Labour Tweet attacking Rishi Sunak

He wasn't which is exactly why he commissioned an investigation into why no prosecution was made and then implemented the reforms the investigation recommended.

Except I never said he was the reviewing lawyer did I and he has taken public responsibility for it also why don't you look at the reviews done of his department and how well his juniors believe he ran it

If they want to attack the Tories I’d do it on their own corruption and sleaze, not bring victims of sexual assault into it.

Exactly this.

It’s not about if the tories are bothered. We are. Voters. Lots of people didn’t like this tweet. Thinking this is ok just because tories do it means you’ve lowered the bar for everyone. I’ll call it out whoever does it

BBC Reality Check has examined Boris Johnson's claim that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP) and has found no evidence that Sir Keir was involved at any point in the decision not to charge Savile.

DPP wasn't consulted.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/60213975.amp

In fact a number of Conservative MPs suggested the baseless claim should be withdrawn. Raab refused to repeat it as it couldn't be substantiated.

You honestly believe he wasn't consulted on such a high profile case !

In the same way that Boris didn't realise what the rules were you mean ?

Only one Twitter mob need apply. Gender ideology yes

Anyone else no

As for women well you’re not even discussing it anyway, totally dim

True incompetence

Except you are telling lies. Starmer had no authority or influence in the JS cases. He did however make it much easier for victims of abuse to give evidence.

Thatcher was warned again and again about Saville but invited him to Chequers and pushed for him to be knighted

Has nobody here ever seen the The Thick of It ?

They can take it down, they can apologise … but that’s not what this is about. People will have seen the picture, read the text, and those two things are now linked. It’s there to make people think / react in a certain way, and, even when this “scandal” dies down (which it will), the image & text will still be in people’s minds, linking Sunak with being weak on CSE

Politics is a dirty business … I should know.

The Tories are more than happy to use the victims of Jimmy Savile to score points against Starmer, so they can’t start bleating about it now … well they can, but it makes them look like hypocrites

lots if people will never have thought of the Tory failings on CSE until now … but a lot more people will now be saying “yea, they have had 13 years to sort this out and haven’t” - job done

5 times apparently

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2366576/Revealed-Lady-Thatchers-FIVE-attempts-secure-knighthood-Jimmy-Savile.html

Apparently linking Daily Mail articles to anti Tory themes confuses OpenAI by confusing it's learning. The future looks like being fun.

What was that dreadful thud? The sound of Keir Starmer falling off his high horse

Marina Hyde also points out that Keir Starmer was himself a member of the sentencing council;
The one thing you would hope the career lawyer would be across is that Sunak – who wasn’t even an MP for five years of the period gestured towards in the ad – was not responsible for sentencing or sentencing guidelines. The fact that Starmer was himself a member of the sentencing council for some of that period is another factor that places the ad firmly in the “audacious” category.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/07/keir-starmer-high-horse-politics-labour-rishi-sunak

The fact that Starmer was himself a member of the sentencing council for some of that period is another factor that places the ad firmly in the “audacious” category.

Quite.

So there are some tories left on Mumsnet. I had begun to wonder.

The Labour lot give it a good bash tbf

I don't like the ad, and agree with comments about the tone of politics, and the use of victims to score points. It doesn't matter that the Tories are just as bad. If the stat in the ad is correct (and I've not seen anything disputing that part of it) then it really is shocking and Labour have detracted from it with their use of Sunak in the ad in that way.

However, I have no time for any Tory MP bleating about the tone of politics in relation to this tweet. Unless they criticised Johnson's Saville comments at the time, they cannot now claim any sort of high ground about using victims for political gain. Of course, now they've put this ad out, Labour can also no longer complain about the Tories doing that either.

Indeed - it's not surprising they normally keep their heads down. It really has to be a proper labour own-goal to get them to dare to raise their heads above the parapet

Absolutely.

But Keir Starmer was DPP until 2013, well into the time period quoted here. He was responsible for taking court cases and getting convictions. That's not in the govts remit. Starmer supports this campaign. Everyone always makes out hus USP is being an honest guy because he was a lawyer (Hmm. OK.) So why isn't he holding his hand up saying he was responsible for these figures too?

Nothing wrong with that, they did a lot worse to Corbyn.

Rephrasing the lie doesn't make it any more true.

If the stat in the ad is correct (and I've not seen anything disputing that part of it) then it really is shocking

It came from labour party analysis not from any open figures. We've no idea how they've got those figures. It's reminiscent of claims made on the side of a bus.
Ugh, politics today.

You'll be able to point out your outrage when that lying sack of shit accused Starmer of defending Savile?

Or are you biased as to which sex victims you're defending?

Parliament defines the overall sentencing framework by setting maximum penalties for offences and determining the structures of sentencing.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmjust/715/71506.htm

I hate Sunak, I would NEVER vote Tory.

this tweet is just disgusting and disappointing. What a let down!