Newsnight Fri 2 Nov please watch v Important you know who is running the country

[MrsjREwing]

Tom Watkins tweeted a seniour politician will be outed tonight and Max Clifford said on Daybreak shocking news will be released by the BBC today.

[swallowedAfly]

reading this sent me off on a bit of googling and reading articles. it's remarkable how many institutions and people were complicit in JS's abuse - except it's not remarkable is it because this is the trouble with boys clubs - nudge, nudge, wink, wink culture rather than actually reactng and giving a damn about the children involved.

[JakeBullet]

I think tonight will be very touch and go with regards to the decision to broadcast......suspecting it will be pulled at the last minute.

[MrsjREwing]

I was off focusing on obsessions irl.

I do agree with the person who was questioning why newsnight was not handing over evidence to the police.

It is a shame there will be somewhere to hide now for this SP and to think someone who has harmed children and had power over the way this country is run, a trusted MP voted in by people in good faith.

How are people who voted him in to work in their best interests going to feel?

How have the survivors of his abuse lived with what this person did to them and to watch them in public life.

[NigellasGuest]

see on link below the last sentence of the article, in italics

Tim Fenton ‏@zelo_street
Newsnight And A Paedophile Accusation: may not be who many think - here's the clues to another possible name zelo.tv/RArJk3 #savile
Retweeted by Nicky Campbell

//www.zelo.tv/RArJk3

[Nancy66]

there have been police enquiries in which this person's name came up though - i imagine the suggestion is going to be that he was protected from on high.

[ThePathanKhansWitch]

I didn,t think they will air it.It would be a bombshell.If the web rumours are correct.

[FiercePanda]

From the zelo.tv link posted above...

...Because this could be a most Educating revelation.

Jesus take the wheel.

[gazzalw]

I must be thick because I don't get the hint?????

[GeorginaWorsley]

Bloody hell,would never have thought it of him.
iF it is true of course..

[Pinot]

Oh my goodness.

The current Education Minister? Am I reading that correctly?

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

[Nancy66]

i think you're all barking up the wrong tree.

[gazzalw]

No someone who was an education Minister in the 1990s if I'm not being too obtuse...... Current Education Minister would have been a babe in arms then....

[AnyaKnowIt]

I haven't got a clue either, but it does look like Newsnight won't be naming names.

[EdithWeston]

If you're reading that, it's not based on the zelo link, which is referring to one of two PPS to John Major, tending towards the unmarried one. Gove wasn't an MP until 2005, so not him.

Actually, given that the person concerned in the cryptic statements was not impeded from pursuing a political career, I don't find the assumption that it must be a Tory convincing. The oft quoted bit seems to say that the person was connected (nfd) with a paedophile convicted in the 1990s, and also that he was a senior political figure connected to a former PM. It is not explicit about which of those events occurred first.

[Pinot]

[MrsjREwing]

Go on twitter and put in #newsnight, then have a read.

[DreamsTurnToGoldDust]

and then have a look at related underneath.

[AnyaKnowIt]

If it is him, would explain his strange ideas on rape

[gazzalw]

Aargh couldn't access it as I don't have an account.....

[Arisbottle]

I read somewhere that whoever it was, was a popular figure and had popularity outside of his party, that would fit.

[member]

Hmmm, why on earth did Iain Overton tweet the content before air? How did Micheal Crick know who to speak to regarding the potential broadcast??

[Arisbottle]

I don't have twitter but can access it

[GeorginaWorsley]

no,my post refered to cigar and jazz liking figure,not education secretary

[Arisbottle]

He was an education secretary though.

[Lulabellarama]

I just can't believe it could be the popular Tory being referred to, but that seems to be the most prolific opinion on Twitter. This gets more and more bizarre.