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Jimmy Savile and how the Neo liberal right encouraged the sexualisation of our children

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Jimmy Savile and how the Neo liberal right encouraged the sexualisation of our children     Back in 1978, an organisation called the Paedophile Information Exchange affiliated itself to the National Council for Civil Liberties — known today as Liberty. PIE — whose members were reportedly attracted to boys and girls — set out to make paedophilia respectable.     It campaigned to reduce the age of consent and resist controls on child pornography. Until it excluded PIE in 1983, the NCCL thus backed this disgusting agenda of child abuse.     Indeed, even before PIE was affiliated to it, the NCCL was campaigning to liberalise paedophilia and reduce the age of sexual consent to 14. In 1976, the NCCL argued ‘childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in with an adult, result in no identifiable damage’. And in 1977 it said: ‘NCCL has no policy on [PIE’s] aims, other than the evidence that children are harmed if, after a mutual rela...

"I can't support Miliband as he is the wrong type of Jew" Maureen Lipman 2014

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This is from The Guardian 2014 Actor Maureen Lipman has abandoned a lifetime’s support of  Labour  and announced she would vote for “almost any other” party at the general election, partly in protest at Ed Miliband’s support for recognising the Palestinian state. The star of stage and screen gave a dim assessment of the present shadow cabinet, telling Standpoint magazine: “The Chuka Harman Burnham Hunt Balls brigade? I can’t, in all seriousness, go into a booth and put my mark on any one of them.” “For the first time in five decades, I shall not be voting Labour because I can not support Palestine and because Miliband is the wrong kind of Jew.” But the prominent Jew reserved her most hostile comments for the Labour leader’s decision to back  a symbolic Commons vote in favour of recognising the state of Palestine alongside Israel. And she said she had a “sneaking suspicion” that David Miliband – who was unexpectedly beaten to the leadership by his broth...