David Walliams #2

[Prince fan 1999]

It’ll be the uplifting news that little Owain Wyn Evans has completed his Children In Need cycle challenge

Thank god! Then hopefully we can stop hearing about it

 

[donutwitch]

The BBC, a state owned broadcaster which we are forced to pay for, spent decades enabling and covering up for one of the worst individual pedalos in recorded world history*.

Can you imagine if GB News did that? Sky? The Sun? A premier league football club? They'd be shut down pronto and the enablers arrested.

Not having a go at you @duskwithoutdawn but honestly anyone who thinks the BBC still deserves to exist after enabling one of the worst individual pedalos in recorded world history* can absolutely get the fuk out of here, I mean come on, put it in it's correct perspective, it's horrifying, get the fuk outta here, gimme a break.

*Credible estimates put his total number of victims in the thousands. In addition, Savile was a necrophile. Furthermore, in the 1990s a whistleblower from what is now West Yorkshire Constabulary reported that in the 1980s police had wanted to investigate Savile for his links to the Yorkshire Ripper but were dissuaded by bosses from doing so. He was questioned and one senior officer, John Stainthorpe, felt he should be looked at more closely, as he told The Guardian years later.

As everyone knows (or should), Ripper victim Marguerite Walls' body was found in Savile's back garden of his house in Leeds. About 5 of Sutcliffe's victims were killed in Leeds which police felt was strange as it was not his 'home turf'. It was, of course, Savile's, and the scene for many of his early attacks when he was a DJ there. As we also know, Savile was a regular visitor of Sutcliffe's in Broadmoor.

Saville is obviously the worst and most depraved example, but its way more than Saville when it comes to BBC’s history of protecting and enabling sex offenders: off the top there is also: Tim Westwood, John Peel, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Russell Brand, David Walliam’s, Huw Edward’s, Dave Lee Travis, Chris Denning, plus DOZENS more that worked in a regional capacity rather than national. And think about all the BBC executives and staff that worked to protect these people! We the public were told after Saville that they were cleaning up their act but they very clearly haven’t learned lessons behind the scenes to genuinely clean up their culture and have many dodgy characters still working there.

This article is from a decade ago

Jimmy Savile and the BBC: Dame Janet Smith report's key sections

Key points contained in the Dame Janet Smith report into Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall and the BBC.

www.bbc.com

 

[Professor Yaffle]

Did he plead guilty? Would that give him a lesser punishment?

He did plead guilty. However the prosecution had clear evidence that he was guilty that he possessed these images. It wasn't a balance of probability or a he said, they said, blah blah.

A guilty plea in cases does give the judge cause to reduce a sentence. In this case it sends absolutely no message to these abusers that they will have a harsh sentence or indeed a custodial one.

 

[Whatsthetea247]

So my friends friend who works in London but can’t confirm yet.. can’t disclose what type of work they do

 

[Serene Serena]

So my friends friend who works in London but can’t confirm yet.. can’t disclose what type of work they do

If they are a healthcare professional and are breaching patient confidentiality then you could be getting them into a huge amount of bother. Just be careful. If he has died, we will all know soon enough.

 

[Pentothal]

So just like hr in a lot of big companies then, and smaller ones tbh, I’ve only recently realised that hr is effectively more for the employers than employees

HR isn't there for the employees. HR is there a a buffer between the management and the workers. You are told to report issues to HR, that's like tipping them the wink. They will work to save the company at the expense often of the vulnerable.