Tories unlikely to discipline Helmer for sickening rape comments

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.

Roger-Helmer 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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Mr. Sensible

What brilliant timing…
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/05/david-campbell-bannerman-roger-helmer-europe-tories-extremists/ Euro-Tories gain a UKIP defector – but Helmer faces the chop | Left Foot Forward

[...] Left Foot Forward reported yesterday, Helmer – who makes it a habit of insulting as many people as he possibly can [...]
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,
http://www.allthatsleft.co.uk/2011/05/roger-helmer-a-true-tory-neanderthal/ Roger Helmer: A True Tory Neanderthal

[...] that’s right Helmer thinks that in date rape situations the victim is partly to blame. As Left Foot Forward notes, Helmer has in the past denied the existence of homophobia, stereotyped children of poor [...]
Nick georgiou

Someone should punch him very hard in the face
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Cloud

and another one, now Baroness Murphy is at it too

http://lordsoftheblog.net/2011/05/20/all-rape-isnt-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-107299
Selohesra

So he has denied climate change – well in that case the man is indeed sickening – either that or he has read up a bit on the subject and does not swallow blindly the indoctrination of the establishment
http://twitter.com/londoniww/status/74120710385180672 London IWW

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mr. Sensible

On climate change he’s proved wrong by the science.
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/10/roger-helmer-mep-steps-down-he-will-not-be-missed/ Roger Helmer MEP steps down. He will not be missed | Left Foot Forward

[...] Clarke’s comment that there was ‘rape’ and there was ‘serious rape’, saying: In the same way, let’s consider two rape [...]