Please note that this piece is being published late due to a technical issue that I've had with PeakD recently.
There are some news stories that one can reasonably predict will break, because it is relatively obvious to anyone who reads the current affairs runes that such a story will break. These can be situations such as wars in the Middle East (very short odds on those not breaking out), Jihadist terror attacks and cases of intimidation in Europe (lots of those) or Pakistan being an absolute shithole (a dead cert).
But there are other stories that can catch the ordinary person, even those who take in interest in what goes on in the world, by surprise and come out of the blue without much in the way of prior indication. I think that many of us can recall stories like that from our lifetimes.
The decision by the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to agree to a public inquiry into the disgraceful and horrifying phenomena of the Islamic Rape Gangs is one of those stories that I didn’t expect to break. I didn’t expect it because Starmer and his government had been so adamant that a national inquiry into this problem wasn’t needed. Starmer’s government seemed to go out of their way to not having public, media or investigative attention turned on the very many Labour run council areas where these disgusting crimes have not just occurred but have also been allegedly covered up.
The Labour government faced down angry members of the public earlier this year, faced down Elon Musk’s very public criticisms of the way that these crimes have been handled, stonewalled against criticism in Parliament from the few Members who were not scared to put their heads over the parapet on this issue and ignored the cries of the survivors of these gangs. Labour did not give the impression of wanting any attention paid to this issue and sent the laughably titled ‘Safeguarding Minister’ Jess Phillips, aka ‘The Desperate Fishwife’, into the Commons chamber to bury the idea of a national inquiry into the rape gangs. Starmer himself called those who agitated for a national inquiry into the rape gangs people who were ‘jumping on the bandwagon of the far right’.
Labour did however did try to placate critics by announcing a review into the issue of these crimes by Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock. This report will very soon be released and its contents may be why Starmer has changed his mind so suddenly on the issue of an inquiry.
It’s quite possible that two things might be at play with Starmer here. The first is that the report doesn’t say anything more than other inquires into the Islamic Rape Gang scandal have already said. Its contents might lead someone as cynical as Starmer to believe a national inquiry can be managed, massaged and indeed woke-ified to such an extent that it will not touch any of the core issues, such as the part played by the ideology of Islam in these crimes or the reasoning behind the decisions of public servants and the police to abandon tens of thousands of girls to the depredations of these gangs. If he plays his cards correctly, Starmer might be able to get away with an exceedingly long drawn out and expensive inquiry that ends up being in large part a whitewash, with only a few token public servants, probably those who don’t know where Labour’s local and national government bodies are buried, thrown to the wolves.
However, there’s a different scenario. That one might involve the contents of Baroness Casey’s report containing much that is even worse than what has come out in previous inquiries into the issue of Islamic Rape Gangs. It might contain stuff that cannot be ignored or brushed away because it is so horrific and so malevolent. That, coupled with Baroness Casey’s alleged advice to the Prime Minister that a national inquiry be set up, might be what has helped to make Starmer decide on his U-turn.
More darkly it could be the case that the Prime Minister has been advised to consent to an inquiry by security experts because of the depth of anger among a growing number of members of the public about the issue of Islamic Rape Gangs and mass migration in general. An inquiry might be being seen as a lightning rod to capture that anger and channel it away from street protests and alternative political movements at a time when Britain’s security is challenged in a multitude of other ways. These challenges include on the domestic side having nigh on 40,000 individuals of concern of involvement in Islamic extremism out there on Britain’s streets and now there’s anti-migrant protests tearing across Ulster, protests that might be in danger of spreading elsewhere. These problems are coupled with having police forces that are depleted in both manpower and management quality on top of the nation suffering from Labour’s self-inflicted economic chaos. Geopolitically Britain faces challenges and/or threats from Iran, Russia, China, the EU and a United States that seems to be no longer indulging British governmental socialist nutbaggery and its allies failing to take the steps to defend their own nations. Starmer has such a full in-tray at the moment that maybe agreeing to a national inquiry into the Islamic Rape Gangs, or at least giving the impression that he’s doing so, might be the least worst short term option for him? It might even buy him some ‘brownie points’ with the politically unconnected Normies who voted Labour in 2024 but are more likely than not to abandon Labour either for Reform or to the Apathy Party in 2029.
Whilst I am very pleased to see a national inquiry that may at last blow open the whole decades long Islamic Rape Gang scandal, I’m cynical enough to be worried about it. Whether this inquiry really does what we want it to say on the tin will depend in large part on its terms of reference. Will for example lobbying by Islamic interests and the ‘Jihad alliance’ of pro-Gaza MP’s get the Islamic cultural and religious aspects of these crimes minimised in the terms of reference? Will it have the power to compel witnesses? Who will chair it? Which Judge or Kings Counsel will in charge? How much involvement in the setting up of the inquiry will be in the hands of politicians such as Richard Hermer KC, now Baron Hermer the Attorney General and long term defender of ‘progressive’ and somewhat anti-British causes, such as that of Shamina Begum?
There’s a whole lot that could go wrong with this inquiry before it even starts. Many of the problems that could afflict it or stymie it prior to its commencement would be there under any government. In particular, the ‘adminisphere’, the Civil Service, the local government officers along with the Quangos could have ample opportunity to ensure that an inquiry does not look too deeply in areas such as those that could cause damage to that adminisphere. The inquiry could for example have a more broader focus on child sexual exploitation which then has the effect of diluting its coverage of the specifically Islamic problems that these rape gangs represent. I really don’t trust or have confidence in a UK government, whether Conservative or Labour, running this inquiry to the satisfaction of many British subjects. However I trust Starmer and his government probably less than I’ve trusted any government in my lifetime and I include Boris Johnson’s migration, net zero and Covid addled one on that list. Starmer is particularly slippery and I cannot imagine that he’s not said ‘yes’ to this inquiry without having some sort of way that he and his administration can mitigate the effects of the inquiry.
I’m pleased to see that there is at last going to be a national inquiry into issues that can no longer be dismissed and minimised by the political and media classes as ‘localised’ problems. The problem with CSE and in particular the Islamic Rape Gangs is everywhere in the country. Wherever there is a significant (and sometimes very insignificant as in the case of Telford that only had 2.7% Muslims) Islamic community along with local authority and police elements that prize ‘community relations’ and defending the ideology of multiculturalism above all else, there seem to be rape gangs in operation or are places which have previously been afflicted by such crimes. There are also places where the conditions, political, administrative and demographic, that existed in places already blighted by rape gangs are mirrored, that have had little attention paid to them by previous inquiries that this inquiry may bring to light. I’d be especially interested in what comes out in this inquiry with regards to London for example. London has many of the problems and factors that have been present in other places where rape gang activity has been either alleged or uncovered but there seems to be little known movement against these gangs or knowledge of them in the city, that is if they are indeed operating in the capital. Going by what I know from what I’m hearing coming out of London I can’t see how London doesn’t have similar problems. The rape gangs may be choosing different targets, such as Sikhs and Hindus rather than White British girls as elsewhere, but it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that rape gangs are a problem for the people of the capital. For my own part I hope that this inquiry does look into the places where for reasons both of incompetence or malevolence, less attention has been paid and which therefore have been overlooked.
The announcement of a proper inquiry that will cover the entirety of the nation is a good thing in itself but it should be seen not as a war winning thing. It’s not, to give a WWII analogy the political equivalent of using nuclear weapons on Japan or the uni-testicled Austrian shooting himself in a bunker. It’s the bit before the Fall of France, Dunkirk and the Blitz, when what was going on war wise was very much out of sight or on the high seas. The new inquiry is really just the start of a battle and there will be many more such battles both about this inquiry and issues that are tangential to it. There’s a whole lot that could go wrong or be twisted with regards to this inquiry, from time of announcement to the publication of its report in who knows when. The public need to watch this inquiry very carefully at every stage, since there are going to be many opportunities for those with a political or career need to re-write history with regards to their association with this scandal to affect how it does its job and what evidence the inquiry hears.
This inquiry may be the first step to properly righting a great wrong that was done to the British people. This wrong was not just committed on the British people by the rape gang members themselves, but by every public servant, police officer, politician and social worker who failed to speak up for the victims of these gangs whether that be for ideological, political or career protection reasons. They are the guilty men and women and their conduct needs to be exposed so that we as a society can never ever let this horrible crime occur again.
Sadly this is just the first step in righting great wrongs. The inquiry and implementing any recommendations is going to take years. Just as the Establishment has been sometimes reluctantly forced to accept that they were wrong about their slavish and misguided adherence to the Cult of Trans, so it will be with this issue. The inquiry is not going to be a magic bullet, but it might, as with the Supreme Court’s ruling on ‘what is a woman’ act as a tipping point for positive societal, political and cultural change.
Watch this inquiry carefully and take care that the Establishment doesn’t use it for ends that advantage them and their favoured castes and causes and disadvantage the majority of Britons. The inquiry in my view is a very very good thing but it could, for a whole host of reasons, go very bad indeed. Watch this space.