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In the beginning...'s avatar

They are afraid all the skeletons will come out of the closet of all the labour councillors and now mps. Trying to put it out to the long grass. Hopefully with Rupert Lowe and the Torys it will get back in the news and all over the place. There should be nowhere to hide for these predators and people who covered for them.

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Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

Doesn't this make you wonder if Starmer - who was supposed to do something about the gang-rapes/grooming of young British girls but never did even when it was his direct job - is stonewalling any and all efforts? Would that be because he doesn't want his refusal to act to be proven, or is it that he may have accepted money to look the other way? Or both. Even his own people hate his guts - or lack of them.

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JJ COOPER's avatar

It’s all very strange isnt it.These are terrible crimes against mainly girls and you would think most women like Jess Phillips and Yvette Cooper would be full on getting justice for the abused.It stinks and how low can these people be if their only motivation for lack of action is that it would destroy their political party and many of its complicit criminals

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Alan Jurek's avatar

JJ great article.

Absolute appeasement from the government of the Muslim communitied and the complicit police, Labour councillors and MPs.

Raja Miah has shown this up for the last 6 years for Oldham Council who still have senior members in post who were complicit in the cover up and the grooming.

Now the watered down local enquiry KC appointed Tom Crowther seems to be being sidelined by a government in turmoil.

Heads should roll but we all know what will happen- NOTHING.

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Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

I know it is silly to think it could be done, but heads should actually, physically roll, one or more Pakis at a time, and perhaps even one or more worthless politicians at a time. Here in the U.S. our intelligence agencies even do it to our presidents, but we still have hundreds of thousands of "unaccompanied minors" unaccounted for. Especially where children - and young girls with no one to protect them - are concerned. Governments are a crime against humanity, and those involved should face Nuremberg-style justice.

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John Beck's avatar

And yet they are falling over themselves to be seen to act on a drama. On the distorted truths of luvvies at the dressing up box. And it’s because they would rather distract, obfuscate and gas light by picking on the low hanging fruit of the white working class. And still they protest that a two tier society is a fallacy.

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The Plucky Welshman's avatar

Appearances mean more than reality to not just this government but all of the previous ones since Blair at least. They'd rather sweep our discontent under the rug than deal with it at source.

They are hoping that we'll forget and just learn to get along with rapists and child murderers in our midst, that if nothing is said their multicultural dream will appear to be a reality.

Fiction means more to them than facts, hence the fuss over 'Adolescence,' and their fiction of a working multi cultural society is one that I am not prepared to go along with.

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c Anderson's avatar

Starmer is going after Conservative Russell Brand as a way to distract Brits from his true lack of interest in stopping the rape and brutalizing of young girls and boys. This is the view from a US based country bumpkin.

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Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

And a mountain-dwelling bumpkin in the wilds of Montana - definitely NOT a multi-cultural area, where I'd like to believe armed citizens would address something as heinous as this if we had the knowledge of where in our community and what group was engaged, that wholesale grooming and gang-rapes right in our community would not be tolerated. Some of us older folks understand that life in prison isn't much of a deterrence anymore.

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MARK ALFORD's avatar

The Government is avoiding a national inquiry into child sexual abuse and exploitation, and instead, differing in some clandestine way, the question is why?

What they are doing: Supporting local inquiries, such as Oldham’s own investigation. Encouraging a new local framework for victim-centred responses, drawing from examples like Telford and Rotherham. Proposing a panel to support local areas in tackling exploitation. Promoting a Duty of Candour and strengthening accountability mechanisms. Supporting local authorities with tools and frameworks, but keeping them decentralised. All sounds like avoidance of the truth, this is a bloody cover up and it goes all the way to Starmer.

What they are not doing: They are not committing to a national, independent inquiry covering all affected areas. They do not reference any immediate plan to centralise efforts under a national umbrella, despite the similarities and scale across different regions. They say “this Government is committed to doing everything it can”, but then defer responsibility to local authorities and mention "group-based local inquiries."

Key Passage Suggesting Evasion of a National Inquiry:

“...the Government is developing a new framework for victim-centred, trauma-informed responses... tailored to meet the specific needs of the localities.”

“We are therefore developing a programme which can support local authorities, like Oldham... rather than launching wide-ranging national reviews.”

Verdict: Yes, the Government appears to be dodging a national inquiry by instead promoting localised responses, new frameworks, and supportive panels. While those actions are constructive in their own right, they fall short of the comprehensive, centralised review that campaigners demand after widespread abuse is revealed across the whole of the UK. Only last month Sadiq Khan blocked an enquiry in London rape gangs. Where I ask you, does this stem from, The questionable Muslim Block vote. Postal votes, completed by Imans and submitted on mass are not completed by the voter and breach all rules of the Electoral Commission.

The Liebour Govt, is literally covering it and its leaders arses and hoping our complacency, our checked out and disillusioned nation will do nothing, that we will disappear quietly into the mist. Andy Burnham, Rachel Reeves, Kier Starmer, Evette Cooper are all complicit. Wake up people, this is a travesty of justice and our chance to expose these tyrants for what they really are, self effacing and institutionally corrupt.

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

Great reporting. Only glitch is your use of the word "table" which in American political parlance means to "set aside" - where you clearly meant to "bring forth."

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JJ Starky's avatar

cheers Jack, had no idea it meant the opposite for you guys. appreciate the heads up

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Peter Ridler's avatar

It’s time we had a citizens rights referendum by phone votes . Name and National Insurance number to qualify. Surely we can expert our real voter concern’s where the government of the day are not Taking on the responsibility of fair and frank investigations. This could be monitored be a legal panel from selected candidates of no connections to the government of the day.

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Toffeepud's avatar

If you've read anything by Rajah Miah, you will know Labour are complicit in the full horror up to their over fed necks. These towns are invariably "run" by Pakistani gangsters who have all the local and national reps by the balls. That's why Labour will never do anything to expose their crimes going back to the 1960s.

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Low Status Opinions's avatar

Excellent journalism. Thank you.

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Kathryn O's avatar

Wait until the groomers attack the wrong Brit, you can be sure the response will be different, but too late to address the problem

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Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

I'm afraid even the child of a politician - certainly such as that worm Starmer - would suffer without help. He is so spineless I doubt he would respond even if he were a victim of such crimes.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

Labour are terrified, they are complicit in this. They are actually despicable in their attitude. What a great man Rupert Lowe is, fighting this against all odds!

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Jim McNeill🇬🇧SDP's avatar

Colour me surprised

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Teresa Taylor's avatar

It was also the circumstances and how this announcement was orchestrated, with no notice given. Time again, Labour party are proving to be the most sinister, malevolent, lying, grifting bunch of back stabbers I've ever seen in my adult life. It beggars belief as to how they are conducting themselves….but we are watching them do it, without any consequence, which is even more depressing.

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Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

There is a series of books by an author using the name Quentin Black. The protagonist is a former British soldier who has the courage to right outrageous wrongs, including going after a group taking and killing homeless for their organs. He works with a special black-ops group run by a small government unit, taking out those who have been stealing organs and reselling them.

No offense to you Brits, but why aren't there retired/former SAS or similar doing the Paki slags who have been gang-raping and/or then grooming young British girls for prostitution - many from homes/agencies for troubled children, but even those with families who have been unable to get the government to stop it? It would be nice to see these sub-humans who are doing it brassed. Fiction often provides more satisfaction than reality, I guess, here in the U.S. as well.

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