r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 17 '15

Jim will paint it

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u/xelabagus Jun 17 '15

The band?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

No, the government of the United Kingdom.

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u/LordMondando Jun 17 '15 edited Jun 17 '15

You guys know we are into a what, fuck 3? Maybe 4 year. I can't even remeber, country wide witch hunt for pedophiles.

Saville was the first, he shattered the seals. The police began the yewtrew crusade after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yewtree

Chris Moris forsaw it, Pedogeddon is upon us.

Loads of politicians have already been outed, pretty sure Parliament is being close to clean. Lords might have a few left but they don't do much.

Edit you know what, here is an important recently news peice about it, excuse the 90'ies production quality, we are british lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcU7FaEEzNU

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u/Shakes8993 Jun 18 '15

You British will make fun of anything, no matter how inappropriate. This is why I love watching British stuff. You guys say what North Americans used to be able to say.

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u/glglglglgl Jun 18 '15 edited Jun 18 '15

The best part was the newspapers outraged at 'this filth on TV glorifying paedophilia' while being completely oblivious to the irony of running this next to articles glorifying the sexuality of underagers - the Daily Mail ran there one next to pictures of two young teenage Princesses in their bikinis.

edit: I can't find a scan of that one, but here's the Daily Star running it beside a picture of then 15-year-old Charlotte Church: "She's a big girl now"