I hope you’re right and that this inquiry will pull back the curtain at long last. But I still don’t trust Labour or the establishment not to pull the wool over people’s eyes by keeping the focus on the victims rather than rooting out and exposing not only the perpetrators but the people who enabled and covered up years of vile abuse….Labour politicians, the police, social workers, family members, care homes etc. Of course the victims must have justice but in order to get that justice, justice must be seen to be done. And that must mean condemnation and sanctions of the guilty wherever possible. Thanks for your work on this issue Matt.
Absolutely spot on Terfin. The proof to me that this inquiry is truly independent and not another whitewash will be if Raja Miah is allowed to give evidence. If you haven’t, watch his interview with Andrew Gold on X and I think it’s on Raja’s Substack. He’s a credible witness with evidence who is lifting the veil of secrecy in the coverup at significant personal cost. He may be the bravest man in Britain today.
I completely agree. I subscribe to his substack and have seen the Heretics interview. I’ve just this minute said to my husband, I hope Raja Miah stays safe. He’s got evidence and his bravery in speaking out, puts him in great danger. But the inquiry must hear from him.
I’ve only recently become aware of Raja’s evidence. I’m watching another interview with Winston Marshall where he’s going into detail again of who knew what in GMP, the Labour Party and the local Pakistani communities and mosques in the NW of England. And crucially the CPS whose DPP was Sit Keir Starmer. I wish I had 1/10th of Raja’s courage. Rupert Lowe has been pushing Raja’s testimony I believe. I’ve left him a donation but should join his Substack to help him.
Do join his Substack - the more supporters, the stronger his voice. The issue he raises goes beyond the actual abuse and shines a harsh light on the corruption in local and national government that would shame a third world banana republic.
Just to say for people who don’t know him, that he was a senior within the State Security depts.
Theis extract from a post of his Friday: ‘ That’s why they’re now censoring my interviews. They know how dangerous my voice is and what will happen to them should we succeed. Which is why they spent 3 years fabricating evidence and trying to falsely imprison me. And when they failed to maliciously prosecute me, the Labour Party tried and failed to sue me. Just who do you think is responsible for removing my content from Youtube?’
He’s already had some of his YouTube videos taken down by them. So is this some more of the blocking of him that ‘the state’ has done over the years since he began his investigations?
Totally agree but this is the leaver to get into khans kingdom , remember he is on record of denying their existence in , I will not call it the capital but the biggest city in the UK
Yes but given the amount of political pressure that is now bearing down on Starmer on this issue I don’t see how they could play games at this point, would be a gift to Reform in the Red Wall while even Labour MPs now saying the truth needs to come out
Matt I was somewhat buoyed up by your excellent piece but am so fearful that the people who are appointed to do this work won’t be dedicated to full interrogation of the issues and exposure of all involved and there won’t be the transparency that we all crave and deserve . I know people like yourself and the incomparable Charlie Peters will keep a spotlight on it but my worry remains .
If the Post Office Horizon enquiry is anything to go by it will be slow burn. Witnesses will find they cannot recall cases, circumstances or crimes. Many of the criminals and officians (is there much difference?) will have retired, gone obverseas or otherwise unavailable to give evidence.
Many of the public offiocials will be advised by their expensive tax payer funded lawyers to plead they cannot give evidence for fear of self incriminations.
My observations disclose a sever case of distruct for the institutions and the individuals who run them and of the judicial process itself. They have not been used to accountability throughoiut their careers and they won't want to allow it now.
Doesn’t mean it will, with Starmer’s close connections with and influence over judiciary. Unusually for me Matt, not quite on same page. Labour plays dirty and Helmer still in position-
If they can't stop the truth coming out, Labour Party MPs will simply say "It's what we always said." There are three steps to hoodwinking the public. Firstly, you deny an enquiry is necessary and dismiss the issue as chicken-feed. Second, when this doesn't work, you go for ad hominem and say those concerned with the scandal are all racists and 'far right' -- as Starmer did and the Labour MP on Question Time who talked of "dog-whistle politics". . Thirdly, when even this is not enough to quell the storm, you say, "We've always been concerned about the scandal and deserve credit for this investigation".
Not to mention their ability to lock people up when they become a problem and maybe worse. I wouldn’t have believed this if the UK 12m ago but now realise how naive I’ve been.
Sorry Professor but if you honestly believe Starmer and his clown show will do anything to facilitate this as a ‘proper’ enquiry then I think, like most folk, you’ll be very disappointed.
As for Reform, the appointment of their new chairman makes me politically homeless again, they are circling the bowl now and need to get back on track! I hope Rupert manages to do something, anything to put us back, because from what I see and hear now, someone, something has got into their signal box and sent them down a track leading to nowhere…sadly.
Of course, just my two ‘peneth’ from someone who been around a bit….
I agree Mike. Comments from David Bull about being a nation of immigrants was deeply disturbing. We need Reform to be echoing the sentiments of the British people, not parroting the liberal elites
Personally I think the only true patriot is Rupert Lowe, I am hoping he can gather a pro British patriotic party together, possibly by some genuine right wing Tories and some of the Brexiteers who have been betrayed by Farage and co.
Matt - Nobody will be able to mutter utterly vacuous and meaningless platitudes, such as “diversity is our strength”, and expect people to take them seriously.
Correct Matt - so why do you expect us to take the Reform leadership seriously?
Bull - Immigration is the lifeblood of this country, teach primary children LGBT+
Tice - demographic change doesn't matter because I won't be around
Farage - a Welsh person is anyone who has lived in Wales for 5-10 years
Good piece, but I think that Tommy Robinson should at least be given some credit here for exposing this. He more than anyone else has paid a very high price. I heard about the rape gangs first from him.
Yes, sadly, a glaring omission and thus distortion about the history of exposure of this widespread atrocity, Tommy is a member of the white working class so it seems OK to dismiss him as they originally did with the white working class rape victims. Thus, in my view, endorsing the same tactics of the despised elites. Rupert Lowe seems to have been the only politician who has had the moral courage to be honest about this scandal.
I initially heard about them when Nick Griffin raised this matter over twenty years ago. However because he was vilified by the media and the "lefties", he has disappeared into oblivion. However I think he should be given some credit for speaking out.
Exactly so. Without TR's efforts attracting the attention of Elon Musk I seriously doubt we would be at this point now. It's a pity that even Matt cannot bring himself to admit this obvious reality.
Trouble is Matt, do you really believe that someone who, when DPP, made 21 recommendations to the UK Sentencing Council ( advice to judges when Sentencing after trial), that child sex molesters should not be jailed, and stopped at least one (not counting Savile), potential prosecution of a rape gang because the victim was deemed "unreliable", despite overwhelming evidence, is going to truly let anyone fully expose this scandal?
Someone whose chief financial backer is a Muslim and self declared homosexual, who was made a Lord and given unfettered access to 10 Downing Street?
Unfortunately, child rape gangs (including elites, paedophiles, high ranking goverment officials, senior police officers, apart from the so called "grooming" gangs), have been operating in plain sight for decades, Including Westminster.
Starmer is part of the problem, not part of the solution, you just have to join the dots (remember the 3 Ukranian "model" arsonists lately)..... no, they are banged up until next April!
In my opinion, having previously spent 16 years in the Met, the announcement that the NCA will immediately be investigating multiple cases is merely a tactic to find and remove incriminating evidence!
Agree with all you say and having been brought up in a town with significant Muslim population, I know the police felt unable to investigate honour killings and that was back in the 80s. If all the police do is look into the taxi businesses in these areas (there are no white or women taxi drivers in these northern towns anymore) then it would unravel.
I am pleased that people are aware that the next steps are vitally important as there is likely to be a concerted effort to minimise the fallout and avoid truly exposing those responsible and complicit.
There needs to be a parallel ‘watch committee’ so the likes of Maggie Oliver, Charlie Peters, Rupert Lowe and others, you too Matt? who will keep an eye as things move forward to scrutinise and make sure things keep on track and focus isn’t diverted.
Something that should now be pushed for is the release of court transcripts from previous trials, victim anonymity as necessary, which have often been hidden.
I truly believe the ones that hit the headlines a few months ago, and their full horror, were also a catalyst for things moving from something appalling to depravity and evil. People were truly shocked.
Unless everything is out in the open now the ‘rats’ will slip down dark holes and avoid being brought to account. It will be interesting to see how many one way tickets out of the country will be bought! They should be tried in absentia if so, so they can’t come back at a later date.
The victims and their families must of course be of first concern, but we the people who have been vilified and expected to deny the evidence of our own eyes for so long, deserve justice too.
Personally I still can’t believe we have allowed this to happen to us in this country. It’s only when you actually stop and think how we have accepted a body, supposedly with our best interest and certainty that of our children, to rule over us without resistance at some thing that have been imposed on us.
The exposure of this heinous betrayal and cover up, should become a line in the sand for the U.K. people to say enough! We will not accept this ever again!
It would be a refreshing surprise if such an inquiry genuinely reveals the truth and the criminals have nowhere to run. However the cynicism one develops by the age of 70 tends to temper what might otherwise be a huge sigh of relief and a rise in optimism. Yes it is good that it is being done; but who will be the people marking the homework?
Like a few others below, I am also disturbed by the latest remarks on immigration coming from Reform. The new chairman gives me absolutely no confidence at all, an unbelievably dumb statement to make at a time like this and from within a party supposedly fighting for the survival of the British natives.
Five issues: 1) protecting children 2) prosecuting perpetrators 3) helping and compensating viticims 4) measures to ensure the estabishment can never collude again 5) instituting consequences for all those who wilfully turned a blind eye (police, councillors, politicians local and national, social workers, teachers etc).
We can expect, with a high degree of probablity, that the terms of reference for the enquiry will exclude 5).
Eventually, there may be partial justice for the children, but for the country at large the absence of 5) is not justice. Yes, there will be acknowledgement at an abstract level of how a culture of anti-racism paralysed society, but the justice I want is not abstract. From aiding and abetting, malfeaseance in public office, and professional negligence to shaming moral turpitude, there are a host of offences the people who were supposed to protect children should face.
Let’s hope it will happen Matt as predicted. I fear a smokescreen somewhere and damage limitation by those dastardly players who will not want to be made public! Like with Reform, the establishment will use every ruse possible to downplay the situation! I fear the mainstream media will also dilute any reporting so as not to highlight failures in their previous reports or contradict their left wing liberal ideology! It could get messy!
At last! Imagine the power of 1000 victims giving testimony. Sammy Woodhouse,Samantha Smith and others could destroy those in power who tried to aid and abet their destruction.
I have read 250,000 as a widely accepted figure over 50 year,but there was a senior East Anglian Police officer who thought the number was possibly a million.
This is when we need to be extra vigilant. The instinct of politicians will be to make it look as if something is happening and they are taking it seriously but the machine will take charge and steer it in the direction of the long grass. Think of all the vested interest groups who will move heaven and earth to exonerate themselves and excuse their failings. We know this is how it will go if they are allowed to do it. The chairperson chosen will be a signal as will the terms of reference. Both must be scrutinised closely because this is how they stitch things up to make it look like one thing while it turns out to be entirely another. Civil servants have vast experience of doing this. Anyone who needs a refresher in dissembling need look no further than Sir Humphrey Appleby in 'Yes Minister'. It was true then and it's true now.
Whilst this a step in the right direction I don't think we should be applauding just yet. I don't trust this government one jot. How long is it going to take to set this enquiry? Who is going to head the enquiry? My view would be that any judge leading the enquiry should be Australian or Canadian I.e. someone who is less likely to be tainted by the lefty liberalist judiciary we currently have in the UK and not be caught up and used as a political football
Will the inquiry's findings be public as they are made? Or will they be published in a nice bound volume ten years from now, after hundreds of thousands more illegal single male migrants have already made their homes here? If the latter, then why bother?
Not a chance in Hell that this 'inquiry' will achieve anything, it is Slippery Starmer's attempt to wriggle out of any culpability and point the finger at the Conservatives. The QC who will be chairing the inquiry will direct every facet of it, and they will stop any exploration of guilt or responsibility. Just look at the way that the Covid inquiry is being conducted, where every meaningful avenue is closed off because it is 'not in the remit of the inquiry'. The Elite will never allow the truth to be revealed, and this inquiry is a simple smokescreen to diffuse the anger that is felt about the rape gangs. There are so many people complicit in this conspiracy, for many different reasons, and the Establishment would be blown wide open if the truth came out. This is purely a time-wasting exercise designed to kick the can down the road, mark my words.
I hope you’re right and that this inquiry will pull back the curtain at long last. But I still don’t trust Labour or the establishment not to pull the wool over people’s eyes by keeping the focus on the victims rather than rooting out and exposing not only the perpetrators but the people who enabled and covered up years of vile abuse….Labour politicians, the police, social workers, family members, care homes etc. Of course the victims must have justice but in order to get that justice, justice must be seen to be done. And that must mean condemnation and sanctions of the guilty wherever possible. Thanks for your work on this issue Matt.
Absolutely spot on Terfin. The proof to me that this inquiry is truly independent and not another whitewash will be if Raja Miah is allowed to give evidence. If you haven’t, watch his interview with Andrew Gold on X and I think it’s on Raja’s Substack. He’s a credible witness with evidence who is lifting the veil of secrecy in the coverup at significant personal cost. He may be the bravest man in Britain today.
I completely agree. I subscribe to his substack and have seen the Heretics interview. I’ve just this minute said to my husband, I hope Raja Miah stays safe. He’s got evidence and his bravery in speaking out, puts him in great danger. But the inquiry must hear from him.
I’ve only recently become aware of Raja’s evidence. I’m watching another interview with Winston Marshall where he’s going into detail again of who knew what in GMP, the Labour Party and the local Pakistani communities and mosques in the NW of England. And crucially the CPS whose DPP was Sit Keir Starmer. I wish I had 1/10th of Raja’s courage. Rupert Lowe has been pushing Raja’s testimony I believe. I’ve left him a donation but should join his Substack to help him.
Do join his Substack - the more supporters, the stronger his voice. The issue he raises goes beyond the actual abuse and shines a harsh light on the corruption in local and national government that would shame a third world banana republic.
Just to say for people who don’t know him, that he was a senior within the State Security depts.
Theis extract from a post of his Friday: ‘ That’s why they’re now censoring my interviews. They know how dangerous my voice is and what will happen to them should we succeed. Which is why they spent 3 years fabricating evidence and trying to falsely imprison me. And when they failed to maliciously prosecute me, the Labour Party tried and failed to sue me. Just who do you think is responsible for removing my content from Youtube?’
He’s already had some of his YouTube videos taken down by them. So is this some more of the blocking of him that ‘the state’ has done over the years since he began his investigations?
Totally agree but this is the leaver to get into khans kingdom , remember he is on record of denying their existence in , I will not call it the capital but the biggest city in the UK
Should have added will hanging be brought back for those found guilty as it is in Pakistan !
That might wake up the Queers for Palestine crowd.
Sorry to all those who need precision, lever rather than my spellcheckers leavers !
😁 I think we’ve all fallen victim to the dreaded predictive text and can read past it.
I didn't notice the typo, but in case you're interested you can edit posts by clicking the three dots. 👍
Thanks did not know that
Conversely it could be an expensive time-consuming whitewash like the Covid enquiry.
I sincerely hope it does what Matt expects.
Yes but given the amount of political pressure that is now bearing down on Starmer on this issue I don’t see how they could play games at this point, would be a gift to Reform in the Red Wall while even Labour MPs now saying the truth needs to come out
Matt I was somewhat buoyed up by your excellent piece but am so fearful that the people who are appointed to do this work won’t be dedicated to full interrogation of the issues and exposure of all involved and there won’t be the transparency that we all crave and deserve . I know people like yourself and the incomparable Charlie Peters will keep a spotlight on it but my worry remains .
If the Post Office Horizon enquiry is anything to go by it will be slow burn. Witnesses will find they cannot recall cases, circumstances or crimes. Many of the criminals and officians (is there much difference?) will have retired, gone obverseas or otherwise unavailable to give evidence.
Many of the public offiocials will be advised by their expensive tax payer funded lawyers to plead they cannot give evidence for fear of self incriminations.
My observations disclose a sever case of distruct for the institutions and the individuals who run them and of the judicial process itself. They have not been used to accountability throughoiut their careers and they won't want to allow it now.
Then they should be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and dragged in!
Whether Raja Miah is allowed to give evidence will be the acid test for me.
Doesn’t mean it will, with Starmer’s close connections with and influence over judiciary. Unusually for me Matt, not quite on same page. Labour plays dirty and Helmer still in position-
If they can't stop the truth coming out, Labour Party MPs will simply say "It's what we always said." There are three steps to hoodwinking the public. Firstly, you deny an enquiry is necessary and dismiss the issue as chicken-feed. Second, when this doesn't work, you go for ad hominem and say those concerned with the scandal are all racists and 'far right' -- as Starmer did and the Labour MP on Question Time who talked of "dog-whistle politics". . Thirdly, when even this is not enough to quell the storm, you say, "We've always been concerned about the scandal and deserve credit for this investigation".
The door has been pushed open…..plenty of opportunities to challenge any whitewashing, fear not.
I think you underestimate the establishment’s ability to cover up and destroy evidence. I bet it’s already happening. I hope you’re right though.
Not to mention their ability to lock people up when they become a problem and maybe worse. I wouldn’t have believed this if the UK 12m ago but now realise how naive I’ve been.
Same. We can never look at authoritarian regimes now and say, that couldn’t happen here.
Sorry Professor but if you honestly believe Starmer and his clown show will do anything to facilitate this as a ‘proper’ enquiry then I think, like most folk, you’ll be very disappointed.
As for Reform, the appointment of their new chairman makes me politically homeless again, they are circling the bowl now and need to get back on track! I hope Rupert manages to do something, anything to put us back, because from what I see and hear now, someone, something has got into their signal box and sent them down a track leading to nowhere…sadly.
Of course, just my two ‘peneth’ from someone who been around a bit….
I agree Mike. Comments from David Bull about being a nation of immigrants was deeply disturbing. We need Reform to be echoing the sentiments of the British people, not parroting the liberal elites
Personally I think the only true patriot is Rupert Lowe, I am hoping he can gather a pro British patriotic party together, possibly by some genuine right wing Tories and some of the Brexiteers who have been betrayed by Farage and co.
Matt - Nobody will be able to mutter utterly vacuous and meaningless platitudes, such as “diversity is our strength”, and expect people to take them seriously.
Correct Matt - so why do you expect us to take the Reform leadership seriously?
Bull - Immigration is the lifeblood of this country, teach primary children LGBT+
Tice - demographic change doesn't matter because I won't be around
Farage - a Welsh person is anyone who has lived in Wales for 5-10 years
Well said badger. Well pointed out.
Good piece, but I think that Tommy Robinson should at least be given some credit here for exposing this. He more than anyone else has paid a very high price. I heard about the rape gangs first from him.
Yes, sadly, a glaring omission and thus distortion about the history of exposure of this widespread atrocity, Tommy is a member of the white working class so it seems OK to dismiss him as they originally did with the white working class rape victims. Thus, in my view, endorsing the same tactics of the despised elites. Rupert Lowe seems to have been the only politician who has had the moral courage to be honest about this scandal.
I initially heard about them when Nick Griffin raised this matter over twenty years ago. However because he was vilified by the media and the "lefties", he has disappeared into oblivion. However I think he should be given some credit for speaking out.
Just the opposite. By jumping on the bandwagon and attracting attention to himself he undermined the credibility of the campaign and set it back.
Tommy Robinson deserves great credit because it was his documentary which had a huge influence on Elon Musk.
Exactly so. Without TR's efforts attracting the attention of Elon Musk I seriously doubt we would be at this point now. It's a pity that even Matt cannot bring himself to admit this obvious reality.
I agree. He blew the whistle and has been in and out of jail since.
IM
Trouble is Matt, do you really believe that someone who, when DPP, made 21 recommendations to the UK Sentencing Council ( advice to judges when Sentencing after trial), that child sex molesters should not be jailed, and stopped at least one (not counting Savile), potential prosecution of a rape gang because the victim was deemed "unreliable", despite overwhelming evidence, is going to truly let anyone fully expose this scandal?
Someone whose chief financial backer is a Muslim and self declared homosexual, who was made a Lord and given unfettered access to 10 Downing Street?
Unfortunately, child rape gangs (including elites, paedophiles, high ranking goverment officials, senior police officers, apart from the so called "grooming" gangs), have been operating in plain sight for decades, Including Westminster.
Starmer is part of the problem, not part of the solution, you just have to join the dots (remember the 3 Ukranian "model" arsonists lately)..... no, they are banged up until next April!
In my opinion, having previously spent 16 years in the Met, the announcement that the NCA will immediately be investigating multiple cases is merely a tactic to find and remove incriminating evidence!
Agree with all you say and having been brought up in a town with significant Muslim population, I know the police felt unable to investigate honour killings and that was back in the 80s. If all the police do is look into the taxi businesses in these areas (there are no white or women taxi drivers in these northern towns anymore) then it would unravel.
I saw those taxi drivers when were staying in a midlands city for a memorable two weeks. Truly shocking.
I am pleased that people are aware that the next steps are vitally important as there is likely to be a concerted effort to minimise the fallout and avoid truly exposing those responsible and complicit.
There needs to be a parallel ‘watch committee’ so the likes of Maggie Oliver, Charlie Peters, Rupert Lowe and others, you too Matt? who will keep an eye as things move forward to scrutinise and make sure things keep on track and focus isn’t diverted.
Something that should now be pushed for is the release of court transcripts from previous trials, victim anonymity as necessary, which have often been hidden.
I truly believe the ones that hit the headlines a few months ago, and their full horror, were also a catalyst for things moving from something appalling to depravity and evil. People were truly shocked.
Unless everything is out in the open now the ‘rats’ will slip down dark holes and avoid being brought to account. It will be interesting to see how many one way tickets out of the country will be bought! They should be tried in absentia if so, so they can’t come back at a later date.
The victims and their families must of course be of first concern, but we the people who have been vilified and expected to deny the evidence of our own eyes for so long, deserve justice too.
Personally I still can’t believe we have allowed this to happen to us in this country. It’s only when you actually stop and think how we have accepted a body, supposedly with our best interest and certainty that of our children, to rule over us without resistance at some thing that have been imposed on us.
The exposure of this heinous betrayal and cover up, should become a line in the sand for the U.K. people to say enough! We will not accept this ever again!
It would be a refreshing surprise if such an inquiry genuinely reveals the truth and the criminals have nowhere to run. However the cynicism one develops by the age of 70 tends to temper what might otherwise be a huge sigh of relief and a rise in optimism. Yes it is good that it is being done; but who will be the people marking the homework?
Like a few others below, I am also disturbed by the latest remarks on immigration coming from Reform. The new chairman gives me absolutely no confidence at all, an unbelievably dumb statement to make at a time like this and from within a party supposedly fighting for the survival of the British natives.
Well said. My reaction also.
Five issues: 1) protecting children 2) prosecuting perpetrators 3) helping and compensating viticims 4) measures to ensure the estabishment can never collude again 5) instituting consequences for all those who wilfully turned a blind eye (police, councillors, politicians local and national, social workers, teachers etc).
We can expect, with a high degree of probablity, that the terms of reference for the enquiry will exclude 5).
Eventually, there may be partial justice for the children, but for the country at large the absence of 5) is not justice. Yes, there will be acknowledgement at an abstract level of how a culture of anti-racism paralysed society, but the justice I want is not abstract. From aiding and abetting, malfeaseance in public office, and professional negligence to shaming moral turpitude, there are a host of offences the people who were supposed to protect children should face.
Let’s hope it will happen Matt as predicted. I fear a smokescreen somewhere and damage limitation by those dastardly players who will not want to be made public! Like with Reform, the establishment will use every ruse possible to downplay the situation! I fear the mainstream media will also dilute any reporting so as not to highlight failures in their previous reports or contradict their left wing liberal ideology! It could get messy!
Absolutely! Exactly! you’re point on the media, - some have made a career, fame of putting us down, our worries, suspicions, the facts.
I have zero confidence that the Starmer induced inquiry will be of any value.
I’ll focus on Rupert Lowes’s inquiry.
At last! Imagine the power of 1000 victims giving testimony. Sammy Woodhouse,Samantha Smith and others could destroy those in power who tried to aid and abet their destruction.
Isn’t the number 100,000 victims?
I use that number simply as an example.
I have read 250,000 as a widely accepted figure over 50 year,but there was a senior East Anglian Police officer who thought the number was possibly a million.
I don't know.
The awful incidents re beyond crimes, they are atrocities.
This is when we need to be extra vigilant. The instinct of politicians will be to make it look as if something is happening and they are taking it seriously but the machine will take charge and steer it in the direction of the long grass. Think of all the vested interest groups who will move heaven and earth to exonerate themselves and excuse their failings. We know this is how it will go if they are allowed to do it. The chairperson chosen will be a signal as will the terms of reference. Both must be scrutinised closely because this is how they stitch things up to make it look like one thing while it turns out to be entirely another. Civil servants have vast experience of doing this. Anyone who needs a refresher in dissembling need look no further than Sir Humphrey Appleby in 'Yes Minister'. It was true then and it's true now.
Whilst this a step in the right direction I don't think we should be applauding just yet. I don't trust this government one jot. How long is it going to take to set this enquiry? Who is going to head the enquiry? My view would be that any judge leading the enquiry should be Australian or Canadian I.e. someone who is less likely to be tainted by the lefty liberalist judiciary we currently have in the UK and not be caught up and used as a political football
Will the inquiry's findings be public as they are made? Or will they be published in a nice bound volume ten years from now, after hundreds of thousands more illegal single male migrants have already made their homes here? If the latter, then why bother?
Not a chance in Hell that this 'inquiry' will achieve anything, it is Slippery Starmer's attempt to wriggle out of any culpability and point the finger at the Conservatives. The QC who will be chairing the inquiry will direct every facet of it, and they will stop any exploration of guilt or responsibility. Just look at the way that the Covid inquiry is being conducted, where every meaningful avenue is closed off because it is 'not in the remit of the inquiry'. The Elite will never allow the truth to be revealed, and this inquiry is a simple smokescreen to diffuse the anger that is felt about the rape gangs. There are so many people complicit in this conspiracy, for many different reasons, and the Establishment would be blown wide open if the truth came out. This is purely a time-wasting exercise designed to kick the can down the road, mark my words.
I fear you’re right but it’s a start and it’s important that people like Raja Miah give evidence.