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Originally Posted by ianch99
I think the lack of outrage when the former Chairman of the Conservative Party is arrested for sexual offences and misconduct in public office really says it all both in terms of the current state of the country and how far we have come.
This is not finger pointing, rather a contrast.
Regards the red herring of contempt of court, consider the levels of publicity & outrage when the name of the BBC presenter was not known.
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I'm still not sure what you point actually is. You are comparing apples with pears.
Contempt of court is a specific crime that applies once someone has been arrested for an offence. That did not happen in one case and has in the other. The Conservative Party are put in a difficult position. Given the nature of the offence, length of investigation, the longer it is out of the limelight the better. For any accusers as much as anything else. You don't want a mob of idiots calling them liars on the internet, just as a mob assuming guilt is undesirable to the process.
If you want to make a sport out of going after any Tory there's plenty of others that would be safer to go after at this time.