Abused three girls apparantly. BBC secrecy, staff fury. Google Daily Mail story.

I saw this coming. Even mentioned it to people.

Former 'barnthebarn' by the weigh. Wil register if near a proper computer!

Everyone saw it coming and there'll be more like this, but Sir Jim is dead and unable to defend himself. Poor show!

or didn't as the case may be.

The comments can be fascinating in the Mail as a partial insight into the thinking of plebs.

Most support Jimmy in this.

It reminds me now I worked on a BBC special about Constant Lambert the classical composer. Unknown was the fact he made Dame Margot Fonteyn pregnant when she was just 16 years old.

Margot never got over the fact he wouldn't married her (she had an abortion)

so Constant was a 'peado" in today's world, an illegal abrotionist (he paid) and a "sex offender". Yet still hailed as one of Britain's great composers.

Usual shite from the muck-raking Daily Heil. Usual rubbish historic allegations that also never take into account that, rightly or wrongly, every male 'star' with a pulse dabbled in ripe teens in the 60s & 70s be they Hendrix or Savile or JK - it was the norm, a perk of the job - and be it seedy or not, no-one in those days was stupid enough to mistake wanting to fuck buxom juicy fertile teens with being a 'paedo'. In fact I understand the finger-wagging publications of Rupert Murdoch also, until recently, had equally 'seedy' countdowns to female stars/models 16th birthdays when they could legally display their wares or be fucked.

Whether the stories are true or not, who knows?

But, one thing is as sure as there is sand on a beach (most) - the facts, in some form, will come out.

That I very much doubt, and suspect we shall never know.

Interesting that the great traveller Savile went all around the country and lived in Leeds yet... the body involved is SURREY POLICE.

I wonder whether the great Max Clifford, Surrey resident and top PR man, had anything to do with it? Informally, of course. He never goes to them, they always come to him...

one thing strikes me about these Saville claims..as it does the GG matter..

why has no-one else ever ..ever come out with a similar claim ?

Michael Howard's "You can get money and stay anonymous by making false allegations" legal clause didn't come into force until the 1990's, opening the massive compensation chest of cash, treasure, sympathy, attention and revenge, Veritas.

Sad how some people can do this to a great mans reputation.

JK2006 wrote:
Michael Howard's "You can get money and stay anonymous by making false allegations" legal clause didn't come into force until the 1990's, opening the massive compensation chest of cash, treasure, sympathy, attention and revenge, Veritas.


Michael Howard was one of the most evil people to enter UK politics. My father says that the halls of Westminster used to darken at the mention of his name.

OldPoster wrote:
Sad how some people can do this to a great mans reputation.

I liked Jimmy, but to be honest his reputation wasn't that great. There were so many rumours about him, I think that a properly researched biography might be quite welcome in the circumstances.

I felt some of the Louis Theroux documentary on him was revealing at times although it seems it was intentionally made to show him in a bad light.

I thought Theroux went into it thinking he'd hate Savile but ended up liking him, rather as he did with the Hamiltons (all those are or were friends). Whereas the opposite happened with Clifford.