It never, ever fails, does it?
The virtue-signaling, smug AWFL always becomes a victim the very second that their complete incompetence, indifference, and utter hypocrisy are exposed to light.
Such is the story now with Sir Keir Starmer's vile Minister for Safeguarding and Violence and Women and Girls (Yes, that's a title), Jess Philips.
The city of Oldham, site of some of the worst 'grooming gang' abuses on record, wrote to Starmers' Labour government, begging for an inquiry.
The Safeguarding Minister herself shot it down with an excuse that rang horrifically hollow. 'It's for you all to sort out,' she basically said.
State failure was a consistent theme of British politics in 2024. So as the new year begins, attention has turned to perhaps the most egregious instance of that malaise in modern times: the horrific scandal of grooming gangs in dozens of UK cities. Jess Phillips, the Safeguarding Minister, has rejected calls for a government inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham, prompting a Tory backlash. Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, called it ‘shameful’; Liz Truss, the ex PM, labelled Phillips’ title ‘a perversion of the English language.’ Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter/X, argues that the Home Office minister ‘deserves to be in prison.’
Phillips’ letter to Oldham Council, seen by GB News, claims it is for the local authority ‘alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the government to intervene.’ Reports have previously been commissioned and produced in Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford; Oldham now plans to launch its own Telford-style inquiry. Given the strength of feeling – which Phillips acknowledges in her letter – it seems inevitable that there will be questions or debate in the Commons when parliament returns next week.
Yet for the hundreds of victims and those invested in bringing perpetrators to justice, this will seem pitifully inadequate. In each town where grooming gangs operated, similar patterns emerged: victims were ignored, law enforcement complicit and political officials more concerned about reputational damage than lives affected. Local authorities can hold their own inquiries, of course. But given the scale of these crimes, the fact they took place over decades, in many towns, suggests a level of institutional complicity requiring the attention of central government.
Labour’s stance is made harder by its previous support for such inquiries. The party has launched a review every two-and-a-half days it has been in office. If the two-child benefit cap gets a task force, then surely child abuse warrants an inquiry? In its election manifesto, the party pledged to stand for open government.
Yeah, when you're part of an intrusive, authoritarian government that initiates nothing but regulations and reviews and postures incessantly over every single insult to transgenders and the climate, it becomes a little hard for citizens to swallow that you can't squeeze one more in to get to the bottom of hundreds of thousands of little working-class girls horrifically and systematically abused by groups of predominantly Pakistani men.
Over decades.
With "Safeguarding Minister/Violence and Women and Girls" next to your name. But then, Ms Phillips has a track record of flippery when it comes to the issue of Muslim men and their pack behavior around European women. When the predations in Cologne, Germany, happened...
2 - Working in groups, the Muslim men systematically encircled and separated their prey – the white, Christian women that their religion and culture deem racially and religiously inferior – from their friends.https://t.co/goZxQgUxEK
— Manyculturalisms (@culturalisms2) December 31, 2024
...she wasn't at all upset. 'Happens every day - what's the big deal' sort of brush off.
I love that Jess Phillips dismissed mass Muslim sexual assaults in Germany by saying "What's the fuss about? It's like that here too!" pic.twitter.com/DQC3oLdyhc
— Leo Kearse - on YouTube & GB News (@LeoKearse) January 7, 2025
It wasn't her first or last such.
Breaking: UK safeguarding minister Jess Phillips claims @elonmusk has put her life in danger, but that she’s used to it because she protects women and girls.
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) January 7, 2025
Phillips has a history of inflammatory comments downplaying violence against females from Muslims. She is a lawmaker… pic.twitter.com/IGvN4bD1fr
Much as her recent response to British citizens asking for answers and perhaps a little justice for their daughters from the very people who were supposed to have protected them years before.
Instead, they protected the wolves. And with this flippant rejection, it seemed to many they were doing so again.
The difference in 2024/25 is the world's access to that information. The British papers can't squelch the word, and the Labour government can't shush the parents from speaking - from venting their rage across the innerwebs.
CAN'T STOP THE SIGNAL, MAL
When Elon Musk heard what had been done to the town request, he put it and the Labour minister on blast.
Starmer and Phillips have been scrambling madly ever since.
They haven't been the least bit successful. How could they be? There is no justification for what she did.
As more courage builds about the denial, more and more ghastly information about the nature of the decades of crimes comes to light, and Keir Starmer's career is under scrutiny. He was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service during five years of the investigations.
...2008-2013: Sir Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions (DPP), head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which conducts criminal prosecutions in England and Wales, for five years.
...2013: A Home Affairs Committee report said unlike other agencies, the CPS had "readily admitted victims had been let down by them and have attempted both to discover the cause of this systemic failure and to improve the way things are done so as to avoid a repetition of such events".
Lemme get this straight - he did a great job, according to him, but at the end of his five years is being lauded for admitting the service he was the head of didn't do a great job.
But never fear! They were investigating why they didn't do a great job.
It's like a black comedy.
Starmer reverted to the progressive defensive 'far-right misinformation' smear as soon as he started receiving incoming he couldn't handle.
The prime minister has attacked politicians and activists "spreading lies and misinformation" over grooming gangs.
It comes after multi-billionaire Elon Musk accused Sir Keir Starmer of being "complicit in the rape of Britain" during his tenure as director of public prosecutions (DPP) between 2008 and 2013, for failing to tackle grooming gangs.
Alongside Musk's comments, senior Conservatives and Reform UK MPs have also spent the week calling for a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation.
But Sir Keir accused opposition MPs of "jumping on a bandwagon" and "amplifying what the far-right is saying" to gain attention.
That's not working as well as it used to. He's even being called out for it on the floor of Parliament.
Do you know how this makes me feel as a mother who's daughter committed suicide after being groomed, raped and beaten at the age of 12?
— Rachel halliwell (@Rachelhalliwel5) January 6, 2025
Completely disgusted at @UKLabour
I am a mother grieving @YvetteCooperMP @jessphillips pic.twitter.com/2DVZIYNite
But at least we can all agree now on who the real victim is: Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips.
How do I know? She said so.
Queen Karen isn’t happy with Elon!
— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) January 7, 2025
“He has turned my world upside down.”
Clearly, requesting an inquiry into nationwide rape-jihad is all about her and not the thousands of victims.@jessphillips @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/tgYqdYeft4
HE HAS TURNED MY WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
But that's what one can expect when one fights for women like the Safeguarding Minister does.
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has told BBC's Newsnight that "disinformation" spread by Elon Musk was "endangering" her but that it was "nothing" compared to the experiences of victims of abuse.
The tech billionaire and adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump labelled Phillips a "rape genocide apologist" and said she should be jailed.
Asked if the threat to her own safety had gone up since his social media posts and whether protections were in place, Phillips replied "yes".
She said the experience had been "very, very, very tiring" but that she was "resigned to the lot in life that you get as a woman who fights violence against women and girls".
Elon and his ilk can't handle strong women like Phillips and, therefore, must denigrate them in public to silence them.
...She added: "I'm no stranger to people who don't know what they're talking about trying to silence women like me."
This is Taylor Lorenz's victimhood wailing on crack.
As with La Lorenz, what a self-absorbed creature like Phillips doesn't realize is that we all know exactly what kind of woman she is.
She's no victim; she makes them by dismissing lesser women and discarding desperate little girls.
Oh, yeah. We know all about women like her.
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