Nationwide police operation on grooming gangs announced
https://news.sky.com/story/nationwide-police-operation-on-grooming-gangs-announced-13384155
Posted by topotaul
Nationwide police operation on grooming gangs announced
https://news.sky.com/story/nationwide-police-operation-on-grooming-gangs-announced-13384155
Posted by topotaul
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The number of different announcements made about this review before it’s even been published suggests that it’s going to be absolutely damning.
> One person familiar with the report said it details the institutional failures in treating young girls and cites **a decade of lost action from** the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), set up in **2014 to investigate** grooming gangs in Rotherham. [emphasis added]
This is why everyone kept saying we didn’t need yet another inquiry. We had a bunch of inquiries. We know what happened, we know why, and we have some idea of what to do about it.
But fixing it – at the time – was politically incorrect. Much easier to just blame the “woke anti-racists,” immigrants and so on, than actually tackle any of the underlying systemic issues.
One of Starmers greatest weaknesses as a politician is his inability to foresee basic strategic outcomes and plan appropriately to take advantage of them.
As a previous Director of Public Prosecutions and a proper lawyer, there was massive opportunity for him to portray himself as the law and order candidate that would root corruption like this out, force it into the light, and prosecute as many people as possible for their crimes,
He will now get little to no credit for doing so, and he refused to act until a report forced him to. Instead, it will be assumed that he was complicit in a cover up until he was forced, kicking and screaming, into doing something.
At a time when Reform are polling at 30%, that is a stupid unforced error that is simply unforgivable. I cannot fathom what the report is going to say that wasn’t already obvious earlier this year.