Lord Steel aware Cyril Smith was abusing boys

[Nellies left peg]

Bless him he's resigned from the lib dems and retiring from house of Lords. Fucker should be locked up for conspiracy to abuse children

 

[BrianW]

Sickening. I'm sure there's a lot more sexual scandal at very high levels that we will never hear about. It's notable that Cyril Smith was only "exposed" once he was safely dead. For years and years the media gave him this wonderful PR - bit like the late Mr J Saville with his "interesting" connections in certain high places.

 

[squirtyflower]

Fucking fat **** Smith had the Education Department in Rochdale change their restructure plans and had our school shut down in favour of one of ‘his’ failing schools that was kept open instead. It was a rumour then he was a ‘wrong un’.

Rochdale under him and his councillor mates was a shit Education authority that promoted some very odd people, were incredibly insular and resisted any new ideas. Their dismissal of the reports of the sexual abuse rings was/is a disgrace to all those involved and should have face prosecution at the time. Instead they blamed those reporting it whilst keeping their mucky fingers in the pie.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Thought this about Steel was common knowledge.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Thought this about Steel was common knowledge.

It was. But the report out today is really damning and being the gent he is feels he shouldn't detract from the lib dems and step down. What a a ****

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Twat

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Bless him he's resigned from the lib dems and retiring from house of Lords. Fucker should be locked up for conspiracy to abuse children

I wonder how many 'daily allowances' he picked up in the HofL knowing what he knew about BFC.

 

[Nellies left peg]

I wonder how many 'daily allowances' he picked up in the HofL knowing what he knew about BFC.

It's despicable that he will now disappear from public life with a cosy little pension not giving a flying fuck about the families he could have prevented going through terrible distress

 

[sir baconface]

Politicians, eh? Don’t you just love them?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Fucking fat **** Smith had the Education Department in Rochdale change their restructure plans and had our school shut down in favour of one of ‘his’ failing schools that was kept open instead. It was a rumour then he was a ‘wrong un’.

Rochdale under him and his councillor mates was a shit Education authority that promoted some very odd people, were incredibly insular and resisted any new ideas. Their dismissal of the reports of the sexual abuse rings was/is a disgrace to all those involved and should have face prosecution at the time. Instead they blamed those reporting it whilst keeping their mucky fingers in the pie.

I worked for Rochdale for sixty years at the chalk face, but the bastards only paid for 42. As a probationer attending my first union meeting I got a lift off Cyril - thankfully there were other folk in the car at the same time! I also gained my first promotion and have often wondered in the past decades how I managed it. No hanky panky on my part, I should add! As for Rochdale Education Committee at the time I joined the show - '68 - was regarded as quite forward-thinking with good people in the right jobs. We were one of the few local authorities who chose to reorganise a Junior High School secondary sector into middle schools and upper schools. I think it worked extremely well. And then we got shunted into RMBC with Middleton, Heywood, Milnrow, and the current jewel in the crown - Littleborough! Then along came another 'reorganisation' with a tertiary college on the old Hopwood site, and as a consequence the middle and upper school system that, IMHO, worked well. And the rest, well . . . . . !