tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post349116714814670054..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Simon Danczuk And That Book - 1Tim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-68279759808254273382015-11-02T07:24:05.894+00:002015-11-02T07:24:05.894+00:00Whilst I have little sympathy for Simon Danzcuk th...Whilst I have little sympathy for Simon Danzcuk there are things about John Walker and Cyril Smith that I struggle to get my head round.<br /><br />Why did John Walker sit on the Cambridge House sex abuse allegations for many months before publishing them in RAP during the 1979 general election campaign? He knew about the allegations since the mid 1970s. May 1979 was the absolute latest that Jim Callaghan could go to the polls. Cyril Smith was able to say that the RAP article was a political smear and could could point to the full page Labour Party advert on the back cover as proof. Smith increased his parliamentary majority in 1979.<br /><br />But the most troubling doubt I have about all this current bile and anger against Simon Danczuk's book is simple - why didn't John Walker carry on campaigning against Cyril Smith's sex abuse and publish regardless? He had a printing press to hand from 1979 until RAP closed some years later? When John Walker left Rochdale and moved to London all those years ago, wasn't he then physically nearer to Westminster and Fleet Street in order to carry on pursuing this gross injustice? <br /><br />What did John Walker do in the 30 plus years from his revelations in RAP until Cyril Smith's death? There are many issues that have seen dedicated and persistent campaigners carry on until people take notice and act: The Birmingham 6, Stephen Lawrence's family, Blacklisted workers... the examples are many and inspirational. But there seems to have been silence from John Walker for decades, and in those years Cyril Smith got away with it and continued to abuse.<br /><br />There is a lot to be angry about. The victims who went to their graves never knowing more of the truth about Cyril Smith would finally be national knowledge. Missed opportunities for over 3 decades. How very sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-27712300254958376222015-10-29T10:40:41.803+00:002015-10-29T10:40:41.803+00:00@ Anon no 1
Hear hear! Just another Grant Shapps ...@ Anon no 1<br /><br />Hear hear! Just another Grant Shapps et al wannabee. robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-76382751989976642762015-10-28T16:57:32.239+00:002015-10-28T16:57:32.239+00:00That exposure should finally do for Danksuck's...That exposure should finally do for Danksuck's credibility, or what's left of it, which is virtually fuck all.<br /><br />Genuine investigative journalists like John Walker (and Tim Fenton - no, I'm not brown nosing) don't appear that often. Would that we had more of them.<br /><br />But what really matters are the issues of organised child abuse and "grooming." My entirely instinctive suspicion is that we have nowhere near plumbed the full depths yet. If we had mainstream media with anything like the determination of Walker and Fenton we might get to the truth a good deal quicker.<br /><br />Danksuck? Just another tenth rate House of Commons spiv, opportunist and plagiarist. In my unhumble opinion of course.<br /><br />Well in, Tim. More power to your elbow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com