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This is gaslighting Fernando. The government called out anyone calling for a national inquiry on this ‘jumping on the far right bandwagon’. What’s been done about it? Nothing. Anyone found to be complicit/incompetent in this issue needs to be jailed. It’s only off the back of this report that...

It’s not just the police. It’s the local and national establishments. For years any discussion around the ethnicity of grooming gangs was dismissed as racist by polite society. If we can’t be honest about the ethnicity and/or nationalities of perpetrators of crime and have difficult...

The report specifically made the link between Pakistani grooming gangs and offences. Even so, if you follow a thread, it was pretty obvious if people took the time to read the back and forths.

Actually, no. The context was that BSB had said ‘using the actions of a few as a slur for many’… I’m pretty confident we were on the same page we were talking about Pakistani men that was specifically looked at in the report. The confusion that’s been caused is when I said ‘1 in 16 men in...

The numbers are extracted from the report. There’s no misrepresentation at all.

This is Rotherham specifically. It’s also interesting that the Casey Report debunked the 2020 Home Office report that stated ‘white men’ were the majority of sex offenders was based on no credible evidence or data. Yet, this phrase was often cited by ‘the establishment’, Emily Maitlis called...

The second line is correct.

To clarify, it’s specifically up to 1 in 16 men of Pakistani origin (15+). Based on number of suspects who had been arrested (160) and population as of the 2011 census (2,529). In the area, it made up 64% of all the gang rape cases. Very uncomfortable facts to deal with.

1 in 16 men in Rotherham isn’t the actions of a few unfortunately.

The reality is that the authorities just didn’t want to deal with these crimes because it had pretty significant ramifications for the image of Britain as a successful multicultural society. It was far easier to blame the victims. This scandal demonstrates how classist the UK can be too.

What a stupid thing of you to say. The report has made the explicit link between sexual exploitation of underage girls (10-15) and suspects being over represented by men of Pakistani origin. This is organised crime, not a rabble of weirdos who do creepy things like dating 16-17 year olds.

It is creepy, but it’s legal. It would still be legal if we implemented age gap limits as some countries do of 10 years. Besides, what would actually change? You seem more animated by this than the original topic which strikes me as odd.

00/01 for me!

Completely out of touch or you’re in denial. Can you claim to care about the victims when you’re still calling people who highlight this issue as racist?! This is exactly how we got to this point. The scandal is more than just the crimes being committed. It’s the complicity of the local...

This isn’t actually true. The USA is an outlier that the president appoints thousands of political appointees (4k as of 2016) to the civil service and around a quarter of said appointments need to approved by the other branches of government. It’s a feature of US democracy that governments can...

This basic fact is just incorrect. Some countries have a politicised civil service (USA, Australia, Canada and Germany) and there is an expectation that senior civil servants offer their resignation as part of the transfer of power in some countries. Our civil service code is designed so that...

You can opt out as people in my friendship group have done. I didn’t see an option to downgrade and presume the option to upgrade for non-PL package holder was removed or even if it’s available to people at all. I suspected this was the case to be honest. The ticket office generally seem to...

Just renewed mine today! One more PL package to the club coffers! Out of curiosity, my renewal was set to the PL package automatically. Did anyone opt to renew their ST with a downgrade? Not that I was gonna go non-PL, it just seemed a bit cheeky for the club to railroad people that direction...

Economically, yes you’re right. But, the big changes Blair made were constitutional and have perhaps had unintended consequences. For example, Blair probably didn’t intend for the Human Rights Act nor the ECHR to prevent deportation of violent criminals amongst other things.

Exactly. It’s convenient for people to dismiss Cummings if they disagree with him politically. If they listen with an empathetic ear, what he’s actually saying applies equally to whichever party is in government. From my interpretation, it’s not really him looking back at his time in government...