The fallout from the report into how various agencies in the North West of England and in Manchester in particular, handled a slew of Islamic Grooming Gang cases continues to pile up. I’ve read the report in its entirety and it contains a plethora of examples of how vulnerable working class girls were failed dismally by the police, local authorities, social services and others. Girls who made complaints to police about gang rape were brushed off and in one case a man about whom there were credible suspicions was involved in child sex abuse was employed by the local council as a welfare rights advisor at a Pakistani Community Centre. The way that Manchester and surrounding councils handled the issue of CSE in their area was a complete shit show but a shit show with a horrific number of casualties among very vulnerable and endangered girls.

Apparently the Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, who set up the enquiry into safeguarding in Rochdale, addressed a meeting in Manchester about the issue of CSE and got some serious pushback from local people. People at the meeting were plainly not willing to put up with any guff or fancy words from Mr Burnham and told him so to his face and told him about the extent of the problems with Islamic Rape Gangs in the area.

The clip below shows a woman berating Mr Burnham about the grooming issue and what she saw as the Mayor failing to answer questions properly and the Mayor plainly not being in any sort of control of the meeting.

Well played by the justifiably angry woman who spoke up. We need more people to do just this. There has been so much incompetence surrounding how the Islamic Rape Gang problem has been handled, not just in Manchester but across the country that it will look to many as if there has been a cover up, even though the report into safeguarding said that there was no cover up to be found.

Britons have been extremely let down by those who rule us and those whom many people even voted for over the issue of grooming gangs. It’s right that people speak up about this and hold our politicians to account about this issue because to be quite frank too many people have been treated like shit for too long over the mass rape and sexual exploitation of some of the most vulnerable children in the country. The sight of Andy Burnham wriggling on the stake of public opinion is something that should be repeated for every politician, police officer and social worker who has done nothing to either prevent these crimes or worse has stood by watching them happen without intervening.