No loving parent in Britain cannot be seriously disturbed by the recent turn of events in relation to grooming and rape gangs.
As a nation, like many, this issue has plagued us for decades. If there is one thing civilised society cannot abide, it is the abuse of its children. In the past, whispers turned into rumours. The rumours turned into noise. The noise grew into investigations. The cries led to government inquiries and yet, here we are. Another political scandal escalates the level of demonic depravity within our nation to new extremes and demonstrates an unwillingness and inability to protect our children.
No doubt over the weekend, the ruling class has been discussing these horror stories and lamenting across the dinner table at Elon Musk’s audacity in highlighting the issue. At their cocktail parties, the atrocious details aired on X, some politicians formulate how best to jostle for the moral limelight and spew magical solutions on how best to investigate. Despite the few with honourable intentions, they all miss the mark by refusing to acknowledge we live in Broken Britain. Any inquiry is almost guaranteed to let down past victims, do nothing for those currently in crisis and will not prevent a gruesome reoccurrence in the future.
Rael Braverman has said victims have been let down
GB News
The calling for a local or national inquiry is the playbook of deflection to temper the current public outrage in Broken Britain. A Judge will be appointed with perfect command of the Queen’s English to eloquently articulate the outrage of all, lawyers will line up with their exorbitant billing sheets and the temperature of the nation will be lowered, safe in the knowledge that ‘at last’ something is being done.
For total clarity, we all seek swift justice but as the saying goes, repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting different results is insanity.
In truth, any inquiry will drift from weeks into months, months into years and the public will move on with respect to this heinous component of British life. Periodically, we will be treated to updates, whilst the victims and their families remain irrevocably scarred.
Back in 2015, the UK launched the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) which was supposed to be a beacon of hope for victims. Fast forward seven years, we have a collection of 4 million documents, 6,000 voices heard and a staggering £186million bill. It had four Chairs during its lifetime, one being Dame Lowell Goddard. Reportedly, she banked a £500,000 a year pay package and Ben Emmerson KC, counsel to the enquiry, received over £400,000 in a year. It was one of the most expensive inquiries in British history.
The cost would be academic if it held grooming and rape gangs to account. The nation would applaud and finally lavish praise on a political project that actually brought about a positive result; alas, on this occasion, the victims and families have been inexcusably let down.
The IICSA report provided 20 recommendations, 19 of which were accepted in 2023 culminating in the creation of the Grooming Gangs Taskforce by Home Secretary Suella Braverman KC MP. It saw 550 arrests and more than 4,000 victims identified and protected in its first year.
Despite this success, why did survivors still call the inquiry a “sham?” It transpired that only one out of 50 towns subjected to grooming and rape gangs was included in the IICSA inquiry according to Charlie Peters from GB News. Rotherham, one of the worst affected, garnished a sole mention in the report. Telford was completely omitted. Shockingly, the six case study areas that investigated child abuse had no significant reports of grooming gangs. Is it time to ask whether this report was a quest for justice or just an expensive exercise in evading the grooming gang scandal?
Furthermore, one of the key recommendations was to make it a legal requirement for those directly responsible for the welfare of children to report child abuse to the authorities. Yes, you heard that correctly. From the Sir Cyril Smith scandal that sparked in 1979 to Jimmy Savile in 2012, there is still no legal obligation to report the abuse of kids to the authorities as of today. Only Broken Britain can take 46 years and still not fix this monumental issue.
The Criminal Justice Bill 2023 attempted to fix this issue by putting a ‘duty to report’ law in place but where is this Bill today? The answer is nowhere, because it was paused by the 2024 Election and remains so, 9 years after the inquiry first began.
Only on the 6th January 2025 did Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP commit to amending a new Bill in Spring, making those who cover up or fail to report child sexual abuse an offence.
Finally, to add insult to injury, Charlie Peters adds that the Civil Service is delaying compensation for victims of abuse.
I appreciate this is not an easy issue to solve. Given this has spanned decades, it appears unlikely that Labour will address this head-on. To do so would undermine their ideology that diversity is Britain’s greatest strength and many Labour MPs have significant ethnic minority electorates. The Prime Minister called anyone demanding an inquiry as simply “jumping on the bandwagon of the far right” as a ploy to protect the ideologues in his Party.
Both Conservatives and Labour are joined at the hip in their Globalist beliefs that mass uncontrolled immigration is only a positive for the country, overtly dismissive of the consequences we see before us. In power, the Tories and our national institutions were seemingly gripped in paralysis. Fear of being branded Islamophobic and sparking social upheaval has left the Tories unable to meaningfully address the crisis of the rape gangs.
On balance, if history has anything to say, when it comes to child sexual abuse, don’t hold your breath that tangible change is coming any time soon. The very framework and governance of any inquiry needs to be radically overhauled so it has real oversight and accountability.
We certainly do not need another wasteful expedition ultimately delivering relatively small wins given the scale of the problem. We need immediate action not another drawn-out inquiry while more children suffer at the hands of monsters.