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In 2014 '''Matthew Parris''', one of the founder members of Stonewall, publicly denounced Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into historic child abuse, sparked off by the posthumous allegations against [[Jimmy Savile]].

In 2014 '''Matthew Parris''', one of the founder members of Stonewall, publicly denounced Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into historic child abuse, sparked off by the posthumous allegations against [[Jimmy Savile]].

Writing in ''[[The Times of London|The Times]]'', Parris suggested that the victims were liars with mercenary motives. “I am noting a possible consequence of offering money to victims. A lot of inducements have been added to the citizen’s basic right to sue in recent decades,” he wrote. “‘No-win, no-fee’ procedures with lawyers: the £3.3 million sterling available to compensate Savile's victims, who may claim £60,000 each.” He dismissed the findings of recent enquiries into paedophilia as “Abuse hysteria”. “I suspect it’s a hugely overheated and distorted conspiracy theory based on a couple of probable facts and, imposed upon them, a great superstructure of improbable ones, laced with rumour, invention, sensation-seeking and the allure of compensation.” He did not bring a similar argument to bear LGBT officials, such as those of Stonewall, who get paid c.£60,00 p.a. or use this to suggest they might invent examples of "homophobia."<ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4142368.ece

Writing in ''[[The Times of London|The Times]]'', Parris suggested that the victims were liars with mercenary motives. “I am noting a possible consequence of offering money to victims. A lot of inducements have been added to the citizen’s basic right to sue in recent decades,” he wrote. “‘No-win, no-fee’ procedures with lawyers: the £3.3 million sterling available to compensate Savile's victims, who may claim £60,000 each.” He dismissed the findings of recent enquiries into paedophilia as “Abuse hysteria”. “I suspect it’s a hugely overheated and distorted conspiracy theory based on a couple of probable facts and, imposed upon them, a great superstructure of improbable ones, laced with rumour, invention, sensation-seeking and the allure of compensation.” He did not bring a similar argument to bear LGBT officials, such as those of Stonewall, who get paid c.£60,00 p.a. or use this to suggest they might invent examples of "homophobia."<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4142368.ece

http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/matthew-parris/9258681/what-kind-of-idiot-tries-to-stand-in-the-way-of-a-national-child-abuse-panic-i-do/</ref>

http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/matthew-parris/9258681/what-kind-of-idiot-tries-to-stand-in-the-way-of-a-national-child-abuse-panic-i-do/</ref>