Remembering Jimmy

[poliphilo]

To be honest I thought he was naff but not exactly monstrous. I watched Jim'll Fix It because everyone did.  It was the kind of TV show you forget as soon as you leave the sofa. I thought he was merely an entry in the bizarre history of taste- a thing cultural historians of the future would scratch their heads at and wonder. 

Now I lie in bed at night and ask what the hell was going on. He wasn't talented. He wasn't funny. He had an instantly recognizable schtick but it wasn't particularly entertaining. Most of the people who rubbed up against him found him creepy (or that's what they're saying now). So how did this strange, empty little person get to be such a power in the land? For as long as he was alive he remained untouchable. He may not have had personal friends but he had plenty of establishment ones- the BBC, successive Prime Ministers, politicians, police chiefs, health chiefs, religious leaders, Prince Charles. He had the entree to any institution he wanted. He garnered two knighthoods- one from the Queen and one from the Pope. How did all that come about?  Were all those good people fooled, corrupted or compliant? How does this scandal relate to all the other scandals that are mushrooming up in its wake?

I need to know. I need to find out what kind of a country it is I've been living in these past sixty years. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think you're going easy on Savile. A normal man might take opportunities as they came up, but Savile seems to have organised his life so as to have had access to kids- not just teenage girls but little boys as well. He wangled his way into Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville, Leeds General and various other institutions. He invested a vast amount of time and energy into his predation. It went far beyond taking advantage of groupies.

I don't think he can be linked to the North Wales children's homes, but we know he visited Haut de la Garenne on Jersey. There are rumours that he pimped HdeG kids to his estblishment friends. I don't know what weight to accord these rumours, but they exist.