Labour are just digging themselves a hole with the rape gangs. They keep obfuscating, diluting, distracting and gaslighting. It’s all pretty obvious, and we are all watching.
The councils with the biggest problems were Labour run. They should face up to it. Take the hit. And then move on. As it is, they are keeping a horrible cloud hanging over their heads. It’s not a good look. It’s surprising that they are dragging it out. Surely crisis comms management advice would be to apologise, be transparent and then correct it. It sucks for them, but it is the least bad alternative.
Then general public are sick of being gaslit, all parties have been guilty of it. It’s insidious:
-you can’t call COVID the Wuhan flu
-COVID didn’t originate in a lab
-a woman can have a penis
-men with a sexual fetish for dressing as women present no threat to women in bathrooms, hospitals, or prisons
-the grooming gangs have nothing to do with the cultural background of the perpetrators
-net zero and green energy are bringing your bills down
-raising national insurance is not a tax on working people
We badly need some honest conversations. I don’t know how we will solve problems we cannot correctly identify and reach a shared understanding of.