📰 SWANK TIMES
Filed: 18 August 2025
Reference: SWANK Addendum – Audit as Continuum
Filename: 2025-08-18_SWANK_AuditExposure_WestminsterCoverUp.pdf
Summary: Why Westminster recoils from an audit: because the numbers would expose a lineage of concealment stretching from Parliament’s child abuse scandals to today’s retaliatory removals.
The Headline Question
Why is Westminster so afraid of a simple audit?
The answer lies not in the paperwork, but in the pattern.
I. The Pattern of Concealment
1970s–80s: Cyril Smith and Peter Morrison, shielded by Westminster colleagues and police alike.
1990s: Allegations swirl, prosecutions vanish, reputations are prioritised.
2020: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) confirms: institutional failure, culture of deference, safeguarding abandoned for political image.
The habit was set: children were secondary to Westminster’s survival.
II. The Modern Mirror
Fast forward to 2025:
6 June: An Audit Demand requests disclosure of unlawful removals and fostering contracts.
17 June: A threat (“supervision package”) arrives.
23 June: An Emergency Protection Order seizes four U.S. citizen children.
The sequence is unmistakable. Just as Westminster once buried abuse allegations to protect reputation, today it buries accountability by weaponising safeguarding against critics.
III. What Westminster Fears
Numbers.
If the audit reveals systemic unlawful removals, it confirms safeguarding is a conveyor belt of misconduct.Contracts.
If fostering agencies and fee schedules come to light, safeguarding becomes procurement, not protection.Continuity.
If today’s concealment echoes yesterday’s cover-ups, Westminster’s safeguarding crisis is not a blip — it is tradition.
IV. SWANK’s Position
Westminster’s resistance to audit is not bureaucratic dithering — it is institutional panic.
The same reflex that once silenced abuse allegations now silences audit demands.
The same instinct that once prioritised powerful reputations now prioritises procurement secrecy.
Audit is feared not because it asks too much, but because it asks the only question Westminster cannot answer: “What are you hiding?”
V. Closing Declaration
The SWANK Evidentiary Catalogue therefore places the Audit Retaliation scandal not as a standalone abuse of process, but as the latest chapter in Westminster’s continuum of concealment — a legacy of deference, a culture of cover-up, and now, the unlawful removal of four American children to protect institutional image.
✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd