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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I often used to pass Milliband senior on the street when I lived in Manhattan. I wondered why he had left the UK and politics. Now, after 14 years of Tory governments either asleep or unable to get legislation passed the civil service or NGOs, I realize the attraction of being in globalist job, dedicated to increasing immigration to the West.
I preferred the real, original International Rescue who built their capabilities entirely through private enterprise and without public money. FAB!
Now remind me, were not all the Tory leadership (sic) contenders part of government. Did they pay no attention.
Which of their colleagues do they say let them down, and us? Collective responsibility means all of them.
Wait –
No, it must be a coincidence. Miliband is quite a common surname.
What blessings did Ralph Milliband bequeath upon the British with his sons David and Ed. They represent the Bat , or bloodsucker in David , and the Rat , or vermin in Ed .
Together, the Milibrains of Britain…
What a society we have built, where people fail upwards.
Slightly off-topic: Grangemouth workers rally to save oil refinery jobs says the BBC.
Perhaps they didn’t read the Labour (or Conservative) manifesto?
I trust David’s weird brother Ed will go up to Grangemouth to explain why they’re f****d?
Net zero by 2050! Yay!
Let the anger build further.
https://davyudal.substack.com/p/bill-gates-and-who-call-for-military
The next Scamdemic must be getting close.
Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell calling for military roundups of those refusing the next death jab when the Bird ‘Flu is given the get go.
Is this round your neck of the woods, hux? I suspect the ”black and white scarfs” they’re referring to aren’t the type worn by NUFC supporters, but the other ones we’re all too familiar with by now. I hope they catch the filthy scumbags, and if it was early evening some passersby must have seen them somewhere, but respect to this man for bravely reporting this. They’ll be likely to strike again unless they’re caught;
”Officers are appealing for information following reports of a serious sexual assault near Wrigley Head in Failsworth, Oldham, yesterday evening (Friday 2 August 2024).
At around 5.55pm, a man was approached by three men and was assaulted and subjected to a serious sexual assault. He is currently being assisted by specialist officers and his wellbeing and care is at the heart of their ongoing work.
Officers believe this to be a targeted attack and there is no risk to the wider public.
We are now looking to speak to three men in relation to this incident and they are described as black men in their 30s, with black and white scarfs round their necks and of an athletic build. One man was wearing jeans and another wearing trousers with pockets on.”
https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/august/officers-appeal-for-information-following-a-serious-sexual-assault-in-oldham/
Thanks Mogs. Very close to us. Failsworth is a mid point more or less between Oldham and Manchester. Like many places it has become rather grim over the last twenty years and its no stranger to knife crime and murders.
I have just been reading the Comments section at TCW. Quite a few reports that the Calais Yatch Club arrivals are masquerading as the Muslim Defence League and are being bussed around the country to riot. They are uniformly dressed in black with balaclavas. Local mosques are used to store and dish out their arms – knives, hammers etc.
As I have been posting for about three years.
Good job the courts are open all night then , that’ll fix it !
The response by Dr Hotez is chilling. “We need to get Homeland Security involved because this is a security problem. 200,000 Americans died because of anti-vaccine aggression, so this is now a lethal force.” Meanwhile, he is happily lining his own pockets while developing vaccines funded by the US health authorities.
Off-T
Frank Haviland – no holding back.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/the-frank-report-lxxxi/
“With tensions running high in Southport, you’d have thought Prime Minister Starmer would be eager to reassure the public. And yet, our dear leader, two-tier Keir, didn’t want to talk about any of that in his address to the nation. I mean it’s not as if it was something important like Black Lives Matter, Hamas-supporting Jew haters, or Persephone, Margaux and Lucinda from Just Stop Oil having something racy to discuss in the Oxbridge bars that evening. This was just little girls getting slaughtered in broad daylight, and the votes Labour can hope to extract for opposition to that are close to zero.”
“Seventh Century medievalism is now a permanent feature of the landscape in Britain, aided and abetted by the police.”
https://x.com/DVATW/status/1819803537657770287
Video of muzzies openly brandishing machetes and those “large, curved kitchen knives”(sic) presumably as used by the alleged Southport slaughterer.
Don’t worry it’s knuckle dragging morons we have to be fearful of according the The Daily Wail yesterday , Do you think this so called uniformed MDL are independent or HMG organised ?
Do you genuinely believe that that is a recent video and that it’s in any way threatening?
Another Free loading nose in the trough C U Next Tuesday waste of space nonentity !!
So why was a supposedly Conservative Government shovelling British taxpayers’ money at a foreign “charity” run by a Socialist?
That’s where the problem starts. They shouldn’t have been receiving ANY British taxpayers’ money.
I do hope this is the end of Sneer and I wonder if the kindly Bliar was egging him on behind the scenes or even wrote the speech.
What a loathsome family.