Britain’s Liberal Parliament is on the brink of collapse as a gang-rape scandal involving migrant gangs shakes up national politics.
Jess Phillips, Home Secretary and Labor Member for Violence and Protection against Women and Girls, has criticized the actions of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who oversaw the prosecution of child sexual abuse by migrant grooming gangs. investigation was blocked. In town from 2011 to 2014, According to According to a January 2nd report in the Telegraph. The move sparked a public outcry and drew renewed attention to the ongoing crisis in the UK caused by a wave of unchecked immigration, involving organized migrant grooming gangs made up of mostly Pakistanis. Ta.
Critics mainly accuse Mr Starmer of complicating the political situation by failing to tackle migrant rape rings when he led the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2008 and 2013. middle his resignation and tanking Support rate. In his capacity as Prime Minister, Starmer allowed illegal immigrants to apply for asylum even after they arrived in the UK. According to To the BBC.
In 2009, Starmer’s CPS dropped charges against a Pakistani grooming and rape gang in Rochdale – even though prosecutors had hours of DNA and video evidence of the crime – and teenage victims said: claiming that he would not have been considered a “credible” witness. BBC The case was reopened in 2012 when Nazir Afzal became CPS prosecutor and secured the convictions of eight men involved in the gang.
Former detective Maggie Oliver, who helped crack the Rochdale abuse case, said Starmer was complicit in the bungled investigation into the rape gang. According to In the Telegraph.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said: “It is long past time for a serious national investigation into the rape gang scandal.” said “In recent years, trials have been held all over the country, but no one in power is connecting the dots. 2025 must be the year victims start receiving justice.” (Related: Zelensky reveals why he thinks Trump will beat Harris in 2024 election)
Starmer’s Labor Party suffers historic poll disaster According to A Sky News poll released on December 22 showed the party’s approval rating fell below 27% for the first time, despite having won the largest majority in parliamentary history just five months earlier. It is currently expected to lose its majority in the upcoming May election, with the Reform Britain Party, founded by conservative politician and Brexiteer Nigel Farage, replacing Labor, Britain’s most popular party, with a majority. likely to win seats. , According to According to an analysis by The Telegraph.
Britain’s immigration policy remains one of voters’ biggest concerns. According to YouGov poll starts January 6th. As of 2022, 14% of the UK population He was born in a foreign country. Asylum seekers made up 4% of the UK’s foreign-born population in the same year, with the majority coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India and Bangladesh. According to To the Immigration Observatory.
Foreign nationals living in the UK are three times more likely to be arrested for sex offenses and twice as likely to be arrested for crime overall than British nationals, the Telegraph reported. Found.
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul and confidant of President-elect Donald Trump, has become increasingly outspoken about British politics. accused Phillips spoke of how X was trying to protect Starmer during a political battle by quashing demands for a national inquiry. Musk’s interest and recent involvement in the scandal has brought the issue to international attention.
Mr Starmer responded to public outcry by saying: accused Those who “jumped on the far-right bandwagon” called for attention to the issue.
“It’s incredibly disrespectful,” said Sammy Woodhouse, an activist and independent reporter covering Britain’s grooming scandals. said At X. ”[Starmer is] Labeling people “far right” again. This is not the “far right”, this is what people have real concerns and anger about [sic] …We are talking about children who are groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked, murdered, stigmatized, ignored, impregnated, and criminalized. ”
Keir Starmer has claimed those who want a full inquiry into Britain’s rape gangs are “jumping on the far-right bandwagon”.
Is it the far right that wants justice for the thousands of British girls raped by Pakistani gangs?
Is this Starmer’s biggest mistake?
— Martin Daubney 🇬🇧 (@MartinDaubney) January 6, 2025
Multiple field reports over the years have detailed an alarming extent of sexual abuse by foreign immigrants.
Report from Rotherham Town in 2014 Found At least 1,400 girls, most of them Pakistani immigrants, were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013. Local authorities were also concerned about identifying the perpetrator’s ethnic background for fear of reprisals.
Ten Labor councilors wrote to Conservative Home Secretary Amber Rudd in 2016, calling the allegations of abuse in Telford town “sensational”. According to To the free press. that was later revealed In 2018, the Mirror reported that “up to” 1,000 underage girls were raped and abused there in what was considered an “ongoing” crisis when it began in the 1980s. The report claimed authorities feared accusations of “racism” for sharing details about the mostly Asian attackers.
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