The BBC has long ignored the links between the NCCL and the Paedophile Information Exchange…or rather its links to certain members of the Labour Party….it is quite apparent that the NCCL knew precisely what PIE stood for and yet still allowed itself to be persuaded that PIE was a persecuted minority in need of the NCCL’s protection.

It is also clear that the NCCL actively worked in support of some of PIE’s aims as shown below in its attempt to lower the age of consent.

Harman, Hewitt and Dromey were intimately involved in the NCCL’s activities and cannot possibly claim not to know what PIE stood for…despite that Dromey now claims he fought assiduously against PIE….and yet PIE remained affiliated long after he left.

Today the BBC has decided to defend those members, helping Labour attempts to discredit the story (as the BBC did with the Mail’s report on Ralph Miliband…one all too true):

Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has accused the Daily Mail of running a “politically-motivated smear campaign” against her.

The newspaper has reported that a group she used to work for had links to paedophile rights campaigners.

The National Council for Civil Liberties forged “close links” in the 1970s and 1980s to Paedophile Information Exchange, it claimed.

But Ms Harman dismissed the “horrific” and “untrue” claims.

The BBC of course does nothing to investigate the claims and just provides a platform for Harman and Dromey to deny everything and claim they are victims of a political smear.

The first I heard on the BBC was on the Victoria Derbyshire show today (53 mins) in which she said ‘some commentators [unnamed] say it is a witch hunt and hysteria’.

Note her very careful wording that attempts to dismiss the story and claims there is a need to break through to the truth…to get to the origins of these [patently false] claims by a right wing rag.

She then brought on the Labour supporting Mirror’s associate editor, Kevin Macguire who said the Mail was probably wrong and guilty of bullying, intimidation and playing politics….but Harman and Co should come out and say so if that is the case.

No attempt to investigate the truth here either by the BBC.

So let’s have a look at some history and inconvenient truths that the BBC doesn’t want to dwell on…..

‘An awareness and acceptance of the sexuality of children is an essential part of the liberation of the young homosexual,’

Campaign for Homosexual Equality  1975

Patricia Hewitt was a member of the CHE.

Lord Smith….head of the Environment Agency is……

Vice-Chairman of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.

A connection he didn’t seem to want to publicise widely.

CHE is delighted to announced that Lord Smith of Finsbury has agreed to become one of our Vice-Presidents. As Chris Smith he was Britain’s first openly gay MP and he’s currently Chairman of the Environment Agency.

A few months later…….

Pink News tells us that in July 2009 this happened:

The Campaign for Homosexual Equality has been disaffiliated from human rights organisation Liberty, allegedly over a motion which called for a time limit on reporting child sex abuse.

The contentious motion read: “We urge the government to introduce a Statute of Limitation which would debar any criminal prosecution in respect of alleged child abuse unless the matter was brought to the attention of the police within five years of the complainant reaching the age of majority.”

The group has claimed that in cases of historic abuse, evidence or acknowledgment of an accused man being gay can damage his chances of acquittal due to homophobia and confusion between homosexuality and paedophilia.

Liberty said…...”In particular, your motion on child sex abuse is also clearly contrary to the objectives of Liberty”

And remember this hero……

Peter Tatchell: Not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive and harmful.

‘The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends – gay and straight, male and female – had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.

‘While it may be impossible to condone paedophilia, it is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive and harmful.’

This is a submission by the NCCL in 1976 to Parliament urging changes to the age of consent…..which is surely in support of those who want to have sex with underage children…..paedophiles in other words….10 year olds were fair game it seems…as long as they ‘understood the nature of the act’…………so not really a ‘smear’ by the Daily Mail….

Here we can see the dates when the Labour trio were involved:

Former health secretary Patricia Hewitt was general secretary of the NCCL from 1974-83, Harman was its legal officer from 1978-82 and Dromey sat on the group’s executive committee for nine years, between 1970 and 1979.

During those years, the NCCL built links with PIE and lobbied parliament on behalf of its agenda. Close relations between the groups were apparently founded on the shared principle of social and sexual progressiveness.

PIE members maintained that sexual relations between children and adults did not harm the former.

In 1978, Harman claimed that sex abuse images should be given back to paedophiles by police who had seized them because doing otherwise would be censorship.

PIE was only disaffiliated in 1983…long after Dromey left.

The Guardian in 2012 ran this charming exercise in rebranding paedophiles as victims….

In 1976 the National Council for Civil Liberties, the respectable (and responsible) pressure group now known as Liberty, made a submission to parliament’s criminal law revision committee. It caused barely a ripple. “Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in with an adult,” it read, “result in no identifiable damage … The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of paedophilia result in lasting damage.”

The reclassification of paedophilia as a sexual orientation would, however, play into what Goode calls “the sexual liberation discourse”, which has existed since the 1970s. “There are a lot of people,” she says, “who say: we outlawed homosexuality, and we were wrong. Perhaps we’re wrong about paedophilia.”

Social perceptions do change. Child brides were once the norm; in the late 16th century the age of consent in England was 10. More recently, campaigning organisations of the 70s and 80s such as the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and Paedophile Action for Liberation were active members of the NCCL when it made its parliamentary submission questioning the lasting damage caused by consensual paedophilic relations.

Harman says PIE ‘infiltrated’ the NCCL….that suggests a secret and clandestine operation….this suggests otherwise……

In the PIE Chairperson’s Annual Report for 1975-6, Keith Hose wrote that ‘The only way for PIE to survive, was to seek out as much publicity for the organization as possible…. If we got bad publicity we would not run into a corner but stand and fight. We felt that the only way to get more paedophiles joining PIE… was to seek out and try to get all kinds of publications to print our organization’s name and address and to make paedophilia a real public issue.’

This might also suggest otherwise…can Harman et al say they had no idea at all of the views of these people?…..

NCCL also set up a gay rights sub-committee at the same time, members of which included prominent paedophiles Peter Bremner (alias Roger Nash), Michael Burbidge, Keith Hose and Tom O’Carroll. And of course Walters and Locke were on the Executive.

The Daily Mail in December last year revealed the background to why PIE was accepted by the NCCL…..

‘The PIE somehow managed to convince feminists and the gay rights lobby that they had shared values and that we all belonged in the same club,’ recalls one feminist writer whose magazine was lobbied for support by the PIE after the Exchange won NCCL affiliation.

‘Anyone who spoke out against them feared being called a “homophobe”, which in Left-wing circles at the time was about the biggest insult anyone could throw at you. So they were invited into the liberal establishment.’

A PIE ‘information’ leaflet published at the time, called Paedophilia: Some Questions And Answers, shows how the organisation had managed to ally its cause to the gay rights movement.

‘Homosexuals are now widely regarded as ordinary, healthy people — a minority, but no more “ill” than the minority who are left-handed,’ it read. ‘There is no reason why paedophilia should not win similar acceptance.’

The NCCL — then under the chairmanship of Henry Hodge, the Left-wing solicitor who would go on to marry Labour MP Margaret Hodge — appears to have bought this argument hook, line and sinker.

‘The PIE was also being picketed by the National Front, so a lot of people also supported them on the basis that our enemy’s enemy had to be our friend,’ says the writer. ‘It seems terrifyingly simplistic now, obviously, but that was the political context.’

It doesn’t take long to dig up such information.

The BBC obviously either can’t be bothered or believes there is something to hide.

Here is a page from PIE’s manifesto in 1975 which proposes that there be no age of consent…in other words almost any child over the age of 4 (under 4 and it still wouldn’t be a ‘criminal’ matter) could be a victim:

This manifesto was widely available and handed out at various conferences for 50p a go.

A whole new week of BBC bias awaits your forensic examination. Something bugging you about BBC coverage? Detail it here!

The Daily Mail notes:

Surprise, surprise, the BBC has ignored our expose of Labour’s links to a child sex scandal. QUENTIN LETTS imagines its reaction if those involved were Tory

No surprise there really….but what else has the BBC ignored?

The BBC is very green and promotes everything so tinged…even hated Tory politicians with ‘vested interests’ that conflict with their duties but who promote the green agenda.

The BBC happily ignores or downplays any problems associated with renewable energy and related political policies….the massive failure of Germany’s green policies and the crippling  costs involved barely merit a mention when they should be front and centre on the BBC as of enormous importance and relevance.

However the BBC doesn’t have to go to Germany for such reports of industry being crippled by green energy policies…they can look much closer to home:

UK factories shut down to avoid high power costs

Cripplingly high power costs are forcing some of Britain’s heavy manufacturers to shut down their entire operation at peak times, with furnaces cooling and workers shivering in cold, darkened offices.

Executives say this “third world” scenario is becoming more frequent, as companies try to avoid using energy at peak times, when costs can rise 300 fold under the unusual rules of Britain’s power market.

Mark Broxholme of Tata Steel said its specialist division, which makes alloys used in aircraft and cars, shut down between 4-6pm every day last week. When it accidentally operated during a half-hour peak time period, the cost was £1m.

“It costs us £27 to boil the kettle [during a triad]. We end up telling our workers to sit in the mess room together to keep warm because we can’t afford to keep going,” Mr Pedder said.

“It is a crazy system and it is getting worse. The government talks of keeping the lights on but they are already going out for heavy users.”

The BBC could look much closer to home but doesn’t.

A story about industry having to shut down due to Green taxes and the BBC ignores it.

Any possibility that the BBC’s news agenda is driven by its own politics?

Today investigated Foodbanks:

Half of food bank referrals ‘due to benefit changes’

Apart from it being just another chance to bash the government on the apparent ‘Standard of Living Crisis’ one little claim stood out made by Justin Webb….he told us that it was ‘fair enough to politicise foodbanks‘ if it meant we got answers about the issues…issues of course as defined by the likes of Justin Webb.

‘Fair enough to politicise’?  Not a phrase you hear often, or at all on the BBC normally…..it is usually the other way round, the BBC complaining bitterly about ‘politicisation’.

For instance…when Eric Pickles said the Government had been wrongly advised by the Environment Agency he was instantly vilified for allegedly starting a ‘blame game’…Victoria Derbyshire said it was ‘puerile point scoring’….the claim being that we should be looking at dealing with the floods first and then look at who was to blame.

No such qualms about foodbanks though.  (And remember this: The Foodbank Is Born)

And indeed no such qualms when it comes to people who point the finger of blame the other way concerning the floods.

This morning, and indeed all day, a letter from a ‘group of leading environmental and planning experts’ made headlines on the BBC.

Wonder if they were co-ordinating with anyone?

‘In an open letter, they urged the prime minister to adopt a clear strategy for future flood prevention.

The call came as shadow chancellor Ed Balls said a Labour government would make investment in defences a priority.’

We were told this morning that the floods were a ‘legacy of not addressing the problems…and that we need long term sustainable investment….and that there was too much finger pointing.’

Justin Webb then finger pointed, wondering ‘Should this Government should have behaved differently?’

Which is odd…because that is precisely the issue Pickles was addressing when he said they had been badly advised by the Environment Agency…and should have acted differently…and you will note the Environment Agency doesn’t get a name check in Webb’s blame game.

Curiously the Landscapers etc say:

‘In the Environment Agency are people experienced in addressing these problems, as there are among the members of all our organisations. We need to mobilise that joint expertise.’

Weren’t the EA the problem?

So who is to blame?  Government or an agency run by a Labour peer who advised Government?

It looks like the BBC is only interested in finger pointing when the finger points in a certain direction.

It’s only ‘fair enough to politicise an issue‘  when it helps their case.

Wake Up To Money’s Micky Clark must be good mates with Russell Brand or something.

Last week he told us that the Government was lying to us about low unemployment figures….this week he continues the theme (8 mins) saying we may be being duped by employers and politicians about the ‘good news on employment’...the employment figures are open to manipulation he tells us.

So…again he is openly claiming the Government is lying to us about the level of unemployment.

This is a constant theme with Clark, and indeed the BBC…either the numbers are wrong, a ‘puzzle’, or the jobs that are being created are low grade or part time or zero hours contracts, which MC has a problem with.

Never mind that most are in fact full time jobs, there are a record number of women in the workplace and youth unemployment is falling.

Women suffer the most?

Ministers welcomed the fact that a record of more than 14m women were now in work, with the female employment rate of 67.2 per cent the highest since records began in 1971.

Low grade jobs?

There were 32.35 million workforce jobs in September 2013, up 216,000 from June 2013 and up598,000 on a year earlier. As shown in Chart 9, the sector showing the largest increase in jobs between September 2012 and September 2013 was professional, scientific and technical activities which increased by 137,000 to reach 2.62 million.

900,000 young unemployed?

There were 917,000 unemployed 16 to 24 year olds (31% of whom were in full-time education),down 48,000 from July to September 2013.

All part time jobs?

The number of men working full-time, increased by 87,000 to reach 13.98 million.

The number of men working part-time, increased by 13,000 to reach 2.16 million.

The number of women working full-time increased by 122,000 to reach 8.09 million.

The number of women working part-time decreased by 28,000 to reach 5.91 million.

The BBC…half the News…all the Time.

BBC bias a bother for you? Please detail it here! A brand new thread…

BBC have been allocating a lot of airtime today to this:

More children on adult mental wards

An increasing number of young people with mental health problems in England are being treated on adult psychiatric wards, it emerges.

• Mental health services ‘in crisis’

Note that link to ‘Mental health services ‘in crisis’…..an old story from last year…however not so keen to link to more recent news…….

…… just been listening to 5Live Drive (17:37) and LibDem Health Minister Norman Lamb talking about the lack of attention given to mental health issues.

He raised the fact that the BBC had ignored an important government announcement about care for mental health patients from a couple of days ago.

Presumably this is the one he was referring to:

A new agreement between police and the NHS seeks to improve mental health crisis care

Emergency support for people in mental health crisis is set to see dramatic improvements across the country as part of a far-reaching new agreement between police, mental health trusts and paramedics.

The agreement – called the Crisis Care Concordat – has been signed by more than 20 national organisations in a bid to drive up standards of care for people experiencing crisis such as suicidal thoughts or significant anxiety.

The Concordat, announced today by Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb, will help cut the numbers of people detained inappropriately in police cells and drive out the variation in standards across the country.

Odd that the BBC would ignore such ‘good news’ and only go for the ‘bad’…especially odd as if you have listened to Victoria Derbyshire you will know that this is an issue that comes up a lot….how police treat and care for people with mental health issues.

Peter Allen on 5Live Drive didn’t want to know and seemed quite put out that someone should dare to criticise the BBC saying ….never mind that, shouldn’t you, Norman Lamb, be providing more beds for patients?

Love it when they get the hump….as they always do when someone tries to hold them to account…the Beeboids don’t like the treatment they mete out to others being used against them.

Of folks, time for a new one. It’s a grim day for the BBC what with unemployment falling, wages rising, the economy growing….

Remember this:

Saturday Live on the 16th had an interesting little report. (about 0945)…all the way from the delightful People’s Republic of North Korea.

John McCarthy hears about the Arirang or Mass Games in North Korea’s capital Pongyang;  a dazzling display by thousands of marching, dancing, skipping, gymnastics and… flip charts. He talks to visitors to the games photographer Jeremy Hunter, former diplomat James Hoare and tourist Tony Pletts.

Fascinating what an upbeat little tale we have about one of the cruellest regimes in the world from the BBC….

We are witnessing an ‘ amazing stage, an incredible event….there is something here that these people have got, this system has got….the minders are really really wonderful…you only get to see what they want you to see but you really do get a sense of what life is like for Koreans…picnics and dances at the weekend….an element of Disney involved….it makes you appreciate just how different life could be from the life you lead at home….absolutely a thumbs up to go see one of the great spectacles of the world’

Thumbs up for those unspeakable atrocities!!!!……

World must act on North Korea rights abuse, says UN report

The international community must act on evidence that crimes against humanity are being committed in North Korea, says a long-awaited UN report.

A panel of experts mandated by the UN’s Human Rights Council said North Koreans had suffered “unspeakable atrocities”, and that those responsible, including leader Kim Jong-un, must face justice.

Let’s hope you now….’appreciate just how different life could be from the life you lead at home’

“Our first responsibility is to make money for our clients….and nothing is more important than oil.”

Jeremy Grantham….Bob Ward’s boss and also that of Lord Stern.

‘Something funny’s happening to the weather’.

Just some things to consider when reading BBC exclamations that man made climate change is here…

What to believe eh?

No Arctic ice?…and yet ice is increasing….drier, colder winters?…..and yet winter is warm and wet……drought in the summer? and yet the summers are wet……..it’s the Jetstream?…or is it 4% more moisture in the atmosphere…….or disturbed weather patterns over Indonesia… .or trade winds…or ocean heat sinks….or or or….?????

Funny old world……they admit there’s been no global warming for at least 15 years and yet they claim a bit of extra winter rain one year, never mind the winter droughts, is due to global warming…..and yet the warming decades running up to 1998 were getting drier…..only since global warming stopped has it got a bit wetter in places.

Groundwater levels timeline  1970 0nwards…click on the timeline at the bottom left to run show.

From the Met Office 2013/14:

SUMMARY – PRECIPITATION:

Confidence in the forecast for precipitation across the UK over the next three months is relatively low. For the December-January-February period as a whole there is a slight signal for below-average precipitation. The probability that UK precipitation for December-January-February will fall into the driest of our five categories is around 25% and the probability that it will fall into the wettest category is around 15% (the 1981-2010 probability for each of these categories is 20%).

Decreasing amounts of ice in the far north is contributing to colder winters and drought, chief scientist Julia Slingo tells MPs

The reduction in Arcticsea ice caused by climate change is playing a role in the UK’s recent colder and drier winterweather, according to the Met Office.

Speaking to MPs on the influential environmental audit committee about the state of the warming Arctic, Julia Slingo, the chief scientist at the Met Office, said that decreasing amounts of ice in the far north was contributing to colder winters in the UK and northern Europe as well as to drought.

 

A rising trend in rain?

Record rainfall?

Stormier weather?

The recent storms and floods in the UK – new report

9 February 2014

As yet, there is no definitive answer on the possible contribution of climate change in the recent storminess, rainfall amounts and the consequent flooding. This is in part due to the highly variable nature of UK weather and climate.

Heavier but shorter bursts of rain will lead to flooding…right?

The          says:

The most notable feature of the January rainfallwas its persistence – the highest number of rain days (>1mm) registered for January in the NCIC record for southern England (from 1961).

So persistence of the rainfall…ie the number of days it falls is the important factor here…..

Which contradicts exactly what Roger Harrabin peddles:

‘The issue is the way it falls in sudden bursts not the amount of rain.‘

or

“There’s evidence to say we are getting slightly more rain in total, but more importantly it may be falling in more intense bursts” — Julia Slingo, Met Office, 3 January 2013

No sign of any unnatural increasing trend in rainfall here:

No, global warming did NOT cause the storms, says one of the Met Office’s most senior experts

• Mat Collins, Exeter University Professor in climate systems, said storms driven by jet stream that has been ‘stuck’ further south than usual
• He told The Mail on Sunday there is ‘no evidence that global warming can cause the jet stream to get stuck in the way it has this winter’

Em……

Prime Minister climate change opinion not backed up by science, says Met Office

“It’s impossible to say that these storms are more intense because of climate change.”

or….em…

Paul Davis, chief meteorologist for the Met Office said that very strong winds much of the UK experienced which was caused by jet stream.
“December has been the windiest spell since 1969, but unprecedented perhaps not. It probably feels unusual because the last few winters have been fairly settled and cold and we haven’t had the story conditions that just experienced.”

or…em….

Direct from the Met. Office:   There’s currently no evidence to suggest that the UK is increasing in storminess.

So we can expect wet winters due to climate change can we?……..

Drought predicted till Christmas

Published on Monday, 16 April 2012 09:19

Written by Scott Buckler

Seventeen counties in South West England and the Midlands have moved into official drought status, after two dry winters have left rivers and ground waters depleted.

Experts are now hoping for a steady rainy winter in 2012/13 to restore rivers and groundwaters, but the Environment Agency is working with the water industry to put plans in place now to deal with the prospect of a third dry winter. Water companies are looking at where they may be able to get more water, options to share water across company boundaries and how they can reduce leakage further. The Agency is urging all water users to save water now, to help prevent more serious shortages and environmental impacts next year.

Why are we in drought?

13 03 2012

Rainfall amounts across many parts of the UK have been below average for the last two years. Importantly, this includes two dry winters – the periods when we would normally expect our rainfall to replenish river, reservoir and groundwater levels.

2010 was the eleventh-driest year in the series from 1910 and the driest since 2003

This emphasises why there are concerns about drought in parts of England and Wales.

There is no one reason for the dry weather over the last few years; it’s all part of the natural variability of the UK climate.

Spelman: Water reform needed to tackle threat of future droughts

Britain faces a future of water shortages, and lasting environmental damage, with some rivers running dry, unless attitudes to water use change, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman cautioned today.

Is it climate change causing more moisture in the atmosphere leading to rain…or the Jetstream?

From the BBC 2012:

Why, oh why, does it keep raining?

The jet stream and its path is the cause of the repeated flooding being suffered during a British summer that has so far been one of the most miserable on record.

Normally, we would expect the pattern of the jet stream to keep shifting, for its shape to switch every few days and for our weather to change as a result.

Instead for week after week – and possibly for weeks ahead too – the meanders of the stream are sticking to the same shape so repeated rainstorms have become the norm.

The big unknown is why this current pattern is so static. The high-altitude winds that make up the stream are themselves still racing along but their path remains stuck in place so our battering continues.

This is one of the major puzzles for weather specialists and the science behind this is fairly young.

The jet stream, a massive but mysterious driver of our weather, usually passes along a steady path from West to East across the Atlantic – sometimes a bit to the North of us, sometimes a bit to the South.

As a relatively small island, on the borderline between the Atlantic Ocean and the European continent, the precise location of the stream matters hugely to us and right now we’re on the wrong side of it.

Oh wait…here’s the Met Office in May 2012:

While the jet stream may be an influence, there is nothing unusual about its current position and it regularly behaves in this way.

With that in mind, it’s possible to go a step further and say there is nothing unusual about the UK’s weather over the last few weeks.

That may sound odd on the back of a record-breaking wet month, but we do expect to see records broken and they do topple fairly regularly for one area or another.

The past April fits into this expectation – it was exceptionally wet, but only slightly wetter than the previous record set just a few years ago in 2000 and there are several years close behind.

Dredging doesn’t help to stop floods?

In the modern era, the disastrous 1947 flood stimulated a river engineering programme (including channel realignments, dredging and improvements in weir design) to increase the capacity of the Thames, particularly through its middle and lower reaches. When completed, the river could accommodate more than 30% more flow within its banks. Thus, while peak flows exhibit little trend, peak river levels – the primary cause of flooding – decreased appreciably through the 20th century.

How Somerset Levels river flooded after it was not dredged for decades

Photograph taken in the 1960s shows a wide expanse of water passing through Burrowbridge with plenty of room for water levels to rise

10 Lefty Lies About The Floods Which Have Devastated Britain

Breitbart London’s new Executive Editor James Delingpole looks at the ten ‘best’ lefty lies about the UK flooding… then debunks them:

And oh yes:

And remember this:

Bob Ward & Climate Fraud

If who finances who is so important you might be justified in asking who funds Bob Ward?  Bob Ward doesn’t want you to ask that though…because the answer ain’t pretty…it’s Big Oil…….

Ward works for the Grantham Research Institute, a “research department” at the London School of Economics (LSE)funded by an American hedge-funder called Jeremy Grantham and headed by the economist and former treasury official Lord Stern.

This is what Jeremy Grantham, Bob‘s ultimate boss (and Stern’s) and paymaster said about how he makes money:
Jeremy Grantham on how to feed the world and why he invests in oil
On whether there’s any conflict in him (via GMO and/or his foundation) investing in oil and gas companies?

“The first point is that each fund we have at GMO – maybe 80 or so – is run by its own team. I don’t think that money management can easily have too many rules coming down from the top. Our first responsibility is to make money for our clients….and nothing is more important than oil.”