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Good. In this country I must commend those who still push on the inquiry into the “Pakistani Grooming Gangs” scandal. Not only for what is the most appalling failure of child protection in this country ever but also for the stories that are perpetuated by the unexamined fall out. Which connect to William Collins’ excellent alert about the diminution of human and legal rights justified by a mythic epidemic of VAWG. Put simply even during the period of the “heyday” of such gangs and their protection from prosecution to the years of prosecutions (still continuing) the incidence of sexual crimes has been falling. Thus if you take out the specifics of the grooming gangs and in recent years the now charted numbers committed by recent arrivals from abroad in fact there is very good news that rare crimes have been becoming rarer. There never was an epidemic of sexual crimes in our Universities, nor some dramatic rise due to “rape drugs”, “spiking” , internet porn, Computer games and all the other supposed reasons for a dramatic rise, which simply doesn’t exist. Indeed if one looks at the numbers of the “gangs” cases and victims it becomes obvious they were and are a significant part of the stats and dealing with them will make a huge difference to already low figures.
The other issue is of course that the “proudly feminist” labour party and the poster girl of VAWG including the fiddling the justice system, Jess Phillips, is in the forefront of doing everything possible to delay and attenuate the Commission of Inquiry. Lauded once by the Triggernometry boys for fighting for female victims. She and her party are busy putting electoral issues (muslim voting blocks) ahead of their supposed principles.
So hypocrisy and assaults on legal and human rights to fair trials are both based on false narratives about numbers potentially exposed. That would be a start. I’m not naive enough to think it would surface the other “elephant” that half the victims were/are in council care and overall most were/are fatherless or in “chaotic families”.
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