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Saturday 21 June 2014

100 MP's support 'Hillsborough Style" Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Update!   Finally MP's from Plaid Cymru join the list and it tops 100 Mp's calling for an Inquiry  full list below


Today 91 MP's Support the Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.  There can be no excuse for any MP not to support the inquiry.  
Child Abuse Whistle-blower  Peter McKelvie  wrote to Cameron
"A starting point would be the admission by the Government Whip, Tim Fortescue, on national television that MP’s and Governments keep allegations of paedophiliac behaviour by their own within house as trade offs – the Dirt Books practice.
The dictionary definition of “abhorrent” is disgusting, despicable, vile
You and the MPs now adopting the standard response bandy that word around as a soundbite but refuse to acknowledge or address how despicable, vile and disgusting it has been for fellow politicians not only to fail to report abuse by a colleague but to throw the net of protection around them so that they can carry on regardless."
List below Courtesy of Ian Pace 
Supporters of an Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the UK
(The original group of seven MPs who initiated this are italicised). There are some small discrepancies between this list and that maintained by Exaro News, due to different criteria employed as to whether an MP has definitively declared their support or not. I try to point these out where necessary.
Conservatives: 21
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park)
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham)

Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West)
Robert Buckland (South Swindon)
Neil Carmichael (Stroud)
Douglas Carswell (Clacton)
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesforth)
Nick de Bois (Enfield North)
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire)
Richard Drax (South Dorset)
George Freeman (Mid Norfolk)
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest)
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West)
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire)
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley)
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys)
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North)
Henry Smith (Crawley)
Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley)
Exaro are also reporting Gordon Henderson as a supporter (saying he has indicated that to Tim Loughton), but I have been forwarded a generic reply from a constituent (reproduced below), dated 17/6/14; this constituent has since re-written to Henderson and I will update this blog if any further reply is received.
Liberal Democrats: 13
John Hemming (Birmingham Yardley)
Tessa Munt (Wells)

Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Paul Burstow (Sutton, Cheam & Worcester Park)
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay)
Duncan Hames (Chippenham) (PPS to Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg)
Julian Huppert (Cambridge)
John Leech (Manchester Withington)
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West)
Adrian Sanders (Torbay)
Ian Swales (Redcar)
Mike Thornton (Eastleigh)
Mark Williams (Ceredigion)
Labour: 48
Tom Watson (West Bromwich East)
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale)

Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Lyn Brown (West Ham)
Karen Buck (Westminster North, PPS to Ed Miliband)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Martin Caton (Gower)
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran)
John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead)
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
Geraint Davies (Swansea West)
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East)
Natascha Engel (North-East Derbyshire)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse)
Rob Flello (Stoke on Trent South)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield)
Mary Glindon (North Tyneside)
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton North)
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish)
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore)
Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East)
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne North)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr)
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Grahame Morris (Easington)
Lisa Nandy (Wigan)
Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Albert Owen (Ynys Mõn)
Teresa Pearce (Erith & Thamesmead)
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield)
Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
Steve Reed (Croydon North)
Steve Rotherham (Liverpool Walton)
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes)
Andy Sawford (Corbyn and East Northamptonshire)
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Moor View)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Gavin Shuker (Luton South)
Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston)
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside)
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East)
Derek Twigg (Halton)
Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby)
Iain Wright (Hartlepool)
Exaro are not listing Lisa Nandy’s name on grounds that the Labour frontbench have to make a collective decision. I received confirmation by e-mail from Nandy on 17/6/14, and permission to quote the comment given below, and as there has been no response to two e-mails asking if her position has changed, I will keep this name on the list unless I hear from her office of a change of position.
Green: 1
Caroline Lucas (Brighton Pavilion)
Respect: 1
George Galloway (Bradford West)
Democratic Unionist Party: 5 (Northern Ireland)
Nigel Dodds (Belfast North)
Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley)
Dr William McCrea (Antrim South)
Ian Paisley Jr (North Antrim)
Jim Shannon (Strangford)
Social Democratic and Labour Party: 2 (Northern Ireland)
Mark Durkan (Foyle)
Margaret Ritchie (South Down)
Alliance: 1 (Northern Ireland)
Naomi Long (Belfast East)
Other supporters, not sitting MPs
Alan Hazelhurst (UKIP Parliamentary candidate for Wakefield)
Tony McNulty (former Labour MP for Harrow East)
Mike Parker (Plaid Cymru candidate for Ceredigion at 2015 election)
Peter Tatchell (former Green Party parliamentary candidate, Oxford East)
Letter to Cameron
Dear Mr. Cameron,
I write further following my original Open Letter to you of 16th September 2013, to which your office responded on 22nd October 2013 stating that the “Home Office was best placed to respond to the matters you raise”.
I and Dr.Liz Davies, an acknowledged expert on Child Protection, met with Mr. Norman Baker, Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office on 13th May 2014 to address the “matters” I raised with you, thus we were able to assess for ourselves whether the Home Office was indeed “best placed to respond”.
The meeting with Mr. Baker was an insult to both my and Dr. Davies’s integrity and intelligence but of far greater concern is that it was a true indicator of the Government’s attitude to the survivors of sexual abuse by people in powerful positions of authority such as Members of the Houses of Commons or Lords.
Since that meeting you were asked a PMQ by Duncan Hames MP, on 11th June 2014 which indicated that there is at last a recognition amongst a small but highly significant group of cross-party MPs that there is the need for an Independent Inquiry on a Hillsborough model in to the cover ups over MPs and other powerful individuals linked to government, and there is a growing body of evidence to show that the Home Office is the very last Government Department that you as Prime Minister should have delegated the “matters you raise” to.
In my letter of September 2013 to you, with copies to Mr. Clegg and Mr.Miliband, I wrote the following:-
“I appeal to you to forget your political roles and act as fathers of young children, decent citizens and show the moral courage to stop the cover ups and allow all abusers to face justice regardless of their privileged position in society”
” Until this Government and Parliament are seen by the public to be supporting a full and independent inquiry victims will remain silent and be too frightened to come forward.”
” It would be better if you led such an exercise before it is forced upon you by public demand.
THE LATTER WILL HAPPEN IN TIME “
Survivors and their supporters have gained great strength from the courage of the first 80 MPs from across the parties who have agreed to support the call for a fully independent inquiry in to organised and networked sexual abuse and its cover up over at least 4 decades where members of the Establishment and in particular MPs have been involved.
However in the last 48 hours it has become obvious that your party and possibly your Government is exercising some control over MPs wishes and a “Standard Response” has crept in to letters to constituents who have written to them asking them to support the demand for an Independent Inquiry, repeating word for word the sound bites that started in the Home Office’s first written response to me last November 2013 :-
“Child abuse is an abhorrent crime, no matter when, or where, it occurs. We are committed to tackling it, in whatever form it takes”
This patronising attitude towards survivors is now being repeated in the most recent responses from the likes of Andrew Lansley, Gareth Johnson, Mark Prisk etc.
The issue of the sexual abuse of very vulnerable children should have transcended party politics and three line whips and political self- interest and self- preservation a long time ago.
I note that your Response to Duncan Hames’s PMQ of 11th June indicated that you were fairly satisfied that the Home Secretary and the Home Office’s investigations were suficient in themselves and no other measures were necessary.
It seems that your Government is placing great faith in the Sexual Violence against Children and Vulnerable People National Group.
Do you really believe that the public in this country and, of far greater significance, the survivors of abuse by the most powerful of abusers, will trust the very Government Department ie the Home Office that must face up to the following allegations or facts:-
1. Two Cabinet Ministers who hold or have held positions in the Home Office are under current investigation by a live Police investigation. Another two, now dead, will be the subject of information and before too long evidence that can be presented to an Independent Inquiry with a great deal of confidence.
2. It employed within its Queen Anne’s Gate headquarters the Chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange and allowed him to co-ordinate its meetings and printing of publicity on a Home Office telephone extension and on Home Office headed notepaper.
3. The Home Office funded the Paedophile Information Exchange for many years and it is alleged that the Government of the time authorised this funding in conjunction with the security services.
I personally tracked down the very senior Home Office employee at the time who has now given a formal statement to the Police.
4. The role played by the Home Office at the time in the concerted attempts to discredit and humiliate the Conservative MP, Geoffrey Dickens, because of what he was threatening to expose, and its current role in failing to identify the contents or whereabouts of the “Dickens Dossiers”.
Parliament itself in an Independent Inquiry will need to look at its behaviour in the way it jeered Geoffrey Dickens and cheered Granvile Janner on their respective re-entry in to the Commons after the allegations against Janner first surfaced.
5 . The long list of decisions taken either by an Attorney General or a Director of Public Prosecutions that it would not “be in the public interest” to continue any criminal proceedings against the likes of Sir Peter Morrison, Sir Cyril Smith and Sir Peter Hayman.
It wouldn’t take an Independent Inquiry too long to conclude that such decisions were taken solely in the interests of Government and Parliament and what was in the public interest was never going to be a consideration.
I note that one of the roles (under the heading of “statutory remit”) allocated to your National Group is:-
“Reducing the risks from abuse of authority and power”.
Under that heading could I ask the group to urgently address the following and give a written commitment that it will do so pending the setting up of an Independent Inquiry to examine the way it has gone about its work and to examine its findings.
A starting point would be the admission by the Government Whip, Tim Fortescue, on national television that MP’s and Governments keep allegations of paedophiliac behaviour by their own within house as trade offs – the Dirt Books practice.
The dictionary definition of “abhorrent” is disgusting, despicable, vile
You and the MPs now adopting the standard response bandy that word around as a soundbite but refuse to acknowledge or address how despicable, vile and disgusting it has been for fellow politicians not only to fail to report abuse by a colleague but to throw the net of protection around them so that they can carry on regardless.
This is a situation that applies to all parties and has nothing to do with political allegiances, party politics or as you seemed to imply in statements post-Savile exposures, a “gay witch-hunt”.
In my original letter I listed the issues surrounding Mrs. Thatcher’s relationship with Savile, his relationship with Prince Charles and many more which will need to be the subject of an Independent Inquiry as well as the scenario I first contacted Tom Watson MP, about in October 2012, ie the link between a powerful paedophile ring and No. 10 which very much remains a live and ever increasing Police investigation.
Will you now accept that it is time to honour your original promise of October 2012 that every institution MUST look at itself in the part it played in the protection of significant paedophiles or are you going to persist in the belief that ALL institutions exclude your own, and in effect tell us as the electorate that Parliament and politicians are above the law and you, as our political masters rather than as our public servants , will never be accountable for the “abhorrent” behaviour of a small but significant minority of your institutions.
An Independent Inquiry on a Hillsborough model is the only thing survivors will accept and then they can begin to trust that the worse scenarios, which have not yet come out, can be spoken about and they will be believed and that the wall of fear that they have hidden behind for decades will have been knocked down and no one is above justice and prosecution for the future.
Yours sincerely
Peter McKelvie

NOW 100
Supporters of an Inquiry
(The original group of seven MPs who initiated this are italicised). There are some small discrepancies between this list and that maintained by Exaro News, due to different criteria employed as to whether an MP has definitively declared their support or not. I try to point these out where necessary.

Conservatives: 22

Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park)
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham)

Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West)
Robert Buckland (South Swindon)
Neil Carmichael (Stroud)
Douglas Carswell (Clacton)
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesforth)
Nick de Bois (Enfield North)
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire)
Richard Drax (South Dorset)
George Freeman (Mid Norfolk)
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest)
Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West)
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Sir Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire)
Jason McCartney (Colne Valley)
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys)
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North)
Sir John Randall (Uxbridge and South Ruislip)
Henry Smith (Crawley)
Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley)
Exaro are also reporting Gordon Henderson as a supporter (saying he has indicated that to Tim Loughton), but I have been forwarded a generic reply from a constituent (reproduced below), dated 17/6/14; this constituent has since re-written to Henderson and I will update this blog if any further reply is received.
Liberal Democrats: 13
John Hemming (Birmingham Yardley)
Tessa Munt (Wells)

Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Paul Burstow (Sutton, Cheam & Worcester Park)
Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay)
Duncan Hames (Chippenham) (PPS to Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg)
Julian Huppert (Cambridge)
John Leech (Manchester Withington)
Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West)
Adrian Sanders (Torbay)
Ian Swales (Redcar)
Mike Thornton (Eastleigh)
Mark Williams (Ceredigion)
Labour: 56
Tom Watson (West Bromwich East)
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale)

Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Jon Ashworth (Leicester South)
Luciana Berger (Liverpool Wavertree)
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Lyn Brown (West Ham)
Karen Buck (Westminster North, PPS to Ed Miliband)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
Martin Caton (Gower)
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran)
John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead)
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
Geraint Davies (Swansea West)
Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton)
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East)
Natascha Engel (North-East Derbyshire)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse)
Rob Flello (Stoke on Trent South)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield)
Mary Glindon (North Tyneside)
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton North)
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish)
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore)
Diane Johnson (Kingston-upon-Hull North)
Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South)
Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East)
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne North)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr)
John Mann (Bassetlaw)
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Grahame Morris (Easington)
Lisa Nandy (Wigan)
Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Albert Owen (Ynys Mõn)
Teresa Pearce (Erith & Thamesmead)
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield)
Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
Steve Reed (Croydon North)
Steve Rotherham (Liverpool Walton)
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes)
Andy Sawford (Corbyn and East Northamptonshire)
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Moor View)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Gavin Shuker (Luton South)
Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston)
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside)
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East)
Derek Twigg (Halton)
Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby)
Iain Wright (Hartlepool)
Exaro are not listing Lisa Nandy’s name on grounds that the Labour frontbench have to make a collective decision. I received confirmation by e-mail from Nandy on 17/6/14, and permission to quote the comment given below, and as there has been no response to two e-mails asking if her position has changed, I will keep this name on the list unless I hear from her office of a change of position.
Green: 1
Caroline Lucas (Brighton Pavilion)
Respect: 1
George Galloway (Bradford West)
Plaid Cymru: 3/em>
Jonathan Edwards (Camarthen West and Dinefwr)
Elfin Llwyd (Dwyfor Merionnydd)
Hywel Williams (Carmarthen West and Dinefwr)
Democratic Unionist Party: 5 (Northern Ireland)
Nigel Dodds (Belfast North)
Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley)
Dr William McCrea (Antrim South)
Ian Paisley Jr (North Antrim)
Jim Shannon (Strangford)
Social Democratic and Labour Party: 2 (Northern Ireland)
Mark Durkan (Foyle)
Margaret Ritchie (South Down)
Alliance: 1 (Northern Ireland)
Naomi Long (Belfast East)

Other supporters, not sitting MPs
Alan Hazelhurst (UKIP Parliamentary candidate for Wakefield)
Richard Howitt (MEP for Essex, Herts, Beds, Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk).
Tony McNulty (former Labour MP for Harrow East)
Mike Parker (Plaid Cymru candidate for Ceredigion at 2015 election)
Peter Tatchell (former Green Party parliamentary candidate, Oxford East)
House of Lords
Baron Harris of Harringey


Organisations

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

2 comments:

  1. child abuse should not be allowed or covered up.neither should adult abuse including aged care homes pallative care etc.there are royal commission operating in Australia at the moment into child abuse

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  2. Firstly, please allow me to say that I did not realize what an active part Ian Pace has played in calling for an independent enquiry into historic and current child sexual abuse. I first read his blog as a reader interested in music and with also an interest in the various conspiracies that seem to beset our world.

    I then found his very long article detailing the sexual abuse of music students at various music colleges and institutions around the country. Without going into a eulogy about this, I would simply say, "More power to your elbow, sir!"

    1 thing that disturbs me about the arrangements for an independent enquiry, as currently proposed, is that I am torn between wishing for it to get underway as soon as possible, and making sure that it is constituted in the right way. We have had 2 proposed chairpersons appointed and have them stand down for perfectly understandable reasons. Now, we have a 3rd person, an independent judge from New Zealand who would surely be free from any taint of establishment connections and cover-up. Alas, from what I have seen on the internet in recent days, she apparently presided over a white-wash in relation to child sexual abuse in her own country. I wonder therefore, if those people who are asking for an independent enquiry will be satisfied that, under the circumstances, she fulfills the criterion of being sufficiently independent for the enquiry's purposes.

    As we all know, child sexual abuse is an inernational affair, and the links between paedophiles at all levels in society stretch far and wide, and have been held to be the glue that holds the entire establishment system together. It seems that many victims/survivors would like the appointment to be Michael Mansfield, Q. C., but there seems to be some objection to him from those who are in charge of these sort of appointments.

    I believe that only somebody like him, if not himself, will be totally acceptable to the people that this enquiry is designed to serve. The suitability, or otherwise, of the chairperson is 1 aspect on which I feel torn. The other is the reluctance, in certain quarters, to allowing the presence of victims/survivors on the panel themselves.

    This would be similar to having no Jews on the tribunal at Nuremburg. If this proposed independent enquiry is actually to have any validity in the eyes of both the public, and the victims/survivors, the chairmanship and make-up of the panel has to be considered extremely carefully.

    As I said, I am torn; I would not like endless discussions, appointments, resignations, more appointments, etc, to be a way for those who may turn out to be accountable under the terms of reference of the enquiry, to prevaricate as to the constitution and membership of the panel, in order to delay the arrival of long-awaited justice.

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