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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Starmer was part of the system that protected Savile, that's a reasonable thing to say.
It's been proven that he had no part in the decision to not prosecute.
Serious question: what do you think the DoP does? Do you think he decides in every case whether to go ahead and prosecute or not? Like, a junior prosecutor sends a report to the DoP, makes a recommendation, and the DoP then stays up all night reading reports and having the final say in what happens in each and every case? Do you realise how absurd that would be?
Starmer had nothing to do with it. He's no more responsible for that than Priti Patel is when a couple of Met cops go around posting instagram photos of dead bodies. People below him fucked up, that's all. He ordered an investigation into it, and it found people below him fucked up. That's what he apologised for.
Of course, in hindsight, you can say it should have been obvious Savile was a scumbag, and the complaints should have been taken seriously, and they weren't. But that was nothing to do with Starmer. Not his job to make decisions in individual cases, never was.
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