Fiona Goddard fighting battle for justice for grooming gang victims

I had forgotten all about it until it popped into my head today. He's raised £600k to do the work the police and CPS have failed to. Good for him (and Maggie Oliver, of course); I hope they get some justice.

I think what we're learning, whether left or right wing, is that no parties have clean hands here. And all have a lot to fear from an open inquiry.
And not just the parties.
I'm sure all those politically correct platitudes from the police etc will stop them being criticized.

Australia had similar 'grooming gangs' but the response from the authorities and the media was very different. There was no cover up and laws were changed. I think this was in the late 90s/early 00s.

The cover up has been going on for so long here, and by now involves so many people, that i dont believe we'll get answers any time soon.

I really did miss this, beyond Lowe's announcement 12 months ago.
Good luck to him and the inquiry shining a light.

I realise you aren't advocating for them btw @1984Now.

The idea that Farage and his party would be the champions of women, especially working class women is laughable in the extreme when you look at their voting history and manifesto. Reducing worker's rights, actively voting against (or abstaining from) votes to tighten upskirting and other SA legislation. Loss of our maternity rights through scrapping of the Equality Act (that pesky 'DEI'). The loss of universal healthcare. Removal of checks and balances (regulation) on big business. His flirting with the pro-life lobbyists and discussions of interfering with abortion legislation. He's no friend to women, or the working classes.

So, his inquiry is finally happening?
But it can't force witnesses to attend, yes?

@1984Now
I'm wary of Reform myself; it all seems like an empty facade to me.

Having said that, Rupert Lowe is commissioning an independent inquiry, with hearings beginning a week tomorrow, and he plans to instigate private prosecutions. There's a recent update on his Crowdfunder page.

And is the party hearing her, let alone listening to her?

Gina, I've lost trust in all of them. I'm a long term Tory voter since '83 (other than once falling for Blair's winning smile in '97), and "my party's" ignoring of this toxic scandal is a big part of my drifting from them. Reform's motivation, and I am open to voting for them, isn't likely to be wholly altruistic. I'm not sure Farage et al either care enough or would get this right.
Labour? Here's the thing, you could once have relied on them for any number of social justice outcomes (Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday, fighting Section 28 etc), but not anymore.
And this scandal just goes too deep, a true uncovering would lift up the stone to multifarious Labour skeletons in cupboards, from the integration of malfeasance at local level with the national party, to the party's addiction to multiculturalism and mass migration especially from those countries that they calculated would become a whole new tranche of Labour voters.
I actually think Farage would also fear a brave inquiry with remit to go anywhere.
There's no part of British (un)civic society that isn't culpable to some degree, Farage could actually cause his own downfall as citizens realize the rot is so deep.
Maybe I also only hold this view...but when British girls in care being sexually abused were being first talked about in the 90s, I recall my reaction, many others, and tabloid sentiment...these were girls asking for it, a feral underclass.
Yes, that was a terrible reaction, but I recall it being pretty uniform across the country.
Of course, we weren't really aware of grooming gangs as a phenomenon, but the empathy for girls in care getting into trouble was minimal.
And not just from the men in my circle, the tabloid media generally, and a fair number of women.
I've done a 180 on this personally, part of the journey on black pilling re trans insanity, how much of the country has?

@1984Now Sadly, I have to agree.

I realise my previous post sounds anti-Labour. I am actually a leftie, or I used to be anyway. But this scandal is hard proof that the so-called Left give no fucks about working class people, least of all female ones. I also blame the Tories, who had long enough to address this matter themselves, but didn't. I used to roll my eyes at the phrase "liberal elites", but that's exactly what they are, ruling over the plebs and looking down on us with thinly-veiled contempt.

It's hard not to conclude that Britain is broken. I've read commentary that we maybe be the only Western nation with this scandal, despite mass migration to the West being a uniform feature over many decades.
My guess is that the very specific nature of Mirpuri clan networks allied to the fact that we've taken tens of thousands from that region over the years, and their children/grandchildren have been inculcated in a very unique spiders web of clan networking, as much family to family as organized crime group type behaviour.
This is on another level from the more typical sexual crime perpetrated by Aghans, Iraqis, Eritreans etc.
The intra family and inter family clan nature of Mirpuri sexual predation shocks even Pakistan outside Mirpuri, and Pakistan has higher than normal rates of sexual offending as well.
And we invited it in, refused to believe it was happening, and would rather destroy these girls and women, then for elites to admit their complicity.

Starmer doesn't want an inquiry into grooming gangs, because Labour are up to their necks in it. Labour have become dependant on the votes from council areas where the gangs operate, so the last thing they want to do is expose the gangs that vote for them. Many Labour officials (and police officers and social workers) are complicit in the cover-up, and some are complicit in the abuse. There's not enough space in the prisons for all those responsible. If there was a fully transparent inquiry it would be the end of the Labour party, so it won't happen.

I fear these girls and women are gonna be abandoned one more time, by the very state that is meant to underpin all of us.
Does Jess Phillips and Angela Rayner et al sleep well at night knowing final justice for this group isn't likely to happen?
Maybe Starmer could promise to stay in the UK for 12 months straight, and get things like the grooming gangs inquest sorted, rather then travelling and spending time in his comfort zone, the company of foreign politicians and diplomats.

It's appalling of course, but I don't really understand about the injunctions. So Person A can be the subject of an injunction saying he has to stay away from Person B, but you can't stay away from anyone unless you know where they are based (where to stay away from), at least roughly.

It's hard to now where to even start commenting on that.

There is just no hurry by the govt to get to grips with this. So much malpractice across so many institutions. Fiona and so many other girls let down by so many, if we truly get wide ranging revelations, it'll prove the spiritual health of the UK is broken as well as our physical structure.
It needs to happen now, leaving it later and later only fuels the anger in society that's already stoked.
Kudos to Fiona, to go on the record is absolutely bravery.

That's just heart-breaking. To have that much damage inflicted on you at such a young age, that poor girl. And the absolute contempt I feel for those who would gaslight Fiona and other women like her. But instead of "Jeez, that's awful. Let's put it to rights now", there's another round of 'the process is the punishment'. Courts, the police, the LAs (especially!), everyone has let these girls down.

That is horrendous! WTAF
How on earth...
Poor girl. Beyond horrific