There is nothing to investigate.
Theresa May believes her defence secretary was right to apologise for repeatedly touching a journalist’s knee during a dinner, but is not triggering an investigation into the incident, according to her official spokesman.
He made clear that the prime minister did not approve of Michael Fallon’s behaviour towards Julia Hartley-Brewer in 2002 but said the case was in the past and would not be taken further.
Some years ago, Fallon was with Hartley-Brewer and got a bit tactile. Hartley-Brewer made it clear she was not happy and he stopped. End of.
So, let’s be clear here, there was no sexual assault. Touching someone’s knee – even if they don’t like it – is not assault nor is it sexual. It is merely unwanted touching. In this case, the subject of the touching made her feelings known at the time and the matter was sorted. There is nothing to investigate. May is correct.
A couple of things to note among the screeching that is going on. The media, luvvies and politicos are all in positions of power and influence and appear to have abused that power. Well whodathunkit? Contrary to what these people assume, the rest of us are not corrupt amoral scumbags like them and we are not abusing members of the opposite sex. And much of what has been paraded as sexual abuse and assault is nothing of the sort.
So, what we have here is a witch hunt. A witch hunt that has the express aim of demonising white men. It really is as simple as that. Well, I’m not buying it. I’m not going to apologise for my sex or my race. And I am certainly not going to justify my behaviour to the feminazis.
I’ve been discussing this stuff with my colleague at work. It would appear that, by current standards, the pair of us of us have been both perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse in the past. How unobservant of us not to even notice what was going on. Still we could perhaps make up for that by digging up the past and ruining someones life.
Over 50 years ago, when I was an adolescent whose blood type was 100% testosterone, I’m sure my behaviour was somewhat less restrained but I understood a) the response “No!”, and b) the response ‘smacked hand or face’. I was no different to my contemporaries and the objects of our desire remained perfectly friendly if we took their refusals on board. How times change.