Posted on 01/04/2025 6:14:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
What do you do when the police, the politicians, and the press conspire to cover up atrocities?
A challenge of describing Britain’s grooming gang scandal for an international audience is convincing the reader that it really happened and is not simply the product of a morbid fantasy.
This is not just because the crimes at its heart—those crimes being the rape and torture of young girls—are so appalling. They are, of course, but appalling crimes happen everywhere, becoming no less evil for their pervasiveness. Nor is it not just because the crimes took place on such a vast scale. In Rotherham alone, in South Yorkshire, there might have been 1,500 victims. It is also because the authorities—police officers, social workers and politicians—failed so miserably and wickedly to prevent them.
In Rotherham, and Rochdale, and Telford, and many, many other places, evil men raped vulnerable girls with impunity while the officials looked the other way (and, in some cases, actively helped). How could this have happened?
It is partly because the perpetrators were disproportionately of migrant heritage. A striking number of them were ethnically Pakistani. Most—though not all—of their victims were white girls, which, judging by the vicious comments that have been reported, had a lot to do with anti-white racism. “All white girls are good for is sex,” one rapist reportedly told his victim, “They are just slags.”
Local authorities were uncomfortable about digging into claims of young girls being raped on the grounds of political correctness. In Telford, for example, according to an independent report, authorities feared “complaints of racism”.
Political correctness also dampened broader interest. A 2004 documentary, Edge of the City, was pulled by the broadcaster Channel 4 amid fears that it could “inflame racial tensions”. Ann Cryer and Sarah Champion, Labour MPs, were widely condemned for emphasizing the role of Pakistani men in the gangs. This contributed to what I have called “a conspiracy of murmuring”. The phenomenon was gradually acknowledged—but in the barest possible terms. Instead of being buried, it was simply filed away.
Yet political correctness was not the only contributing factor. Indeed, the basest forms of classism and misogyny seem to have motivated police indifference. The victims, according to one witness in Rotherham, were seen as “undesirables”—teens from care homes or otherwise troubled backgrounds. “Police weren’t arsed with us, really,” said one victim from Rochdale, “They don’t give a f--- when you’re not from a wealthy [home].”
Thus, teenage girls faced consistent victim-blaming, with one of them even being arrested on charges of being “drunk and disorderly” after neighbors had heard her screams, and another being dismissed from a police station right into the arms of rapists. News outlets also demonstrated a bizarre willingness to ignore the true nature of grooming and rape. When Azhar Ali Mehmood, 26, burned Lucy Lowe, 16, to death, the BBC described him as her “boyfriend”.
Beyond all this, there was the grotesque, though by no means uncommon, impulse towards prioritizing the interests of institutions above the interests of people. In one memorably sinister email, a council worker in Oldham announced that they had fobbed off the concerns of a journalist who had been looking into the subject of grooming gangs before announcing, “PS. In case you didn’t know: We’ve also won Best City at Northwest in Bloom again today.” Great.
Slowly, the atrocities began to come to light. It is important to be clear that in an ocean of indifference, there were people who did a lot to make this happen, like the whistleblowers Maggie Oliver and Jayne Senior, the journalists Andrew Norfolk and Charlie Peters, and the victims who had the astonishing courage to speak of what they had experienced.
But the scale of the response simply did not match up to the scale of the atrocities. Some of the rapists are already being released. Disgraced officials found cozy jobs elsewhere. No police officers faced serious consequences. Chillingly, files and laptops containing important evidence were stolen. The state avoided accountability while a cultural establishment that emphasized egalitarian and minoritarian narratives avoided the subject. When posts about the grooming gangs scandal went viral on X this week, there was widespread shock. People outside the UK hadn’t even heard about it—and many people within the UK hadn’t grasped its implications.
It is about time that there was a cultural and institutional reckoning. Of course, it is important to be clear that such crimes could still be happening today. It is important to be clear that such crimes can be, and have been, carried out by white people as well (and not for the sake of political correctness but to stop it happening).
Yet if Britain’s state and cultural institutions are allowed to forget what happened in Rotherham, and Rochdale, and Telford, and Oxford, and Bristol, and so many other places, there will not be meaningful attempts to tear off the ideological and institutional blinkers that have blinded them to atrocities in the past and could blind them to atrocities in the future.
Farage knows he needs to keep Middle England on side if Reform are to win. Middle England still sees Tommy Robinson as Voldemort. Rightly or wrongly doesn’t matter, that is the way it is. Reform needs to win the next election, there is nobody else capable of destroying liblabcon. Nobody. I am personally deeply uninterested in personality lashes between Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson. If Farage needs to keep Tommy at a distance, thrn that is what he should do. It’s far too important.
We saw Donald Trump as Voldemort here in USA.
Well, there isn’t time to convince all the triple vaxxed middle class normie boomers who still rely heavily on legacy media for their information that Tommy is misunderstood. Farage is doing the sensible thing. Hopefully Tommy does the right thing and tells his supporters to put aside what Farage is saying about him and support Reform because there is no plan B. Reform are the only hope against liblabcon.
Farage is done.
What’s happening in the UK has gone beyond mere political positioning. It’s more fundamental and a major wave.
And Farage has moved away from it.
Firstly - the Pakis were not “brought in by the government against the will of the people” - when they were imported in the 50s and 60s, the locals saw them as cheap labor. There was no large movement to get rid of them, Enoch Powell notwithstanding.
Secondly, why did this hit in the 90s? Because Christianity died in the underclasses in the UK, starting from the 70s and completely in the 90s (second generation or third generation of non-believing)
the UK's religious decline came from the 60s onwards.
Most of those Pakis are British born second or third generation.
NOTE that the groomers tend to be from the Mirpuri community - who were brought as mill workers in the 50s. They were lower class and uneducated even in Pakistan.
Oh boy, if you have an in tune spidey sense you will likely see the necessarily angled presentation by GBNews Pundit Neil Oliver, as he discusses the ‘rape gangs’ which have been operating in the U.K for decades.
After putting the context in its correct, horrific and evil place, Mr. Oliver asks the right question, repeatedly, “why now?” Why is this conversation taking place at this specific moment?
Neil knows that when attention is being focused on such a capacity that it makes those who do not want to pay attention, pay attention; it is at that moment when we need to stand back and look around. Whose interests are being served within the “now” question.
Elon Musk could have focused attention on the 500,000 missing, presumed exploited, children in the USA; or he could have drawn attention to the scale and scope of North American human trafficking that dwarfs, only in scale – not depravity, the British rape gangs. However, those American domestic horrors are not the attention-grabbing focus of Musk, why not? Why the ‘look over here’ aspect to the attention.
WATCH:
EXPOSED: What They’re NOT Telling You About the RAPE GANGS… | Neil Oliver
Personally, I always find Oliver’s big picture questions and discussions to be very pertinent. In the subtext to his narration, Oliver alludes to something even more problematic from the world of politics. Something so much more consequential inside the question.
The “why now” is almost certainly because those who want the distraction, needs a story of such consequence (‘child rape gang’) in order to provide cover for the issue advancing, but not being discussed.
(1) The total takeover of liberty by an elite group under the guise of digital identity;
(2) Artificial Intelligence driven control and surveillance facilitated by the tech industrialists; and
(3) the need for war against Iran.
Who stands behind all three points noted? [SEE HERE]
Diversity is not a strength.
Nobody in England was begging for these rapists to be brought in, and fed, hosed, and clothed at taxpayer expense.
Except Tony Blair (may he rot in Hell) to transform the demographics and electorate.
Biden tried to do the same thing here.
Diversity if it does not include Mohammedans, IS a strength and the UK is proof of that.
the UK is already diverse: with Welsh, Scots, Irish and English.
Heck, if you even take 1700 with the Kingdom being the Kingdom of England and Wales (Scotland and Ireland were separate entities) - England was already VERY diverse and had a lot of immigrants.
England in 1700, besides the admixture of Britons, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes that made up the “English” had many Norman French lords, had taken in Huguenot (French) refugees, had Dutch, Spanish and German immigrants (the Royal family was a German import from Hanover) and also many Jews.
I would argue that it was the diversity of the UK in 1707 that enabled it to win the 7 years war, the battle of Plassey etc.
But that diversity did not include Mohammedans.
even today - if you look at the prison statistics, the Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and Sikhs from the Indian continent barely register. But the Mohammedans - genetically the same - do punch well above their numbers...
And note that these criminals are second generation - their parents were brought in as mill workers during the 50s to 70s - well before Tony Blair.
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