Letter: Current outcry over Epstein files and grooming gangs reeks of hypocrisy - the degradation of society began decades ago
A letter from David Fleming:
The belated performatives outrage concerning the Epstein files and the grooming gangs reek of hypocrisy and moral whiplash.
Politicians and influencers have been relentlessly encouraging the sexualisation of society going back to the 1960s.
We condemn with sorrowful faces 'outrageous' perversions when in fact people in power have been cheering them on for years.
During the 'swinging 60s' there was rebellion at universities, polytechnics and colleges against convention and traditionalism, involving a variety of environments elsewhere. Many became 'establishment' with power and passed legislation enabling deterioration of communities over a period of time.
It was former home secretary Roy Jenkins who said: "The permissive society is the civilised society."
Who would have thought that guidelines for transgenderism at schools would have been issued recently? It has taken time for people to become oblivious to changes and social decline, assuming TV soap operas as symptomatic of life.
This is what we have arrived at.
Tellingly, it was Mick Jagger outside Buckingham Palace after being honoured who said: "I suppose by today's standards I am establishment".
David Fleming, Norfolk