Labour is on the side of sexual predators

How Farage should return fire

If you are British, you live in a country where the Government of the day smears it’s main political opponent, Nigel Farage, as being on the side of paedophiles and colluding with a hostile foreign state whilst the country collapses into ethnic strife and economic ruin around it. If there is one term that could sum this government up it is vulgarity.

Calling your opponents treacherous nonces while making fantastical commitments to building a great army is post-soviet Eastern European type politics. Savile himself is also an extraordinarily poor choice of target.

Savile, who Labour have stated Farage is on the side of, is connected directly to Keir Starmer through Dame Esther Rantzen - a friend of his - to whom he pledged to introduce the assisted dying bill just before the 2024 election.

Esther Rantzen, who founded Childline, worked at the BBC at the time of Jimmy Savile. After Savile’s crimes were exposed she said: ‘there were always rumours that [Savile] behaved very inappropriately sexually with children’. Rumours she, by her own admission, never acted upon. Starmer, of course, was Director of Public Prosecutions when the decision was taken not to prosecute Jimmy Savile.

The Tories aren’t innocent here either. Savile was a close friend of Margaret Thatcher, who repeatedly invited him to Chequers and spent years lobbying for him to be knighted against warnings that he had an improper character. Savile even provided relationship advice to the then Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Charles and the wider Monarchy faced almost no repercussions for this relationship when Savile was exposed; something which can be explained in part by the absurd influence the Crown still has over the media (dining with Editors, withholding titles from people who misbehave). It is extraordinary how few British people are aware that Lord Mountbatten, the favourite uncle of Charles, was believed by the FBI to be a paedophile and that several former residents of the Kincora Boys’ home in Belfast have stated that they were trafficked to Mountbatten’s residence in Ireland.

Outside of the political parties and the monarchy, Savile was well connected the police. Savile maintained close relationships with several police forces in Yorkshire, including West Yorkshire police, whom he entreated to a weekly ‘Friday Morning Club’ at his home in Leeds, and North Yorkshire police, which failed to submit an intelligence report into Savile’s abuse in 2002.

A report into South Yorkshire police by the BBC has recently uncovered five women who were abused, as children, not only by Pakistani grooming gangs but by serving police officers. The recent national inquiry into grooming gangs - which Starmer was originally against holding - will not investigate any police officers or local councillors for criminal behaviour.

Leaving Savile and the grooming gangs aside, the British State makes no serious attempt to punish garden variety paedophiles.

In 2024, only 17 percent of people convicted of possessing child pornography went to jail (falling from 35.3% in 2010). Many of these offenders possessed or distributed Category A images, which depict penetrative sex. Huw Edwards of the BBC was only given a six month suspended sentence despite being found to possess Category A images involving a child between the ages of seven and nine.

Less than half of offenders convicted for Child Sexual Abuse in Britain in the year ending 2024 received a custodial sentence.

Osamah Al‑Haddad, a Yemeni migrant, arrived in the UK with videos showing, amongst other things, bestiality involving a child ­- was given a 30‑week suspended sentence and 150 hours of unpaid work at the end of July. He later left Isleworth Crown Court with giving photographers a thumbs-up.

In Sussex, former police officer George Voisey admitted possessing and distributing indecent images, including a Category A video sent on Snapchat. He received a six‑month custodial sentence, also suspended for 18 months. In Greater Manchester, three men - Michael Linfoot, Callum Hesketh and Thomas Rae - attacked a 15‑year‑old in the back of a van and live‑streamed the assault. Two of them were given 11‑month suspended sentences.

Foreign paedophiles are also kept in this country by the courts. In 2021, an Indian national who had been illegally overstaying on a visitor’s visa since 2002 was jailed for 14 months in relation to three counts of child sexual abuse images. An attempt by the Home Office to deport him in October of last year failed because his deportation would infringe his Article 8 right to ‘private and family life’.

Within the Labour party itself - a J’accuse investigation from June of this year found that over 60 former officials or employees of the Labour party have been convicted of sex crimes against children since 1975. Many of these individuals faced no time in prison despite actively participating in CSA; as an example, Eric Joyce, former Labour MP for Falkirk, who received a suspended sentence despite being charged with having made an indecent image of a child (Category A) aged between 12 months and seven years.

When Farage is told he is on the side of predators he should return the accusation. Then, he should make a series of policy pledges for cracking down on the networks of paedophiles that operate freely in Britain.

In brief, this would include a massive expansion in prison capacity to enable minimum sentences for paedophiles convicted for possessing Category A images and resourcing child protection units in the National Crime Agency properly. It would also require a reckoning with the borders; preventing the inflow of nationalities such as Afghans who are statistically overrepresented in sexual crimes, and withdrawal from the ECHR in order to facilitate the deportation of foreign paedophiles.

Mr Farage: it is time that you made the Irishman regret opening Pandora’s box.