The Prime Minister said Keir Starmer had spent his time as director of public prosecutions “prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
The claim comes from right-wing talking points shared online which falsely claim Starmer while head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had stopped Savile from being prosecuted.
Ash Sarkar, contributing editor of Novara Media, said Johnson was “parroting far right attack lines cribbed straight from Telegram”. Telegram has been called right-wing extremists’ “new favourite platform”.
While Starmer was the head of the CPS when it decided against charging Savile, he was not directly involved in the case, which was handled by Surrey Police and a CPS reviewing lawyer.
Surrey Police in 2007 and 2008 investigated three complaints that Saville had sexually abused young girls. It led to Savile being interviewed under caution but not arrested and police decided not to charge the former BBC presenter because none of the victims were “prepared to support any police action”, including testifying in court.
Since Savile’s death in 2011, it emerged he had sexually abused hundreds of children and women.
In 2013, Starmer commissioned Alison Levitt QC to investigate the CPS’s decision not to prosecute Savile. She said the police’s approach to the investigation made the women reluctant to give evidence and help prosecutors.
Starmer admitted there were “errors in judgement” and apologised for “shortcomings” in the investigation. The CPS’s guidance on prosecuting child sex abuse was updated as a result.
Following a statement from the Prime Minister on the findings of Sue Gray’s report on lockdown-busting gatherings in Downing Street, Starmer said Johnson had “routinely” broke the rules, taking the public “for fools”.
He added: “He held peoples’ sacrifice in contempt and proved himself unfit for office.”
Johnson attacked Starmer, calling him “a former director of public prosecutions, who spent more time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
He added: “He used this moment to prejudge a police inquiry. He’s reached his conclusions about it, I’m not going to come to any conclusions, it would be completely wrong to do so.”
I was stunned he went for that. He’s getting desperate and yet, that’s something I’m sure we have said time and time before.
It’s desperate, but:
> Far-right attacks”
Fucking what? It’s a populist attack line, but it’s not fucking “far-right” unless the term has lost any and all meaning.
Clearly got the bloke on his mind – he was probably recently reminded how Savile got away with it for so long by having the police on his side.
Whilst Boris has said on record that spending 60m on bringing prosecutions on historic was spaffing money up the wall.
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This country must remove this man. Like Trump he is destroying democracy and a once great nation. He cannot be allowed to continue and I think it’s time we started shouting that in every Reddit forum, every workplace and every street. Those who support him have no interest in democracy or justice. They too need to be shown that they are outnumbered and disgraced.
He literally said that prosecuting politicians for child abuse was staffing money up the wall. It’s fucking infuriating how much this man and party get away with doing.
Johnson said this in PMQs around a year ago, got told angrily by Starmer at the time how wrong he was which soon shut him up.
Pretty pathetic to try it again.
I watched that live. Holy fuck that was harsh.
Johnson needs to go. How the fuck does Ian Blackford get kicked out for saying Boris misled MPs when Johnson straight-up accuses Starmer of protecting a serial child molester?
Watch the news all be about saville now. Inc daily meal headline tomorrow morning
It’s all over Facebook and Twitter, people getting a little rush off Boris saying this.
People really do hate the Labour Party based on lies, bending the truth and half truths. The rubbish they come out with seems to have the same level of literacy and says the exact same things which brings my next point…
Basically I have a rule, people who use the acronym MSM on social media, are to be ignored and it’s these sort of people that are peddling this rubbish, they clearly get it from certain groups or pages they follow on Facebook.
Total desperation hail Mary play from Boris. His contrition lasted all of 5 minutes. He genuinely does not think he did anything wrong or even his people. I think he thinks this is a conspiracy against him whipped up by his enemies.
Straight out of the “everything I don’t like is far-right/fascism” playbook.
You can’t prosecute someone without evidence, contrary to how Boris thinks the world works
This is a sorry spectacle.. a man who has lost his moral compass and is scrabbling around desperately trying to divert attention from a simple and inescapable fact… he lied.. and having lied tried to cover it up with half hearted apologies.
The only thing that he is sorry for fundamentally is getting caught.. he is now out of excuses and will try again and again to blame others. It is unedifying and shameful to see this and we all know the simple truth.. he is no longer fit for office.
Nobody mention that Thatcher used to have old fiddle fingers round for Christmas dinner.
If they fail to evict him it’s time to start pushing for a general election.
What a bastard. Starmer looked genuinely hurt at that as well.
If what I’ve read is true, there’s fuck all Starmer could’ve done about it.
Starmer did well to hold his nerve, you could tell it was boiling his piss
What an unbelievably high resolution of utterly incompetent cockwombles all concentrated in one particular location of the world, Babylon is Burning.
Just last week has was making fat-jokes about Ian Blackford.
Quoting far-right conspiracy theories? He’s gone full Trump.
Dude needs to be removed ASAP.
How is it a “far-right” attack. It is very valid.
Starmer was part of the CPS and they failed in their duty to take down Savile.
Every single person in that building is fat and feckless…
False dichotomies be damned.
Lol, “far right attacks” Corbynista’s were the ones chatting that shit when he became leader
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The Prime Minister said Keir Starmer had spent his time as director of public prosecutions “prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
The claim comes from right-wing talking points shared online which falsely claim Starmer while head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had stopped Savile from being prosecuted.
Ash Sarkar, contributing editor of Novara Media, said Johnson was “parroting far right attack lines cribbed straight from Telegram”. Telegram has been called right-wing extremists’ “new favourite platform”.
While Starmer was the head of the CPS when it decided against charging Savile, he was not directly involved in the case, which was handled by Surrey Police and a CPS reviewing lawyer.
Surrey Police in 2007 and 2008 investigated three complaints that Saville had sexually abused young girls. It led to Savile being interviewed under caution but not arrested and police decided not to charge the former BBC presenter because none of the victims were “prepared to support any police action”, including testifying in court.
Since Savile’s death in 2011, it emerged he had sexually abused hundreds of children and women.
In 2013, Starmer commissioned Alison Levitt QC to investigate the CPS’s decision not to prosecute Savile. She said the police’s approach to the investigation made the women reluctant to give evidence and help prosecutors.
Starmer admitted there were “errors in judgement” and apologised for “shortcomings” in the investigation. The CPS’s guidance on prosecuting child sex abuse was updated as a result.
Following a statement from the Prime Minister on the findings of Sue Gray’s report on lockdown-busting gatherings in Downing Street, Starmer said Johnson had “routinely” broke the rules, taking the public “for fools”.
He added: “He held peoples’ sacrifice in contempt and proved himself unfit for office.”
Johnson attacked Starmer, calling him “a former director of public prosecutions, who spent more time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
He added: “He used this moment to prejudge a police inquiry. He’s reached his conclusions about it, I’m not going to come to any conclusions, it would be completely wrong to do so.”
I was stunned he went for that. He’s getting desperate and yet, that’s something I’m sure we have said time and time before.
It’s desperate, but:
> Far-right attacks”
Fucking what? It’s a populist attack line, but it’s not fucking “far-right” unless the term has lost any and all meaning.
Clearly got the bloke on his mind – he was probably recently reminded how Savile got away with it for so long by having the police on his side.
Whilst Boris has said on record that spending 60m on bringing prosecutions on historic was spaffing money up the wall.
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This country must remove this man. Like Trump he is destroying democracy and a once great nation. He cannot be allowed to continue and I think it’s time we started shouting that in every Reddit forum, every workplace and every street. Those who support him have no interest in democracy or justice. They too need to be shown that they are outnumbered and disgraced.
He literally said that prosecuting politicians for child abuse was staffing money up the wall. It’s fucking infuriating how much this man and party get away with doing.
Johnson said this in PMQs around a year ago, got told angrily by Starmer at the time how wrong he was which soon shut him up.
Pretty pathetic to try it again.
I watched that live. Holy fuck that was harsh.
Johnson needs to go. How the fuck does Ian Blackford get kicked out for saying Boris misled MPs when Johnson straight-up accuses Starmer of protecting a serial child molester?
Watch the news all be about saville now. Inc daily meal headline tomorrow morning
It’s all over Facebook and Twitter, people getting a little rush off Boris saying this.
People really do hate the Labour Party based on lies, bending the truth and half truths. The rubbish they come out with seems to have the same level of literacy and says the exact same things which brings my next point…
Basically I have a rule, people who use the acronym MSM on social media, are to be ignored and it’s these sort of people that are peddling this rubbish, they clearly get it from certain groups or pages they follow on Facebook.
Total desperation hail Mary play from Boris. His contrition lasted all of 5 minutes. He genuinely does not think he did anything wrong or even his people. I think he thinks this is a conspiracy against him whipped up by his enemies.
Straight out of the “everything I don’t like is far-right/fascism” playbook.
You can’t prosecute someone without evidence, contrary to how Boris thinks the world works
This is a sorry spectacle.. a man who has lost his moral compass and is scrabbling around desperately trying to divert attention from a simple and inescapable fact… he lied.. and having lied tried to cover it up with half hearted apologies.
The only thing that he is sorry for fundamentally is getting caught.. he is now out of excuses and will try again and again to blame others. It is unedifying and shameful to see this and we all know the simple truth.. he is no longer fit for office.
Nobody mention that Thatcher used to have old fiddle fingers round for Christmas dinner.
If they fail to evict him it’s time to start pushing for a general election.
What a bastard. Starmer looked genuinely hurt at that as well.
If what I’ve read is true, there’s fuck all Starmer could’ve done about it.
Starmer did well to hold his nerve, you could tell it was boiling his piss
What an unbelievably high resolution of utterly incompetent cockwombles all concentrated in one particular location of the world, Babylon is Burning.
Just last week has was making fat-jokes about Ian Blackford.
Quoting far-right conspiracy theories? He’s gone full Trump.
Dude needs to be removed ASAP.
How is it a “far-right” attack. It is very valid.
Starmer was part of the CPS and they failed in their duty to take down Savile.
Every single person in that building is fat and feckless…
False dichotomies be damned.
Lol, “far right attacks” Corbynista’s were the ones chatting that shit when he became leader