I rather lost my rag yesterday at a poorly attended short debate on rape gangs and an inquiry. The government wants to talk about child sex abuse per se, but the question is why state agencies and public servants looked the other way in terms of these specific, organised... rape gangs. Even now, the government and many in the media refuse to confront how a fear of being labelled racist is still concealing the truth.show more

Talking about general child sex abuse is a way to hide the specifics of this issue under a broader problem. Why is exactly why they do it.

Quite

Every single person who opposes further investigation into the cover ups of these Pakistani-Muslim child rape & torture gangs should be made to read the Court transcripts. Not a single person has been charged or lost their job/pension over this. Accountability is long overdue.

Thank you once more for saying exactly what needed to be said. Yes, prosecute the rapists, but we need to know who turned a blind eye and why. Public servants who take money from the public purse have a duty to discharge their duty of care to the public. If they are not held to account, nothing will change. Nothing. I am so sick and tired of hearing our representatives bleating “lessons will be learned”. They never are.

keep fighting the good fight Claire & good morning @MartinDaubney tweeted this am, apparently only 2 weeks in 7 years of Jay report spend on rape gangs & only 1 victim interviewed?!! NO councillor, police, social services NONE as far as we know have been held accountable

If the full force of the law had been brought down on the early perpetrators of this then the later ones wouldn’t have happened. Every policeman, councillor, care worker, judge and politician who covered this up should go to jail.

Thank you Claire! One thing I will add is statistics aren’t reflecting those of us who were let down by the police’s failure to pursue our attackers.This is a much bigger problem than is perceived & needs addressing with direct, unfiltered language.The reality is worse than words

That is exactly the sort of issue that needs to be looked at

Well done for bringing this to them.

Every decent person in this country has lost their rag over this. You are very far from alone.