In the Telegraph, Henry Hill savages Labour’s Lucy Powell for dismissing concerns about rape gangs as a “dog whistle”, arguing she’s just said out loud what a cowardly government quietly believes. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s when under pressure that people reveal what they think and who they truly are – and Labour’s Lucy Powell was clearly feeling the heat on the BBC’s Any Questions this week.
When journalist Tim Montgomerie (full disclosure: the founder of ConservativeHome, where I work) made a reasonable point about the dangers of allowing oversensitivity to community cohesion to trump things like child protection, as it had in places such as Rotherham, Powell said this:
“Oh, you want to blow that little trumpet now, do you? Let’s get that dog whistle out, shall we, yeah?”
Perhaps, like Sir Keir Starmer, she would have been more comfortable talking about Adolescence, the recent smash-hit fictional drama about a crime which, as seen in the show, has never taken place.
The Prime Minister spent weeks happily playing an unpaid role in Netflix’s publicity campaign, referring to the series as a “documentary” and calling for it to be shown in schools. Yet he refused to be interviewed for Channel 4’s actual documentary Groomed: A National Scandal, nor has he even confirmed he watched it.
Powell is not some random backbencher. As Leader of the House of Commons, she’s an important minister in this Labour Government.
But perhaps therefore her outburst should not surprise us, for Starmer’s ministers have given no impression so much as that they just wish the rape gangs scandal would go away.
Why else would they be fighting tooth and nail against calls for a proper national enquiry? Or more targeted investigations such as into specific allegations of collusions between the gangs and local police forces, as called for by Conservative MP Nick Timothy.
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No need to say more really. That is how the left view the industrial scale rape of young women in Britain – mainly white, a few not, and mainly by Pakistani muslim gangs (OK there might have been a few not of that description) but overwhelmingly the evidence I have seen on multiple reports says it is so.
The elites cannot accept that unlimited imigtration (thank you Blair and Tories 14 years) and multi culturalism (thank you Jack Straw and others and 14 years of Tories) has turned into a living nightmare.
The people are alert to the issues now so when the MSM ignore these matters the alternative media is available. Ministers can sneer and dismiss and BBC interviewers can display their opinions but the truth is now widespread. Reform will not be stopped.
Just another example of the complicity from relatives, who 100% knew what was going on in their community, and how they viewed these vulnerable white girls. This here’s the father of one of the rapists and see how he minimizes and justifies his son’s disgusting and criminal behaviour;
”This is vile beyond belief.
The Father of a grooming gang member who r*ped a 13 year old says he’s ‘angry with the girls’ and he believes the authorities went “overboard just because the lads are Asian”
These people shouldn’t be in our country
Their culture doesn’t belong here
I’m not sorry to say this.
@RupertLowe10
was right.
Anyone trying to cover this up should be deported.”
https://x.com/kwilliam111/status/1919078155660235193
Summarizing the statements of this guy leads to the following:
British culture differs from ours in ways I really abhor.
Therefore, it’s wrong.
Those Britishers have no right to apply their laws to my lads just because of their wrong culture.
The only sensible remedy is put this guy and his complete clan down to the last toddler and great-grandma onto a suitable vessel of transportation to a location where wrongness of culture isn’t an issue for them and make sure they never come back.
Exactly.
The left’s view about crime is extremely flexible.
For example, a lot of left-leaning intellectuals covered up Stalin’s crimes. Their thinking was something along the lines of “well, yes, a few million innocent people were killed or worked to death in forced labour camps – but it was all done for the noble reason of creating the perfect society! Let’s keep quiet about it. In public, when pushed, we’ll say something like “regrettably a few mistakes were made”.
Here, their thinking is: “well, yes, maybe a few young girls were gang raped by Muslim men. But… most Muslims vote Labour, and besides, multiculturalism is such a noble idea… Let’s not talk about this unpleasant thing. If anybody does bring it up, we can always accuse them of racism. That’ll shut them up!”
For the Left, the means justifies the end.
That’ll be even more nails driven into Labour’s coffin in the white working class areas … which still significantly outnumber Muslim ones.
Of course our rulers are decadent, degenerate, and deranged. And it’s well-known that the ruling party is the Anti-White Party. The fascinating thing, though, is that if the child rapists had been white, and the victims brown, then the contemptible Lucy Powell wouldn’t be trying to divert attention from the perpetrators. This gives us the key to Lucy Powell’s words: her indefatigable hatred for the native peoples of our country, her indescribable love for non-European immigrants, and her invincible worship of the Left’s Favourite Religion. All of which add up to a profound ruling class death wish.
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hp, steady on! 😂
I have heard the recorded item several times. What really disgusted me was her tone – dripping with sneering condescension. She should have been fired on the spot but then, why would Two Tier even think that was an appropriate response? As for her non apology….. Apparently she has 2 children – 1 boy and 1 girl. Shame on her.
Standard disinformation tactic. When something really undesirable is being brought up, attack the messenger with unjust accusations in the hope that he’ll end up being annoyed and defending himself against the accusation and thus, effectively bury the actual issue.
What does “dog whistle” mean, anyway? Is it an Americanism?🤔
Chances of her resigning? Absolutely zero. These barstewards have no shame, no morals, and no integrity. Damn them all to hell.
The Muslim vote is going to Muslims in the future. Labour are on a hiding to nothing. These weak people are going to get the bum’s rush and they deserve it.
A so-called dog whistle is a coded reference to something members of some selected audience are supposed to be able to interpret correctly despite its harmless literal meaning. So, Ms Powell, what’s the harmless literal meaning of precisely which phrase and what the hidden real one? Butter bei die Fisch¹, as one would say in German here.
¹ Add butter to the fish, spell out what you were alluding to. Usually implies that speaker strongly suspects that whoever was asked to add butter to fish was really employing a well-known phrase to hide a lack of substance.
I guess she’s trying to imply something like this: the literal meaning is the not unreasonable point that crimes were ignored because of over sensitivity to accusations of racism, the hidden meaning detectable only to white thugs is “round up Pakistanis and put them in concentration camps”. I expect that is the effect she was hoping for. It might work with the hard core deluded “liberals”, hopefully not with too many others.
IMHO, it’s a mistake to try to guess what such people could have meant. She ought to know it. So, just ask for it: What do you mean by dog whistle here? In the extremely likely case that she was just trying to bullshit the audience and throw the journalist off the track, she should end up pretty much with her trousers down in public (Figuratively spoken, obviously. I already have no desire to see this woman dressed. 🙂 ).
Yeah you are spot on- that would have been the question to ask her.
Yes well unfortunately despite my middle class upbringing and having been insulated in sporting behaviour since I was a puppy, years and years of these lefty wankers taking the piss and deliberately destroying my country has led me towards the “round up the pakis in concentration camps and deport the lot” camp
Not a happy place to be I’ll admit, and I’m not proud but it’s increasingly hard to think of a better solution.
The main blame lies with those who have over the years been in a position to orchestrate this, taking advantage of greed, weakness, gullibility, desire for a better life etc etc. I don’t believe they had or have my best interests at heart.
A dog whistle is not audible to humans. You are quite right to raise this important point. Rather than an apology an explanation is required.
I heard it OK
Spoken words do not fly away when there is a sound recording. They remain in the air forever, in this case as a mark of shame.
It would seem that Labour still consider this as child exploitation and not organised rape by racist gangs of men over an extended time period. Powell made this clear in what is being called an apology, but is just a feeble attempt at an excuse.
Powell is what you get after a decade and a half of the #ScumMedia softballing you every question and ignoring every lie, contradiction and idiocy that comes out of your mouth.
Imo there shouldn’t be a national enquiry into Muslim rape gangs until, hopefully, Farrage is PM and can set the terms of the inquiry and appoint who leads it.
If Liebour sets the terms of the inquiry it won’t look into the reasons why Muslims are far more likely to target white girls, or even acknowledge this fact, and it’ll be little more than a whitewashing exercise. Farrage will ensure the background of the perpetrators is a major part of an inquiry.
“Dismissing the rape gang scandal as a “dog whistle” isn’t just tone-deaf – it’s a vile insult to victims and exposes a government more afraid of losing votes than of protecting children, says Henry Hill in the Telegraph.”
Well yes, but the most important thing to note is that it exposes a government hell bent on protecting the “mass immigration and multiculturalism is good, it has worked and will continue to do so, and if at any stage it looks like it’s not good and not working, it’s the fault of white racists and no-one else”. Same story since the first Race Relations Act.
The new Crime and Policing Bill 2025 proposes that sex between 13 and under 18 year olds be made legal.
Powell’s remarks can be perceived as being motivated by hate towards the underage working class girls, the victims of these terrible crimes. So she should be reported to the police so that a non-crime hate incident can be recorded against her.
Powell belongs to the group of people who believe that sex education is extremely important for well-underage kids and who think thirteen year old boys without “a sex life” are “dangerous incels about to go beserk”. Why should the notion that 13-year-old girls had “a sex life” upset her? That’s – regardless of UK laws to the contrary – exactly what she considers the normal and desirable state of affairs.
Is there any rational explanation why the lefties specialise in child abuse? Batty Hattie Harman was part of the Paedophile Information Exchange that I believe actually wanted the sex age reduced to 5 years old.
The most offensive talk I’ve ever heard, yet nothing is done?