Our thanks to David for this. The start of the piece:
Labour MP Jess Phillips has come to the defence of singer Lily Allen, after she claimed grooming gang victims would have been “raped or abused by somebody else at some point” if Muslim groomers were not present in the United Kingdom.
Asked if the victims, who were overwhelmingly white working class, would have been groomed if their abusers were not present in the country, Allen claimed that, “Actually, there’s a strong possibility they would have been raped and abused by somebody else at some point. That’s kind of the issue.”
The celebrity then tried to divert attention from the subject of grooming gangs by saying people should be concerned with another type of abuser — “men that have sex with their stepdaughters twice a week for years at a time … neighbours, uncles, gardeners, priests, fast food restaurant managers that do it over and over again” — who she characterised as 100 per cent “British white males”. [J4MB: Racist and sexist. It’s a good thing no women commit sexual offences against minors and adults, isn’t it?]
Enter the deranged Yardley Gob:
Allen’s comments prompted a substantial backlash on social media which saw her lock her Twitter account — but Jess Phillips said her “stand” was “inspiring”.
“Watching Lily Allen and Stella Creasy stand their ground for [the] last few days is inspiring for those who need resilience,” she tweeted, referring to the singer and one of her parliamentary colleagues.
“Oh for the days of reasonable discourse where issues could be explored,” she complained.
Justice for Men & Boys 
I am far from convinced by the explanation for the failure to take any action over a sustained period of time regarding this abuse was the fear of being accused of racism. This smacks of a convenient excuse for p*** poor performance. I am sure a significnat factor was because the victims came from the underclass. Something would have happened PDQ if middle or upper class girls were victims just because the parents would have been listened too more easily and would have known how to make a fuss more effectively. The same reason is why the terrible failings of the school system for poor white boys has so little publicity or effect.
Saying that support and monitoring for these type of vicitims is poor (but still not as poor as for the equivalent boys) does not take away from the fact that abuse requires abusers and without abusers no abuse would take place. The idea that abuse is endemic and common is a typical feminist canard which ends up damaging girls as well as boys because everone is innurred to claims of abuse as false so that when a real incident happens it is easily placed in the same category. That the claim is false is clear from the reaction to Rotherham, if it was commonplace similar reports woudl occur all the time and there would be no shock.
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A significant factor is the ethnicity and religion of the perpetrators. They are overwhelmingly South Asian Muslims and they are operating across the country including in Birmingham: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/09/grooming-gangs-muslim-men-failed-integrate-british-society/
Jess Phillips is ducking the issue out of craven self-interest, because her constituency has a substantial South Asian Muslim population and she fears losing their votes if she tells the truth. She’s putting her tawdry career ahead of the welfare of the daughters of her constituents.
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Precisely across the country such cases have eventually been prosecuted in nearly 20 English towns. It is estimated that about as many as 20,000 girls (and boys in fact) have been victims. Based on the prosecuted cases about half the victims were either in care or on child safeguarding registers. By definition vulnerable enough to need state protection. So this scandal is the biggest failure of child protection ever. However it was indeed mainly Labour Councils that sat on this and so Labour has most to lose.
The sheer numbers of prosecutions following the breaking of the decade long silence in 2013 and the “historical abuse” prosecutions have changed the ethnic and age profiles of our prisons.
Frankly the CPS and Police will be under much greater pressure as the underlying trend on sexual crime is downward and it will become even harder to achieve more prosecutions without even more egregious flouting of due process justice.
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Of course, everyone knows that Jess Phillips MP is vermin.
I am, however, rather surprised to learn that Lily Allen is vermin too.
Why would a successful ‘artist’ in the music business, someone whose living does not depend on political utterances, wish both to defend Muslim rape gangs and to denigrate working class white girls?
In general, I find it bizarre that persons from the entertainment business of theatre, dance and music would wish to be associated with Leftist politics. One would have thought that act of being an ‘artist’ depends upon the sovereign creative force of an individual. Hence, an artist ought to prize individual freedom above all other factors. If logic had any part in the political thought of any arty person, then such a person ought to lean towards the Libertarian Right…
However, all of them are ideological Leftists!
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Pop stars, fun as they are, generally have all the “artistry” of adverts . I doubt Ms Allen has much by the way of thought processes before she sounds off, as she has quite often.
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Lily Allen.. A Darwin Award candidate with Jess Phillips as runner up.
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I occasionally walk past Lily Allen’s house and substantial acreage in the Cotswolds. Not seen any evidence yet of those refugee families she said she’d take in.
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