Posted on 01/07/2025 1:35:27 PM PST by Twotone
An influential Labour Party group has broken with the Prime Minister to back calls for a national inquiry into the grooming and rape gangs.
The Blue Labour outfit said that a new inquiry was necessary to “give voice to the many thousands of forgotten victims,” in what they described as “the worst series of atrocities that have taken place in Britain since the war”.
The Labour group, which was founded by Labour peer Lord Glasman, said “progressives denied, obfuscated, equivocated, averted their eyes, changed the subject,” when faced with the scandal.
The statement, seen exclusively by GB News, said that many figures on the Left did “anything but look the dark side of multiculturalism squarely in the eye”.
The group added: “For many of us in Blue Labour, the left’s inability to face up to the awful reality of the organised grooming and rape of young girls by men of mostly Pakistani origin across English towns severed our faith in progressive politics for good.”
In a scathing attack on the party’s leadership, the statement said that “too many are still doing that today when they immediately pivot to talking about the far-right or Elon Musk. But this is not about them, and nor is it about the Prime Minister. It is about the victims and their families, and the failures at every level which enabled their abuse.”
The intervention will come as a blow to Labour, which is battling against demands for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal from both the Tories and Reform UK.
Describing some of the attempts to shut down the issue in the past, Blue Labour said: “Those on the left who spoke up - Ann Cryer, Sarah Champion and others - were told to shut up.
“To acknowledge reality was considered ‘dog-whistling’ at best, if not outright racism. The victims were mostly poor and vulnerable, living in faraway working-class towns outside the glare of Westminster. They were easy to ignore.
“In liberal society, it is still seen as impolite to talk about such things. The truth is so horrific it is scarcely believable and it confounds the progressive imagination. But this squeamishness is moral cowardice and it continues to this day.”
The group said they hoped “the renewed attention on the most awful scandal in modern British history leads to justice for the victims.
“This means tougher sentencing, an end to the chilling effects of political correctness, and a total reset of our broken immigration system - including the deportation of offenders where possible.”
The group took aim at a key Labour defence, which has been to refer to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published in 2022.
Blue Labour said: “Those who claim the national inquiry (IICSA) that reported in 2022 was adequate have been misinformed. Its scope was too broad, with any focus on grooming gangs incidental.
“It elided the central question of ethnicity and religion. And it focused on six towns where there were no reports of grooming gangs; Telford and Rochdale received no mention and Rotherham was mentioned only once.”
On Sunday, Chris Philp, the shadow Home Secretary said: “The IICSA inquiry only covered six of the towns involved in the child rape gang scandal.
“Many of the worst affected towns were not even looked at by IICSA. We urgently need a full public inquiry to get to the truth – including the truth about the failure by the police to investigate, the truth about cover-ups by Labour local councils and the truth about the CPS approach to prosecutions, including during Keir Starmer’s time as DPP.”
GB News has compiled reports from over 50 different towns where grooming gangs operated.
Blue Labour said: “This inquiry must have proper focus and be given all available powers. We need a full reckoning with this evil.”
They are late to the party, but tickets are still available.
They claim they want the truth. That brings to mind “You can’t handle the truth.”
We all know the truth but they simply refuse to admit it. They let untold number of Paki mohammadens into their country and their Koran commands them to rape white girls and women. In their minds, they are doing their “God’s” work.
And the simple truth of the matter is that, if you call out that above truth, you are a racist and you will be sent to prison.
The plain truth is that Britain has gone starkers and is circling the toilet.
Why does anyone in labor care about underprivileged Paki males raping daughters of the British white working class? It’s a mystery to me.
... the organised grooming and rape of young girls by men of mostly Pakistani origin across English towns...
Wow. Someone woke up with a pair of...courage and common sense. Didn’t want to say anything nasty :)
I would figure in the lower income neighborhood where the white boys are a little tougher, they would take things into their own hands.
Sometimmes govt leaves you no choice.
It wasn’t “grooming”. It was organized child rape on a scale not seen since WWII. And all levels of authority in Britain were complicit.
Language matters.
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Yes, but it looks like even some within the Labour Party have had enough of progressivism & are willing to put up a fight. Good news, in my opinion.
Thought it was interesting that the PM that looks to be incharge of this issue was did not push the inquiry into the grooming gangs and is blaming musk for issues with her safety. I would rather assume if she did her job she would be in danger from those who are involved or want this buried for political reasons.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7r0pzz57vo
Let’s hope so. How many is “some”? Is this a groundswell?
Gee...I wonder if it had anything to do with The Religion of Pieces? IIRC moslems now make up somewhere around 20% of Britain’s population.
It’s definitely the mohammedans rage folks.
...Labour members want to get the girls’ phone numbers.
Give Musk CREDIT where it’s due. No one would be talking this if not for Musk.
Good on them for speaking out. Amazing how nobody, anywhere, ever gives a sh*t about poor whites. It’s a disgrace really.
Say what you want about Musk but none of this belated airing of dirty laundry would have happened had he not purchased Twitter. For that I will be eternally grateful.
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