The Labour MP who represents the grooming hot spot of Rotherham, Sarah Champion, has performed a U-turn to demand a national inquiry into the scandal. The Telegraph has more.
Sarah Champion said that “nothing less than a national inquiry into the failings of those in authority to prevent and be accountable for their failings” would restore public faith.
Only a week ago the MP warned that an inquiry would mean “another 10 years of waiting”.
Her intervention comes just hours after Paul Waugh, the Labour MP for Rochdale – another grooming hot spot – called for a national probe.
Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out an inquiry, saying it would last too long and would detract from the need to implement findings from a previous report into child sexual abuses.
In what has been described as the “biggest child protection scandal in U.K. history”, some 1,400 girls in Rotherham fell victim to grooming between 1997 and 2013. Most of the perpetrators were British Pakistanis.
On Monday afternoon, Ms. Champion said: “Child sexual abuse is endemic in the U.K. and needs to be recognised as a national priority.
“It is clear that the public distrusts governments and authorities when it comes to preventing and prosecuting child abuse, especially child sexual exploitation.
“The statistics on these crimes show the scale of the problem; the high level of public concern and mistrust only emphasises why addressing all forms of child abuse must be a Government priority.
“Having worked widely with victims and survivors, and front-line professionals, I have long believed that we need to fully understand the nature of this crime and the failures in the response of public bodies if we are to truly protect children.
“It is clear that nothing less than a national inquiry into the failings of those in authority to both prevent, and be accountable for their failings, in relation to grooming gangs will restore the faith in our safeguarding systems.”
Last week in the Commons, Ms Champion took the opposite view.
She said: “I say with the deepest respect to all those calling for a national inquiry to instead put all their energy into getting the recommendations adopted.
“With the best will in the world – you all know me; I am not making a party political point – another inquiry will mean another 10 years of waiting.
“What I want to see, and what I truly believe we all want to see, is child protection right now.”
In her statement on Monday afternoon, Ms Champion made five recommendations, all of which she said should occur concurrently.
She called on the Government to implement all of the recommendations from the Prof Alexis Jay inquiry into child sex abuse, with a timetable and ring-fenced resources.
The MP requested a national audit to see if “grooming gangs” are still operating, or whether cases have been missed, as well as a national inquiry into the failings of authorities over grooming gangs.
She also called for a new commission to look into the motivations of grooming gang members, alongside a review to ensure that the law is fit for purpose to protect children and prosecute child abusers.
She said: “Transparency and accountability need to be embedded into this process, with victims and survivors sitting at its heart.”
Worth reading in full.
Better late than never, though it would have had greater impact if she had added her voice to those calling for this last week.
Champion, of course, was famously forced to resign as Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary in 2017 after writing an article in the Sun warning that “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.
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Anyone with the cynicism that this government engenders might conclude that her “U-turn” is designed to take advantage of a further 10 years delay.
Absolutely spot on, you are!
10 more years of Mass Invasion by Third World People who hate the West.
The government could make a good start by teaching schoolchildren this:
Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to a church door (October 31, 1517) : r/HistoryMemes
“It’s OK to be White…”
Absolutely horrendous, systematic and highly organized abuse on a massive scale that was allowed to go on for many years. But according to the resident rape-apologist paedophile-sympathizers, this was neither rape nor were they children, so what’s all the fuss about, right?
”Words cannot adequately describe my hatred of the savages who did this.
Please read every word, from @SAshworthHayes
One victim claims a police officer told her she was a liar, pulled the police car over, persuaded her to drop charges, ripped up the paperwork, and dropped her off at a restaurant where girls and abusers used to gather.
As one officer said, “the view was that they were little slags”. Officials believed “the girls were happy, or complicit in it. The sense was that if there had been any offence it had been by the girls, for luring the men in.”
Meanwhile, girls lived in terror. The Casey review heard about crimes including “rape with a broken bottle and girls being ordered to kiss perpetrators’ feet at gun point”
Whistleblowers reported that children as young as 11 were collected from care homes by abusers and by taxis with “no attempts to disguise what they were doing”; staff failed to intervene, terrified of being called “racist”. The taxi drivers, in turn, sometimes met these girls “on official council business”, when they were “taken by cab from the home to the schools”.
Witnesses told inquiries that Pakistani heritage councillors had “a disproportionate influence in the council”, and in one case a councillor was alleged by police officers to have “influenced our operations”.
At one point, a local taxi driver allegedly arranged for an abused girl to be handed over by her abuser – a relative of his – to a police officer without prosecution. He would later become a Labour councillor.
In another case, a victim described how she was in a car with an abuser when they were stopped by an Asian police officer, who spoke to the abuser in a non-English language but didn’t try to stop him driving around with an underage child.”
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1878857684788850869
”Now, for the first time, MailOnline is publishing an interactive map which illustrates in the fullest detail to date the extent to which the grooming and rape culture spread across the towns of England.
Our unique digital map reveals the 41 towns in England where children and young women were targeted by the perverted gangs, around 76 gangs in total, taking in all corners of the country, from Plymouth in the south west and Ramsgate in south east, to Barrow in the north west and Newcastle in the north east.
And our research has found that of the 396 known groomers to be convicted and jailed over the last two decades, at least 155 have now been quietly released and are back on our streets – many living back in the very towns they previously prowled for victims.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14271725/Britains-Asian-grooming-gangs-scandal-laid-bare-Interactive-map-reveals-shocking-extent-predatory-men-sexually-abused-young-girls-FORTY-ONE-UK-towns-staggering-number-free-streets.html
[This comment has been removed – by me – because the repetition seemed pointless]
Rupert Lowe doing a sterling job in asking all the right questions in parliament here;
”I asked a number of uncomfortable questions in Parliament today around the mass rape of white working class girls by mainly Pakistani gangs.
The brutal truth must be shown to the British people.”
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1877018896504336469
Now listen to Sarah Champion’s response to Mr Lowe. She appears very offended by his language, which was all factually correct. Champion is a massive fake, but it’s no wonder what he said made her squirm, really. She needs to be held to account like many, many others that were complicit in the cover-up;
https://x.com/JamesReform/status/1877021871922639142
But, dear people, ask yourselves why all the sudden media & political frenzy over these Muslim Rape Gangs that have been going on for at least four decades? Why all this out of the blue? What is it designed to distract us from?
See how this sudden frenzy has pushed the Southport Stabbing out of everyone’s minds?
And the continued horrific injustice meted out only to British people protesting over the Southport Stabbing, still throwing them into prison while letting off with suspended sentences Muslim Gangs Armed with Machetes and Swords rampaging through the streets of English towns?
See how the courts have set the trial start date of the Southport Stabber, Ricin Maker and Al-Qaeda Manual Owner to January 20, 2025? The same date as the inauguration of the US President, which will be all over the news, concealing any mention of the Southport Stabber’s trial?
“Rudakubana was charged with production of a biological toxin in violation of Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974.”
“The PDF file found by Merseyside Police in Rudakubana’s computer was titled Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants – the al-Qaida Training Manual.”
£5m relief package for Southport after devastating attack – MerseyNewsLive
You can imagine where that money will be going…
“Nearly £2.5m will be given to local schools to increase support for children who may be struggling with their mental health [ see the Mental Health excuse for Muslim Terrorists coming down the track], while another two million will be given to businesses in Southport, including some which were affected by the riots which took place on the day after the attack.” [Southport Mosque where the cowardly b*stard attended? Will the imam be arrested and questioned? Will pigs fly?]
“The rest of the money will be used for community initiatives to help reduce local tension as well as tackling extremist ideology.” [“extremist ideology” translation: “Far Right Protesters” Against the Rapes and Murders of Children by Third World Immigrants]
So, local schools will get money for mental health support for muslim children, local businesses will get money to compensate them for the riots and finally community initiatives to help reduce local tension aka local mosques will get money and the parents whose children were killed get to pay for their funerals.
Totally disgusting.
Precisely. I sincerely hope that the upcoming trial will tell the truth to the public about the exact nature of the wounds the Demonic Snivelling Coward inflicted on those 11 helpless children and their two unarmed adult defenders, so that the public can fully understand how the survivors and their families have been affected, instead of it all being swept under the carpet as “3 killed, 10 injured”.
Well I for one have this trial as one of my top watches of the year and while I am a happy Trump fan and will raise a glass to his inauguration – earlier in the day I shall be watching out for the start of the Rwandan Welshman’s trial.
Well done to you for remembering his trial!
The big question is the why of who and what has groomed politicians, law-enforcement officers, judiciary, and sundry educated people who should know better, to groom a country in which organised procurement, rape and torture of under-age girls of one ethnicity by adult men of another ethnicity becomes rife?
That’s because this is not a great opportunity to revive the Pizzagate fairy tale in the hope that it’ll gain traction this time. Whether the continued attempts to do so are a false flag operation intended to discredit critics of the left-wing establishment or are the work of people who genuinely don’t understand that their truth-free hysterical dramatics don’t work is a somewhat interesting but really academic question.
This is not about paedophile rape gangs. It’s about people from so-called organized crime systematically hunting young women in order to turn them into prostitutes through a mixture of emotional abuse and getting them hooked on drugs. This, they do with total disregard for UK age of consent legislation because in their culture, the notion that someone can be physically but not legally a woman doesn’t exist and they don’t care in slightest about it. Police officers looking the other way are likely mostly bought, as is usual for such cases.
I suppose there’s nothing quite like the realisation that one could lose one’s place on the lucrative gravy train if one continues to hold in contempt the rapid increase in the publics dismay at the lack of action against the perpetrators of CSE.
Commonly known as a wake up call!!
The cynic in me noted that it occurred to Ms Champion how well she would come out of a national inquiry (deservedly so) so it would help her career, for a change.
I’m still annoyed with her for the way she verbally cuffed Rupert Lowe in Parliament.
I shouldn’t say any of this as she’s stuck her neck out previously and I’ve done nothing except inwardly fume and thank my stars all I had to worry about was the Yorkshire ripper.
Pathetic hypocritical, publicity seeking cow who could not even vote against a 3 line whip when she knows 2TK does not dare to hold a by election.