Labour’s Grooming Gang Cover-Up Continues

Last Wednesday, the british public saw the Labour government vote against an inquiry into the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, who abused white working-class girls in fifty towns and cities across the country. They voted alongside their suspended MPs, the Green party, and “independent” Muslim MPs . Only the Conservatives, Reform UK, and Northern Ireland’s TUV, UUP & DUP voted for it, 111 to 364.

Although the Liberal Democrats abstained, their MPs made their contempt apparent throughout: rolling their eyes and interrupting as Reform’s Rupert Lowe MP urged public officials involved in the cover-up be imprisoned, whistleblowers protected, and perpetrators deported.

Labour MP for Rotherham, of all places, Sarah Champion, then chastised Lowe for his “language” — somehow offended by his demand that rapists be punished. Champion herself was exiled from Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench in 2017 after writing that “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.” Since then, she has been more adamant about demanding a ceasefire in Gaza than delivering justice for rape gang victims.

One wonders if Champion’s silence was an electoral strategy to keep her Rotherham seat — where, as one whistleblower put it, “if you want to keep your job, you keep your head down and your mouth shut.” Champion’s predecessor, Simon Danczuk said “senior Labour politicians” warned him against discussing “the ethnicity of the perpetrators, for fear of losing votes”. Danczuk reported Katie Hopkins to the police in 2015 for “stirring up tensions”, when she tweeted “Raising a Pakistani flag in Rochdale is not helping community cohesion. it [sic] is inflammatory. @SimonDanczuk you & your party disgust me.” Danczuk’s predecessor Denis MacShane admitted he avoided investigating child sexual abuse in Rotherham because “as a true Guardian reader, and liberal leftie, I suppose I didn’t want to raise that too hard… I think there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat if I may put it like that.”

Though for all her offence feigned at Rupert Lowe’s remarks, Champion has today joined calls for a national inquiry. She did so once other Labour members made it safe to break rank. Life peer Lord Maurice Glassman, head of Blue Labour has called the scandal “the worst series of atrocities that have taken place in Britain since the war”, and condemned “progressives [who] denied, obfuscated, equivocated, averted their eyes, changed the subject… [and] anything but look the dark side of multiculturalism squarely in the eye”. Former MP Khalid Mahmood, himself a Pakistani and practicing Muslim said “ “We need to start a process by quickly setting up a terms of reference to look into the historic cases, but also to go after the criminals and the police and local authorities who have been involved in this. They all need to be held to account for this.” Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham suggested an inquiry should follow the recommendations for child safeguarding from Dame Alexis Jay’s report being implemented. On Sunday, Dan Carden became the first Labour MP to demand Starmer “‘use the full power of the state to deliver justice.” Paul Waugh, MP for Rochdale agreed, supporting an inquiry if “that’s what victims want”. (Both Waugh and Carden voted against the inquiry last week.) The rest of the party remain silent, with Starmer branding calls for the inquiry a “far right bandwagon.”

There are few things more sickening than covering up this national scandal. But the media coordinating to make Jess Phillips the victim instead, because Elon Musk said some mean things about her on X, is a pretty strong contender. The Home Office Minister for Safeguarding and Women’s Safety did the press rounds yesterday, telling the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 that Musk’s call for her to be imprisoned for her role in delaying justice delivered to the abused girls had left her fearing for her life. Quite why they can think this takes priority over instances where girls were anally gang-raped, had their tongues nailed to tables, and bodies (allegedly) disposed of in kebab shop meat, is anybody’s guess. The broadcasters seem keen to promote Phillips to divert attention away from a scandal that they had a hand in downplaying; and perhaps to manufacture consent for the government to restrict online speech. (After all, the outfit founded by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff was working to “kill Musk’s Twitter” during the US presidential election.)

But Phillips is not a blameless figure in all this. Per the story that one of Britain’s last true journalists, Charlie Peters broke last week, Phillips took four months to respond to Oldham Council’s request for a national inquiry into the rape gangs — and said no. This, after Phillips defended an election ad in which Labour accused Rishi Sunak of being too passive in prosecuting the grooming gang perpetrators. Her exact, eloquent words were, “What’s everyone bitching and moaning about?” Quite, Jess. I’ve been wondering that myself.

The inquiry request followed reports in 2023 that child sexual exploitation referrals by Greater Manchester Police and Oldham’s social services had risen by 580 percent in eight years. Despite this, Oldham’s Director of Children’s Services, Gerard Jones said the local authority was “not aware of any mass grooming”. It’s also hard to accuse Oldham Council of, as Keir Starmer said of the Tories, putting a “the desire for retweets over any real interest in the safeguarding of children”, given Oldham was controlled by Labour until last May. The Council then came under the influence of eight “independent” Muslim MPs, whose campaigns focused more on Gaza than Great Britain. Fearing the scope of the inquiry would be too limited, and arbiters incapable of impartiality, the Council requested the Home Office intervene. Phillips declined. She has since admitted to not having bothered to speak to any of the victims either.

I would like to remind readers that, last May, Phillips spent more time and effort trying to have Liz Truss deselected as a candidate during the general election because she did an innocuous interview with me. Her letter to the Prime Minister, and week of complaints aired by broadcast channels, concerned a crass joke that Carl Benjamin made about her in 2016. (For which Carl has since apologised.) As both this week’s interviews and that manufactured outrage show, Jess Phillips and the British press think her feelings matter more than the mass rape of children by imported Pakistani gangs. When I pointed this out below clips on X, the ITV NEWS account saw fit to hide my reply. I ratio’d them nonetheless.

Phillips partnered with communist organisation HOPE Not Hate to conjure up this media storm about Liz Truss’ book tour. HOPE Not Hate are infamous not only for spreading admitted “hoaxes” during the Southport riots, and potential passport fraud during their new documentary: they are also guilty of writing hit-pieces against the parents of grooming gang victims. Mother of missing, assumed murdered victim Charlene Downes was attacked by Red Army enthusiast Matthew Collins in 2013, for turning to the noxious Nick Griffin when local authorities failed her. Why did HOPE Not Hate not put their hundreds-of-thousands in taxpayer funds to use supporting victims’ families, rather than them feeling forced to court equal and opposite extremists? Instead, Lowles accused everyone from Tommy Robinson to Suella Braverman who dared to broach the topic of “irresponsibly stirring up hate.” Phillips saw fit make such rape gang deniers her bedfellows.

This isn’t the only odious failure by the Home Office, on Phillips’ watch. When asked for data on the ethnicity and nationality of convicted criminals by Home Office staff, Phillips, and senior servant Matthew Rycroft, took a rare vow of silence. (We now know that foreign nationals are arrested for sex offences at least 3.5 times more than British citizens.) The Home Office has since refused to publish data on the ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators, despite new convictions being almost unanimously Pakistani men. Worst of all, in November, the Home Office’s propaganda department, RICU, produced a report dismissing the grooming gangs as a “grievance narrative” invented by “right-wing extremists”. Even Yvette Cooper ran screaming from it. Reminder: RICU oversees Prevent, the programme which defines and monitors extremism in Britain. No wonder Islamist terrorists have escaped their attention in recent years — including Sir David Amess’ murderer, Abi Harbi Ali.

Phillips has long fashioned herself a valkyrie for fourth-wave feminism. She boasted about how her ingenious political machinations put her cadre of fellow feminists in positions of influence. So if we are to interpret her every decision as an act of Phillips’ self-professed stateswomanly shrewdness, her refusal to launch a national inquiry into said Muslim rape gangs looks like an act of cold-hearted malice.

Phillips appears to be “safeguarding” little, except the slim <700-vote majority of her own seat. When heckled on election night by supporters of the second-place Muslim “independent” candidate, Phillips simply blamed “men” and “idiots” from nowhere in particular for this rambunctious display of misogyny. As gangs of armed, masked Muslims occupied a roundabout in her constituency, intimidated a Sky News journalist and slashed the tires on her van, attacked a pub, and lacerated the liver of an innocent patron, Phillips accused those sharing video evidence of the crimes of spreading misinformation. Said gangs just “came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them.” (A similar justification to that given for covering up the rape gangs in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford…) As historian Tom Holland wrote, this was done with the “noble goal” to “preserve good race relations” in mind.

Holland would do better to refamiliarise himself with Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, in which the titular demon advised:

“The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. There is no good at all in inflaming his hatred of Germans if, at the same time, a pernicious habit of charity is growing up between him and his mother, his employer, and the man he meets in the train. Think of your man as a series of concentric circles, his will being the innermost, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy. You can hardly hope, at once, to exclude from all the circles everything that smells of the Enemy: but you must keep on shoving all the virtues outward till they are finally located in the circle of fantasy, and all the desirable qualities inward into the Will.”

The further from home one’s compassion is placed — through what Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy” — the greater the capacity is for evil to occur.

Whether to thrust herself into the limelight, or appease Muslim voters in her now-marginal constituency, Jess Phillips has denied these girls justice. Tommy Robinson is summoned as a second-order-issue scapegoat to be pilloried, in place of talking about the actual problem of Pakistani rape gangs. But those like Phillips, who have the power to bring justice to those who continue to abuse children, and those who have never been held accountable for covering it up, and chose not to, are the real villains.