Tom Crowther KC was asked by the Home Office to help establish local rape gang inquiries. Three months later, why has he heard nothing about their progress? Conservative MP Katie Lam put the question to Jess Phillips in the Commons today. Here is what Lam said.
I thank the Minister for advance sight of her statement.
In January, the Home Secretary said that the Government would conduct five local inquiries into the rape gangs who have terrorised so many innocent children. More than three months since the Government announced those local inquiries, Tom Crowther KC, a barrister invited by the Home Office to help establish them, knows almost nothing about their progress, and neither do we. Why is the framework for local inquiries now being led by Ministers, rather than by independent voices such as Tom Crowther? Why is the £5 million set aside for inquiries no longer being allocated, but instead delivered on an ‘opt-in’ basis? What does the Government intend to do about local leaders who say there is no need for an independent inquiry, as they do in Bradford and in Wales?
The girls we are talking about are predominantly white. The men who preyed on them were predominantly Muslim, generally either from Pakistan or of Pakistani heritage. One of the victims from Dewsbury was told by her rapist: “We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the Government.”
Does the Minister accept that in many cases these crimes were racially and religiously aggravated? How, without a national inquiry, can we understand what part those factors played?
There is no question but that the state has failed these children time and again. Take the case of ‘Anna’ from Bradford. Vulnerable and in residential care, at the age of 14 she made repeated reports of rape and abuse to social workers who were responsible for her. Just the following year, aged 15, she ‘married’ her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding ceremony. Far from stepping in to stop it, her social worker was a guest. The authorities then arranged for her to be fostered by her abuser’s parents. The ringleader of the Rochdale rape gang, Shabir Ahmed, was employed as a welfare rights officer by Oldham council. Yet not one person — not one — has been convicted for covering up these institutionalised rapes. Why have Ministers refused to establish a dedicated unit in the National Crime Agency to investigate councillors and officials accused of collusion and corruption?
I am sorry to say that that unit must also investigate police officers. In one case, the father of an abuse victim in Rotherham was arrested by South Yorkshire police when he attempted to rescue his daughter from her abusers. He was detained twice in one night, while on the very same evening, his daughter was repeatedly assaulted and abused by a gang of men. It is clear that these criminals were unafraid of law enforcement. In Kirklees, Judge Marson said: “You were seen with your victim on at least three occasions by the police… none of that deterred you, and you continued to rape her.”
How, without a national inquiry, can we know how and why these monsters enjoyed effective immunity for so long, and how can we be sure that it will not happen again?
Conservative Members have voted for a national inquiry, and tabled amendments that would guarantee the publication of ethnicity data on a quarterly basis, terminate the parental rights of convicted sex offenders and make membership of a grooming gang an aggravating factor during sentencing, so that offenders get the longer, harsher sentences that they deserve. Will the Minister commit to accepting those amendments to protect our children?
Finally, I would like to read to the House one particular ordeal — just one example of what these children have suffered. I must warn colleagues, and especially those in the Gallery, that this is extremely graphic, but we must not look away or sanitise this evil. Sentencing Mohammed Karrar of Oxford to life in prison, Judge Peter Rook said: “You prepared her” — that is his victim, a 13-year-old girl —
for gang anal rape by using a pump to expand her anal passage. You subjected her to gang rape by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet. … When she was 12, after raping her, she threatened you with your lock knife. Your reaction was to pick up a baseball bat with a silver metal handle, strike her on the head with it, and then insert the baseball bat inside her vagina.
This is not about me, the Minister, the Home Secretary or any Hon. Members in the Chamber; it is about the little girls, up and down our country, whose brutal and repeated rapes were permitted and hidden by those in the British state whose jobs were to protect them. They deserve justice. In five towns, those children and their families may get partial answers, but I have mentioned five towns in the past few minutes alone, and there are at least 45 more. In those places, children and their families will get no answers at all, so what does the Minister have to say to them? The British people deserve to know the truth. What darker truths does the suffering of those girls reveal about this country — and why will the Government not find out?
Phillips replied that she thought “it is a shame that she referred to only one sort of child abuse victim, when the statement is clearly about all child abuse victims”. They still don’t get it, do they?
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I remember early on in the shitshow when I was still actively trying to persuade those among my friends and colleagues I mistakenly considered intelligent and politically aware of the evils of lockdowns, I quoted something from Sikora to a ex-friend. She’d clearly not heard of him (neither had I to be fair, before all this) and obviously then checked him out on Wikipedia. Her answer to my arguments (and his) was to send me this snippet from his Wikipedia enrty:
“In a 2017 Newsnight opinion piece, he described the NHS as “the last bastion of communism””
That was the extent of her counter arguments – Sikora has dared criticise the NHS, so he is Literally Hitler and all his opinions are immediately invalid without further discussion, as are mine by association. That more or less summed up for me the covidian cult mentality.
I think it was/is one of the many modern faiths that we simply couldn’t recognise as being a faith. People in modern society, through a lack of real human interaction, have become decoupled from reason and logic. Social media and online communication in general has driven this disconnect (yes, I see the irony in my own musings). We need meaning in life, and we seem to have replaced the meaning we get from direct human interaction with the meaning we get from faith – ‘vaccines’, climate, the NHS etc. Much of this faith is clearly a kind of self-flagellating pleasure. Also interesting is the idea of God as a higher power being replaced by the Gods of Big Tech, Big State & Big Pharma – these are now revered. In the biggest paradox in history, technology has driven us backwards into the dark ages.
Beautifully put.
Yes, I suspect I have a lot of ex-friends because I refused to accept the lockdowns. There are simply lots of people who I haven’t bothered to contact, because I know how they’ll think. People are hopelessly brainwashed. We’re living in the world of Atlas Shrugged right now.
She’s an ex friend now I assume?
Yes. We don’t mix much with non-sceptics now – at present it’s just too much of an effort.
It’s not the NHS’s fault.
It’s not their fault that it had grown into an unmanageable behemoth that couldn’t cope in the first place.
It’s not their fault that they overreacted to a pretty mild flu like virus and stopped treating those with other diseases.
It’s not their fault that they dedicated so many resources to rolling out a treatment most people didn’t need and actually has caused quite a lot of harm.
It’s not their fault that they don’t really want to meet patients any more
They’re the NHS, a national treasure, that needs to be loved and saved at all costs.
It’s our fault for not changing our lives enough to adjust to the needs of the NHS. And for doing annoying things like getting sick or developing illnesses.
What we need to do is to shut up, give them more money and do as they tell us. That’s how you build a world leading service.
A blisteringly accurate appraisal.
How many people do you think would be in their front gardens banging their pots and pans this year if it was made a ‘thing’? No need for a poll to get an idea of just what the public opinion is of “Saving the NHS” this time round is there? And don’t forget to keep a look out for all of those highly choreographed Tiktok dances…that were obviously cobbled together over their lunch break. Not!
The way to build a world-beating NHS is for everyone to die at home all at once, then there won’t be anymore waiting lists!
Nail. Head.
It’s the perfect cover. You can imagine the conversation – “but how do we hide all the deaths from this shot?”… “lockdown. What we do is we lock everyone in their homes for a couple of years, let a huge backlog of medical issues mount, further weaken the immune system and, hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
Pretty much. The first lockdown was designed to instill fear and get the population used to being controlled, then the propoganda campaign hit like a Blitzkrieg intended to ramp up the fear. Then, tantalisingly the talk of vaccines was introduced and only, if only, these could be produced quickly would millions be saved from certain gruesome death.
Those responsible for imposing lockdown, nominally Bozo and his band of Co genocidalists, would certainly have known that locking people up, denying social interaction, would undermine mental and physical health and dilute the population’s ability to fight infection and disease AND keep many away from rNHS. This of course would lead to:
“hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
And that’s because Bozo et al knew that mass sickness and death was inevitable following the ‘jab’ campaign.
As somebody rightly pointed out yesterday, why are no politicians and certainly no leading politicians falling to heart attacks or sudden aggressive cancers?
Simple – none of the buggers have been injected, more’s the pity.
The agenda is to maim and kill. Depopulation and enslavement for a few sickly survivors.
Before Bozo ultimately became a man without a country, he was already a man without a soul, having long since sold it to the highest bidder.
The elites all probably got the saline placebo jab instead.
Good interview with (once) eminent Dr Tess Laurie with John Oliver.
How she woke up
https://youtu.be/cgX7IY2rBug
Neil Oliver…
He’s well worth watching.
The sooner the state admits the NHS is dead and all that’s left is a corpse churning with maggots giving the impression of life, the sooner we can sort out a replacement. A couple of weeks ago, my Mum was told that there was a 50-week wait on the NHS to see the specialist who took a carcinoma off her leg, as the wound hasn’t healed properly. So she spent £140 to go and see him at his private clinic for ten minutes last week. Significantly, he told her what to do with the wound and it’s now healing well. The nurse practitioners at the GP surgery had told her completely the wrong thing to do with the wound and had dragged out the healing process by months.
In my home town, an equity firm is now running three of the NHS GP practices and more are likely to fall under its ownership soon. I pay monthly insurance to cut down the NHS fees at my optician’s and there are no NHS dentists available so I’m looking at £22 per month minimum rate to go to a private dental surgery
So we’ve already de facto privatisation, only with all the worst elements of the state gumming up the works. If I didn’t have to contribute thousands of pounds a year in National Insurance to help fund other people’s NHS treatment (and employees’ diversity courses), I could find a comprehensive private insurance package that would include GP care, opticians and dental plans, rather than scrabble around looking for someone who isn’t already oversubscribed…
The once-great NHS has apparently been moribund for a while now, from decades of mismanagement and death by a thousand austerity cuts. The latest machinations are simply finishing it off.
Privatization is basically a foregone conclusion at this point. Of note, of all of the rest of Europe, only Spain has a similar fully-socialized healthcare system. Switzerland, in contrast, is basically the polar opposite. And the rest are either some variant of either single-payer Medicare for all (i.e. public insurance but private healthcare system) or some sort of hybrid system.
What I will say, as an American, is whatever you do, DON’T be like us though with our for-profit sick care system and widespread medical bankruptcies that everyone ends up paying for either way. Frying pan, meet fire. As for our neighbor to the north, Canada, they WOULD have a good single-payer system if they didn’t subject it to their own death by a thousand austerity cuts for three decades straight.
The rot in the whole health sector is rife. The NHS is corrupt and broken, while the private sector is exploiting the shortfalls whilst not having any interest in doing something positive. Two grasping hands on one stinking amoral moneypit.
“We failed a generation of children – many of whom are now overweight, unable to talk…”
I have a sister and two neices who work in the education industry. The term used for children who cannot speak – literally – when they start school aged 4 / 5 is:
NVC – Non Verbal Communicators.
I kid you not, and there are lots of them.
Will that generation, and future generations, ever forgive us?
Then there is the increase in children starting school still in nappies. Children who have regressed in social skills of all kinds.
This may be of interest https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.589884/full
Can I call people who imposed the lockdowns child killers as children were never at serious risk and children have died as a result of the various interventions?
Absolutely!
How many people that you know, who were in remission, have had their cancers come back as stage four and die? I know three people.