Safeguard This Risk

Mere suspension of the Conservative or any other whip would make no difference whatever to an elected MP's rights or responsibilities as such. And even if this MP were guilty, then he would be no worse than the numerous people up the corridor who had sat in and around the Cabinet that had waged the war against Iraq. How are those old monsters not a "safeguarding risk"?

The fury of the likes of Jess Phillips and Stella Creasy indicates that they know that this case is the beginning of the end, or perhaps it is simply the end, of the "safeguarding" industry that has ensured that only certified bourgeois, neoliberal, neoconservative, white supremacist feminists have been allowed anywhere near the running of anything, and especially anywhere near the formation of anyone.

Next up, the release of Julian Assange. Why not? And even without that release, as a Commonwealth citizen who was not serving a prison sentence (astonishingly, that is given as the reason why he cannot be released), Assange would be eligible to stand for the House of Commons. But where? Birmingham Yardley? Or Walthamstow?

The Safeguarding Coordinator for the Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle is currently subject to a Police investigation, and it is possible that she has already been arrested. Indeed, it is impossible to see why she might not have been. Has she been suspended? If not, why not? That will teach her to try and throw her weight around in order to silence Catholic orthodoxy at the expense of the people who put the money in the collection plates. She may take up her comeuppance with the Preacher to the Papal Household.