"Fishing for tiddlers" - Tony Sheath
So, those doughty champions of public morals, Op Yewtree, have apparently arrested (not charged, mind you), some 65 year old man, apparently in Somerset. This is par for the course now. Arrest but let them go free, without charge.
Who is this latest tiddler? No idea. Connection to Savile? Probably not. But this doesn't stop the Mail and other media desperados from trumpeting "Jimmy Savile police arrest another, blah, blah boring blah." Pity. It's getting old, gentlemen. Time to pack up the nets and jam jars and head home for tea.
Digital Spy, that fount of Ickeism, went so far as to accuse David Smith, a very occasional driver for the BBC in the mid-80s, who don't remember him at all, as being "Jimmy Savile's driver." Er - no. Perhaps this latest tiddler was unfortunate enough to be in the audience at a taping for some show, but even the most flimsy of connections is enough for this lot. Better look like we're doing something. As long as some connection to the Beeb is there, it's all grist for the press mill, who are there to protect us, along with the plods, from wicked men leaping out of the bushes, intent on who knows what nastiness?
Stats thus far - 12 arrests, 1 charge. Glitter, Starr, De'Ath etc, will go free. No basis to charge them. All they have to show for all the sturm und drang is Mr. Smith, the lowly peon.
Upshot is that unless a photo of Savile is attached to a series of screamng heds, I don't think anyone would give a rat's rear-end any longer. Seems that without that, this is all just dust in the wind. I thought the whole point of busting up Savile's headstone was so that his memory would be erased from the public conscience. Now, instead of a headstone he has headlines. Ironic, innit?
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