Sussex Police have arrested ex-Labour defence minister Ivor Caplin, MP for Hove between 1997 and 2005, in Brighton on suspicion of engaging in sexual communication with a child

The CPS account following him!! Reposting 3”11 male sex workers then the next tweet is about exposing CSE?!?! Omfg. These men are deranged

I doubt he was 'wheeled out to defend labour' when he had been suspended by the party months earlier

It crossed my mind too. Or dementia/brain tumour where all inhibitions are lost.

Bizarre is definitely the word.

Child abuse by Labour politicians is more relevant that those by Tories when Labour were the ones that whipped a vote against an inquiry into the systematic child sex abuse and torture of thousands of girls by ‘grooming’ (rape) gangs in overwhelmingly Labour constituencies. Especially when they follow an ex MP with porn on his feed who was wheeled out to defend Labour policy on this just before he was arrested.

Other parties record on abusive politicians might be just as bad but they didn’t vote against the inquiry.

I googled 'Tory Councillor arrest child abuse' and got a load of stories, so yes, not restricted to one party. I also saw a list that was similar to the one posted up thread that had a mix of parties on it, so limiting to Labour was done deliberately.

The twitter algorithm a few weeks ago decided that I was really interested in seeing racist comments about Indian people, which was horrendous. So not only was twitter not dealing with the comments, it was actively promoting them into my timeline.

no, he was originally a liberal politician, switched to Labour in 1950 and left in 1966
so his history of sexual offending is hardly proof of the Labour party condoning sexual assualts
as PP have said, you will find these men in all political parties, and all walks of life

Cyril Smith was Labour first, as the link rightly says. But it was a long time ago.

I have only glanced at that list but Cyril Smith was a Liberal politician not a Labour one, and also has been dead years - so I'm not inclined to take the list seriously, where's it from?

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/06/20/hove-man-arrested-over-alleged-sex-attack-on-homeless-person/

I saw this posted on X. IC isn’t named but it’s speculated that the age fits and he was suspended by the Labour Party in June.

https://x.com/cwestword/status/1878396424791966086

Maybe they're in favour of Eric Joyce's posts and not Rosie Duffield's? I bet if more people knew this, fewer would have voted Labour though. Paedophilia / child sexual abuse is a big vote loser with the general population even if the party's in favour.

Just coming back to this - I've never really understood the economics either. I assumed that most of their money came from advertising, which would probably have been tied to numbers using the platform, so the more people who use Twitter, the more Twitter was able to attract advertisers. Then again, surely some advertisers would feel queasy about advertising on a site that was partly being used to host porn?

We also know that a lot of advertisers withdrew from Twitter when Musk took over, and I don't know how it makes money now - I assume he doesn't get very much from charging people for the blue tick. Do those endless fake ads about Stacey Solomon bring in much money, I wonder?

The main thing that now seems clear, however, is that Musk isn't really using Twitter to make money. The reason he paid $44bn for it was to push his own political agenda. But I'm really stumped as to why that political agenda currently seems to be focused on events in the UK rather than in the US, when Musk's close ally Trump is days from taking power.

The large increase in antisemitism is to do with the Gaza conflict not ownership of SM.

Yes, I do remember that, but I also remember that JKR reported those images to Twitter, who then removed them. So either no one has reported Caplin's tweets to Twitter, or they have reported them and Twitter haven't acted.

Then again, I agree that this hasn't necessarily got worse since Musk took over. You would expect porn tweets to have been picked up and deleted automatically, and that doesn't seem to have happened, either then or now.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g when musk sacked all those moderation staff the rampant CSA images and accounts advertising csa images that old twitter didn't have enough staff to deal with got dealt with asap.
Now I'm not going to say that there's no CSA images on X but if you report any that you come across it gets taken down immediately and that's a massive improvement.
I can't comment on the racism because I haven't seen any changes in it from before. I have seen a large increase in antisemitism on all msm and sm sites though, it does seem to be acceptable now unfortunately.

Thanks for the warning!

Wife yikes having seen his twitter/X account I thought he was a single gay man.
Warning that his account is full of dick pics if anyone was thinking of looking at it. Though there's plenty of screen shots of it online with the dick pics sensored

Has he not been hacked? It seems so bizarre that it can’t be real

Ssshhhh we're not meant to apply the same standards

Musk has cleaned up X a lot. Do you not remember the TRA campaign of posting explicit pornography to JKR’s thread calling for children’s artwork for her Ikabog book? That was pre-musk.

He hasn't been an MP for 20 years. If people want to make a party political thing out of this, it's hardly the scandal of the century.

The issue here is twofold. First he was on TV just days ago arguing against a national enquiry on grooming gangs. Second he was followed by some very senior Labour people, who continued to follow him after he was suspended from the party and was posting some very explicit stuff on twitter.

The relevance is pretty obvious I think because it relates to one of the most high profile issues facing the government. And yes I would be saying this if it was an ex tory and the tories were currently the government.

Caplin was suspended from the Labour Party last June. Judging by his X timeline 😲, he hasn't been planning to run for elected office for quite some time. He hasn't been an MP for 20 years. If people want to make a party political thing out of this, it's hardly the scandal of the century.

For as long as I can remember there have been actual sitting MPs of all parties being caught committing a variety of sexual offences every couple of years. Hence why you won't see any other party publicly gloating about this case because they know it's quite likely that someone from their own ranks will be next. For the Tories you have, just in the last 5 or 6 years, Neil Parish, Rob Roberts, Imran Ahmad Khan (whose victim was also a 15 year old boy), David Warburton, and Chris Pincher, the defence of whom was the last straw that brought down Boris Johnson as PM.

Maybe they're just lazy and not very bright? It's an explanation that has the benefit of simplicity.