Following the case of Anthony Marsh and Lee Davis, remember that no victim was younger than 13, and that only Davis has been found to have coerced any of the boys in question. All of the rest were willing participants.
Most of these acts would therefore have been legal if Peter Tatchell, whom Michael Foot once refused to endorse as a candidate for the House of Commons but whom David Cameron offered a seat in the House of Lords, had his way.
All but that single rape would have been legal under the regime preferred by Barbara Hewson, whose argument is that one is Gillick competent from 13 upwards, as is of course perfectly true. That rape would have been vastly more difficult to prove, and quite conceivably impossible to do so.
Gillick competence ought to be called Thatcher competence. Victoria Gillick, who in my only ever conversation with her despised the Conservatives after having "spent 18 years campaigning against them", tried to stop this thing. It was Margaret Thatcher who defeated her in the courts and imposed it.
But then, Thatcher's Parliamentary Private Secretary was the man whom she ensured became Sir Peter Morrison, just as she ensured the dubbing of her dear friends Sir Cyril Smith, Sir Jimmy Savile and Sir Laurens van der Post. Had they been alive, then Morrison and Savile would certainly have attended her funeral.
The upper classes become sexually active far earlier than anyone else. If the age of consent ever were to be lowered in line with Thatcher competence, then this is the Government that would do it. Yet another very good reason to sweep it away in 2015.
"age of consent were to be lowered....yet another very good reason to sweep it away in 2015".
ReplyDeleteBut not a good reason to replace it with the party that lowered the homosexual age of consent to 16.
And closed every Catholic adoption agency in the country.
Every reason to vote against the Tories is no reason to vote for Labour.
There's no alternative in Parliament, as any remotely sensible person can see.
Voting can only now be a negative action (to protest against those in Parliament) which is why Peter rightly recommends a UKIP vote. For those who must vote.
He has not said "Vote UKIP" for a while now. They are no longer on television the way they used to be, either.
ReplyDeleteI'd be very surprised if the majority of Conservative MPs did not vote for that reduction, a free vote on all sides. They certainly would now.
Sexually active 13-year-olds exist in all classes, with boys and girls both remarked upon, although in starkly different terms. Except in the Coalition Class, where they are the norm.