The Conservative party have said there are “no plans” to take action against right-wing MEP Roger Helmer for shocking remarks made on his blog about rape.
The Conservative party have said there are “no plans” to take action against right-wing MEP Roger Helmer for shocking remarks made on his blog about rape. Helmer said some rape victims were to blame for their assault.
Helmer had written:
“Consider two rape scenarios. The first is the classic “stranger-rape”… The second is “date rape”…
“While in the first case, the blame is squarely on the perpetrator and does not attach to the victim, in the second case the victim surely shares a part of the responsibility.”
Labour’s Caroline Flint called the comments “outrageous”, with Tory MP Louise Bagshawe describing the remarks as “appalling”. He has refused to apologise and remains a Tory MEP.
Last year, Helmer described poor children as “a bunch of feckless ne’er-do-wells”, and has previously criticised charity money going to gypsy children, denied climate change, and denied that homophobia exists.
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John P Reid
A female labour backbencher said in the Chamber monday that when the Tories were goign to give anomynity to rape suspects it implied that the alleged victim are lying by not naming the suspect, it does no such thing– If rape suspects are named when charged their name should be released next to the sort of information
Fred Bloog’s was arrested for rape yesterday and Under the law he is completely innocent itll Proven guilty up until the point when He sit’s in a dock and the 12 people of the jury pass judgement and the Beek sends him down, till then while in the dock he is as completely as free to go and as Justice stands even if he is released justice stands that there is no miscarriage of justice and that as he’s inncoent that he can hold his head high while awating trial as such he has much rights to be viewed as innocent as you ,I or anyone else male or female,
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Nick georgiou
Someone should punch him very hard in the face
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