British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Harriet Harman, linked to a controversial pedophile advocacy group, as an adviser on women and girls has further undermined his credibility.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appointed Harriet Harman, a former Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, and current member of the House of Lords, as an adviser on “women and girls” earlier this month, despite her past association with the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), which advocated for decriminalizing sex with small children, through her role at the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL). 📰 DETAIL: Harman, while serving as a legal officer for the NCCL in 1978, authored a paper that controversially argued against stricter child pornography laws, suggesting that harm from child sexual exploitation was speculative unless it could be proven that the victim had suffered. PIE was formally affiliated with the NCCL during her tenure, with former PIE chairman Tom O’Carroll saying in 2014 that she and other Labour figures at the NCCL “didn’t even try” to break the connection. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “Harriet Harman in 1978 was a newly qualified solicitor and became the NCCL’s legal officer. She wrote its official response to Parliament’s Protection of Children Bill, which sought to ban child pornography. Her letter claimed that such a law would ‘increase censorship’, and she argued that a pornographic picture of a naked child should not be considered indecent unless it could be proven that the subject had suffered.” – Christian Concern, commenting on Harman’s PIE connections in 2014 🎯 IMPACT: Harman’s appointment is likely to fuel further criticism of Starmer’s judgment and decision-making, particularly in light of his history of elevating veteran Labour politicians with links to pedophilia. His government has been damaged particularly badly by his contentious decision to appoint Labour grandee Peter Mandelson, a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as ambassador to the U.S., then having to fire him within a matter of months when the release of the Epstein Files revealed his connection to the pedophile was even deeper than previously reported. |
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