Maggie Oliver in High Court on Thursday

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I don't know how much chance of success this has but I admire her tenacity.

https://x.com/i/status/2028144995190886662

This week is a huge weeke for ALL survivors of sexual abuse!

Thanks to the generous donation of two individuals, we @TMOFCharity have for the past 12 months been fighting the government to be allowed to bring a Judicial Review against the government for their failure to implement the 20 IICSA recommendations, over 3 years after publication. We have had to fund this action and we truly hope the judge will issue a cost capping order to allow us to see this through.

The government are trying to argue that whether or not they implement the 20 recommendations is “entirely their choice”!

Therefore we have been granted leave to appear in the High Court in London on Thursday with our legal team.

This is such an important day!

If governments can just simply ignore the recommendations of a 7 year statutory enquiry, the question needs to be asked - why should we have another?

And so why would they again seek to put more survivors who are already severely traumatised through more pain and give them false hope with thus new “Statitory enquiry” if they can simply once again ignore the recommendations that will follow?

Please support us in this important action that we are bringing on behalf of survivors of abuse everywhere.

It’s the only legal step open to us to challenge the decision to leave these recommendations gathering dust on a shelf in The Home Office, hence why we have worked so hard with our lawyers/barrister to get to this point.

We hope and pray the Judge understands why we are fighting this, and understands too why his decision will affect every single survivor of sexual abuse/rape, both past, present and future!

🙏🙏

What a fabulous woman, i’ll be keeping everything crossed for her on Thursday. There is more I’d like to add, but I sat on my glasses earlier so can’t see too well to type! Thank you for posting this OP.

I just read about this on FB earlier. Maggie is a good woman, and all power to her elbow. 💪

She's a tireless warrior woman. I hope she succeeds.

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Hope this helps her!
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Following. Hero!

I doubt that Maggie Oliver will ever read this, but I went to school near one of the towns that was hit with the so-called "Grooming Gangs" (i.e. paedophiles, in my book). There was talk of what was happening (i.e. children being sexually abused by gangs, often in exchange for drink and drugs) years before it hit the headlines. As a girl, you were told not to get in a taxi on your own, and so on. I suspect that some of the girls involved probably went to my school, and the Three Girls drama left me with a lot to think about... so thank-you, Maggie Oliver, for trying to keep children safe.

Brilliant. Go Maggie ❤️

Legions of women stand beside Maggie , I hope she knows how much support she has.

There's an article in the Critic by Katie Lam, a Conservative MP

https://thecritic.co.uk/a-grooming-gang-whitewash/

This paragraph with link but time is short to put your twopennarth in

The terms of reference are subject to a consultation, which closes on Friday 6th March. Any member of the public can write in, and express their views. We’ve compiled the problems with the current terms of reference at groominggangjustice.uk – if you agree that the inquiry must uncover the full truth, then you can put in your details, and we’ll submit a response to the consultation on your behalf demanding a proper inquiry.

Thank you for this @lcakethereforeIam- have signed

Video of Katie Lam asking question in HoC. Keir Starmer's answer is a disgrace.

https://x.com/i/status/2029217506246721689

Truly astonishing. Katie Lam asked a legit answer about data relating race and ethnicity about the Pakistani rape gangs.

Keir Starmer’s response? To suggest that she’s racist for wanting more robust integration.

He is pathetic #PMQs

Maggie Oliver did a very powerful interview with GMB this morning about today's High Court challenge for a judicial review.

He is beyond a joke.
It sticks in my throat to say it. But Trump was right when she said Starmer is no Winston Churchill.

A bit more detail on the arguments being considered.

Government 'effectively allowed abuse' of children, High Court told in Maggie Oliver legal challenge - Manchester Evening News share.google/Re3orYAP4PbHTRlSS

What a prick.

https://x.com/i/status/2029578743375700429

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Brilliant news. I really had doubts they would succeed. Shame on Labour and its' procrastination.

That’s fantastic. Lots more scrutiny if nothing else.

That’s fantastic!

That's very good news.

I’m guessing that this is an example of Starmer’s renowned ruthlessness in that Labour may well lose a percentage of the British Muslim vote to Greens now and he’s willing to throw girls under the bus to do so. Nice. V pleased they won.

I hadn't heard of Katie Lam, but a google search brought up her comments about immigrants, which seems to be what Starmer was referring to. Here's some of what she said:

Lam told the Sunday Times she believed large numbers of people with legal status in the UK would need to have their right to stay revoked and should “go home”.
She said: “There are also a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so. It’s not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn’t have been able to do so.
“They will also need to go home. What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people.”

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported | Conservatives | The Guardian

The problem with voicing what looks to many people like extreme views on immigration means that the racist label is likely to be applied to you when you say anything else about immigrants.

Come on, the term racist is applied if you mention immigration at all unless in the context of 'it's an unbridled good'. You're certainly called rascist if you mention grooming gangs.
It's a sign of KS's inadequency and desperation that he can only reach for insults.

That's pretty nasty stuff from Katie Lam, as @OldCrone points out. I don't see how it gets a pass, just cos she asked a question in the HoC we liked. Equally, Starmer using her comments as a pathetic attempt to avoid answering the question says it all about his character. Trying to separate people into white-hats and black-hats is what got us in this mess!