A political clime down.

In the House of Commons this afternoon the Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary performed a necessary political vote face. The issue was the endemic child sexual abuse by mainly Muslim men of Parkistani origin and living in northern cities. Town’s like: Bradford, Rochdale, Manchester etc - were a the very centre of this disgraceful crime. Why didn’t the police and local authorities act? The fear of a racial backlash was the reason. So white working class young women were happily sacrificed - for this myopic social policy. Will any one be held to account? No of course they won’t, but the young women have had to suffer years of neglect. The state has failed these women - some as young as 11 were abused continuously and constantly. The reasons given were for example: these were wayward young women, they were teenage prostitutes, they were attention seekers, they didn’t really matter. These victims were groomed by predatory mainly Muslim Parkistani men. Unfortunately the ethnicity of the perpetrators were almost never recorded. Some were asylum seekers, criminals who should have been deported, Had they been middle class young women, then action would have been taken more readily. 

Louise Casey the author of the Grooming Gang Ordit, was excoriating about the systemic failure of so many agencies of the state. Including: police, Crown Prosecution Service, local government, politicians, schools, children homes etc. Some ten years ago her previous report on child exploitation and abuse in Rochdale - made many recommendations, but to her astonishment nothing had been done about them. She had wrongdoing assumed that her Rochdale findings - would have been acted on automatically. Too often sexual abuse is seen as between a family member and small child and not against more mature women and girls. 

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