![hago 13.49 GMT
Bryant says Tory ministers and prominent journalists were
defending Andrew in 2011 when warning signs already clear
In a reference to Ed Davey (see 9.06am), Bryant said that there were some
people now saying, with reference to Mountbatten-Windsor, “if only we had
known then what we know now”. He went on:
44 But 'm afraid that with me that doesn’t wash. We did actually have plenty
of warning.
I called on the then prime minister, David Cameron, to dispense with the
services of the then Duke of York in this chamber on 28 February 2011 because
of his close friendship with Saif Gaddafi, as has just been referred to, and [a]
convicted Libyan gun smuggler. I was rebuked by Speaker Bercow then for doing
s0 because references to members of the royal family should be very rare, very
sparing and very respectful.
(Bryant is right to say he was warning about Andrew 15 years ago. I covered
this at the time on the live blog.)
Bryant said he repeatedly called for Andrew to lose his trade envoy job, over
his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the mysteriously excessive payment
he received for the sale of his home, among other reasons.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5eyzxq6litcyeva7et2xs6yt/bafkreiagboxlnfc2bvuvtky3xa66n2o4cae5rcpvhv2vhmbtcwgpevsg3e)
hago 13.49 GMT Bryant says Tory ministers and prominent journalists were defending Andrew in 2011 when warning signs already clear In a reference to Ed Davey (see 9.06am), Bryant said that there were some people now saying, with reference to Mountbatten-Windsor, “if only we had known then what we know now”. He went on: 44 But 'm afraid that with me that doesn’t wash. We did actually have plenty of warning. I called on the then prime minister, David Cameron, to dispense with the services of the then Duke of York in this chamber on 28 February 2011 because of his close friendship with Saif Gaddafi, as has just been referred to, and [a] convicted Libyan gun smuggler. I was rebuked by Speaker Bercow then for doing s0 because references to members of the royal family should be very rare, very sparing and very respectful. (Bryant is right to say he was warning about Andrew 15 years ago. I covered this at the time on the live blog.) Bryant said he repeatedly called for Andrew to lose his trade envoy job, over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the mysteriously excessive payment he received for the sale of his home, among other reasons.
But he said David Cameron, the then PM, Theresa May, the then home secretary, and many others defended Andrew. He said that John Humphrys, the broadcaster, told him on the Today programme at the time that Epstein “wasn’t quite a paedophile, drawing a distinction between sexual abuse of prepubescent and other children”. And he said that Dominic Lawson also defended Andrew in his Sunday Times column, making “the same distinction between Epstein’s involvement with teenage girls and paedophilia since, as he put it, none of the girls was prepubescent”. But Lawson “did at least admit that both were sordid and exploitative”, Bryant said. Bryant said this was happening after the photograph of Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre was published.
They all knew the accusations, they all knew what a POS he is, yet they defended and enabled him.
John Humphrys comments on Paedophilia just confirm what I've always thought about that guy, and much much worse.
#AbolishTheMonarchy #Deference #Heirachy […]
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