How sad was that. Like I said the rich bamboozled the poor as usual.
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Which was entirely predictable to anyone with half a working brain cell.
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Well yes indeed - but brain cells and the electorate don’t always go together. Otherwise Nigel Farage would be living on Universal Credit in a bed-sit in Ealing. 
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Innocent until proven guilty is a legal standard to protect against punishment not against criticism, scrutiny or consequences.
Jimmy Savile, Fred West, Cyril Smith, Ted Heath, Greville Janner, Leon Brittain. All innocent men if you apply that standard.
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What evidence have you seen for Heath and Brittain?
I haven’t. The police have. They’re better at this type of thing than I am.
I take your point but negative media coverage is one of the things courts guard against as it is prejudicial to getting a fair trial.
For instance if you landed jury duty on, let’s say, a wIdely covered child abuse case that could take months at trial, a careful judge has the right to sequester a jury ie keep them away from seeing the press or TV or even lock them up until the trial is over.
You can alao be eliminated as a juror if counsel for either side determines you ate likely to be biased for several reasons one of which can be that you are likely to have been affected by a high amount of biased media coverage.
Leon Britton was completely exonerated, cruelly after his death. Carl Beech was found to have fabricated the stories of a pedophile sex ring in the HoC.
There is no full closure for Heath yet, but there was evidence suggesting the police worked to make him guilty regardless of the facts.
https://www.alistairlexden.org.uk/news/ted-heath-will-great-wrong-ever-be-righted
These accusations were made at a time of fevered speculation and a desperate desire to find more targets for public anger. Remember the debacle of the BBC filming the police raid on Cliff Richards house?
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What is universal credit? Never heard of it.
It’s a UK benefit paid by the DWP.
Thank you Jennifer for the information.
And it replaces the older forms of state benefit such as jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit etc.
This is the last one today…
I had breakfast with Lord and Lady Britton in the Westin Hotel in Rotterdam. They were at the next table and we got talking, all before the false allegations, a really nice couple. In the end I joined them at their table and it resulted that I was late for my 09:00 meeting, but it was my meeting.
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