I agree Julie Bindel is great. I know her fairly well. She has spent her entire career talking about this stuff… in the mainstream media.
She struggled to get anything published on the topic for several years. She took it to the Guardian who told her 'Oh, no, we can't - it would be racist'.
How do I know? Because about 10 minutes ago I finished listening to her podcast discussion on this issue with Winston Marshall which lasted over an hour. If they can talk about it for an hour, the bloody BBC can run a 3 minute story.
I said, on repeat, for years, that the mainstream parties etc etc NOT dealing with issues like this would ultimately be an absolute gift for right wingers, anti-immigrant groups etc etc. And oh look, that is just what has happened...
And we've STILL got people saying, 'Oh, this inquiry is questionable, it's all political posturing, ooh Rupert Lowe, he's a racist!'
FML.
What are people in working class communities - or indeed any communities - which been vulnerable to issues like this - now going to think? 'Oh, so dealing with Pakistani rape gangs makes him a racist? Well, I no longer give a fuck, because nobody else had the bottle to do this.'
Well played, liberal Britain. Well fucking played.
NB Lowe is all over FB. I see it, because I'm not a political snob and I don't live on a little social island with people just like me, and I know a bloke who is probably a Reform or Restore Britain voter who gets very exercised about all of this. So the algorithm sees me read his posts, and pushes Rupert Lowe at me. If I'm seeing it, lots and lots and lots of other people will be seeing it, MSM reporting it or not.
And if I sound ragingly angry, that would be because I am. How angry the people must feel who have suffered because of this, I cannot begin to imagine.