The majority of the town are white. They didn’t know this was going on until exposed. The Muslim community in the town knew, and TOLD the police and social work, to get it stopped, but for reasons of race cowardice, they ignored it or disbelieved it.
Once exposed, there has been great anger in the town and nationally.
If you were in the UK, you would see the national anger at sex abuse cases, which started with the Jimmy Savile story then this story and hasn’t abated.
Americans would be wrong to think the UK people aren’t out protesting against this. On the streets, online.....just in the last few weeks, national outrage and disgust has made authorities change their decision not to prosecute an elderly major politician accused of sex crimes, due to his dementia.
Thank you for your response; observations of someone on the scene are very helpful. I do not doubt that many decent UK citizens and residents, plus some who are not 100% decent, are vociferously up in arms over their government’s protection of child sex abuse, whether by muslim gangs or old white pedophiles. Presumably that is what the local council wants to muzzle.
I submit that the best way to avoid wasting funds to protect protestors would be for government, local and national, to get off its collective arse and address the problem, unmask and prosecute the offenders, and destroy the careers of the insiders who allowed the situation to fester (rather than send them to nice jobs elsewhere), and establish a system that actually works, with public oversight. (If they have done this, it’s a well-kept secret here, and apparently in the UK as well).
Outlawing protest by citizens frustrated by government malfeasance and inaction is NOT acceptable in a free society, and any politician who advocates it should be forced to resign in shame. (I recognize that this is more a gambit to get the Home Office to foot the bill for security, rather than to actually stop demonstrations. The cheek of it is an affront and the trash still belongs on the curb.)