Labour played politics when girls as young as 11 were raped by Asian gangs – how dare they call critics ‘far right’

SO which are you – a paedophile grooming gang apologist or a far- right troll exploiting the thousands of rape victims to score political points?

It doesn’t feel like either option is very appealing, does it? Yet apparently we all have to pick a side now.

Anyone calling for a national public inquiry into the mass rape gangs scandal is just playing politics, while everyone else doesn’t really care about the plight of white working-class girls.

Which is hardly helpful when it comes to winning justice for the many thousands of young girls who were so horrifically abused by their largely Pakistani- heritage rapists.

Or to getting to the truth of why so many people whose job it was to ­protect these vulnerable girls chose instead to turn a blind eye to — or, even worse, enabled — the heinous crimes.

Point-scoring

And it will certainly do NOTHING to stop those very same crimes still happening today to young girls in 50 or more towns and cities across our country.

The sad truth is that every single aspect of this gruesome story has been about political point-scoring ever since the first ­allegations came to light more than two decades ago.

But it wasn’t the Right who were playing politics on this issue for so many years. It was the Left.

Year after year, again and again, the Left was willing to sacrifice white working-class girls on the altar of political correctness and their own ­misguided ideas of community cohesion.

Anyone who spoke out about this was quickly told to shut up or face the end of their career — whether they were a social worker, a police officer or a local Labour MP.

The idea of British-Pakistani men gang-raping white girls on the streets of Britain was, quite simply, unthinkable.

To admit such a thing would be to give fodder to the Right about the wisdom of mass immigration, and that wouldn’t do.

The grooming-gang claims could not be allowed to be true because they didn’t tally with the Left’s woke thinking that insisted anyone brown-skinned or Muslim must always be seen as a victim.

So the Left used the most extraordinary mind contortions to turn the whistleblowers into the baddies and the rapists into the ­victims of racism and Islamophobia.

It is true that those on the Right opposed to mass immigration were quick to exploit the scandal for their own ­political ends.

But they were only able to do so after councillors in Labour constituencies warned off investigations into the grooming gangs for so many years.

And it is Labour MPs today who are worried about upsetting their many ­Muslim voters if they agree to a public inquiry (although why they think an inquiry into these crimes should upset the majority of law-abiding Muslims is beyond my comprehension).

The Left even turned on their own.

Former Labour Cabinet ­Minister Jack Straw was widely criticised by his own colleagues for saying that the grooming gangs viewed white, non-Muslim girls as “easy meat”.

Labour MPs including Ann Cryer and Sarah Champion, who raised the alarm, were branded racist and saw their careers destroyed.

And years later, it is still going on, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer this week lashing out at anyone demanding a ­national public inquiry into the scandal as “far-right” — the very same slur that meant the scandal remained untouched for so many years.

Labour MPs tut-tutted Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, as well as Reform UK MPs, for demanding an inquiry.

Meanwhile, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick was blasted for pointing out that the grooming gang scandal was rooted in the mass immigration of some people with “backward, frankly medieval, views” towards women and girls.

The horrible truth is that it wasn’t just the rape gangs who saw these girls as “easy meat” and expendable.

That was how the Left saw them too.

Put the victims first

They were, if not happy, at least ­WILLING to play politics with the lives of girls as young as 11 who were plied with drink and drugs by their groomers and handed round men old enough to be their fathers, to be raped, sodomised, beaten and tortured, week after week, for year after year.

 They KNEW it was happening but ­pretended it wasn’t for the sake of their own political interests and their careers.

The only way we can end the political mud-slinging is to have a national public inquiry, where every victim and every whistleblower can name names, and every police officer, social worker and local councillor who covered up these crimes is forced to account for their actions — and face the full force of the law.

It’s time for everyone, on all sides, to put an end to the political point-scoring and name-calling and finally, at long last, put the victims first.

RACHEL’S GILTY CONSCIENCE

HERE’S a heart-warming fact to cheer you on a chilly winter’s day: Britain could now face paying an extra £10billion a year in interest on our national debt.

That’s £10billion that can’t be spent on schools or hospitals or, indeed, left in our own pockets.

And it’s all thanks to the world’s gilt market traders losing faith in the British economy after the Chancellor’s disastrous Budget as we face zero growth, rising inflation, job losses and possibly even a recession.

No wonder Rachel From Accounts is now making contingency plans to cut public spending or raise more taxes in the spring. Yippee!

Yet where is the outcry from all those people who were in meltdown in 2022 when Liz Truss’s mini-budget saw a hike in our debt interest.

The current gilt interest rate is now HIGHER than it was after the doomed Truss premiership.

Liz and her Chancellor were booted out of office for their borrowing sins, while this week there has been barely a peep from the market experts or the BBC.

After all, what’s another £10billion between friends, eh?