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Hands up those who think that Sir Keir Starmer inviting Harriet Harman to a new role as a key adviser in his Government is a disturbing if not downright sinister development? I mean it was bad enough that Starmer was so keen on appointing Lord Mandelson, the friend of the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to the role of US Ambassador, but this new appointment makes it look worse. You see Harrier is his new special adviser on women and girls issues and she has history.
Her name is linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) because of her work in the 1970s at the National Council for Civil Liberties which had allowed PIE to affiliate as a member group. PIE is a now‑defunct but it openly campaigned FOR paedophilia and for changes to the age‑of‑consent and child‑pornography laws.
From 1978 to 1982 Harman was NCCL’s legal officer, while her future husband Jack Dromey sat on its executive and Patricia Hewitt was general secretary. During this period, NCCL issued submissions arguing that the law on indecent images of children should focus on demonstrable harm and warning against over‑broad censorship, and they claimed this amounted to soft‑pedalling on paedophilia or giving political cover to PIE.
Harman has consistently denied supporting PIE or its aims and says her legal work was about civil liberties, not backing paedophiles. She accepts that PIE’s affiliation to NCCL was “regrettable” and that the group was a “vile organisation,” but argues that affiliation pre‑dated her time there and that she has “nothing to apologise for.”
Je ne regrette rien?
Is it conceivable that although she, her husband and her political friend Patricia Hewitt, were ALL working for the NCCL but had zero knowledge of PIE?
