Raden on the Inquiry announcement -
The way that
@UKLabour have been doing the media rounds today, after announcing the LONG overdue inquiry into the
#Pakistanigroominggangs scandal, is nothing short of disgraceful and nauseating. Many of us are old enough but not yet sufficiently senile to recall some of these same fruitcakes, including many Tories, calling people "far right & racist" for demanding transparency and accountability into this issue which was clearly required after the findings of the Jay Inquiry and claims made by various complainants both before and after that had been published.
Turning to the inquiry itself, it must be chaired & composed of people who are suitably qualified to hear the testimonies of the complainants and ultimately decide on what needs to be done. What we do not need are any shenanigans or distractions about the composition of the group along EM ancestry, gender or religious lines. Hopefully this will help produce something meaningful and avoid the theatrical distraction currently playing out in the Wuhanvirus Inquiry or replicate the whitewash of the Hutton Inquiry, called in the aftermath of the tragic death of Dr David Kelly.
Additionally, the terms of reference should be broad to ensure that issues can be dealt with as fully and sensitively as possible, so we can see
1) What happened,
2) How it was allowed to happen & 3) How the accused and anyone complicit in concealing their crimes managed to do so in a country which prides itself on its centuries long tradition of justice, without fear or favour, which it has exported around the world.
Much thanks must go to people like
@MaggieOliverUK who kept the flame flickering and refused to give up, with goodness knows what impact it had on her career, personal safety and everything else, to help ensure that these complainants weren't marginalised and ignored as they had been for years apparently due to their skin colour, with the same traits seemingly helping the accused evade justice for these crimes.
Special thanks must also go to
@elonmusk for getting behind this campaign and ensuring that the issue was not smothered or suppressed as would probably have happened under the previous regime on platforms such as this.
Finally and most importantly to the complainants, this is one of the most disgraceful chapters in British history and as a nation we FAILED you. Anything that is now said will sound hollow and inane & can do little to bring back the years of your lives which have been taken away. If that wasn't bad enough, the way you have been stigmatised, denigrated and ignored is a collective burden that the nation will have to carry forever. Here's to hoping that a national inquiry will lead to some small level of accountability for you, so that we can at least ensure such reprehensible and inexpiable acts never happen to any British child or person EVER again.