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AIBU to ask about the rape gang inquiry report? (Content warning - Details of Independent Rape Gang Inquiry)

250 replies

RedPoet · 16/06/2026 18:46

Rape gang inquiry report bit.ly/4uE5odw

It's harrowing

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JuliaBraverman · 21/06/2026 16:00

Wendyworm · 21/06/2026 14:17

I really can't see any political party sorting this out ..
It's going to end up being..this is just how the UK is
No one is angry enough,who has power to anything

I can’t bear to think that this is the country my father went to war for as a very young man.

5MinuteArgument · 21/06/2026 16:02

Wendyworm · 21/06/2026 12:38

So my theory.
.is the left think it's all racism
,and the grooming gangs are made up ,
and its all exaggerated,and if ...if ...
some of it was possibly true ...
it's no worse than white men have done to girls and women over the years ..
That is what I get when I try to have a conversation with my DH ,who is as far left as a person could possibly be .
But he has never lived in a multicultural area ,he lived in A very expensive area and went to private school ..so I think he just can't comprehend what some areas are like for children from working classes

Yes, it makes a huge difference where you live, background, earnings etc. Most of the 'refugees welcome' brigade live very comfortable lives far away from the areas affected by multiculturalism, migrant dispersal and high immigration.

And yet such is their contempt for ordinary people that they think their experience is the norm and everyone else is just nasty and moronic.

LuckyHazelFox · 21/06/2026 16:18

5MinuteArgument · 21/06/2026 16:02

Yes, it makes a huge difference where you live, background, earnings etc. Most of the 'refugees welcome' brigade live very comfortable lives far away from the areas affected by multiculturalism, migrant dispersal and high immigration.

And yet such is their contempt for ordinary people that they think their experience is the norm and everyone else is just nasty and moronic.

Just look at what we've experienced on here elsewhere. There are some bad faith posters who seem to make their posts all about one thing.That's up to MNHQ to deal with but there's definitely a pattern.

Whatalunatic · 21/06/2026 18:41

Most of the 'refugees welcome' brigade live very comfortable lives far away from the areas affected by multiculturalism, migrant dispersal and high immigration

Have you been to London?!

DandelionFarmer · 21/06/2026 18:58

Maybe, just maybe they need to look inward. Did he say anything about the rape gangs?

LuckyHazelFox · 21/06/2026 19:03

SwirlyGates · 21/06/2026 18:51

And here we go.

White man attacks several Muslim men in Edinburgh with a knife, Yousaf blames Lowe and Tommy Robinson.

https://x.com/HumzaYousaf/status/2068422230636212234

Well we know whose interests he looks after. So glad his proposed hate speech laws failed, as did he.

SwirlyGates · 21/06/2026 20:07

DandelionFarmer · 21/06/2026 18:58

Maybe, just maybe they need to look inward. Did he say anything about the rape gangs?

Not that I can find. (Of course, he's not alone in that; our political leaders are studiously avoiding mentioning the report, and if you search for news articles you mostly get foreign ones).

Yousaf was one of the ones who jumped to conclusions about the Dundee girl who attacked a man using a machete. "At the time, Mr Yousaf tweeted: "But Stephen-Yaxley Lennon (Tommy Robinson) and his racist far-right mob told me migrants tried to sexually assault the girls? Who would have guessed the far-right were full of bulls**t?""

And yes, it turned out that the Bulgarian migrants had tried to sexually assault the girls.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-breaks-silence-after-37290703

Humza Yousaf - Scottish Daily Express

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/all-about/humza-yousaf

JuliaBraverman · 21/06/2026 20:20

LuckyHazelFox · 21/06/2026 19:03

Well we know whose interests he looks after. So glad his proposed hate speech laws failed, as did he.

I’m an ex left leaning virtue signalling woman who has quite recently seen the light. It seems to me that anything that happens in the UK according to the media and the left, obviously, is the fault of Donald Trump, Tommy Robinson or Rupert Lowe. Is that the best they can conjure up?

Wendyworm · 22/06/2026 06:39

It's generations of girls this has been effecting and nothing seems to be able to stop it..or no political party cares enough to put laws in place to stop it.
They literally have a free pass to abuse children

LuckyHazelFox · 22/06/2026 06:47

JuliaBraverman · 21/06/2026 20:20

I’m an ex left leaning virtue signalling woman who has quite recently seen the light. It seems to me that anything that happens in the UK according to the media and the left, obviously, is the fault of Donald Trump, Tommy Robinson or Rupert Lowe. Is that the best they can conjure up?

Narrow minds, scared of venturing outside their safe bubble. The least critical thinkers imaginable.

DandelionFarmer · 22/06/2026 08:56

LuckyHazelFox · 22/06/2026 06:47

Narrow minds, scared of venturing outside their safe bubble. The least critical thinkers imaginable.

It's the utter belief that they are progressive and right. It's ingrained very deeply and that's actually quite scary.

CornishDaughteroftheDawn · 22/06/2026 09:17

Pacificwave · 20/06/2026 22:40

I’m feeling literally sick. Why is this not getting coverage in the papers and BBC? Is it not considered to be true or reliable because it is a private rather than public inquiry?

This needs to be hashed out. We deserve to know what’s been going on. Would someone funding civil law suits for compensation get the ball rolling?

I think the reason it is being downplayed nationally is that Starmer’s government is more worried about ‘community cohesion’ and not upsetting the Muslim Council of Britain than getting justice for these girls and saving future victims.

This was part of their comment on the grooming gangs. They give ‘qualified support’ to an inquiry. This appears to be conditional on ignoring the specific profile and MO of the Pakistani Muslim perpetrators. Hence Jess Phillips scuppering the most recent inquiry by wanting to expand its remit so far as to make it too unwieldy to achieve anything.

The latest wave of anti-Muslim hatred has reached new lows, with hatred directed against British Muslim politicians and baseless suggestions that grooming prosecutions are being avoided due to Muslim voting patterns.

CornishDaughteroftheDawn · 22/06/2026 09:43

user293948849167 · 21/06/2026 13:13

I have a good friend who grew up in Blackburn in the 80s/90s, she says everyone knew this was going on back then. It was like an open secret and something parents knew they needed to protect their DDs from.
She would be warned about it by her parents - who not to talk to/be careful of.
There were streets that were no go areas for white people, especially girls.
She would always be conscious of what she wore and used to dress quite conservatively to avoid being called a “slag” and have men leer or shout stuff from cars (most of the time it wasn’t white men shouting…). She couldn’t believe the difference when she moved away to university.

I remember talking to her about flashing and she was incredulous that I had never been flashed, I was incredulous she had been a number of times before even turning 18!

Just because you have no experience of this stuff doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, we need to listen to people, especially women, who live in these areas and know what it’s like.

This is part of the trouble, the authorities turning a blind eye to this behaviour creates ‘racist’ behaviour as parents have to warn their daughters not to go out with lads of a certain ethnicity and religion in case there is an ulterior motive (emphasising not in all cases but some - the difficulty being that the bad ones will not give prior warning of their intentions).

There have been many reports of the young good looking lads of a similar age to the girls flattering them and becoming their ‘boyfriends’ as part of the grooming process.

This (and previous) divisive governments are forcing certain behaviours onto parents of girls who are known to be targets.

JuliaBraverman · 22/06/2026 11:07

DandelionFarmer · 22/06/2026 08:56

It's the utter belief that they are progressive and right. It's ingrained very deeply and that's actually quite scary.

So true

JuliaBraverman · 22/06/2026 11:11

As I said further down the thread, I saw Bridget Phillipson actually roll her eyes at the mention of the grooming gangs during a debate about something else

Wendyworm · 22/06/2026 11:15

So today's news ..
Will this make a difference to this issue
Will the new pm actually care ,want to stop this abuse of children
It seems to be a forgone conclusion who's taking over from starmer
Let's hope he actually cares and wants to do something about it .
I know nothing about the man ,I only heard his name for the first time recently

LuckyHazelFox · 22/06/2026 11:17

JuliaBraverman · 22/06/2026 11:11

As I said further down the thread, I saw Bridget Phillipson actually roll her eyes at the mention of the grooming gangs during a debate about something else

That should have been picked up by the media, if it wasn't. I saw another distasteful display in the Commons last week. Hannah Spencer talking about something being grubby and said like "what's behind me" meaning the Reform MPs sat behind her. I can't believe the speaker didn't pull her up on that. Grubby is not giving a shit about this scandal.

5MinuteArgument · 22/06/2026 11:24

JuliaBraverman · 22/06/2026 11:11

As I said further down the thread, I saw Bridget Phillipson actually roll her eyes at the mention of the grooming gangs during a debate about something else

Yes and Labour Minister Lucy Powell said 'we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we?' and 'let's get that dog whistle out, shall we?' when she was asked about the grooming gangs in an interview.

Do you think that would have been her response if if had been white British men abusing and torturing Pakistani heritage girls? Never in a million years. And that's why people are angry.

JHound · 22/06/2026 11:26

5MinuteArgument · 21/06/2026 16:02

Yes, it makes a huge difference where you live, background, earnings etc. Most of the 'refugees welcome' brigade live very comfortable lives far away from the areas affected by multiculturalism, migrant dispersal and high immigration.

And yet such is their contempt for ordinary people that they think their experience is the norm and everyone else is just nasty and moronic.

This is the same generalisations you accuse others of.

A lot of “refugees welcome” people live in London and other huge UK cities. Hardly “foreigner free” locations.

EasternStandard · 22/06/2026 11:43

DandelionFarmer · 22/06/2026 08:56

It's the utter belief that they are progressive and right. It's ingrained very deeply and that's actually quite scary.

It’s regressive in reality.

DandelionFarmer · 22/06/2026 17:35

EasternStandard · 22/06/2026 11:43

It’s regressive in reality.

Very!

Notkatie · 22/06/2026 17:59

Sikhs have been warning about this for decades as they have endured terrible tortures

JuliaBraverman · 22/06/2026 18:06

LuckyHazelFox · 22/06/2026 11:17

That should have been picked up by the media, if it wasn't. I saw another distasteful display in the Commons last week. Hannah Spencer talking about something being grubby and said like "what's behind me" meaning the Reform MPs sat behind her. I can't believe the speaker didn't pull her up on that. Grubby is not giving a shit about this scandal.

I saw Hannah Spencer say that And to be honest, it’s just what we expected for them though, isn’t it? As for the media not picking up Bridget Phillips rolling her eyes, they are complicit in this.

JuliaBraverman · 22/06/2026 18:09

5MinuteArgument · 22/06/2026 11:24

Yes and Labour Minister Lucy Powell said 'we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we?' and 'let's get that dog whistle out, shall we?' when she was asked about the grooming gangs in an interview.

Do you think that would have been her response if if had been white British men abusing and torturing Pakistani heritage girls? Never in a million years. And that's why people are angry.

Great Britain… what a mess.