Telegraph Wacko Bigotry BUSTED

After Suella Braverman, for some reason appointed Home Secretary, appeared on the Sunday morning politics shows asserting that what are known as “grooming gangs” were overwhelmingly all about males of British but Pakistani heritage abusing what she specifically termed “white girls”, it was inevitable that today’s client journalists would be right behind her.

And so it came to pass, with a side order of claiming that, despite the Tories having been in power for 13 years, it was All Labour’s Fault. At the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph, this meant a suitably OTT column from Somewhere-Between-Barking-And-Upminster pundit Allison Pearson, who had really got her dander up about Scary Muslims™.

“Labour should hang their heads in shame over the grooming scandals … ’Cultural sensitivity’ always means sensitivity to one culture alone - and it sure as hell isn’t the culture of white working-class girls … Yvette Cooper says sensitivities around race should not prevent action over child sexual exploitation - but that’s exactly what her party has done for years”. Do go on.

“Yvette and I can agree that you certainly shouldn’t allow ethnic sensitivities to get in the way, because the priority must always be protecting vulnerable youngsters, obviously. Where we disagree is in that it seems to have slipped Yvette’s mind that thousands of attempts by victims, social workers and other concerned adults to report predatory behaviour by British Pakistani grooming gangs have repeatedly been stymied by - oh, look! - Labour politicians, Labour councillors and police forces in Labour-controlled towns”.

That would explain former prosecutor Nazir Afzal successfully prosecuting a significantly-sized group of individuals in Rochdale, then. Ms Pearson has also managed to miss that 84% of those identified as perpetrators of Child Sexual Exploitation were what is called White British. Not Muslims.

But, sadly, there is more. “One thing we can say with total confidence is that there has never been a white girl so distraught, so despicably abused, so trafficked or so tortured that Labour has not been prepared to sacrifice her on the altar of preserving their Muslim block vote”. This is total crap.

There is no “Muslim block vote”. But note the giveaway: “British Pakistani heritage” becomes interchangeable with “Muslim”. Thus the real target, which Ms Pearson confirms when she says of a definition of “Asian” perpetrators “although I object to that definition. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, they are not, and it’s offensive to lump them all together”. It’s about Muslims.

Although she then switches to saying of claims that Ms Braverman’s characterisation is racist “Slightly tricky to do that with a home secretary who has Indian-African heritage”. But that is not where Ms Pearson is at: she is merely deflecting. Enough: let’s consider the latest real world cases of grooming gangs, and check out who has been getting guilty.

Here’s the Oldham Times from earlier this week: “A group of men from across Bolton and Lancashire accused of a string of child sex offences have appeared in court for the first time … All 13 men were brought before Bolton Magistrates Court this week charged with various offences allegedly committed against girls under 16-years-old”. Grooming gang, was it?

And well, if it concerned 13 blokes from Bolton, well, nudge nudge, we know what that means … they’re all, er, White British. Every last one of them. Maybe a case from the West Midlands would suit Ms Pearson’s agenda? I mean, lots of Muslims in that part of the world, right? And the BBC has reported “Twenty-one convicted in West Midlands child sex abuse inquiry”.

This was “the largest ever child sex abuse case investigated by West Midlands Police. The offending against seven children, who were 12 years old or younger, took place over nearly a decade in Walsall and Wolverhampton … Of those already imprisoned, sentences range from 28 months to life … The case can only now be reported because a series of trials which began last year has ended”. Twelve years old or younger.

DCS Paul Drover said the offences were “some of the most shocking abuse that I've seen in my career … They have been through a significant amounts of trauma. To get the confidence to come forward and to talk to care professionals, to police is huge and I am genuinely thankful”.

And those getting guilty? “David Baker, James Evans, Mark Smith, Natalie Wellington and Tracey Baker were given the longest prison sentences”. All 21 of them were White British. A gang committing child sexual abuse. The largest case of its kind investigated by WMP. What you will not read in comment columns from the Tel’s less than disinterested pundits.

Suella Braverman and her fellow Tories are merely wicked: the right-leaning cohort of client journalists is, additionally, malicious and wrong. That is all.

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