• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Child Abuse Scandal in UK grows to implicate MPs, celebs - Update Posts #900/#1100

Status
Not open for further replies.

mclem

Member
If it *is* the one alluded to a little earlier, a google search about a guy named "Ben Fellows" who worked on The Cook Report would be educational.

That said, that does seem to be only one person's word, as far as I can determine. I'm not sure Newsnight would run with that.
 

Nicktendo86

Member
If it *is* the one alluded to a little earlier, a google search about a guy named "Ben Fellows" who worked on The Cook Report would be educational.

That said, that does seem to be only one person's word, as far as I can determine. I'm not sure Newsnight would run with that.

Ummmm, very interesting....
 

War Peaceman

You're a big guy.
So you know the name?

Derek Laud, supposedly. Though the speculation only highlights the problems with legal masking of names - it can be paradoxically damaging if the alleged person is in fact innocent. Which is, I'm sure, the case here.

Hardly a very senior political figure, though. Hopefully bullshit.
 

mclem

Member
Derek Laud, supposedly. Though the speculation only highlights the problems with legal masking of names - it can be paradoxically damaging if the alleged person is in fact innocent. Which is, I'm sure, the case here.

Wait, wasn't he the guy who did Big Brother? Certainly wouldn't peg him as senior.

Whether those rumours are true or not, I doubt they're the Newsnight ones.
 

mclem

Member
Those Ben Fellows/Lee Hazeldean rumours seems like absolute BS purely due to the fact this guy seems to have been featured many times on Alex Jones Show and David Icke websites.

Certainly a very real possibility; as I'd implied earlier, I'd hope Newsnight have something more substantial than that (I do note that the original tweet was "is" not "is alleged to be", too; all I'm seeing there is an allegation, unless there's more). If nothing else, I'd be absolutely certain that given the position they're in, Newsnight *really* want to do this *right*.

Name a website where other people do then? :-D
Twitter :p
 

scarybore

Member
Once it's announced someone should make a new thread about it with "PAEDOGEDDON" in the title.

Haha, only if they include this gif in the op.

brasseyes00e01008ntf2p.gif


Either way, this whole Savile saga is depressing considering how many people had suspicions but took no action based on those suspicions.
 
"They don't deserve punishment; they deserve gunishment!"

The seriousness of the whole mess aside, it's heartening to see so many GAFers familiar with Brass Eye :)
 
Really hope they don't pull this.

It's absolutely in the public interest to know if an elected official is involved, and after pulling the Saville thing it'd be ridiculous.

Fuck the law.
 

Yen

Member
Fun's over, it's been pulled.
"@georgeeaton: I've been told that tonight's Newsnight will not name the "senior political figure" accused of being a paedophile."
 
Ridiculous.

I want to know if my elected officials are paedophiles or involved in child abuse, what's the point of alluding to it but not naming?

Is that actually confirmed as pulled though ?
 

Dabanton

Member
It's all over twitter now.

People in the UK will know who he is especially if they watched Big Brother and it's not George Galloway think balder, black and posh...

Considering who he was pals with this has the potential to actually shake the political establishment as a lot of them are in the frame as well..
 
It's all over twitter now.

People in the UK will know who he is especially if they watched Big Brother and it's not George Galloway think balder, black and posh...

Considering who he was pals with this has the potential to actually shake the political establishment as a lot of them are in the frame as well..

Ah, him.

Where are you getting this from though?

Edit: Where is Twitter getting this, rather.
 

THE:MILKMAN

Member
It's all over twitter now.

People in the UK will know who he is especially if they watched Big Brother and it's not George Galloway think balder, black and posh...

Considering who he was pals with this has the potential to actually shake the political establishment as a lot of them are in the frame as well..

Now I'm getting confused. He is not now a "senior political figure"...At least not today.
 
It's all over twitter now.

People in the UK will know who he is especially if they watched Big Brother and it's not George Galloway think balder, black and posh...

Considering who he was pals with this has the potential to actually shake the political establishment as a lot of them are in the frame as well..

If it is him (and the allegations are true) his comments on the Savile case were pretty damned barefaced...
 

Jackpot

Banned
It's all over twitter now.

People in the UK will know who he is especially if they watched Big Brother and it's not George Galloway think balder, black and posh...

Considering who he was pals with this has the potential to actually shake the political establishment as a lot of them are in the frame as well..

Derek Laud

article_1084150_026616_F6000005_DC_769_233x413.jpg


You really shouldn't be afraid to type his name.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom