>

> Walker

Meta, pls

Better Walker than Cruz.

Fucking hell.
If that happened to my dogs the other wouldn't have gotten away with teeth.

Is your dog hurt or did he just get a bad fright?

Just a bad fright, thankfully. I held him back and stopped the other dog.

Nigel Farage has said his two children have failed to return home after his family was chased out of pub by protesters.

The UKIP leader branded demonstrators "scum" after they invaded the pub where he was having a family lunch.

Mr Farage was apparently with his wife and two younger children at the Queen's Head in Downe, Kent, when the incident took place.

Dozens of demonstrators initially went into the George & Dragon, where Mr Farage has previously been pictured having a drink, before realising he was in the other pub nearby.

They are said to have gone into the Queen's Head, chased the Farages out and then jumped on the Ukip leader's car bonnet as he drove away.

Mr Farage said afterwards: "I hope these 'demonstrators' are proud of themselves.

"My children were so scared by their behaviour that they ran away to hide.

"At the time of writing this a relative has gone to look for them, and they are not yet at home. These people are scum."

Mr Farage's children with current wife Kirsten are Victoria and Isabelle, thought to be aged 15 and 10 respectively. He also has two grown up children from his previous marriage.

Staff at the Queen's Head refused to comment on the episode, while the George & Dragon said protesters had initially claimed they were there for a birthday party.

Protest organiser Dan Glass said the group was in fancy dress and included migrants, HIV activists, gay people, disabled people and breastfeeding mums.

The demonstrators said Mr Farage had pushed through to get into his car, and was then chased down the road, with some people jumping on the bonnet of his car.

Ukip is understood to have requested taxpayer-funded security for Mr Farage during the election campaign amid fears that he is regularly being targeted by protesters.

Well, somebody's got to fight the good fight, right? No better strategy than assaulting a man with his family, jumping on his car and scaring off his children.

Disgusting.

Is that the whole documentary? I missed it on the TV.

Yes.

If you're a gay or a lesbian Republican your party is against that sexual orientation. The same is for same sex marriage.

I'm bisexual and consider myself a moderate supporter of same-sex marriage. Yet I'm also (somewhat) a supporter of UKIP. Why are you insisting that people's sexual orientation must define them wholly? Why should I not be allowed to organise my own political priorities because you fail to understand why an LGBT person would vote for a non-/anti-LGBT party.

If you're a Republican women that wants to get an abortion your party is against that.

   
Because the parties are homogeneous, right? Even in the U.K. you can't totally talk of parties as completely national; interests and perspectives differ according to geography, and that is even more true of the U.S.

If you're a Republican that needs public assistants to get by your party is against you for that.

So you're basically saying poor people are too stupid to be able to make up their own minds? I come from a working-class family of (until recently) Labour voters, whose income was halved following the Great Recession. Does the fact that I vote Conservative/UKIP immediately invalidate my political opinions?

Politics.

Unsurprisingly.