Labour’s grooming gangs farce is moral failure that stain’s our nation’s conscience | Politics | News
Labour’s grooming gangs farce leaves ordinary Brits with the impression that this Government will do anything to avoid revealing the full truth about rapists who have preyed on defenseless young girls for decades. Instead of courage and responsibility, we see evasion, delay and deception. The national inquiry, which was supposed to be a moment of justice for the victims, turned into a farce. Those in charge, including Home Secretary Jess Phillips, appear more interested in managing public perception than confronting the rot within Britain’s institutions.
This isn’t just incompetence. This is something much worse. When a government drags its feet, obstructs investigations, and smears those who demand answers, suspicion is not only justified but necessary. Labour’s approach to this issue has been disgraceful from the very beginning. When people first called for a comprehensive national investigation, they were accused of joining a “far-right bandwagon”. When Elon Musk had the audacity to highlight the issue of gang grooming, Jess Phillips attacked him rather than addressing the issue itself.
When Oldham councilors demanded a Home Office-led investigation into child abuse in the town, Jess Phillips refused. When the same council requested a meeting with the Minister of Conservation, the minister refused.
Later, when Parliament had the chance to vote for an inquiry, Labor resisted calls for a full national inquiry. It took months of pressure, public outrage and testimonies from survivors before Labor finally gave in and agreed to a deal. But even now this questioning is collapsing from within.
The three survivors – brave women who endured horrors most of us can only imagine – resigned from the inquiry’s liaison panel in disgust. They argued that a process dominated by manipulation, gaslighting, and hiding fear findings would become a watered-down version of the ugly truth.
They say their voices have been silenced and their trauma used for political purposes. Someone called this a “cover-up of a cover-up” and it’s hard to disagree.
The Home Office insists everything is above normal, but the facts tell another story. The scope of the investigation is being quietly watered down.
Rather than focusing on the group-based, ethnically and religiously motivated abuse that defined these crimes, the scope was seen to be at risk of being deliberately broadened in a way that blurred the picture.
The connection between the cultural background of grooming gangs and the deliberate targeting of white, working-class girls is dismantled.
And then there’s the matter of who will run the show. The leading candidates to head the investigation were people from the same institutions – senior police officers and social workers – that had failed these victims.
When survivors voiced their concerns about this, they were ignored. Now one of the candidates has withdrawn, leaving only a pro-Labour police officer.
The government must be absolutely sensitive at this point to anything that appears to be an attempt to keep the truth safe.
Jess Phillips, meanwhile, spent her time claiming ignorance—saying she didn’t even know who was on the victims’ panel—and publicly denying every concern raised.
If he had any decency he would have resigned. But politeness seems in short supply. The truth is that these scandals were allowed to fester for so long because many in power feared the consequences of dishonesty.
Police officers, councilors and civil servants turned a blind eye rather than risk being called racists. And now, even after the facts have been revealed, Labor continues to see this as a public relations problem to be managed rather than a national disgrace to be confronted.
The victims of these grooming gangs deserve justice; not another cover-up investigation by the institution that failed them. They deserve courageous leaders, not career politicians afraid of uncomfortable truths.
Labour’s handling of the grooming gang investigation is not just a failure of governance; This is a moral failure, a betrayal of the most vulnerable, and a stain on our nation’s conscience.
Shame on Jess Phillips, shame on Labor!
