K.Harvey Proctor was MP for Basildon from 1979 to 1983 and for Billericay from 1983 to 1987.
In 2020, the House of Lords Appointments Commission rightly denied Tom Watson a peerage. Keir Starmer is now flying in the face of the Commission and has nominated Watson again. I opposed Watson’s elevation last time. The facts have not changed, nor have they been challenged. I oppose it now.
Edwin Bramall, the former Head of the Armed Forces, Leon Brittan, the former Home Secretary and Edward Heath were Watson’s principal targets when he supported Carl Beech’s (a.k.a “Nick”) false allegations of paedophilia and child murder in 2014. The Metropolitan Police investigation that followed was Operation Midland.
The most reasonable explanation for Watson’s conduct is as follows. That he eyeballed a potential gap in the market for a politician to sympathise with alleged victims of sexual abuse. That he, and others, appropriated the issue of historical child sexual abuse for their own dastardly and opportunist agendas. And that he, against a background of growing concern over low rape convictions, influenced by gossip and rumour on the internet and social media and, spurred on a compulsion to grandstand, sought to interview alleged victims before investigating their claims.
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