It should be a political no-brainer. The ‘grooming gangs’ scandal is as grotesque and shameful a blight on any country’s legacy as could be envisaged. The Government should be eager to instigate an immediate inquiry into what went wrong. Any delay would surely be unfathomable. And yet here we are.
The report by Professor Alexis Jay in 2022 confirmed the extent of the rape and torture of young girls – more than 1,400 victims, and doubtless many more yet to be discovered – and that the fear of being branded as ‘racist’ had prevented those in authority from acting sooner. The Labour Party apparently wants us to forget all about it and move on. Worse still, it seems intent on repeating the same mistake that the report highlighted, by throwing around accusations of racism against those who raise concerns.
This attitude seemed to be encapsulated during an exchange between writer Tim Montgomerie and leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell on the last edition of Any Questions on BBC Radio 4. Montgomerie had asked Powell if she had seen the programme on Channel 4 about the abuse in the north of England, to which Powell replied: “Oh, we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we? Yeah, okay, let’s get that dog whistle out, shall we? Yeah.”
I have written previously about the notion of ‘dog-whistles’, and how the phrase is a rhetorical tool to make sinister insinuations on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. It is a form of amateur telepathy, a means to accuse someone of secretly thinking something that they never said. It’s the kind of strategy that sixth form debating clubs quickly learn to avoid, and certainly shouldn’t be used by elected politicians if they hope to keep their self-respect intact.
It is also, of course, a neat trick to avoid finding yourself drawn into difficult conversations. It’s reminiscent of the debate in the House of Lords last November when Jacqui Smith – now the Rt Hon the Baroness Smith of Malvern and the Government spokesperson for equalities – was asked whether the Government had a working definition of ‘gender identity’. The honest answer would have been: “No, because nobody knows what it means.” Instead, she accused her challenger of attempting to “catch her political opponents out”. Given that so much public policy has been formulated on the basis of this mystical notion of ‘gender identity’, the question of whether the Government can define it is surely relevant.
Others have claimed that the question ‘what is a woman?’ is a ‘transphobic dog-whistle’. In the tribunal of nurse Sandie Peggie, the male doctor who had insisted on sharing her changing facilities even described the phrase “biological sex” as a “nebulous dog whistle”. But this is no less ridiculous than the claim that discussions about the mass rape of children is a frivolous tune to be blown on a political “trumpet”.
Powell’s remarks would be easier to dismiss as a slip of the tongue were it not for the fact that they are entirely in keeping with the overtures we’ve been hearing from the Government for quite some time. Is there any real difference between Powell’s accusation of “dog whistling” and Keir Starmer’s view, expressed at a press conference in January, that politicians demanding a full-scale inquiry were jumping “on a bandwagon of the far Right”?
Does Powell deserve the benefit of the doubt? While it is true that any of us can misspeak, I am not convinced that this remark should simply be brushed off as a gauche moment in the heat of a debate. After all, she had been invited to participate in a BBC political discussion programme; it’s not as though she was blindsided by an over-zealous reporter doorstepping her for a scoop. Panellists on Any Questions know that they must choose their words with care. Elected politicians are hardly infallible, but they should be subjected to scrutiny when they make such flippant remarks in such a forum. This is particularly the case when the remarks pertain to a national scandal that the Government has continually failed to tackle.
Last week, Labour Minister Jess Phillips insisted that there would be more than the promised five local inquiries into grooming gangs, but of course this is inadequate. As Kemi Badenoch pointed out, “Local authorities don’t want to investigate themselves.” It seems obvious that a national inquiry is the only satisfactory option for such an egregious and horrific failure of authority. We already know of countless examples of police, social workers and journalists failing in their basic duties on this issue. There has to be a reckoning.
A few principled writers – most notably Julie Bindel – persisted in reporting on these cases in the early days, but most others were cowed into silence. When Labour MP Sarah Champion raised the alarm in Parliament, she was forced out of the shadow cabinet. Given the likelihood that further failures by those in power will be uncovered in the event of an inquiry, it is hardly surprising that the Government is, as Badenoch puts it, “dragging its heels”. Starmer is clearly more interested in sustaining the myth that multiculturalism has been a triumph rather than grappling with the grim reality.
I do not for one moment believe that Powell does not care about the sexual abuse of minors, or that her words should be taken to signify anything malevolent. Rather, they would seem to be an extension of Labour’s entire strategy on this issue. That is: to make unsavoury accusations as a method of distraction, and to undermine the integrity of those asking awkward questions in the hope that they will simply go away. But such accusations were precisely the reason why these grooming gangs were able to continue abusing their victims with impunity in the first place. One would have thought that this lesson would not be difficult to learn.
Irrespective of Powell’s motives, it is political ineptitude of the highest order for the Government not to call for an immediate national inquiry. If there are any sound justifications for neglecting to do so, Labour has not yet successfully articulated them. For a failing Government, this should be an obvious course of action, one that would be both morally right and politically expedient. The inaction would be contemptible enough, but accusing those who want to see some kind of accountability as being ‘racist’ or ‘far Right’ is unlikely to be forgiven.
Andrew Doyle is a writer, comedian and broadcaster who hosts the GB News show Free Speech Nation. His latest book is The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution. This article was first published on his Substack. You can subscribe here.
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Kind of sick of it now.
Let’s hope that’s catching!
That’s what the jabbed said…🤡
Zoe app dropping pretty rapidly – maybe his funding came through?
If these numbers are almost meaningless now, then, they were as almost meaningless before, just larger, as more people tested themselves gratuitously, which is not the same as population screening á la Chinese. But for as long as the experts liked the outcome, they obviously didn’t mention that.
Will Jones has been doing a fantastic job over the past two years and I would be at a loss without these regular articles and updates – but I’ve reached the point now where I really struggle to care about covid infection rates anymore – two years on and I feel as though we have analysed this whole sorry saga to death now and every single time it points to the same conclusion over and over again … that we were right all along and they were catastrophically wrong.
What I want to know now is – with all this evidence so heavily stacked against these criminals … when do heads start to roll?
It’s nevertheless worthwhile to note the way the whole COVID shitshow moves increasingly into the realm of fiction: Until after the so-called 2020 winter wave, sick people where getting tested and reported as COVID cases and tests weren’t generally available. This was then replaced with forced mass testing of school children and mass testing of healthy volunteers to generate record infection numbers (!!!11) which kept Corona on the road since Spring 2021. This, too, has now ceased: We’re – as always – right in the middle of the worst COVID wave ever, but it’s now only an extrapolated one. Both ONS and Imperial randomly test 100,000 people, roughly 0.18% of the population of England, and calculate a positive test rate based on that. It is then claimed – with absolutely no justification, as Sars-CoV2 isn’t randomly distributed among the population – that this would be the rate of infection for England.
A sample of size 100000 could easily be large enough to yield an estimated infection rate for the population in which one could have reasonable confidence, so long as the sample was reasonably normed and various other reasonable assumptions were made and unreasonable ones avoided. Whether information that actually meets those criteria has been taken out of the category of military secret and published is another matter.
Sars-CoV2 isn’t randomly distributed among the population, hence, the rate of positive Sars-CoV2 tests among a random subset of the population means nothing beyond It was the outcome of this unrepeatable experiment. If it was statically randomly distributed among a static population, ie, one composed of a fixed number of immortal beings who are either permanently infected or permanently uninfected, the merged outcomes of a number of such experiments would approach the actual infection rate.
“Both ONS and Imperial randomly test 100,000 people”
I bet they don’t do anything of the sort – they just make the figures up, and then someone makes elaborate graphs & charts out of them.
Does the 77th’s main course on steelmanning have a section on “boringsteelmanning”?
The more we see of this the more we must expect the release of their next Viral Attack to be imminent!
Wait for the Horror Show to start!
Rendezvous at Easter weekend?
* 1. Easter Sunday is midway between rounds 1 and 2 of the French presidential election.
* 2. Much of Wall Street is closed on Good Friday.
* 3. A little bird advises that Turkey may be about to go bankrupt.
* 4. Interests that seek to prevent peace in Ukraine are at “Douma plus”.
* 5. Power blackouts. (“Stop buying Russian oil and gas”.)
* 6. The US government ban on some US banks accepting Russian interest payments in US dollars, and the Russian response of offering them in roubles only, creates a nice shiny rocker button in somebody’s office whereby they can crash much of what used to be called the “world economy” at the time of their choosing, and not only that but they get to decide which fault lines it cracks along – a power that is worth what may at the time of writing still be assessed as worth many trillions of $-€-£ – and in a few months’ time, perhaps many quadrillions 🙂
All in all, the plan is coming along nicely.
Russia may stop Turkey from ‘going bankrupt’ – necessity makes strange bedfellows – a closed Bosphorous is currently good for Russia!
Having an ally inside NATO is pretty smart
And it will start.
https://thewhiterose.uk/government-officially-hiding-covid-vaccine-data/
“However, experts have warned that the daily figure is “almost meaningless” since free Covid tests were scrapped for all but the elderly, most vulnerable and healthcare workers.”
Ah lol. All covid data has been hopelessly compromised from the start. Experts in what? Lying?
Presumably that’s similar to all these climate change policy experts: They’re experts in Corona pandemic politics and population level health management via NPIs.
I’ve no doubt many of them are clever and know their subject, but the urge to lie to gain money and power or keep your job overrides their honesty and respect for the truth. I don’t know why people think that “experts”, especially “medical” ones, are like bloody saints. The number of times I have heard highly intelligent people asking me “why would they lie”. They ask me that about politicians too. FFS!
I meant to express that the domain of the subject matter expertise is probably applied Corona bullshit 🙂 .
I think that’s one of them, yes, but I believe that Vallance and Whitty are much more knowledgeable about viruses than I am. Yeadon refers to this – that people like them knew it was bollocks from the start because they’ve got the same knowledge Yeadon has. Of course there are other like Devi thingummy who are just professional bullshitters.
Lying is their job. Without lies the jobs wouldn’t exist.
Covid test are 97 % fake at 45 cycles of amplification – ( the number used by NHS Trusts)
Fake Drosten PCR test ‘pandemic’ ( see Reiner Fuellmich and/ Wolfgang Woodarg over the last 18 months)
As I keep telling you they may be designated to go up to 45 cycles but most positive results are way before 35 cycles and many at around 15 cycles.
You and most people on here have been barking up the wrong tree.
The PCR test itself is not fraudulent it is how governments have used it which is fraudulent.
The PCR test neither proves the subject is sick or infectious. So what use is it?
PCR tests have been a highly valuable lab tool for decades.
They are highly specific in detecting viruses.
It has always been known they can’t tell whether the virus is alive or dead.
However, if there is a high viral load indicated by a low CT rate (around 18) then it is highly likely the person is infectious.
Governments didn’t standardise the protocols for the mass testing and the quality control was poor with many false positives and many people told to isolate unnecessarily because they were no longer infectious due to a high CT rate (around 35).
To answer your question the Government cocked it up so much that the test was of little use.
I personally never bothered testing myself, I had the Wuhan version in March 2020, had a few days off and then carried on as normal as best I could in a crazy fuc#ed up world.
Maybe I can ask Greta
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There is a purpose to all this, the key objective of the sceptic is to remind everyone that the NPIs were always futile, that vaccines for everyone are totally unnecessary and that everyone is a sceptic now. Ram home that this must never happen again & wake people up to the fact that, unless they were at risk from imminent death from some other cause, they were never at risk for Covid.
Keep banging the drum that virtually everything done in the name of covid was exactly the opposite of what should have been done.
Regrettably the covidians WILL never admit they were and only ever believed in the MSM.
True data to them is a ‘fake.
If I’ve learned anything over the last 2 years its what a lazy sack of utter shite the public sector is
NHS, civil service, local government – scum
What ever happened to the Teachers? When were they ‘forcibly entered and occupied’ by the enemies of children?
Was it when we were all watching “Celebrity Big Brother” perhaps?
The movers and shakers went on Common Purpose courses. Infiltration is the appropriate word. Throughly denied of course. But the long march through the institutions continues.
If you want to know what happens when unaccountable oddballs on a mission gain access to your impressionable children look no further than America. A recent video had a teacher boasting how she had third graders deciding if they were gay or not; I believe it was at 30% and counting. Not so long ago that would have received swift condemnation and would have been a career-ending move. Now it is championed.
One of the most disturbing aspects of this is that educators know that children are impressionable. They know that their ideas can be pushed in particular directions.
Those directions used to be ones of general socialisation: being honest, punctual and well-mannered, for example. In the latter half of the twentieth century, there was also a belief that children should be taught to think that they were fundamentally worthwhile and that they had positive possibilities.
What we are seeing now is a disturbing over-reach. Religion, sexuality and politics are sensitive areas. Responsible educators should proceed with the greatest of caution, ensuring that they either stay away or confine themselves to age-appropriate and scrupulously objective information. If they do not, they are dangerous.
It was already happening when Ieft school in 1990.
Personally I think rather than calling the vacinated stupid, we need to find a way to bring them onside. I don’t know exactly how this can done but done it must be, as they represent a majority and we need their help and support if we are to dismantle this government.
Given that they are now up to five times more infectious than the unjabbed, I think it’s time we start calling for them to be banned from flights, restaurants, pubs, shops and all non-essential services, which is what they would be doing to us if the boot was on the other foot.
A part of me would love that. You can’t leave home because you took an experimental biological agent that makes you dangerous. Have you considered using Amazon for deliveries, or asking a neighbourly conspiracy theorist to get your groceries? 🤠
I like the story. But everybody in my family except me is vaccinated, the sub-family of my brother (down to his child) because they’re the kind who fall for all woke BS, my sister because it made things easier for her in Germany and my parents because they’re both over 80 and their GP recommended it.
Are they all still alive? It would seem so.
Most people who have been ‘Covid vaccinated’ seem to be alive, out shopping, walking, riding bicycles, driving, flying, travelling, in pubs and restaurants and in the launderette.
The suggestions that they will all be dead soon are looking thinner and thinner as it just ain’t happening – not after the 2nd jab, not after the 3rd.
9th April 2022 already…. jabs started over a year ago. perhaps the main question is what’s the percentage of those who have had the 3rd jab, and how many will go for their 4th?
As the UK Government have already made new contracts for the likes of Test & Trace it looks like ‘Covid’ won’t be going away anytime soon – another question could be is the UK run by The Conservative Party or, indeed, Serco itself?
The vaccinated aren’t the enemy, the vaccinators are, or at least those pulling the strings.
Yet not a single ‘nurse’ doing the injecting has been named on here.
The only way I can see this working is for more acceptance the jabs don’t work, and for us nonjabbed to sympathise rather than ridicule.
But that first part, them accepting the jabs were unnecessary, looks to be the difficult part. Most people I know have literally zero interest in facts surrounding adverse effects, long term effects or the more abstract concepts around liberty and bodily autonomy. I know many people who can’t even tell me which one they were jabbed with, Pfizer, AstraZeneca etc.
But for those who do face up to it, I agree a sympathetic response is essential.
Yes it will be difficult but we must find a way.
All that is needed is to understand that these are people whose trust was betrayed.
We can say that they shouldn’t have misplaced their trust, but the vast majority of human beings do that at some point in their lives – in some way or other.
Try this: The mRNA vaccines are based on a synthetic, gene-engineered, sterile virus. This virus infects all kinds body cells it can attach to and reprograms them to generate virus proteins specific to a Sars-Cov2 variant which stopped being in circulation in 2020. The immune system of the body detects the alien proteins, produces antibodies to neutralize them and kills the infected cells, ie, it kills a part of the body of the vaccinated individual which does some damage.
Antibodies capable of neutralizing this particular protein perform only poorly when being confronted with the currently dominant Sars-CoV2 variant because it’s too different from the one which was used a blueprint for the synthetic virus. Which means you will get COVID and – as the overwhelming majority of people do – eventually recover after your body has learned to work around the ineffcient vaccination.
So what? I feel fine. You are a conspiracy theorist. Weirdo.
For the record, that’s how most people I know would respond. Literally dismiss anything that contradicts the narrative.
🤡
I’m unvaccinated but prepared to take a chance of catching another cold.
The vaccinated were conned into taking part in an unsavoury medical experiment, the longer term results of which are now being played out before our very eyes. Vaccinated people were not given the relevant information about the risks they were taking and this in disregard of internationally agreed protocols to which the UK is signatory. When the vaccinated are aware of what has happened to them they need to channel their remaining energies into seeking financial or other retribution, while they still have the chance.
I appreciate all your comments but I’m concerned that if we’re not careful we are going to get bogged down with speculating what long term action needs to be taken by third parties who may, for whatever reasons, not wish to go down that avenue. I’m more interested in short term action to stop what to me seems like experimental therapy of a nefarious nature.
I’m more interested in short term action to stop what to me seems like experimental therapy of a nefarious nature.
As well we all ought to be, but much easier said than done.
Apart from the very young the damage is now mostly done. My main concern at the moment is for the welfare of those who are now damaged, disabled, dead and for their dependents, who may likely face untold hardship on the altar of the Covid vaccines that aren’t vaccines. I see a flaw in the government’s armour in its gross negligence to inform recipients of the hardly tested and experimental nature of the Covid-19 vaccines. This has to be challenged in court and proper compensation be sought.
That says all the covid extremists need to know, Cases Drop When Free Testing Stops.
Are you saying you don’t stand with Ukraine? 🧐
What is we say now, ‘all options are on the table’
Well Dan, I know where I stand 🤠
Don’t worry another variant is on it’s way when the media tire of Russia’s liberation of East Ukraine.
Which “tests” are they?
The ones that look for a genetic sequence but can’t actually tell you if you are infected?
Or the ones which look for a protein and can’t tell if you are infected?
Asking for a “vaccinated” friend, who has covid again, according to the latter test. 🤦🏻♀️
😉
Splendid 😂 I have just sent him that!
We’re living in rather strange times:
Only reason “omicron” is apparently failing is because less people are testing with the dodgy kit.
On the otherhand people are becoming ill with permanent headaches/earache/etc, but GPs are turning them away.
The narrative was that corona was supposed to suddenly disappear, then reappear just as quick, but much more brutal. As predicted at the start of the ‘vaccine’ rollout, the illness caused by the experiment therapy will be branded covid then used as justification to crush the economy with restrictions.
The outcome is death, suffering and a Communist social credit system to enslave those who survive.
Uh oh… running out of Sunflower Oil? What will happen when people can’t get their fried chicken?
We’llhave to use lard. But seriously why have we stopped buying the stuff from Ukraine? It’s winter there, not the sunflower season at all. International trade doesn’t stop.
ONS is testing 100 000 people each week.How do they select those to test? If you deny being tested what do they do? Test the next one randomly but is not that a serious bias? The ones wanting to be tested might be those with more inherent interest of knowing (if they are informed by ONS of the result) even the possibilty that they have more likely been infected.Which tests do they use?
I might be wrong and ONS might just select 100 000 already tested in the total system but how on earth can they be sure that they have selected randomly 100 000 samples of all tested during the week?
Perhaps someone here knows exactly the ONS testing criteria.Otherwise it seems for the uninformed a totally unreliable instrument to follow anything presently.
I was offered ONS testing and declined it. No idea why I might have been selected.
Interesting.If you deny once should not affect the possibility to be randomly be chosen again or do have they secretly noted this and not bother to call again a person denying the test?
That I wouldn’t know, but they have never asked me again. I have never had any sort of covid test, don’t believe in it.
We can’t trust any Government figures on anything to do with their ‘pandemic’ surely we have all learned that at least over the last two dishonest years?
If only we had a Free and objective media to expose it all and a few fearless politicians to call the Authorities to account – I suppose we can always dream1