Tuesday 25 June 2013

Stuart Hall and Tameside Labour: Close Bedfellows

As you will of read in the press, Stuart Hall has been sentenced to a lenient fifteen month jail term for fourteen sexual offences committed on girls, one as young as nine years old.

It is presumed that many of Hall's victims were from the Tameside area as he lived in Stalybridge at the time of the attacks. One of the victims that decided to waive her anonymity, Susan Melville, was just fifteen herself when she was groomed by Hall after presenting a prize to secondary school students at Longdendale High School.

Stuart Hall is a card carrying member of the Labour Party and even endorsed Lord Tom Pendry (a former MP who is now a Peer) when he stood for the parliamentary seat of Stalybridge and Hyde election in 1979 as seen in our previous post: Tom Pendry and Stuart Hall. The Hall and Pendry family were rather close with their wives holding a business together called Pendry Hall Associates. Stuart Hall would even accompany Lord Pendry to Tameside Council run promotional events as seen in the image to the right.

Labour were quick to deny to the Guido Fawkes blog that Stuart Hall was no longer a member and that his membership ended over ten years ago. However, when the Stalybridge and Hyde Labour Club re-opened after the arson attack, Stuart Hall was there as a special guest alongside, Lord Pendry and current Stalybridge and Hyde MP, Jonathan Reynolds.



On the 13th of July last year, Jamie Reed, the MP for Copeland tweeted: "Is Stuart Hall Labour?". To which our Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde replied: "He is indeed. He's a local lad on my patch too".



Join the dots...


When Stuart Hall pleaded guilty, the Independent released an article called "How I Exposed Stuart Hall" by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, it contained one interesting snippet:

"She went to the studios [BBC] encouraged by her mum and head teacher. And went back again, and once more. He seemed caring. Then, having groomed her, she alleges, he got her drunk and started the abuse. She kept going back. His mates, including an MP who is now a Peer, she claims, helped Hall with his filthy hobby."

Was mysteriously changed to:

"She went to the studios [BBC] encouraged by her mum and head teacher. And went back again, and once more. He seemed caring. Then, having groomed her, she alleges, he got her drunk and started the abuse. She kept going back. His mates, she claims, helped Hall with his filthy hobby."

So just who is this MP who is now a Peer which helped Hall with his filthy hobby?

Proof is kept in Google Cache as spotted by @ciabaudo:



More to come soon....

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