Common Purpose exists for one main reason to allow those at the very highest levels of society and governance to network together and come to consensus on what is best for the whole.
The Mail took the angle on how those close to the Leveson enquiry and the good judge himself and will be key in the enquiry findings are members of this organisation and how some of them have previously campaigned for restrictions on the press. Others have been harmed by stories appearing in the popular press for which they didn't sue so we have to assume the stories were true.
So the allegation (loosely made) is that there is a vested interest (not Government) but interested parties and organisations in cracking down on press freedoms right at the heart of Leveson.
Then lets take Newsnight and the pa lava last week about the former treasurer of the Tory party... There is a connection which I will explain in due course.
But before I do that lets step back even further. Clearly child abuse has hit the headlines in the last Month or so and with some huge revelations with Saville. There was the BBC (Newsnight) shall we run the story or shall we not run with the allegations and then not doing so, then the ITV report which was aired which brought it all out.
Subsequently the BBC were accused of trying to bury the story which seems plausible now we have some idea of the depths of Saville's abuse and the fact clearly he was a predatory paedophile.
As a consequence of all this many other people come forward to say they were abused by Saville and a story re-emerges to do with a Children's home in North Wales (this itself was subject to a public enquiry some years ago the efficiency, ethics and probity of which have been since questioned). Out of the woodwork comes a chap by the name of Steve Meesham who alleged he was abused by the gentleman I alluded to above.
Newsnight again ran this story without actually naming the person. The person himself did not respond until quite a few days later after it turned out there had been a mis identification by this chap Meesham.
Meesham was forced to issue an apology with the good Lord popping up on TV a few minutes later all nicely choreographed.
The news spotlight since has moved from the child abuse angle to how can an independent broadcaster like the BBC can libel a former high profile politician..... The very nature and work of the BBC are coming under scrutiny and they were 'obliged' to pay the good lord £185,000 and they didn't even name him.... In addition the Director General was forced to step down.
The news focus should have remained on the abuse as people were coming forward. At a stroke it was moved to the libel issue and this chap Steve Meesham was completely and absolutely ridiculed (did anyone see the hatchet job the Mail did on him?). Clearly this is going to influence whether other people are going to come forward in the future..
As to the libel itself. David Icke made the original allegations about the good lord in a book in 1998, so did Scallywag magazine also some years ago. These occurrences named the person directly but he took no action to seek redress via the libel laws? Why was that?
Another high profile blogger by the name of Chris Spivey has also overtly named him but seems immune from legal action. Google is your friend and a search on both those names will bring you to some pages with some eye watering allegations which strangely seems immune from libel action.
So in the space of a few days we have moved from a story of what seems like systematic child abuse in the care system to one which questions the brevity and freedoms of the BBC and the wider press and all at a time when Leveson is drawing up his report to Parliament assisted by some interested parties who may have reasons of their own to curtail press freedoms.
Coming back to Common Purpose and the main thrust of this thread (although I accept it will go off at at a tangent now) with the networking and common purpose (interests) it would have been relatively simple to drop certain persons onto Leveson's assistance panel.
At this juncture I will leave this although I hope to continue to contribute to this thread going forward dependant on the interest in the subject material.
I will leave though with 2 points to think about.
Someone once wrote an ideal way to treat the media is thus....
Quote:
Spread false defeat to gain public sympathy; or false accusation and then arrange for it to be exposed as such – so the accuser will forever be treated with suspicion.’
Google the phrase and see if you can find out who it was. You well may be surprised....
The idea of child molesters in very high political places is not a new one..... There has long been a suspicion that this problem goes to the very heart of the British establishment.
Once such example who had a very close relationship with the Kray twins.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Boothby
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