Labour Party leader Keir Starmer got a bit tearful in his resignation remarks, quite a departure from the emotionless, bot-like face he normally presents to the world. But then, he was alluding to his family, people he apparently cares about. He's sad now, but in the days to come, he may realize that he has dodged a bullet – or perhaps a lynching – as the soul-sickening findings published by the Restore Britain Party's leader's Rupert Lowe 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released June 16, are bruited in international news.
Starmer did not envision facing that particular music so soon. Lowe's report was independently collated and produced independently with strong survivor collaboration overseen by now 43-year old Sammy Woodhouse, herself a survivor of horrific abuse, who has turned years of personal tragedy into relentless but dignified advocacy and political activism. The report lacks statutory power, but the people's court of public opinion is already ablaze with indignation on X and Youtube at its revelations.
The government's official Inquiry into Grooming Gangs report is just getting underway, with a deadline for publication of March 31, 2029, and a budget of 65 million pounds. It's not something Starmer wanted to do. The government had in fact dismissed calls for a national inquiry, arguing the scandal had already been examined in a seven-year inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay. Professor Jay handed in her report to the then-Conservative government in 2022 but so far only two of her 20 recommendations have been implemented.
It may be that Starmer got goosed into further action by Elon Musk's entering the fray with a campaign on X calling for a national inquiry in the beginning of 2025 and focusing criticism on Starmer's failures, but significant pressure for a statutory inquiry was already in play from Baroness Casey's 2025 audit of the gangs, in which she alleged that the authorities had "shied away from" the ethnicity of the gangs.
Regular readers of this publication need no briefings from me on the history of Britain's infamous "Asian" – overwhelmingly Muslim and mostly Pakistani - rape gangs in Rotherham, Telford et al that came to light in the 1990s and persist to this day. Mark Steyn's indictments of the phenomenon over the years – such as here, here and here, defending Tommy Robinson and his heroic crusade to keep the government's feet to the fire on the issue of the gangs, are familiar to his loyal readers.
But I hope that even those who have read previous reports and exposés, and think they have nothing more to learn will take the time to read Lowe's report, funded by a crowdfunding campaign that raised 794,677 pounds from over 20,000 concerned Britons. The fact that it was produced independently means there was no ideologically-motivated curation process in the reporting. Survivor witness testimonies were not edited to sand down politically incorrect edges. The mind reels with revulsion at the particulars.
For decades, anyone who cared to know knew what was happening, and everyone in power knew who was enabling its unimpeded continuation, and everyone with a functioning brain knew why it was happening.
Putting an end to it was not rocket science. All it would have taken to end it was, first, an acknowledgement in the corridors of power that obeisance to a pernicious theory – that diversity of culture is our strength – had led to a choice: either throw the multiculturist fallacy that all cultures are of equal worth under the bus, or throw ethnic British child victims of rape, torture and psychological terrorism under the bus. Yah, tough choice, I know, but making such tough choices is the test of political leadership.
Second, an acknowledgement that fear of being labelled "racist" or "Islamophobic" was permitted, on a systemic institutional basis, to shroud the jewel in the crown of western civilization: a once class and race-blind justice system. And then announce that both unimpeded and toxic cultural oil slicks were going to be stoppered and the mess cleaned up, however long it took.
Failure to enforce the laws with regard to child sexual exploitation (CSE) was not a matter of laxity or incompetence. It was a top-down willed failure. One chief inspector, in the South Yorkshire Police, speaking of long-running organised child abuse in Rotherham, told the distraught father of a victimised daughter, "With it being Asians, we can't afford for this to be coming out as Rotherham would erupt."
Although the Conservatives can claim no glory whatsoever on the gangs' file, the Labour Party's abject failings make them look good by comparison. Here are some outtakes from the Lowe report, which not only spotlight Starmer's failings, but the presumed incoming leader of the Labour Party, Andy Burnham:
The Labour Party bears primary responsibility for the longest and most deliberate cover-up. As the former Conservative councillor Liam Billington emphasised to our Inquiry, Labour-dominated local councils and MPs repeatedly prioritised electoral dependence on Pakistani Muslim communities above the safety of children.
Labour councils surrendered streets, ignored parental reports, and allowed perpetrators to operate, among other reasons, because Muslim voting blocs were electorally vital.
Former detective constable and Rochdale rape gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver has criticised the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, with whom Oliver herself has worked, for failing to piece together a full picture of the information necessary to combat the rape gangs that still operate in his area.
Despite ordering some preliminary independent reviews into CSE across Manchester, Burnham stands accused of focussing exclusively on the failures of the past.
Commissioned in 2017, [Andy] Burnham's limited independent review concluded that authorities had failed to protect children from paedophile gangs in Manchester, Oldham, and Rochdale. However, no officers were fired or stripped of their pensions for the historic failings exposed. Nor has Burnham exercised his powers as Police and Crime Commissioner – a position he automatically holds as an extension of his Mayoralty – to prosecute any of the officers found to have failed the victims of predatory gangs.
In January 2025, Labour MPs voted en masse against a Conservative amendment calling for a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. The amendment was defeated by 364 votes to 111. Sir Keir Starmer and his frontbench abstained or opposed the measure, dismissing public concern as 'far-right' agitation. It took sustained external pressure, including the damning Casey National Audit, this independent inquiry and public outrage, to force a U-turn in June 2025. Even then, the government watered down local inquiries, with reports that plans for five separate reviews were quietly dropped 'to avoid offending Pakistanis'.
This is the same Labour Party that has consistently weaponised accusations of 'Islamophobia' to silence anyone who stated the obvious: that the gangs were and remain overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men. As a result, the nation has suffered decades of state-enabled child rape on an industrial scale.
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