I know you will be shocked to learn this, but a Pride activist who ran a Pride organization that partnered with police and the local government, ran a helpline for kids, and sponsored the Surrey Pride Parade turned out to be a sexual predator of children.
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— SEEN in Journalism (@JournalismSEEN) July 1, 2025
‘If the council had listened to me, this paedophile would have been stopped’ https://t.co/o0Ao5oxMte
Shocking! Who could have guessed?!
Not only that, but the authorities are warned--by lesbians no less--and they were too woke to look into the warnings.
Stephen Ireland was, among other things, a devout advocate of transing the kids so much so that he was prominent for, among other things, openly warring with J.K. Rowling about trans issues.
Yep. There were no warning signs at all.
Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape. pic.twitter.com/0HHctRocB4
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 30, 2025
People tried to blow the whistle, to no avail.
When Marion Harding contacted the chief executive of Surrey County Council in 2021 to raise safeguarding concerns about her local Pride organisation, she expected a speedy response.
After all, the council itself had given Pride in Surrey tens of thousands of pounds in funding, and her concerns were about the protection of potentially vulnerable young people who came into contact with the LGBTQ organisation, which was set up in 2018 by local activist, Stephen Ireland.
Harding, 62, and her wife, Cathy, 59, had volunteered for Pride in Surrey, but both had a number of worries about Ireland’s conduct, not least that he had appointed himself head of safeguarding – a role that, according to guidance for voluntary bodies, should “not be the most senior person in the organisation”.
Ireland had sole responsibility for the group’s LGBTQ “helpline” for young people – meaning he had direct access to vulnerable children.
Volunteers were also concerned that Ireland appeared to be in a polyamorous relationship involving a young man, and that social media posts by Pride in Surrey celebrated “fetishes” – some involving young people – while Ireland was in charge.
Harding wrote to Joanna Killian, the chief executive of Surrey County Council, outlining some of her concerns, including that Ireland was in a relationship with a young man “who is barely 18”, in what amounted to an “abuse of power from a person in a position of trust, and could cause the wrong message to go out to young, vulnerable gay people”.
Gee, talk about anti-Queer bigotry. You be you and let him be him, even if he sure appears to be exceptionally interested in spending time around kids.
Next, you will tell me that you think that South Asian grooming gangs are a thing.
In March this year, Stephen Ireland, 41, was convicted at Guildford Crown Court of raping a 12-year-old boy, along with additional counts of causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, sexual assault and making indecent images.
His partner David Sutton, 27, a volunteer at Pride in Surrey, was convicted of offences including making indecent photographs and possessing extreme pornographic images.
Both were also found guilty of voyeurism and perverting the course of justice by deleting phone data after becoming aware of the investigation. Ireland pleaded guilty to possessing 274 prohibited images of children and possessing an extreme pornographic image, while Sutton pleaded guilty to distributing a category A indecent photograph of a child, distributing three category B indecent photographs of a child, and possessing 64 prohibited images of children. On Monday, Ireland was sentenced to 30 years in prison and Sutton received a minimum 54-month sentence.
At least he is being sent to jail. If his skin were darker, he probably would have gotten off (in more ways than one).
Still, the Surrey Council is not deterred from its mission by partnering with Ireland's organization. They remain in good standing, even though their founder was just tossed in jail for being a bit too alphabet-y.
The Pride in Surrey case has sparked questions about what safeguarding concerns the local councils were aware of before the pair were arrested in April 2024. It wasn’t just local councils that had formal ties to Surrey Pride. Until earlier this year, Surrey Police listed the organisation on its website as a “partner agency” that “can also offer information, advice, and support” on LGBTQ issues, in addition to the force’s LGBTQ liaison officers.
Harding and Cathy are not the only people who tried to raise the alarm. The Telegraph has spoken to several Surrey residents who reported safeguarding concerns as long as six years ago with Surrey council, Guildford Borough Council and Woking Borough Council, which also had ties with Surrey Pride.
But no action appears to have been taken. Surrey County Council has, according to a Freedom of Information request, funded Pride in Surrey to the tune of more than £140,000 for various events and projects since 2020, including £24,275 for the year 2024-2025. Earlier this month, weeks after Ireland’s conviction, Guildford Borough Council announced that “Surrey Pride will be returning to Guildford” for a parade in October – the sixth annual Pride event in Surrey, and the second time it has taken place in Guildford. It included a hyperlink to the website of Pride in Surrey.
We know what motivates the sickos who are deeply invested in parading around nude and acting out their sexual fantasies in public, but at first it seems a mystery why so many ordinary people keep bending over backwards to please them.
It boils down to a fear of offending other adults. They willingly sacrifice children in order to avoid saying, "I am worried that some people in this movement are deeply damaged and have bad intentions."
It's true that being gay doesn't equate to being a predator. But it is also true that the current alphabet movement has an awful lot of people who are, and it welcomes sexual predators pretty openly. Pedos become "Minor Attracted People," alphabet activist scholars actively push the sexual autonomy of children, and we now have government-sponsored events where sexually deviant men act out their sexual fantasies in front of children.
All because nobody wants to say "No" to the alphabet people in fear of offending gay people.
Now, a lot of normal gay people are standing up and warning the rest of us, but the people in charge still won't listen. They fear being called "phobics."
They'd rather be on the side of the child rapists than with J.K. Rowling. She is too mean.
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