One Labour MP on grooming said 'keep religion and race out of it - you'll lose us votes' Labour should be ashamed - Kwasi Kwarteng
One victim speaking to Charlie Peters on her experience
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The grooming gangs issue won’t go way. Of course, the term “grooming gangs” is a rather quaint, British way of ducking the obvious.
These gangs, let’s be frank, were rape gangs. There were groups of men who preyed on vulnerable, underage girls, in order to have sex with them. Let’s call it out for what it is.
The rapes that were committed over many years, decades in fact, were perpetrated by gangs of men of mainly Pakistani origin. We all know this.
The victims were almost exclusively white, mostly but not all from working class backgrounds. A genuinely colour-blind society would have brought these criminals to book quickly and summarily. It shouldn’t have mattered what ethnicity, religion, race or “culture” the perpetrators hailed from. Justice is, or should be, blind.
Groups of men preyed on vulnerable, underage girls, in order to have sex with them, says Kwasi Kwarteng
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The woke culture that prevailed, unfortunately, ensured that the opposite happened. It was precisely because the authorities were so racially conscious that thousands of young girls were denied justice.
Authorities obsessed with race and wokery wanted to brush the scandal of the rape gangs under the carpet. Such horrid crimes simply didn’t fit into the narrative about the benefits of multiculturalism and the strength of diversity in modern Britain.
Regrettably, many of the same forces are at play today. The same willful neglect of the facts is prevalent at the highest levels of the government. The arrogance of Labour ministers was displayed, when they simply dismissed a national inquiry out of hand. “We have already had one”, they said.
They knew, however, that Alexis Jay’s report looked at child abuse much more broadly than the specific issue of gang rapes of vulnerable girls in northern towns. Jay’s report investigated abuse in the Church as well as in other institutions. It did not deal with this specific and deeply concerning issue. They know this, but have airily ignored calls for a national inquiry.
They know best, naturally. Who are we or the victims to ask for a national inquiry as to what happened and why? What is even more concerning is the extent to which Labour officials , MPs and councillors , turned a blind eye so that they could preserve their standing among Muslim voters .
These people ignored the bestial criminality of the rape gangs, not because they were politically correct and wanted to preserve “community relations”.
They ignored them because they wanted to keep Muslim voters on side. Simon Danczuk, my old colleague in parliament and former Labour MP for Rochdale, recounts how one of his Labour colleagues, an MP, told him , “keep religion and race out of it, you’ll lose us votes”.
Another Labour MP took Danczuk to one side to remind him that making the link between Asian gangs and the rape of young white girls would “undermine Labour’s election prospects”.
Luckily, not all Labour politicians are as morally bankrupt as these former Labour MPs.
In the last week, both Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, and Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, have called for a national inquiry into what happened and how such feral abuse was allowed to continue for so long.
So far, Sir Keir Starmer has been adamant that the story is closed. “Nothing to see here”, he seems to be saying. Labour would rather this issue vanish from the public consciousness.
The Conservatives, I have to admit, were not serious in dealing with this issue, but now we have a Labour Prime Minister who could, if he had been so minded, have addressed victims’ concerns and read the public mood. Instead, he washed his hands of the issue.
This appalling injustice is a stain on modern Britain; it will not simply disappear.
The government has allowed itself some wriggle room. “Nothing is off the table”, Jess Phillips is now saying. Public pressure must continue to ensure the national inquiry takes place.
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