Now Al, had such a statement like yours been in a news report, it would be justified in being dismissed as "Socialist Propaganda".
If the file was "lost", it was "lost" by Civil Servants so why Brittan is being kicked, I dunno.
An interesting item in the Guardian (!!??) about a letter from Brittan to Dickens:-
"According to the letter from Brittan to Dickens on 20 March 1984, the home secretary wrote to Dickens saying: "You drew my attention to a number of allegations concerning paedophilia when you called here on 23 November and in subsequent letters.
"I am now able to tell you that, in general terms, the view of the director of public prosecutions is that two of the letters you forwarded could form the basis for inquiries by the police and they are now being passed to the appropriate authorities.
"In other cases there either seems to be inadequate evidence to pursue prosecution, for example the lady who wrote about PIE1 advertising but did not secure any example of the material complained of, or they have already been dealt with in some way by the courts or the police."
Brittan therefore did what he was supposed to do = passed on the file to Civil Servants to deal with and as he was told that the DPP had looked at it and had passed on that info to the Cops, what else was Brittan supposed to do? Investigate it himself?
A Minister can only rely on the paid officials, (the same officials who are there whether the "Government" is Labour or Conservative), the Minister only initiates enquiries and wait for them to report back as seems to have been the case according to Brittans letter to Dickens in March 1984.
Turning now to the North Wales issue, that is not correct. The "file" was said to be missing but subsequently the whole lot was found, not just the "bare bones". That has been reported during several cases/trials before the Courts and there are still more yet to go to trial.
As an aside and as to PIE, as I remember things, some investigative journalists were following up on some people (men) who hung around London stations dressed in some pseudo uniform on the pretext of spotting and "helping" runaways. Investigating further, the journalists uncovered the real reason those people were looking for runaways was to exploit them for "undesirable activities" (put your own meaning on that!). Further investigation brought the journalists in to contact with PIE and they attended at least one meeting (may have been more) before they exposed the whole business.
One bit I remember from the news report which blew the whole thing wide open was that one prominant member of PIE had (at that PIE meeting) introduced a girl as his "Gilfriend". She was 12 years old!
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
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