Backlash Grows After UK Minister Dismisses Grooming Gangs as ‘Dog Whistle’

Thosands of young girls pimped out and raped by jihadists is a "dog whistle"? Well, at least according to the paedophile friendly Labour Party.

From The European Conservative

By Graham Barnfield

The Commons Leader’s comment has reignited anger among survivors and MPs.

Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell looks set to keep her job after dismissing Britain’s overwhelmingly Pakistani-heritage rape gangs as a ‘dog whistle’ issue being used to create division in British society.

Powell’s place in the cabinet looks safe, for now, and rising Labour star, health secretary Wes Streeting, took to the news studios on Sunday, May 4th, saying the right honourable member’s apology is sincere and, basically, ‘we’ve all made mistakes.’

To err is human, but the actions of these gangs are inhuman. One notorious case can be seen in a court transcript from 2013, in which the judge presiding read out the specific harms inflicted on the same girl by her controlling ‘groomer’ (so-called when an adult male initially approaches a 12-year-old with a view to becoming her ‘boyfriend’).

Earlier this year, the satirist Dominic Frisby performed these courtroom remarks as part of a haunting audio recording, showing the depraved extent of gang activity. One transcript barely scratches the surface of a crime that has been going on for decades in English towns and cities involving thousands of young girls.

Five such victims, now young women, recently supplied testimony to the Channel 4 documentary Groomed: A National Scandal. Appearing on a BBC radio panel discussion, Tim Montgomerie, founder of the ConservativeHome website and recently a supporter of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, cited testimony from the broadcast as an example of what can go wrong with local authority Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) structures (and, presumably, their predecessors).

Dripping contempt, Powell interrupted, “Oh, we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we? Yeah, OK, let’s get that dog whistle out.”

In some quarters, it took a while for the significance of her point to sink in (amplified by Saturday’s lunchtime repeat of Any Questions). Women who were interviewed on Groomed responded more quickly, and Montgomerie himself tried to give his opponent the benefit of the doubt. But the plea that “in the heat of debate” people make mistakes that “come across badly” just doesn’t cut it.

Those who would prefer it if the issue would just go away burble about disgraced TV presenters, the proportion of child sex offenders who are white, or point to the most recent convictions involving predominantly white gangs. Yet they miss the point: the scandal has festered for so long precisely because official contempt for the abused white working class girls was also aligned to distrusting the wider public, treated as a race riot in waiting—English ‘dogs’ whose instincts would turn vicious on hearing the ‘wrong’ signals.

Led by a PM who thinks calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs are ‘far right,’ Powell is just the latest politician to put her own despair at public failure to ‘get with the programme’ ahead of the common-sense demands for safety and justice. 

Pictured: Lucy Powell, MP, Leader of the House of Commons (Her prefix is "The Right Honourable", but after this, she doesn't deserve it!