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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“If this were a normal drug, it would be taken off the market.”
Exactly this. And here is the reason why it never will be;
“Because the mRNA vaccines fall under the PREP Act definition of “emergency countermeasures,” their production is not subjected to the same testing and quality control regulations as licensed pharmaceutical products. Their production and deployment resemble that of military products during World War II.
The legal framework for this bonanza was established by the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness) of 2005. This authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deploy a wide array of “Emergency Countermeasures” in the event of an infectious disease outbreak. When invoked by the HHS Secretary, the PREP Act provides immunity for the “manufacture, testing, development, distribution, administration, and use of covered countermeasures.” On February 4, 2020, HHS Secretary Alex Azar declared COVID-19 an emergency and invoked the PREP Act.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/of-central-bankers-and-hhs-secretaries
Quality commentary such as this is worth a DS sub. by any measure.
Thanks Mogs.
Only a bit of fun Mogs. I know it’s over the top but the sentiment is genuine.
The hilarious dichotomy between Reps and Dems reg. its efficiency is a strong indication that we are basically just dispensing and dealing with a (toxic) placebo.
Worth noting that Republicans and Independents track reasonably well, it’s the Democrats that are the clear outliers.
Exactly. And one of the main reasons they will never take these death shots off the market is because now the floodgates have opened for other traditional vaccines to be changed over to an mRNA platform, as they can manufacture and get them to market way quicker, therefore proving to be more lucrative to Big Pharma. So if they removed the Covid jabs due to the major safety issues then this would be an admission that all future mRNA products are also unsafe. Sort of puts the kibosh on the whole thing really, especially the depopulation plan, which appears to be going swimmingly doesn’t it?
The mRNA system, now authorised is effectively a licence to kill.
007!
Government agencies are all-in on the mRNA clot shots, they wont change.
What is interesting is that here we have a major polling company openly admitting that they cannot publish the results of their own poll in full because they will face censorship. This is astonishing. The land of the free? Not so much.
“A 7% major side effect rate is unprecedented. We know from the V-safe data that this effectively means that the side-effect was so bad, they had to seek medical attention. If any drug had that kind of safety profile, it would be immediately pulled from the market. Would you take any drug with that kind of side-effect profile? Of course not. It’s off the charts! However, because we are told it is a safe and effective vaccine, people do what they are told despite the lack of safety. That’s how science works.” (My emphasis)
Note that the schools that did not properly teach logic and independent, critical thinking are also culpable in this shambles that has resulted in so many deaths and injuries. If they had, it would have been much harder for the corrupt drugs companies and their collaborators to pull this off.
Shocking, not shocked.
Many of use including myself, predicted this disaster. That is why we are unstabbinated.
41% minor and major injury. 150K dead in the US, I am guessing 50 K dead from the stabs in the UK.
Against what? 0.03% IFR….the same as the flu, average age of death 84. Not so with the stabbed dead and injured. Average age is in the 50s.
And yet Tards still want to play Rona. Diapers, more Quacksines, more LDs.
A friend’s husband (2 x AZ, 1 x Pfizer) had a major heart attack 3 weeks after the Pfizer booster and has now had another 5 months later 48 hours after having the ‘flu jab.
My friend says his brother is an NHS Consultant in A & E and they are seeing a lot of heart attack and myocarditis patients. So the NHS knows there is a serious problem ….. and they know why.
She has – finally – said they will not be having any more jabs.
“That’s how science works” is a bit pejorative, at least to those who actually have a proper understanding of the term. Something like “That’s how political abuse of science works”, or just “that’s how politics works” might be more accurate.
That said, there is no doubt that most products that had such bad results in reality would be withdrawn from the market, along with a serious risk of prosecution for many of those concerned.
This is poor science. The effectiveness and safety of vaccines can only be determined by Randomised Control Trials before they are approved. The trials were obviously inadequate and proved nothing. This is the message that needs to be repeated and those responsible need to he jailed. Because of the lockdowns and failure of health services it is difficult to determine what is causing the claimed increase in deaths and other issues. A survey of 1000 people is not reliable.
Agreed but surely it gives you a big red flag. Also when I did a Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) course admittedly many moons ago we were told anything over 30 is a large sample.
Wow, just lovely. If the jab commercials were honest: “May cause fever, chills, blood clot, stroke, heart attack, sudden death….and runny nose”