All this text and you are wrong within the first few lines. Jay did indeed investigate Rotherham.
That is not the national enquiry, though. The national enquiry draws in evidence from across England and Wales. It is this:
https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/inquiry/final-report.html
“It draws on the Inquiry’s 15 investigations and 19 related investigation reports, the Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and 41 other Inquiry reports and publications.”
The report that Labour, and all those who for some reason don't want a national inquiry, point to as being "already done" is the earlier one, hence why they keep on banging on about the Tories having sat on the report for 12 years. This is the report that Labour keep referring to, hence the "12 years, did nothing" which is a quote that has been repeated in this politics thread many times in the past year if you search back.
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https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downlo...-sexual-exploitation-in-rotherham-1997---2013
The report you point to was an overall inquiry into all sorts of stuff and only briefly covered a small area of what we now know was on a unthinkably huge and widespread scale. The reason for needing or wanting a national inquiry into the grooming gangs is because of the sheer scale of what has been happening and still does to this day. And seeing as you want to point out that this inquiry has already been done (when it hasn't) did we miss all the announcements of who, where and what offiicals all over the place did and what justice they will face?
Labour are very uneasy on this. Not just because of issues like sacking their own MPs from roles for calling it out but also because they have a former leader of Oldham Council and Telford Council now sat on their benches as MPs, who may or may not have known or been complicit so of course we can't say they actually were involved! and also because a vast amount of their local councillors or friends in the police services in mostly red wall towns could be found to have turned their backs and closed their eyes! The Jay "final report" in 2022 didn't bring anyone to justice. It just said "bad things happened, authorities must do better."
So the anger is that it took eons to bring the grooming gangs in question to justice, if even most of them have been (how many more still to reach court?)....because of the people in power ignoring it. Not because they are mostly brown folks. Because the state's employees let it happen.........for years and years and years......and then anyone calling it out has been branded liars, racist etc. for asking Why?
White grooming gangs (the Glasgow one) no such problem. That is how it should be, not silence and villifying victims or whistleblowers. It is one of the biggest cover ups of our time and it puzzles me that anyone cannot see that!
Edit to reassert - This has NEVER not been happening. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusburj/article/download/19721/25804/43747#:~:text=So the existence of prostitution,end after the Victorian era.
Gangs have taken advantage of poor girls and used them for sex / prostitution forever. People seem a lot more bothered when brown people are doing it.
Ahh. always been happening. fair enough. nothing to see here.
Its a sad state of affairs when someone like you tries to toe the line by saying we wouldn't care if it were "predominantly white folks" doing it. But seriously. Do you not remember the weeks and months of clamour in the media, in politics, in public discourse. I daresay searching back there will be some here, but especially from people like Tom Watson who was like a dog with a bone when the false claims of Carl Beech claiming he was a victim of a "Westminster Set" of child abusers?
So no-one cared when it was white folks? Even though they didn't exist, they obviously did care.
The reason people are "a lot more bothered" for the vast majority is nothing to do with the skin colour of people doing it. It is to do with the fact that it was ignored, people were called liars, victims were called criminals, anyone calling it out was called a liar. Sarah Champion sacked from her shadow role for calling it out!
This is much much bigger than "oh well, its always happened" or the left's usual retort (not on here thank god) of "Jimmy Savile - White!"
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