This article just seems to be throwing accusations about wildly. Where is the evidence that any of this true? I'm just thinking of ALL the reports such agencies must have to deal with on a regular basis, a lot of the unfounded. Sorry, but you need EVIDENCE if you are going to go accusing someone like Margaret Thatcher. Let's take a look at what the accuser is saying happened here. He was apparently asked if he had any evidence and said evidence would be forthcoming. I don't see any wrongdoing here on the part of the people he reported this to. Sorry, but you would need to have more than the word of ONE person, who obviously is holding some type of grudge. You need to have evidence. Otherwise, anyone can just accuse anyone else of doing horrible things . . .
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Margaret Thatcher was warned that
senior ministers were involved in a child sex ring, a former Tory activist claims.
Anthony Gilberthorpe says he sent her a 40-page dossier in 1989 accusing Cabinet members of
abusing underage boys at drug-fuelled conference parties.
Mr Gilberthorpe, who claims he was ordered to recruit boys for the ministers, says he posted the “graphic” allegations to Mrs Thatcher after befriending her.
Mr Gilberthorpe, who was
a young Tory hopeful when he was asked to recruit for the parties, said: “I outlined exactly what I had witnessed and informed her I intended to expose it.
“I had met Mrs Thatcher on several occasions and even presented her with a birthday cake in 1983. I believed she had to know.”
He said that being overlooked for the safe Tory seat of Gloucester in April 1986 made up his mind to shop the ministers. “I believe I was stitched up and it gave me an insight into the treacherous nature of the party,” he added.
“It was one of the reasons I decided reveal what I’d witnessed.
I made it very clear to Mrs Thatcher most trusted ministers had been at these parties with boys who were between 15 and 16.
“I also told her of the amount of illegal drugs like cocaine that were consumed.
“I underlined the names of Keith Joseph, Rhodes Boyson and one MP still serving today. I also said I had seen Michael Havers at a party in Blackpool held at the hotel pool in 1983.”
At the time Sir Keith Joseph was the Education Secretary and hailed as the “founding father of Thatcherism”. He died in 1994 aged 76. Sir Rhodes Boyson held several ministerial posts in his career. An advocate of corporal punishment in schools, he died in 2012 at 87.
Mr Gilberthorpe says he received no response from No10 – but was called to a meeting at a House of Lords tearoom with William Hague, who had replaced ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan as MP for Richmond in North Yorks.
Mr Gilberthorpe, now 52, said: “I have no idea why William Hague was chosen to deal with my allegations.
“He introduced a high ranking civil servant who was also there. Then the civil servant turned to me and said, ‘Now what is this all about?’ I felt very uncomfortable and surrounded, so I loudly told them, ‘What this is about is the way I’m being treated’.”
Gilberthorpe says he then was ushered into a nearby private room.
He said: “The civil servant told me ‘I’ve been made aware of your letter and the very serious allegations in there. Can you substantiate any of the claims?’ I told him I was flagging up things I had seen. He then said ‘Why you are writing to the Prime Minister about these matters is beyond me’.
“I was asked if there was any evidence and I told him it would emerge in time. The civil servant then said ‘What you’ve said is extremely libelous and slanderous. This meeting is finished’.
“Mr Hague hardly said anything. I was ushered out and that was that. I was angry. I thought I’d hit a brick wall and there seemed no other place to go.”
A source close to Mr Hague yesterday said the Foreign Secretary “has no recollection of ever meeting this individual”.
Mr Gilberthorpe has a picture of them both together at Mr Hague’s private office in 2003 where he had hoped to raise the matter again but decided against it.
The source said Mr Hague would not remember as he does “tens of thousands of these grip and grin photographs”.
Last night the civil servant, who we are not naming, did not reply to requests for a comment. Meanwhile speculation is growing over claims Mrs Thatcher must have been aware of rumours about ministers and under-age boys.
But no, it couldn't be about ratings and money, it MUST be about racism. So, our police AND our media are racists now. God, our whole country is just a big racist cesspool according to some people I suppose.
Notice how you start immediately with the name-calling because you are apparently incapable of coherent thought.
