🪞 Westminster’s Legacy of Concealment: From Parliamentary Paedophiles to Procedural Retaliation
Filed: 18 August 2025
Reference: SWANK Addendum – Westminster History
Filename: 2025-08-21_Addendum_WestminsterHistory_ChildAbuseFailures.pdf
Summary: A timeline of Westminster’s historical failures in child protection, proving the institutional pattern of reputation management over safeguarding.
I. What Happened
From Cyril Smith and Peter Morrison to the IICSA Report of 2020, Westminster’s track record is not one of protecting children — but of protecting itself.
Allegations ignored.
Prosecutions abandoned.
Reputation preserved at all costs.
And when I issued an Audit Demand in June 2025, Westminster’s reflex was the same: silence, concealment, retaliation. An Emergency Protection Order was deployed not as a shield for children, but as armour for the institution.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That Westminster’s instinctive posture is unchanged:
Then: conceal abuse to preserve the party whip.
Now: weaponise safeguarding law to suppress lawful audit requests.
The thread is seamless. The institution is incapable of candour.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because history is not “context” here — it is precedent.
Because the Court cannot pretend Westminster’s reflexive corruption is novel.
Because the removal of my children on 23 June 2025 belongs to the same ignoble family of institutional evasions.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 – welfare principle inverted into self-preservation.
Article 8 ECHR – family life trampled for reputational ends.
Equality Act 2010 – disability disclosures weaponised as pretext.
UNCRC & UNCRPD – child and disability rights ignored to save face.
V. SWANK’s Position
Westminster is a recidivist offender in the court of history.
It has never known how to safeguard children — only how to safeguard itself.
The 23 June 2025 EPO is not an aberration. It is Westminster’s heritage.
Closing Declaration
This addendum is not filed to prove novelty, but to prove continuity. Westminster’s retaliation against my family is not an isolated act — it is the latest chapter in a decades-long book of abuses, concealments, and betrayals.
✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
Applicant / Mother