When are we going to see a reckoning for the girls locked up for being victims of rape gangs?

I don't particularly want to get into yet another argument about Rupert Lowe, except to mention that the small group of young men who he's hired to run his movement - Charlie Downes, Harrison Pitt, Connor Tomlinson - are, or pretend to be a lot more extreme than Lowe. And I'm not a particular fan of Lowe in the first place - ask Southampton FC fans what kind of man he is.

If we're talking about justice for the victims, a man who welcomes open white nationalists in his movement is not exactly the ideal person to advocate for them. If you want to know more about Mr Lowe's inner circle, I am happy to give details.

By the way, just to be non-partisan, someone should really tell Ayesha Hazarika that cracking flippant jokes about grooming gangs, particularly when you belong to the perpetrators' in-group, is not a good look: 🇬🇧 𝙔𝙊𝙊𝙆𝘼𝙔 𝘼𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙎 🇬🇧 (@MythoYookay): "" | XCancel

Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP likes to harrumph about statements by Tory MPs, or Reform councillors who nobody has ever heard of, and proclaim "If he was on my team, I'd have sacked him!" I am not holding my breath for Baroness Hazarika to lose the Labour whip in the Lords.

Reports into the scandal have found some evidence of police being worried about racism.

But a much larger factor was the girls being seen as "slags" "asking for it" etc. Basically the same attitude as is taken when perpetrators are white.

I've not forgotten the Mumsnet thread where a poster was concerned about a home for vulnerable tennagers being opened in their street - exactly the group which maight be targeted. Most of the replies were on the lines of "I wouldn't want these undesirables in our street?"

Well said. Its absolutely barbaric its been largely covered up and has taken an independent inquiry funded by crow funding to even the victims a chance to be heard. Mass prosecutions need to happen including of those that covered this up.

Thank you for highlighting this. Fake videos are definitely a huge issue so even seeing this video if its exists wouldn't necessarily mean its real. Its pretty evident that Rupert is the victim of a smear campaign and the fact the media is blacklisitng him suggest to me he is doing something of interest

100% this.

The World at One yesterday interviewed one of the victims. She was gang raped countless times as a 12 and 13 year old. Multiply that by all the thousands of victims and try to figure out just how many men are there out there, happy to gang rape a 12 year old child and think nothing of it.

And now where are we? These men are walking around freely, thousands of them, because all the people who turned a blind eye to this for fear of being called racist, are now desperate to cover there own arse.

The woman interviewed asked how people could care so much about the victims of Epstein and yet not care a damn about the rape gang victims.

It is sinister that England and Scotland have appointed 'equailites ministers' who are both Stonewall handmaidens.

In what other situations are people being given power to direct official action, after being appointed deliberately to ensure policy and action follows an ideology?

Just a reminder that fake videos are now perfected. Therefore, seeing a video of something apparently 'as it happened', is not unarguable evidence it ever did happen. There was a widely reported and reproduced video showing the Pope, dressed up in a white quilted puffer jacket. It looked believable. He never wore any such garment.

I agree with this statement. We are now facing a situation were the average person ir frustrated because things are in such a mess across the country.

Can you link the video of him saying this please? There is a massive smear campaign against Rupert so unless I have actually aeen the video I wouldn't necessarily believe its been said.

An inquiry is far more than any of the incompetent governments have done. They just covered it up instead which begs the question why.

I also wouldn't trust a for-profit institution to be ensuring a safe environment. Institutions where vulnerable teenage girls are kept are like a candy store for groomers. Ask me how I learned this...

Locking someone up for a crime requires due process. Sectioning/DoLSing teenage girls is very easy.

It's extremely easy to section someone or similar, especially a minor. There are almost no actual safeguards, and these mechanisms are copiously misused by individuals and organisations with a financial interest in detaining someone, or by clinicians practising defensively.

It's the failure of tory and labour to deal with this issue that has allowed the right wingers to gain traction.

Do you agree with Restore's campaigns director Charlie Downes that England deserved the grooming gangs as punishment for turning away from God?

A proper inquiry is being held not Lowe's stunt.

Lowe gives lots of interviews. I have watched him in them.

The inquiry maybe a politician stunt in your view but its brought much needed attention to the horrors of what these girls were put through and how much it was covered up. These girls deserve to be heard and these rapists deserve to be in jail or if not British born deported.

The inquiry is just a political stunt.

Lowe is embracing white nationalists like his campaigns director Charlie Downes who says England deserved the grooming gangs as punishment for turning away from God. Lowe gives no interviews. Charlie Downes is the voice of Restore.

The inquiry is just a political stunt.

Lowe is surrounding himself with people like his policy chief Harrison Pitt who flew to Austria to pose for photos with neo-Nazi activist Martin Sellner who is permanently banned from entering the UK.

Absolute nonsense most of them are just skint, fed up British people who want a government that prioritises British people and British values. Throwing around words like ring wing only annoys the average person further. Its not right wing to want a country that is safe, does not allow mass uncontrolled migration but welcomes controlled and hard working migrants that integrate and the UK being a country where people are rewarded for hard work and financially better off for it.

Rupert shouldn't have had to crow fund to get the funds for an inquiry into the grooming gangs. The goverment should have done it immediately. Labour have just announced today it will happen. How many years has it taken? And how much pressure? How many girls suffered further because of that delay?

What nonsense, I am a supporter of Rupert and don't live in the US (not last time I checked am I a white supremacist (whatever that is)). Tell me without telling me you get all your info from the Guardian.

The mainstream media are largely blacking out his party but he has 1.1 million followers on Facebook alone.

About a million of those followers are right wing Christians in the US. He has surrounded himself with white supremacists & is holding a fake inquiry.

Have a look at Rupert Lowe. He has set up Restore Britain. Its a political party and part of the reason he has set it up is because of the grooming gangs being covered up. The mainstream media are largely blacking out his party but he has 1.1 million followers on Facebook alone. The stories of these young girls he has released with there consent is heartbreaking.

We simply need to vote for politicians that will lock up the rapists, pardon and compensate the victims, and hold the individuals in our institutions responsible for their obstruction to account.

Listen to this podcast to get an insight on what’s been happening from the incredibly brave voice of a survivor.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/553ioTmRvtKZrexBlcEzZE?si=-st8y1sFQCaTFBcS5BQwhA

I do not like what our country has become, this is urgent.

This is new to me but I can see how it can happen, however surely if the child has had sex she has been raped and so they have a watertight conviction?

Clearly it is the members of the rape gangs that need locked up, and imo till they are no longer a risk to society.