The MSM have been reporting and commenting on this issue – the resignation of the Director of the CPS, Ms Alison Saunders – since the news broke yesterday. Our correspondent Ann Farmer has written this letter which reached us last night, pointing out the underlying malaise leading to such appointments – a malaise which is being perpetuated by the BBC:
Dear Sir,
The head of the Crown Prosecution Service Alison Saunders ‘will this week announce that she is leaving her post after the Government declined to extend her contract following a series of controversies’; these include Operation Elveden, an ‘investigation into alleged payments by journalists to police and public officials’, which ‘failed to secure [a] single conviction’; a ‘[h]umiliating climbdown’ after their initial ruling that prosecuting Labour peer Lord Janner of Braunstone over child sex abuse charges ‘was not in the public interest’; Operation Yewtree, which resulted in ‘some high-profile convictions’ for sexual offences, including Gary Glitter and Max Clifford, while ‘other celebrities were cleared’; perhaps most notoriously, the Director of Public Prosecutions attracted criticism ‘after trials collapsed when critical evidence was disclosed days before cases [were] due to be heard’; (‘Chief prosecutor to stand down’, Telegraph, April 2, 2018).
The CPS has revealed that Ms Saunders ‘had not asked for her contract to be extended’; she was paid £250,000 last year and will leave with a handsome pension of £1.8 million, to join law firm Linklaters, consequently it seems she will be rewarded for her failures.
Ms Saunders’ reign as DPP has been marked not by the neutral pursuit of justice but the pursuit of political objectives by boosting convictions for actions of which she disapproved, and reducing convictions for actions of which she approved. She announced that online abuse involving racism and religion, disability, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia would be treated as hate crime’, saying she ‘confidently’ expected such reports to ‘soar’. She welcomed the rise in prosecutions for ‘revenge pornography’, hoping that greater awareness would lead to those already seen as victims ‘to report these nasty crimes’ but she also continued her predecessor Keir Starmer’s relaxation of the law against assisting the suicides of vulnerable persons, against long-standing Parliamentary opposition.
Her determination to increase convictions for rape has led to a nationwide ‘drains up’ operation revealing that evidence crucial to the defence in rape trials has been routinely withheld, but despite seeming to champion rape victims, she has also presided over a ‘justice’ system in which convicted rapists have been let out of prison on a revolving door system, as well as the ongoing scandal involving the systematic rape of under-age girls by gangs across the country.
In the latter, police were reluctant to intervene because the victims were seen as making ‘lifestyle choices’, but it has also been alleged that their reluctance was linked to the ethnicity of the perpetrators – thus the weaker ‘minority’ was sacrificed to the interests of the stronger, a hallmark of left-liberal progressivism.
But just as the disastrous reign of Alison Saunders is ending, the same worldview can be seen in the BBC’s announcement that by next year, ‘half of the expert voices on news and current affairs programmes will be women’; Director-general Lord Hall of Birkenhead maintained:
“This is a fantastic project that is already driving change. The results from programmes that have taken it up have been remarkable.”’
The case of Alison Saunders demonstrates the dangers of appointing women because they are women; anyone who criticises the promotion of already well-paid women into higher posts at even higher salaries will be vulnerable to accusations of woman-hatred, but female critics will also be ignored; apparently, there is only one women’s viewpoint, and that viewpoint just happens to be their own viewpoint; in effect, they will simply replace men with ‘yes women’.
Over the years the BBC has become increasingly dominated by the same narrow social class – left-liberal progressives who believe they are right about everything; although they sympathise with the disadvantaged, when the disadvantaged disagree with them on defining issues like Brexit – when they actually want to voice their own opinions, rather than leaving that task to self-appointed champions – they are dismissed as old, ignorant bigots influenced by right-wing news outlets; needless to say, Christians are seen as embarrassingly outdated, thus, increasingly, Muslims are being appointed to religious appointments traditionally held by members of the majority religion, Christianity.
The left-liberal progressive class now dominates the BBC and use it to project their worldview worldwide. Despite having highly-paid secure careers (at public expense) they identify with minorities because they feel like an embattled minority, under threat from right-wing bigots massing on the horizon.
The BBC has been ‘caught out’ violating its own ‘minorities’ religion and is now scrambling to regain its self-appointed role as their champion; no doubt they sincerely believe that in selecting minorities with mathematical exactitude they are helping to create a perfectly balanced world; undoubtedly the pinnacle of their ambition would be to appoint a niqab-wearing woman as a news reader; however, unless they succeed in completely abolishing free choice this approach will never succeed, although in repeatedly failing to achieve the unachievable, they will provide material for minority grievances that Marxists can exploit to win power, at which point they can abolish choice altogether.
While overlooking old sexual offences, Ms Saunders has introduced new sexual offences, and the BBC would no doubt be happy to see the criminalisation of anyone who disagrees with them, until the world is free of thought crime and minorities are no longer victimised; but as to the real victims of actual crime – the rape victims, and those whose ‘loved ones’ have ‘helped them to die’, there will be no one to speak up for them, and no one to prosecute the chief prosecutor.
Respectfully, Ann Farmer
Excellent letter by Ann Farmer!
Operation Elveden [ against journalists paying for information] and Operation Weeting [ against journos hacking phones] both began while Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions. Keir was DPP from 2008 to 2013. Alison Saunders was DPP from 2013 to 2018. Both Elveden and Weeting persecuted only journalists working for the Sun and the News Of The World. Many journos were kept on police bail for years, their careers in limbo. Most were never charged, and as far as I know, the only one convicted had his conviction quashed on appeal. In copies of the Socialist Lawyer, the monthly journal of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Keir Starmer was named as the HSSL’s treasurer and secretary [months or years apart]. He may have held other offices for all I know, I have only seen some copies of Socialist Lawyer since 1986, when it began. He regularly contributed articles to the journal also. Now Keir is a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.
Ann Farmer in her letter says that Operation Elveden, in which the Crown Prosecution Service prosecuted only journalists from the Sun newspaper, was one event in Alison Saunders’ career as Director of Public Prosecutions. It may have been, but that persecution, in which only Sun journalists’ homes were raided and ransacked in dawn raids, and Sun journalists kept on police bail for years, was initiated by the previous DPP, who was Keir Starmer. Before he became DPP, Keir Starmer was a member of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, and was secretary and treasurer in that left wing lawyers’ association.
The recent rise in deaths by shooting in London reveal the bankrupt policies of appeasement and under policing. New York in the USA pioneered a policy of full on control and punishment for all offences. Backing up the police with increased manpower and speedy trials and judgements. Banishing no go areas and stopping all crimes soft or hard by total action. This must be accompanied by lifting all street dwellers and providing decent hostel accommodation or jail whichever they prefer. A lawless and uncaring and dirty city appearance encourages crime and contempt. The government is well behind on this and must provide the resources now.
Agreed.
The BBC’s announcement that by next year, ‘half of the expert voices on news and current affairs programmes will be women’. That really says all you need to know about the BBC where people are not chosen on merit but by gender to meet a target.
I am all for equal opportunities for both sexes but we need the best people for the job rgardless of gender. The subject of this letter was obviously not the right person for the job but will be handsomely rewarded for failure!
It is good to see that the author of the letter is Ann Farmer and that this website has a woman Chief Editor whilst Kipper Cental has a young man in charge. Two excellent websites showing that there is no lack of talent in UKIP whatever their gender.
Merit, yes. How to get that all important knowledge? Good education is key. We are being fed fake news, our children are being fed fake knowledge of history – particularly EU history – fake demonisation of people standing up for themselves and their families.
When Tony Blair stated “education, education, education” he knew that he was overturning truth and bringing in the horrendous schooling (almost nationally in state funded schools/academies) our young are enduring.
I have built up a large reference library for my grandchildren as I noticed some school ones were deleting information and even overturning truth on some subjects.
Mentioning academies really makes me angry. Certain people have seen this as a way of lining their pockets with education cash, reminds me of the NHS destruction.
p.s. Hello Alec, I admire your dogged determination in what you do for the party and its members. I hope to be back supporting our local branch once a meeting and AGM are announced. Mx
A well written and thought provoking article.
“consequently it seems she will be rewarded for her failures.”
This seems to be a common practice for those in public office. How about cutting their salaries by at least 50% and paying the balance for satisfactory performance? The judgment of that to be by a panel of ordinary voters with some knowledge relevant to the job in question.