Grooming gangs inquiry must root out racists who turned blind eye to rape of young white girls – they MUST face justice

The Sun

5 hours ago

IF there ever was a justification for holding a public inquiry it is surely the mass rape of under-age girls by gangs of men.
Also, the failure for many years of police, social workers and other agencies to take the issue seriously.
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The scale of the offending is extraordinary. A report by Professor Alexis Jay concluded that 1400 girls were abused in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2013, yet the girls themselves were ignored -- or even blamed for their own abuse.
That we are finally getting an inquiry is of little credit to this government, which for months until Keir Starmer's U-turn at the weekend had tried to belittle the scandal and, even worse, make out that those who called for an inquiry were pandering to extremists or as he put it: 'jumping on the bandwagon of the far right'.
The Prime Minister himself made this claim back in January, accusing Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch of 'amplifying' the words of the Far Right and making unfounded claims that critics such as Elon Musk were 'spreading lies and misinformation '.
'Stain on our society'
Lucy Powell, Leader of the House of Commons, went on to describe it as a 'dog whistle' even to mention the abuse scandal.
Around the same time Starmer insisted: 'This doesn't need more consultation.
"It doesn't need more research. It just needs action.'
He later added the victims 'don't want to see another national inquiry'.
Well he was wrong. Many of these women treated so appallingly DID want an inquiry.
And they are getting one now because Louise Casey, whom the government engaged in January to carry out a rapid review in the hope of batting away the issue, has come down in favour of one.
Home secretary Yvette Cooper told us that the scandal was 'a stain on our society'.
I was locked up & raped in dingy flat for days by grooming gangs - only to find out one sicko was a POLICE officer who's never seen justice
So it is. But why couldn't she and the rest of the Government bring themselves to admit that back in January when they were trying to tell us that it was all sorted out, in the past, and that there was nothing more to say on the matter?
Officials, she added, often avoided the topic for fear of being labelled racist.
So they do, but the same applies to most of the Cabinet.
The perpetrators were, inconveniently to many of them, heavily concentrated in one section of the UK population: they were men of Pakistani heritage.
There is of course a glaring reason why the abuse scandal was ignored by so many individuals and organisations who were in a position to stop it.
The perpetrators were, inconveniently to many of them, heavily concentrated in one section of the UK population: they were men of Pakistani heritage.
Cooper still can't quite bring herself to admit the truth, telling the Commons that 'Asians' had been found to be 'over-represented' among the suspects in abuse by gangs.
For some reason she couldn't bring herself to be more specific than that.
It is true that there are some on the Far Right who would love to make an issue of the grooming gangs scandal for their own ends.
But they are somewhat outnumbered by those on the liberal-left who for years balked at the idea that an ethnic minority could be disproportionately involved in a serious form of crime.
It is the latter who are far more influential in the legal justice system.
Sadly, these people, who tend to dominate police constabularies, council social services departments and the judiciary, lack the insight to see that they are equally guilty of racism and prejudice as are the Far Right.
For years, they were making decisions on whether or not to investigate sex offences or prosecute rapists on the basis of the colour and religion of the offenders.
Bizarrely, people who bleat endlessly about the gender gap in company boardrooms, and other supposed injustices against well-paid professional women, turned out to be blatant misogynists when faced with the mass abuse of white working class girls.
They treated them as worthless, whose welfare was to be cast aside in the cause of promoting racial and religious equality.
Most Britons, needless to say, want justice to be meted out to offenders equally, regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
They reject utterly the notion that some groups of the population should, to borrow George Orwell's phrase, be more equal than others.
They want the criminal justice system to deal with what is happening now, not be used as a tool to try to right injustices in the distant past through treating some groups more leniently than others.
In spite of the child abuse scandal the Prime Minister, and many others on the Left, simply cannot stop themselves.
The same attitude which prevailed in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and many other towns was there to be seen again during last summer's riots.
Starmer, who had had little to say about riots in Leeds, sparked when Roma children were taken into care, or a machete fight on Southend seafront, lost no time in condemning anyone he thought he could blame for encouraging the riots which followed the Southport murders.
Police withheld important information about the suspect behind the attacks, apparently out of fear it might encourage the Far Right.
Racial tensions
But if you want to encourage the Far Right there is no better way of doing so than to brush serious acts of crime under the carpet.
For years the only people who were talking about the mass rape of white girls by men of Pakistani heritage were the British National Party.
Indeed, the first I heard about it was in a BBC documentary filmed covertly to expose the BNP.
It is vital that the racist attitudes of those who tried to excuse serious criminal activity are rooted out for good.
I have to say that, like most viewers I suspect, I thought that rape gang allegations which featured in the programme were just a tall story made up to ramp up racial tensions.
But they weren't. Much as I despise the BNP, the efforts of others to cover up the mass rape scandal handed the party the initiative.
That is why we need an inquiry into the rape scandal, and why it must focus absolutely on the most important question: Why was there such a conspiracy of silence, and why did so many 'enlightened' people think it acceptable to turn a blind eye to gang rape.
It is vital that the racist attitudes of those who tried to excuse serious criminal activity are rooted out for good.
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