Today's huge news story; Jimmy Savile had a flat in Leeds Hospital and took teenage girls there.

Hang on a moment; am I missing something?

If he was a volunteer doing work unpaid at the hospital, saving lives and raising funds, isn't a flat in the building the very least they could do for him?
Is it a crime to take friends to the flat? Is it a crime for them to stay overnight there?

Indeed, even if he had fully consensual sex with 19 year olds, is that a crime? Was that a crime?

Of course, if they ran naked into the street screaming "I've been raped", that would have been an incident requiring investigation.

Or if they said "I was 13 not 19", that would have needed urgent action.

This new witness - a "former hospital porter" - is called Mr Pratt.

Not the only one.

did he frogmarch them there? were they handcuffed or tied up? were they screaming and begging for help?

you can make anything sound like something else.

I think I should be interviewed with an entirely new angle :
"I Saw Nothing ! I Though Jimmy Was Celibate"

for a suitable sum of course.

I wouldn't be surprised if all this is leading to a real concerted attempt to raise the age of consent to 18, or even 21. A goal that feminists have long prized above all others for at least the last 150 years - even before they were campaigning for a woman's right to vote.

Apparently the Royals want to know why they were not told that he was a pervert - he could have shagged to corgis too (but he'll be OK there - the corgis follow the royal protocol of "never explain - never complain" so they are unlikely to come forward as witnesses) !

I'm waiting for the 'Savile has Sex with Space Alien' story. It has to happen. And as about as believable as many of the other stories.

Porters (& Mr Pratt)...Not exactly Brain Of Britain are they?

I once met a Miss Pratt, at the benefits agency. A hot day in July it was. 3pm. Went to the building, gave my name. Waited a hour. Curiously one of the Benefits staff, sat at her desk, doing her knitting.
Fed up with waiting. I went to the desk. "I've been waiting here for 50 minutes" I stated. "We have a lack of staff today" said Miss Pratt. A queue had now gathered at the desk. Looking around I said "Well there's a bleeding woman sat over there, doing her effing knitting". Everyone in the office look at me, starting the queue of people, to break up in fits of laughter. Strangely after this, I was seen straight away & so was everyone else. Strange how an outburts speeds things up. Though totally off subject, I thought that needed to be shared.

Blackit wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if all this is leading to a real concerted attempt to raise the age of consent to 18, or even 21. A goal that feminists have long prized above all others for at least the last 150 years - even before they were campaigning for a woman's right to vote.

could be true. One demented "child advocate" wants the age raised to 21 and even then the partner no older than 25 !

my dear old Grandpa who knocked up my 16 year old Grandma, when he was 23 would be for the high jump.

Love the Pratt story bh.

Jim aMused millions-more than he ever aBused.

As the closet old Queen says at the close(t) of 'Some Like A Tot', 1956, "Well, nobody's perfect !"

'Jim' Gamble rambles after another liquid-lunch today, @30m.11s.

BeebR4Skin, 'World At One'(with itself)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nl7ws

"MissLizzie • 2 hours ago −
.....and 'the lad on the desk' was a night porter/guard who never had authority or even access to a key for the nurses accommodation. No one else who worked at the LGI at that time corrobrates the story or agrees that there was such a key.
I'm in no way excusing anything Jimmy Savile did - anything he allegedly did - but this bandwagon jumping is beyond bad taste: everyone up here (Leeds) seems to have their own tale of 'oh, well when I met him you could tell there was something creepy about him' etc. Probably the same people who a year ago would've said they met him and he had a heart of gold. It only took a week for the first compensation claim to be put to Savile's estate and I can't imagine it'll be long before local 'celebrities' start selling their tales of how they felt he was weird or how they had lucky escapes...."

www.theweek.co.uk/crime/savile-abuse-cla...tm_source=newsletter