Three in four people in Britain polled support a national inquiry into the prolific and harrowing rape of the nation’s children by insatiate “grooming gangs.” Yet, contrary to public will, the UK Labour Government last week voted against commissioning an investigation into this enduring horror.
Public consciousness of child sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom reached an inflection point this winter after victims shared account after gut-churning account of sexual savagery and careless murder being perpetrated against underage white girls by Pakistani-Muslim men up and down the country. These brave survivors recount how police and social workers were complicit in their abuse, losing evidence, asserting that children could consent, and failing to investigate rapes for fear of being called racist. In one instance, a girl had a morning-after pill forced into her mouth by a police officer.
Significant constituencies of the public believe that attempts are being made to cover up the historic failures of both local and national authorities, including 65% of Labour voters.
These accusations of corruption, galvanised by high-profile political figures like Elon Musk, have been branded ‘far-right’ by Keir Starmer, which has only caused the public’s attention to shift toward the prime minister and his record as Director of Public Prosecutions. The prime minister fueled speculations of a cover-up when he issued a three-line party whip—the most stringent form of party discipline—against Labour MPs, forcing them to vote against the investigation or risk expulsion from the party.
When the vote came, therefore, MPs from the top 50 towns known to be sheltering grooming gangs either abstained or voted against the investigation.
Only 3 MPs living in these grooming gang hotspots favoured an investigation. In each instance, the member came from the Conservative Party. No Labour MP voted in favour of an investigation, with around one-fifth abstaining or absent. The result produced a seismic backlash, including from angry victims, in whose names Labour claimed a national investigation would be counterproductive to change.
The party line is, “The investigation has already been had” and “It is time to get to work.”
This has proven to be one of these sleight-of-hand truths intended to cover all manner of sins. As Reform MP Nigel Farage highlighted for the House, this preexisting inquiry—all 459 pages of it—fails to mention “grooming gangs” and of the over 50 towns in England known to be harbouring this scourge, only the infamous Rotherham is mentioned.
It is thought that the number of girls who have been victims of child sexual exploitation, sexual assault, and rape by these gangs could be a quarter of a million—at the most conservative estimate. In twelve months alone, a Grooming Gangs Taskforce helped UK police identify and protect “over 4,000 victims.”
The towering ambiguity of just how many girls have been affected should, alone, give cause for a comprehensive, rigorous, and far-reaching investigation. The need is unambiguous and the public mandate is indisputable. Some within the Labour Party are coming to this realisation. MPs have begun to break ranks to side with the opposition in calling for an investigation, including Dan Carden, Paul Waugh, and Sarah Champion—MPs for the infamous Rochdale and Rotherham.
But the cynic in me believes this limp ‘I am Spartacus’-moment struggles to amount to more than career protection. I do not believe there is the desire or the passion to put an end to the ritual rape of these girls by gangs of foreign men. For decades, MPs have had their eyes wide shut to this scourge. The cold, unfeeling truth is that these girls have been dismissed because their abuse is a political inconvenience.
The facts of this atrocity contradict the tenets of ‘inclusivity’ and ‘tolerance’ that characterise our modern age. From infancy until death, the public is schooled that diversity is—and can only ever be—a strength. If an immigrant living in a Western nation engages in criminal or grotesque behaviour, he does not reflect the customs and attitudes of his home nation. Nor is he to be included in the ranks of the ‘Diverse™’. He is to be viewed as an innocent—a child—lashing out at a cruel and misunderstanding people. Whether he emerges from a war zone or a paradise, he is to be understood as suffering an impenetrable trauma that gifts rationality to his barbarity.
All of which is to say, it is impossible for one to identify a pattern of perversity in any one community, religion, country, or culture.
It is in this vein that the British public is charged to ignore the demographic shift in their constituencies—ignore how this might influence a politician’s vote. They are forbidden from noticing that the fast-food economy which sustains the middle-class lifestyle also sustains the perpetrators in these rape gangs. They must blind themselves to the incontrovertible.
Labour is no longer the party of the white working class because the white, working-class vote is no longer useful to them.It is not the rape of the nation’s children the UK Government is trying to cover up, nor is it the endemic failures in local councils and child protection services. What they wish to deny is an attitude: that the life of a white, working-class girl—much like her consent—is surplus to requirements.
