When the full horror of this appalling institutional failure is revealed (and it will be) the people involved must go before a judge and try to defend the indefensible - long jail terms beckon for many of those officials who turned a blind eye. Anything less will shame this country for eternity! Keep up the great work Matt ;)
It boils down to an English legal maxim: "Nemo judex in cause sua", or "no-one should be a judge in his/her own cause". Yet that is exactly the case with the grooming/rape inquiry. It was to be chaired by a former social worker and a policeman, when the crux of the inquiry was failings on the part of the police and social workers. A senior Judge or a KC ought to have been appointed, as is usual in this type of inquiry. Sir Keir Starmer KC knows this. But since the Government is running scared of Muslims, it dare not risk what the Judge might say in his/her judgment. An anodyne outcome, that offended no-one except the victims, had to be guaranteed in advance. This should become a public scandal. The responsible Minister should now resign.
As a despairing ex-pat I am watching with great sadness the truly horrible changes that have overtaken England, and more widely, Great Britain. The photo of that Labour front bench in your post makes me shudder with loathing. What a crew. What a motley crew.
Once again, sir, I sincerely thank you for all the great work you are doing. I hope that you, and other heroes such as Ben Habib, Rupert Lowe and the excellent folk in Restore Britain, can set things right.
To me, it appears that they wanted to widen the scope to include those victims raped by white men so as to dilute those raped by Pakistani men, helping them to remove the racial element of the investigation and to conclude that women can be raped by anyone, and that there isn’t a racial element at large.
This is some serious massage of the data to eradicate an element they feel is undesirable. In fact, if you massage the data enough you can conclude that more rapes are committed by white men than Pakistanis.
This is a sick state of affairs by a Loony party going out of its way not to offend a segment of society by rigging the data to present a favourable outcome. Talk about using bias.
The sickest part of this, though, is the belief they can do this without us enlightened observers spotting their bias for what it is. Since no one trusts Starmer, how on Earth did he think he’d even get away with such a move?
I have nothing but complete and utter contempt for Labour and all the people involved in turning a blind eye or who were actively covering up this disgusting scandal. If this had been white males raping Muslim girls the outcry would have been deafening. That this has gone on for so many decades and that it is still happening with barely a mention anywhere in the MSM, is beyond comprehension. As for Sadiq Kahn….i have no words.
Thanks for continuing to highlight Labour’s shame Matt. And to think that Boris Johnson got evicted for being in the company of a Tupperware container of cake. Labour must go.
Excellent piece Matt, especially its tone. You’re 100% correct here. My only thought is that there should be an independent national police unit established (NCA) immediately, with the specific aim of pursuing and prosecuting all those agencies and individuals complicit in the cover up of this horrendous crime. This should run alongside a National Statutory enquiry. Who ever is appointed to lead the National Enquiry must have a dedicated protection as these criminal gangs are clearly still operating and doubtless capable of serious violence and intimidation. It’s obviously part of the reason for the cover up, ie repeated threats towards local council officials/ social workers and doubtless the regional police. This is not discounting complicity among local officials/ police which has also clearly occurred.
As a Country, and for our international reputation, we can no longer allow this scandal to fester and be left unaddressed.
The sheer stupidity of Labour's pandering to Muslims just for their vote beggars belief. Just ask Jonathan Ashworth who lost his seat in Leceister to a Muslim candidate. Surely Jess Phillips can't think she'll retain her seat at the next election if she plays along with Labour's attempt to direct focus of an inquiry away from the mostly Muslim perpetrators.
The left in Iran sided with the radical Islamists decades ago and look what happened to them. Labour need to learn from that.
There is no justification whatsoever for the remit of the enquiry to be widened beyond the central involvement of Muslim men in the systematic rape and trafficking of vulnerable white girls throughout this country for the past thirty years, if not for longer. This was what the enquiry was constituted to investigate and, shamefully so, only when Keir Starmer had been forced 'kicking' and 'screaming' to do so by the need to placate Elon Musk. Hopefully, he will speak up now, too.
Labour's attempt to appoint either a retired police officer or a social worker to chair the enquiry, followed by a subsequent attempt to widen the scope of the enquiry, is pure obfuscation and deflection, designed to cover up the corruption within the local communities which facilitated this depravity. Such people, even more so than the perpetrators, need to be held to account for their failure to fulfil their duty of care to these vulnerable young girls.
A judge led enquiry, preferably by a US justice, can be the only course of action, with the Government having promised to implement its findings in full, including criminal prosecution, wherever possible, prior to commencement. I don't hold out much hope, but this is the least that the victims deserve.
I would question the point of an enquiry. All government enquiries seem to take forever to set up, an age to conclude and then their findings and recommendations are rarely implemented, but there's been an awful lot of public money wasted on it in the meantime.
To me if there is to be an enquiry it should be chaired and run by entirely neutral individuals, it should be quick and its conclusions and recommendations fully implemented. In this case, however, I think it would be necessary to bring criminal charges against those in the police, social services, local councils and even government, who knew about these goings on but covered them up, ignored the victims or worse, aided and abetted the continuation of such disgusting and despicable behaviour. Enquiries need to be seen to have an impact, be seen to identify culpability and bring those guilty of criminal negligence in the performance of their professional duties to account.
Having heard Charlie Peters speak at Battle of Ideas last weekend, I believe the inquiry requires the independent forensic investigative journalism that Charlie brings. Maybe he should be Chairman, or at least given access that allows him to hold officials to account?
Can anyone remember when this government has done any thing right to support the vast majority of UK citizens? Everything they touch turns to a crock of c r @ p. They need to go. Wide scale disobedience is only a matter of time of time (short) away. If that is what it takes then the sooner the better.
When the full horror of this appalling institutional failure is revealed (and it will be) the people involved must go before a judge and try to defend the indefensible - long jail terms beckon for many of those officials who turned a blind eye. Anything less will shame this country for eternity! Keep up the great work Matt ;)
It boils down to an English legal maxim: "Nemo judex in cause sua", or "no-one should be a judge in his/her own cause". Yet that is exactly the case with the grooming/rape inquiry. It was to be chaired by a former social worker and a policeman, when the crux of the inquiry was failings on the part of the police and social workers. A senior Judge or a KC ought to have been appointed, as is usual in this type of inquiry. Sir Keir Starmer KC knows this. But since the Government is running scared of Muslims, it dare not risk what the Judge might say in his/her judgment. An anodyne outcome, that offended no-one except the victims, had to be guaranteed in advance. This should become a public scandal. The responsible Minister should now resign.
Your comment was an excellent. Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
As a despairing ex-pat I am watching with great sadness the truly horrible changes that have overtaken England, and more widely, Great Britain. The photo of that Labour front bench in your post makes me shudder with loathing. What a crew. What a motley crew.
Once again, sir, I sincerely thank you for all the great work you are doing. I hope that you, and other heroes such as Ben Habib, Rupert Lowe and the excellent folk in Restore Britain, can set things right.
To me, it appears that they wanted to widen the scope to include those victims raped by white men so as to dilute those raped by Pakistani men, helping them to remove the racial element of the investigation and to conclude that women can be raped by anyone, and that there isn’t a racial element at large.
This is some serious massage of the data to eradicate an element they feel is undesirable. In fact, if you massage the data enough you can conclude that more rapes are committed by white men than Pakistanis.
This is a sick state of affairs by a Loony party going out of its way not to offend a segment of society by rigging the data to present a favourable outcome. Talk about using bias.
The sickest part of this, though, is the belief they can do this without us enlightened observers spotting their bias for what it is. Since no one trusts Starmer, how on Earth did he think he’d even get away with such a move?
I have nothing but complete and utter contempt for Labour and all the people involved in turning a blind eye or who were actively covering up this disgusting scandal. If this had been white males raping Muslim girls the outcry would have been deafening. That this has gone on for so many decades and that it is still happening with barely a mention anywhere in the MSM, is beyond comprehension. As for Sadiq Kahn….i have no words.
Thanks for continuing to highlight Labour’s shame Matt. And to think that Boris Johnson got evicted for being in the company of a Tupperware container of cake. Labour must go.
for the truth about the uk rape gangs that the lying media wont touch with a bargepole you MUST check out recusant nine
Excellent piece Matt, especially its tone. You’re 100% correct here. My only thought is that there should be an independent national police unit established (NCA) immediately, with the specific aim of pursuing and prosecuting all those agencies and individuals complicit in the cover up of this horrendous crime. This should run alongside a National Statutory enquiry. Who ever is appointed to lead the National Enquiry must have a dedicated protection as these criminal gangs are clearly still operating and doubtless capable of serious violence and intimidation. It’s obviously part of the reason for the cover up, ie repeated threats towards local council officials/ social workers and doubtless the regional police. This is not discounting complicity among local officials/ police which has also clearly occurred.
As a Country, and for our international reputation, we can no longer allow this scandal to fester and be left unaddressed.
The sheer stupidity of Labour's pandering to Muslims just for their vote beggars belief. Just ask Jonathan Ashworth who lost his seat in Leceister to a Muslim candidate. Surely Jess Phillips can't think she'll retain her seat at the next election if she plays along with Labour's attempt to direct focus of an inquiry away from the mostly Muslim perpetrators.
The left in Iran sided with the radical Islamists decades ago and look what happened to them. Labour need to learn from that.
There is no justification whatsoever for the remit of the enquiry to be widened beyond the central involvement of Muslim men in the systematic rape and trafficking of vulnerable white girls throughout this country for the past thirty years, if not for longer. This was what the enquiry was constituted to investigate and, shamefully so, only when Keir Starmer had been forced 'kicking' and 'screaming' to do so by the need to placate Elon Musk. Hopefully, he will speak up now, too.
Labour's attempt to appoint either a retired police officer or a social worker to chair the enquiry, followed by a subsequent attempt to widen the scope of the enquiry, is pure obfuscation and deflection, designed to cover up the corruption within the local communities which facilitated this depravity. Such people, even more so than the perpetrators, need to be held to account for their failure to fulfil their duty of care to these vulnerable young girls.
A judge led enquiry, preferably by a US justice, can be the only course of action, with the Government having promised to implement its findings in full, including criminal prosecution, wherever possible, prior to commencement. I don't hold out much hope, but this is the least that the victims deserve.
I would question the point of an enquiry. All government enquiries seem to take forever to set up, an age to conclude and then their findings and recommendations are rarely implemented, but there's been an awful lot of public money wasted on it in the meantime.
To me if there is to be an enquiry it should be chaired and run by entirely neutral individuals, it should be quick and its conclusions and recommendations fully implemented. In this case, however, I think it would be necessary to bring criminal charges against those in the police, social services, local councils and even government, who knew about these goings on but covered them up, ignored the victims or worse, aided and abetted the continuation of such disgusting and despicable behaviour. Enquiries need to be seen to have an impact, be seen to identify culpability and bring those guilty of criminal negligence in the performance of their professional duties to account.
Having heard Charlie Peters speak at Battle of Ideas last weekend, I believe the inquiry requires the independent forensic investigative journalism that Charlie brings. Maybe he should be Chairman, or at least given access that allows him to hold officials to account?
Can anyone remember when this government has done any thing right to support the vast majority of UK citizens? Everything they touch turns to a crock of c r @ p. They need to go. Wide scale disobedience is only a matter of time of time (short) away. If that is what it takes then the sooner the better.
The UK left has been bought and paid for by oil money for decades. Now the bill is coming due