Nigel Farage: Grooming scandal the ‘last straw for morally corrupt Labour’ | Politics | News
Is Keir Starmer’s Labor government trying to delay a proper investigation into the rape gang scandal until after the next election? Or worse, is Labor trying to sabotage the search for truth altogether?
For decades, Labor officials and police in British towns and cities covered up the rape of thousands of young British girls by gangs of mostly Muslim men of Pakistani origin. It was one of the biggest scandals in modern British history.
It will be an even bigger scandal if the Labor government once again tries to sacrifice justice on behalf of victims in a desperate bid to save its own skin at the ballot box.
Whose side are these people on?
Let’s remember that Starmer never wanted a national inquiry into rape gangs in the first place. In January he rallied Labor MPs to reject the proposal in parliament.
The Prime Minister finally relented and reluctantly agreed to launch a national inquiry, but was under pressure from a wave of public anger and the revelations in Baroness Louise Casey’s report.
Four months later, no chairperson has been appointed and the terms of reference for the investigation are still “under discussion”.
Given the years these events often last, any investigation reaching a conclusion will now most likely occur after the next election.
But this is much more than a waste of time or incompetence. All signs point to Labor actively trying to sabotage the quest for truth and justice again.
Four survivors of rape gangs resigned from the victim panel because they feared the focus of the investigation would be “broadened” to focus on grooming gangs.
In other words, their teeth are extracted before they even start working.
There are also legitimate concerns that the shortlisting of a former senior police officer and a former senior social worker to head the investigation means that the authorities behind the cover-up will once again “do their homework”.
Resigned survivors speak of a “sense of control and stage management” regarding the process; from the feeling that everything is “scripted and predetermined”, so their voices are silenced once again.
In response, Labor Minister Jess Phillips, a self-professed feminist, added insult to injury by effectively accusing these women of lying.
Of course, this is what the rapists and the police have been saying for years.
If all this wasn’t off-putting enough, we now learn that Labor London mayor Sadikh Khan has been accused of covering up evidence of his grooming of gangs in the capital.
Mayor Khan and the Metropolitan Police have always insisted there are “no reports” or “no indication” that London suffers from the same type of rape gangs operating in northern towns such as Rotherham and Richfale.
But an investigation in the Daily Express found that Khan had read and responded to official reports describing in “horrific detail” the ordeal of teenage girls raped, drugged and threatened with violence by gangs in London hotels.
As former police informant Maggie Oliver said, Khan’s London appears to be the “last bastion” in the national cover-up of the rape gangs scandal.
This increasingly worsening scandal must surely be the last straw for the morally corrupt Labor government.
