Shocking News : May Is Right

The Home Secretary recently warned the country that child abuse was endemic and threaded into every level of society and all across the country, in all classes, from the most exalted to the very lowly and in institutions which are part of the national fabric of education, safety, care and development.

Thus it should come as no surprise, but it does and shocks to the core, that the Metropolitan Police were involved in a blatant cover up on orders of goodness knows whom in the notorious case of Cyril Smith. That he an others were caught red handed, arrested, locked up then set free, while investigating officers were threatened with career slow downs and prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act, is an abuse of absolutely everything lawful for which this nation stands. And while these revelations are historic, this abuse is going on now all around us.

To stop it, to rehabilitate the victims which may include many of the abusers, and to prosecute the perpetrators and especially trusted public servants who broke the law organising cover ups, is a national priority and a social emergency. It is also essential that all the many enquiries are thorough and organised to expose, not to whitewash Hutton style, and report promptly. This is not a moment when Chilcot style timescales should be acceptable either.