To think that Sadiq Khan needs investigated?

Much as I hate the Murdoch empire if you look at the stats white perpetrators are more likely to carry out child sex abuse, so why do we only hear about Muslim grooming gangs.....
news.sky.com/story/child-sex-abuse-and-grooming-gangs-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-from-the-data-13285420

@nomas I have no idea whether or not he’s credible. That’s why, given its scope and scale, a national enquiry specifically into the grooming gangs would seem like a good idea. It is after all what many of the victims are asking for.

I don't know but until it's covered in a more respectable news outlet I won't be reading the link.

Absolutely this. He’s been briefed by the Met, and the Express are implying that he’s been involved in a cover up because of ethnicity. The foulest racism.

What has he said? Can you quote him? He's a disgruntled former detective who sued them and lost.

Exactly. It’s a joke to say white men don’t get public vilification - there was practically a celebration on here the other night when Ian Watkins died, multiple threads started, nobody was rushing to sweep that one under the rug and nobody showed up to say ‘but what about the grooming gangs..’

Same with Prince Andrew
Same with Jeffrey Epstein
Same with Russell Brand
Same with Jimmy Savile
Same with Harvey Weinstein
Same with Rolf Harris

Nobody, absolutely nobody, has avoided discussing these men, or posted to say ‘white men are being scapegoated cos grooming gangs’. The papers have extensively and repeatedly covered these men’s crimes, again and again, year after year, and nobody has whined that they’re being unfairly targeted.

Absolutely nobody.

@nomas the primary allegations originated from former Met detective Jon Wedger.

@JackandSallySkellington it’s interesting that everyone, quite rightly, knows Gisele Pelicot’s name but many would struggle to name the victims of the grooming gangs despite the number of cases that have been prosecuted and identities revealed.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

hahaahaha

wait…..hahahaha

Oh look, the enlightened have spoken. The same people who shriek and squeal when democratic voting doesn’t go their way. Keep going. You are the gift that keeps on giving giving.

You’re right it’s the lack of acknowledgement.

Corbyn, Sultana and their bunch of merry men are the same (bar Adnan Hussain, who seems a decent type and has signed the motion calling for urgency and proper action in the inquiry).

Corbyn did a post about Gisele Pelicot, probably because the men involved were white European majority (and NOBODY is saying white men can’t be abusers, or that they don’t abuse far too much) - but I don’t think he has ever once commented on the mass rape and abuse of girls in his own country.

Honestly right wing men pose certain issues to feminism but do not underestimate the arrogance, dismissiveness and contempt that the left wing men have for women. In many ways it’s worse as it’s far more insidious and gaslighty and hidden under ‘bigotry’ and ‘racism’ and ‘greater good’.

Absolutely.

He is the most effective mayor we have had in living memory.

The 'allegations' are by a couple of Tory and Reform MPs, including 30p Lee Anderson, in the Express and Daily Mail.

If you believe them, you'll believe anything.

Great news OP - he is not the Lord Mayor so the integrity of that office is quite safe.

@Westfacing there were a large number of official investigations and inquiries into Jimmy Savile although of course the BBC was complicit in a cover up. Mumsnet was unsurprisingly absolutely full of outraged threads on the matter at the time.

@nomas there are multiple allegations (not just in The Express) which accuse him of being aware of the grooming gangs (via briefings, whistleblowers and direct reports) and subsequently denying their existence. Further allegations relate to his stonewalling efforts to investigate the gangs alongside the Met over whom he holds the responsibility of funding and supervision.

The systematic abuse of girls is what responses could have been about instead people are still clinging to whataboutery and denying the obvious racial element.

Unfortunately there has been systematic sexual abuse of children and young women in the UK long before Khan came on the political scene, and way longer than Pakistani grooming gangs. For example decades of abuse of children in the likes of Barnardo Homes; the BBC with Rolf Harris & Jimmy Savile - the list is endless.

But for some reason these examples don't bring out the likes of Tommy Robinson onto the streets, nor demands for investigations on Mumsnet.

I wonder why that is.

What did he do that was corrupt?

What do you mean he won't acknowledge them? He has answered questions about them.

www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/crime-london-supplementary-1

The Lord Mayor of London is Alastair King. How the hell could Sadiq Khan have brought the office of Lord Mayor into disrepute? You make no sense.

Absolutely. He’s corrupt and a liar and so odious. Dreadful excuse for a man.

Exactly.

Not like the 'establishment' in the UK haven't been involved in scandals for generations.
Kincora, files locked away ?
Mountbatten?
and the current scandal being exposed around Andy.

The office of LORD mayor? How's he done that then?