Post by Red Rackham on Jun 6, 2024 18:07:33 GMT
Labour should hang their heads in shame over the grooming scandals
How does Yvette Cooper sleep at night? Reacting to the Government’s new crackdown on abominable grooming gangs, the shadow home secretary said, as if butter wouldn’t melt, “You can never allow any kind of sensitivities around race and ethnicity to prevent action on child sexual exploitation and abuse.” The Government, she huffed, should have done something eight years ago.
Well, I think Yvette and I can agree that you certainly shouldn’t allow ethnic sensitivities to get in the way, because the priority must always be protecting vulnerable youngsters, obviously. Where we disagree is in that it seems to have slipped Yvette’s mind that thousands of attempts by victims, social workers and other concerned adults to report predatory behaviour by British Pakistani grooming gangs have repeatedly been stymied by Labour politicians, Labour councillors and police forces in Labour-controlled towns.
Nazir Afzal, when he was chief crown prosecutor for North West England, told the BBC that, in 2008, the Home Office under Gordon Brown’s administration sent a circular email to all police forces calling on them not to investigate the sexual exploitation of young girls. In 2011, the then home secretary Jack Straw let the cat out of the bag when he said that white girls were “seen as easy meat” by Pakistani rapists. Straw was swiftly shut down.
And look what happened to Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham. In 2017, Champion was forced to resign from her position as shadow women and equalities minister over what she called her “extremely poor choice of words” in an article she wrote for The Sun. The piece came after 17 men and one woman were found guilty of committing nearly 100 offences, including rape, against vulnerable women and girls in Newcastle. Champion’s article began: “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls. There. I said it. Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying crime.
www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/05/grooming-gangs-scandal-labour-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer/
And there's more, much more. When it comes to Pakistani grooming gangs no one will be surprised that Labour, who in at least 30 constituencies rely on the Muslim vote, have a lot to be ashamed of.
How does Yvette Cooper sleep at night? Reacting to the Government’s new crackdown on abominable grooming gangs, the shadow home secretary said, as if butter wouldn’t melt, “You can never allow any kind of sensitivities around race and ethnicity to prevent action on child sexual exploitation and abuse.” The Government, she huffed, should have done something eight years ago.
Well, I think Yvette and I can agree that you certainly shouldn’t allow ethnic sensitivities to get in the way, because the priority must always be protecting vulnerable youngsters, obviously. Where we disagree is in that it seems to have slipped Yvette’s mind that thousands of attempts by victims, social workers and other concerned adults to report predatory behaviour by British Pakistani grooming gangs have repeatedly been stymied by Labour politicians, Labour councillors and police forces in Labour-controlled towns.
Nazir Afzal, when he was chief crown prosecutor for North West England, told the BBC that, in 2008, the Home Office under Gordon Brown’s administration sent a circular email to all police forces calling on them not to investigate the sexual exploitation of young girls. In 2011, the then home secretary Jack Straw let the cat out of the bag when he said that white girls were “seen as easy meat” by Pakistani rapists. Straw was swiftly shut down.
And look what happened to Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham. In 2017, Champion was forced to resign from her position as shadow women and equalities minister over what she called her “extremely poor choice of words” in an article she wrote for The Sun. The piece came after 17 men and one woman were found guilty of committing nearly 100 offences, including rape, against vulnerable women and girls in Newcastle. Champion’s article began: “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls. There. I said it. Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying crime.
www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/05/grooming-gangs-scandal-labour-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer/
And there's more, much more. When it comes to Pakistani grooming gangs no one will be surprised that Labour, who in at least 30 constituencies rely on the Muslim vote, have a lot to be ashamed of.
