Ivor Caplin
He had spent eight years as a Labour MP, representing Hove. Later, he spent a short time as chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, the organisation that expended considerable energy undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. That he was part of the political establishment was shown by the number of senior party figures who followed his social media feed.
On which subject, it gets worse still: Caplin’s feed on Twitter, X, or whatever Muskrat’s calling it this week, featured a succession of images depicting young men, not merely in a state of undress, but also featuring displays of genitalia, sometimes in a state of obvious arousal. Yet, it seems, no-one at the top of the Labour Party had the time to say “Er, ma-a-a-a-ate”.
Also, to quote his Wikipedia entry, “In June 2024 Caplin was suspended from the Labour Party due to ‘serious allegations’ made about him. The allegations were not made public”. And then, “In January 2025 Caplin was arrested by Sussex Police on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child, after being involved in a sting operation carried out by a group of anti-paedophile activists”. Were the two events in any way related?
We are not told. But it is the latter event where reportage has been so selective. The increasingly alt-right Spectator magazine has informed its readers, but, it appears, the primary motive here is because the arrest came “days after attacking ‘unacceptable’ Elon”. First name terms, natch.
“He was stopped by a group of activists on Saturday who claimed they had arranged to meet him posing as an 'underage boy’ … Mr Caplin denied the claims multiple times on video before the group called the police. Mr Rowland [leader of the group enacting the sting] claims his group handed their 'evidence' over to officers who arrested the former MP”.
But the rest of the mainstream press pack has said very little, despite Reform UK and its self-appointed Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage, and of course the Spectator’s hero “Elon” making sure they tell their followers. And one mainstream source that would have been expected to carry the news has said nothing at all as yet: step forward the BBC. Silence. Not even crickets.
Starmer speech, Sturgeon-Murrell separation, “Five-minute fines”, Meghan delaying her Netflix show, a fall in the value of Sterling, what Kemi Badenoch says should happen to Tulip Siddiq, calls for yet another “Grooming gang” inquiry, monitoring “Elon’s” social media whingeing, all feature. But nothing about a former Labour MP who just happens to be an establishment figure.
As Owen Jones has summed up, “The big questions about Ivor Caplin are who knew what, when, and what action did they take”. The Labour Party, and especially all those who followed Caplin on Twitter/X, knew about all those images he posted. So what action was taken? And what about a little of that investigative journalism from the BBC? Just a mention, eh?
Or is the establishment closing ranks? Bit of a sad hill to die on, mind.
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7 comments:
The "intelligence agencies" will have absolutely nothing to do with this.
Absolutely nothing.
Doubtless our friend anon will go into more detail (quisling, fascist, etc) but this is very revealing about how 'good', ie right wing, and 'bad' ie left wing Labour is treated by the press pack.
Imagine, if your stomach can handle it, if this reptile had been on the Left? Lurid headlines, and 'what did Corbyn know' would already be being asked? 'Corbyn's paedo pal's, 'leftie cover up', and so it would go on, and on.
'Never mind the victims (do any of them, empty rhetoric aside, really care about the victims?), let's get the lefties' would be the cry. As it will be from those so thick they call Starmers army 'commies', 'trots' and the far left. Step up the ever deranged Hitchens at the wail.
Of course the other reason for the roaring silence is as obvious as it is odious - 'only Muslims abuse children' says mr Musk. A line long taken by Right wing Tories, and of course, the Tory press.
Clearly none of them have ever heard of SNAP...
Have that British fascist serving general and his like-minded brother officers been arrested yet? Or interrogated by the Rothermere Heil or der Murdoch Sturmer?
Thought not.
So why expect any difference in this relatively minor issue. It's how fascism works.
BBC Spews At Ten won't go near it, nor will Sky Spews or IT Spews.
Kuentssberg might, depending on what instructions she receives.
This kind of thing tends to disappear as quickly as suitable. Just as, for instance, the Gaza/West Bank genocide by Israeli fascists. The LA fires and "celeb" millionaires mansions loss is doing heavy diversionary lifting at the moment.
Talking of generals, look what the "democratic-not-at-all-fascist" Yanks did in Lebanon.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/01/the-united-states-pet-general-appointed-president-of-lebanon/
A lot of noise recently about Muslim grooming gangs, but strangely, no mention of the inextricable link between friends of israel and paedophilia...
https://google-law.blogspot.com/2019/07/epstein-shows-how-israel-runs-child.html?m=1
Why the right wing lunatics (Mush, Trump, Farage) can gain so much traction despite being visibly lunatics? It helps at lot that the establishment they describe as corrupt is... in fact... corrupt.
(The problem though is that they are even more corrupt)
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