CLASS AND IDENTITY POLITICS

I wrote on the ‘Grooming Gangs’ issue a few years ago, connecting it with the class war that has been waged from above upon the industrial working class and its communities. I argue it as part of a deliberate strategy of destabilisation, demoralisation, and destruction. I also tried to raise the issue with people I know. No one wants to know. Or, more accurately, certain kinds of people with certain political loyalties, social positions, and/or class origins don’t want to know. I took the issue up in an article entitled ‘Who decides when race and class collide?’ which I appended to my book Revaluing Labour, Rebuilding Jerusalem.

Revaluing Labour, Rebuilding Jerusalem: Change and Continuity in working class culture, politics, and experience.

There has been a concerted effort to delegitimise all those raising concerns in this regard as ‘Far Right.’ The furthest ‘right’ I have ever voted in any election is Green. I remain as I have ever been, a socialist. But a working class socialist whose socialist principle are rooted in the experience and condition of the working class. That isn’t the dominant form of socialism and hasn’t been since the professional and educated middle class discovered a way of appropriating socialist ends, principles, and objectives and making themselves, the expert vanguard, the principle agents of transition. To say that the middle class vanguards have abandoned the working class and made a mockery of socialism is putting it mildly. The working class are on the receiving end of a vicious class politics, and the middle class are indeed the agents of abuse.

I wrote some 36,657 words and 70 pages on the issue in Revaluing Labour, Rebuilding Jerusalem and refer people to that document for an in-depth analysis.

For now, I shall let others do the talking. There does seem to be a sea change underway, here and in other areas. The people have been lied to on a grand scale, and as the extent of the culpability of successive governments and complicity of a wide range of authorities becomes clear, and the scale of cover-up becomes apparent, the game is at last on.

I won’t hold my breath, though. As a survivor of the Hillsborough Disaster, who witnessed the culpability of the authorities in the unlawful killing of 97 football supporters, who saw the establishment cover up in the aftermath, who spent a quarter of a century to finally have the truth recognised, had the biggest inquest in British history establish a verdict of unlawful killing, and still saw no justice, it is clear to me that the lives of working class people count for nothing in a class society. The working class can be used, abused, exploited, made unemployed and shamed and blamed for their poverty, raped and killed, and cannot expect justice. The only question is why so many academics who claim to be leftist and socialist cannot see this. Are they really so blind? Or is their commitment to social justice mere public self-image concealing their very contrary material interests?

 I shall comment briefly as I go.

Some have sought to raise the issue in the UK, only to be blocked by the authorities, censored and labelled by the media, and denigrated and also labelled by members of academia. One of the most interesting things for me has been the silence - or labelling and abuse - on the part of people who identify as Left, even working class people, in face of the systematic abuse working class girls and women. Too few want to face reality when it means admitting that one's political loyalties have been misplaced. That's what is called cowardice. And on a systematic basis such cowardice is complicity.

Not everyone allowed it - certain people for certain reasons. But, yes, it is inhuman and unbelievable. An awful lot of people need to take a good look at themselves.

It is sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. It has been reported on. The authorities and their apologists have failed to act. They are the ones who have allowed this. And those who label those trying to raise the issue are the ones who have allowed this. Those who have refused to speak up have allowed this. That's too many - but not everyone.

People are speaking up, at long last. The cover up and apologetics cannot go on.

This is everywhere. Every town, city, sea side resort. There is no one in authority taking a stand on this. Another ten, twenty years of this, and the nation is dead. Too few have courage, too few have curiosity. Wherever you look, the country is a mess. The police are faced with silence.

Read the sentencing remarks if you have a strong stomach - and the guts to call it out when you have finished.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-r-v-dogar-others.pdf

“Given we can all now see the Rape Gang scandal, we on social media have 2 choices

1. Show the world that you don't care about our working class kids

2. Show the world that you do care about our working class kids

I choose 2” (Steven Barrett).

It does seem rather simple, to those not under the sway of identity politics.

Interesting to observe the daily outrage from the identitarians, and silence in face of a real outrage.

Yes, northern England, the industrial heartlands that were put to the sword in the seventies and eighties, destroying jobs and communities, putting the working class on the scrapheap. It was a deliberate strategy. The men have been emasculated, the girls and women are now raped and abused. Class war from above. I shouldn't appeal to the middle class, even those identifying as Left or liberal - they have other priorities - their own.

We live subject to the superrich now - the oligarchs who rule under the corporate form,

It is interesting that it is Elon Musk who attracts the most animosity. The fake Left can continue to pose as anti-capitalist when criticising Musk. The fact remains that it has taken Musk to expose the abuse. Which is another reason why the fake Left loathe him. When working class socialists said the same, the fake Left labelled them 'Far Right.' They are the tools and fools of corporate interests.

The pattern is clear. When people protest, they are labelled and marginalised, when they fight back they are persecuted.

I've seen it before with the Hillsborough Disaster. The authorities lied about Liverpool football supporters, blaming them for the tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 97 football supporters. The entire establishment was involved. It took a quarter of a century for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign to establish the truth, but there was still no kustice at the end of it. As a young man in 1989 I never expected justice. I had seen the assault on the working class in the 1980s, I had seen Thatcher label the miners 'the enemy within,' I had seen class war waged from above against the working class and their communities, I had seen the full resources of the state employed to destroy the National Union of Miners and the mining industry, the backbone of labourism and working class socialism. I expected no justice in 1989. And I expect no justice until people realise that they are in a class war. Justice with respect to Hillsborough 1989 entailed putting the entire Establishment in the dock. If you are powerful enough to do that, you are powerful enough to transform the whole rotten, class-ridden, exploitative society. But if you don't do precisely that, the exploitation and abuse will continue. Why are people surprised at the rape of working class girls and women? Working class people were abused and killed in the 1980s, and there was no justice.

In the article I wrote - linked above - I unpacked the layers of hypocrisy in the feminist movement. Middle class people, as ever, claiming to speak for all when they speak only for themselves. They don't give a damn about working class women, expect when it allows them to abuse working class men.

That may be true, but the establishment is in the dock and won't go down without a fight.

Instead of imprisoning the perpetrators, they imprison those who call them out. This is sheer barbarism.

The authorities do nothing, leaving people to deal with the issue themselves. And then the authorities act. Do you notice a pattern?

And nothing from the members of the activist class, who are quick to condemn anything. Nothing.

The people who are outraged need to learn, and learn quick, not to take their outrage to the authorities in expectation of redress. At the base of this and other scandals is that 'the authorities' have different interests to the people they are supposed to serve. That's another reality that people don't want to see. But see it, they must. And deal with it.

I can remember saying the same with respect to the Hillsborough Tragedy. The problem is that truth and justice may well expose the establishment. The Hillsborough victims - the dead and injured - and their families have been denied justice. I point this out continually, to indifference.

It's one of a number of atrocities, many of them linked by the way they serve the interests of members of the dominant class.

When I commented on social media I was met with hostility by middle class liberals and progressives, whose contempt for the working class was palpable. They immediately said reference to 'grooming gangs' was a racist trope and narrative. The accusation of racism has been enough to silence many. Will they understand that it is perfectly right and legitimate for 'ordinary' people to be concerned at this and other issues? That people raising the alarm and demanding action are neither fascist nor Far Right? I wouldn't hold my breath with respect to middle class ideologues and activists. But for people who are genuinely Leftist and socialist, that narrative is suicidally stupid, vacating a terrain that will indeed be occupied by conservative forces. Those who then argue it is a right wing issue commit too many logical errors for comfort. Such people never learn, not even the hard way.

J.K.Rowling may encourage people to find their backbone and their voice. Not the identity crowd, of course. The scale and extent of institutional corruption is almost beyond belief, but not to those who experienced the injustices of Hillsborough first hand.

It's the reality of class division. Bear it in mind whenever you hear another 'progressive' claim that class is an outmoded concept. And ask then to explain an injustice such as this without reference to class. Sex and gender? The feminists are nowhere when it is working class women and girls who are on the receiving end of abuse, least of all when their abusers stand higher in the grievance hierarchy.

Working class women and girls. Things will change only when the class system is abolished.

Left liberals are middle and upper middle class, and waging class war (even and especially when they claim class to be an outmoded concept). Our country didn’t allow this to happen. Every individual that held silence or kept distance to self-preserve did. You don't preserve good race relations by lying and turning blind eyes. Of course, if the victims were powerful middle class women who heard a lewd comment by Greg Wallace there would have been a bigger outcry. (I had no idea who he was, and only heard ofhim through the howls of middle class outrage_. And those that can't see that, even now, never will.

At the beginning of 2016, the year when the biggest inquest in UK history returned a verdict of unlawful killing with respect to Hillsborough, I was compelled to compain to the BBC over the Jeremy Vine Show, which allowed a succession of callers to claim Liverpool fans killed their own, without check. The establishment goes far and wide. You are tasked not with jailing all its members, just getting rid of it.

"Middle class white liberal academics." They may identify as Left, but serve their material interests first and foremost. Their class interests are diametrically opposed to the working class. They are not just complicit in the exploitation and abuse of the working class, they support it, advance it, enjoy it. They loathe the working class and don't hide it (see the abuse over Brexit and the liberal use of the label 'Far Right'.

Since when did the liberal middle class ever care about the white working class let alone white British girls from the poorest housing estates being raped & tortured?  They spend their lives calling the white working class "gammons" and worse.

Note the deflection tactics employed by an ideologically captured and cowardly Left, in thrall to “multiculturalism”. No wonder they needed a cover up.

Academics of a particular kind.

"One statement in support of the white working-class girls abused and killed by Pakistani rape gangs?"

That's not entirely true - there seems to have been much bending over backwards to 'prove' that it wasn't happening at all, or if it was, it was mostly white men doing it.

There are a number of factors involved here. Cowardice is one. The thing that interests me most is the class aspect. I have a sensitive nose for this kind of thing, having been on the receiving end of it with respect to the Hillsborough Disaster. The victims of Hillsborough were not just let down, they were openly abused and had their reputations traduced in public. Football supporters were labelled drunken, violent, hooligans by definition, white working class, brutes and barbarians (read Edward Pierce’s article on this, which openly described Liverpool football supporters as ‘brutes’). That identification remains in play today, with white working class football supporters described as ‘far right’ ‘hooligans.’ So it stands to reason that white working class females would fall under the same nomenclature. These abused girls and women are not ‘respectable’ victims, and not victims at all, just immoral ‘slags’ fit only for a life of abuse. There are mountainish elements of class snobbery in all of this. We are cutting through, here, to the reason why a society dominated by the middle class and upper middle class and its preferences and prejudices would ‘tolerate’ this – they saw young working class girls as early sluts who ‘consented’ to their abuse. I would venture to suggest that this is what a sizeable number of privileged middle class liberals and ‘lefties’ really think of ‘the lower orders’ they once pretended to be concerned about. It is little different from Victorian times. I saw it as a football fan, a survivor of the pens at Hillsborough, and I see the same class-based contempt and abuse with respect to the working class victims of the rape gangs.

The jobs and industries of working class men were systematically destroyed, along with the communities, social life, and future prospects which rested upon them. Then successive miseries were heaped on the victims, from inadequate employment schemes, scams, frankly, from which providers benefited hugely and the unemployed not at all. Then the ‘shop a scrounger’ and ‘workers over shirkers’ narratives to further humiliate unemployed workers. Impoverished, they succumbed to ‘deaths of despair,’ emasculated, they couldn’t provide their women folk with marriage material, nor even protect their daughters from abuse. And to top it all, they are routinely abused in the media as some form of ‘ic’ and ‘ist,’ guilty of one ‘ism’ or another. They dare protest, and they are hit with all manner of abuse, of which ‘uneducated’ is the most polite. What a sad, sordid little nation Britain has become under the sway of the bourgeois. Grovelling, snivelling, obsequious little cowards and creeps towards the corporate rich they can’t lay a glove on, they are hectoring, lecturing, cruel, vicious, snide, and bullying towards those lacking the power and resources to fight back. Of course, this is the pathetic, neurotic little nation that introduces state suicide. It’s on that path anyway, the suicide of a self-loathing class that has long since passed its vital stage and is now mired in decadence and depravity.

“It’s also a problem I’ve seen in the universities. I remember not long ago speaking to academics at the University of Oxford, talking about this scandal, and they denied that it was a serious scandal, at which point I had to point out to them that Oxford had a well-established grooming gang. They were falling over themselves to deny that this was a scandal of national significance. But out there, in terms of the wider country, the industrial scale rape and harassment of young white girls is something people out there can’t get there heads around. It is time to name and shame public officials, police officers, social workers, local politicians who failed to take action.”

It’s time to upend the middle class and get rid of class society.

In opposition, Jess Phillips pushed for an enquiry into child sexual abuse, ‘years and years worth of evidence, speaking up for ‘victims of sexual violence in childhood.’ As a minister she rules out an enquiry. I saw Labour do the same with Hillsborough, making all manner of promises in opposition, then have Blair ask 'what's the point?' in office. People claim Blair threw the Hillsborough families under the bus to appease Murdoch; similar claims of appeasement attach to Phillips. I think it goes deeper - Labour are establishment. The Conservative government ruled out a national inquiry in 2022.

“Jess Phillips is a hypocritical disgrace. Now she is in a position to do something she intends to do nothing. Every time she gives an interview on whatever subject she should be confronted with this shameful fact and asked nothing else until she explains her behaviour.” (Andrew Neil).

By now, it's too much for me. I spent decades pushing for a proper enquiry into Hillsborough. Here we go again. Grenfel, Post Office, wrong kind of victims - working class. No justice in a class system. As for Labour, they are establishment, performing dogs who don't even act and pretend now.

It's easy to understand why Labour don't want an enquiry.

Which only goes to show the extent to which the so-called Left has ditched class for identity. More accurately, it has ditched the working class to serve the dominant class through identity.

Some are indifferent, others are cowardly.

It's more than race, it is class - these girls are working class (and note the extent to which certain Leftists are claiming that references to white working class girls is a form of identity politics. How would you refer to the white working class girls and women raped by these gangs? Females? This from the same Left that has had us debating 'what is a woman?' Send them packing, that game is up, it is now game on.)

Yup. Whenever I raised the issue I was met with silence, indifference, and contempt (liberal middle class throwing terms like racism around). The stain is on them.

Lisa McKenzie is herself an academic - a working class academic who can tell anyone who is prepared to listen of the extent to which those academics, with their own political loyalties aligned to material interests, see the working class as class enemies. Such academics advance principles and policies that cost them nothing and gain them much, with the costs and consequences falling on the working class. When working class people have the temerity to point this out, be they academics or not, they are met with the height of abuse and are made pariahs.

Even and especially the middle class that identifies as Left - it is the ultimate expropriation of the working class, the appropriation of socialism and its perversion.

Quite. Dare point it out and see the hostile reaction.

People ask how the industrial scale rape of working class girls and women could carry on unchecked. The middle class left liberals in the media and academia bear a heavy responsibility, abusing the working class verbally, whilst others did so economically, socially, and sexually.

I subjected Cockbain and her 'global network of experts' to critical analysis in the appendix to Revaluing Labour. Again, such academics identify as Left but are explicitly part of the global corporate form. I am sure that UCL's millions of pounds of funding from Qatar had no influence on the analysis conducted by UCL's Dr Ella Cockbain.

We should be well beyond tolerating, let alone humouring, these halfwits. That's partly why we are now in the trouble we are in, the rule of so-called experts. They are expert by way of nothing other than thir own value preferences and political loyalties. They are prepared to preserve what they call race relations at the expense of those who pay the price. Those relations don't look good.

Estimates in the Rape of Nanjing vary from 20,000 to 80,000.

I take on this and her other points in my book.

Academia is the new vanguard, and the end is not a democratic socialist society but a techno-bureaucratic managerialism under the corporate form. The claim to knowledge and expertise is ideological - it is a claim to power and control, and such would0be universal rulers see the members of the demos as threats and rivals.

Yuri Bezmenov, the stages of subversion: 1) demoralisation; 2) destabilisation; 3) crisis; 4) normalisation.

Bezmenov was referring to the West. It applies to nations. In this context, it refers to the working class and should be considered part of the assault on the working class since the 1970s (and earlier). It is class war from above, this is how it pans out - socially disempowered males, sexually abused females, a broken and humiliated. When the working class fight back, see how they are treated. Go back to the sixties, the seventies and the Winter of Discontent, the eighties and the Enemy Within. How did you think it would end?

It's a profitable politics. Somehow, people still think it Leftist.

The establishment's plan, of which Labour are a part. The fact that this has gone on for so long unchecked indicates a certain purpose and design at work. It is no accidental. The decision was taken long ago that the working class were to be brutalised. The full force of the state was thrown against organised labour, the middle class cheered when the men were assaulted and battered by the police. Why would anything think it would be different when working class women and girls were the ones being abused?

It goes deeper than cowardice - there is a class-based loathing at work. I trace this class experience in my book Revaluing Labour.

I come from a northern English industrial town subjected to deindustrialisation.

I saw the demoralisation and destabilisation that followed. And the 'deaths of despair.' The men can barely keep themselves alive; the girls and women are rendered vulnerable. The entire establishment is to blame for this, and all those who have either looked away, or joined in the abuse with the verbals (Brexit et al).

The working class were emasculated first. So where were you when the class war was on? And where are you know? Complaining about Trump, Farage, and Musk?

And they all hate Elon Musk, of course. Those turning on Musk now need to answer one simple question: what did they do to expose the rape gangs?

Can someone please explain to me why some people are more angry about Elon Musk raising the issue of grooming gangs, than they are about actual grooming gangs?

Because they are all complicit.

Many were actively involved in covering up these crimes and censoring those who spoke out.

I have a feeling that they are doing their job, just not as journalists or judges or anything that is concerned with truth and justice. I saw it with Hillsborough, I am seeing it here. Those turning on Musk now need to answer one simple question: what did they do to expose the rape gangs? I will say they did nothing other than what they are doing now: deflecting and diverting.

If the authorities had done their job – as they ought – then it wouldn’t matter who had said what in response. It is the fact that people who have a duty to act that causes others to speak up, and maybe speak out of turn, and maybe speak with certain particular ends in mind. To make an issue of this is deflection and diversion designed to switch attention from the actual issue. This is how it always goes. Seizing on one or more of those respond, drawing attention to their speaking or acting out of turn, makes it possible to carry on avoiding the issue. This is a particular vice of a particular kind of person. It’s a narrative, a trope, a conspiracy, it isn’t happening. And it carries on.

But maybe the most horrible thing to contemplate is that the authorities and their apologists are, actually, doing their job. Maybe the horrible truth that people don’t want to accept is that there is no justice in a class society, only a semblance of justice, enough to foster a pacifying illusion.

Extensive and intenstive - systematic and not accidental.

It doesn't wash any more. And you can't look away any more. Fellow left wingers: stop pretending things aren’t true, or are ‘ist’ or ‘ic; on account of who says them. Be sceptical and check veracity at all times, but ‘it was said by x who is x and therefore wrong’ isn’t an argument. It’s an evasion. It’s by this process that certain issues get identified as ‘right’ and ‘far right,’ because only the ‘right’ and ‘far right’ raise them. And stop refusing to talk about things you know to be true because it’s a ‘dog whistle’ to the ‘far right.’ Vacate the terrain, and it will be occupied by someone, not least when issues of common concern are involved. And top classifying anyone who isn’t a raging globalist as ‘far right.’ Unless you want the real right and even far right to prosper. You may think you are Leftists, evsn Marxists and Trotskyktes, whereas in truth you are acting as agents of global corporate power.

“Ask yourself - what if it was your daughter? Imagine it was your child who was being pumped full of alcohol and drugs, manipulated away from her family and then gang raped on an industrial scale by dozens of Pakistani men? Perhaps you tried to intervene, and you were labelled a racist or even arrested and detained?

How would that make you feel?

As a father myself, I cannot even begin to comprehend the anger and despair. The pain must be unimaginable.

To see this happening, to know it's happening, and be forced to stand by helpless as the authorities enabled these monstrosities?

Little girls, doused in petrol and threatened with their lives. Branded through scolding metal with the abuser's initials? Raped, with balls placed in their mouths to keep them silent.

The horrific details need to be spelt out in clear English so that people will understand.

This was happening to thousands and thousands of young vulnerable British girls. The most terrifying part of it all? It STILL IS.

These savages avoided justice all because our establishment did not want to rock the boat - more concerned about racial tensions than young white girls being raped, thousands and thousands and thousands of times.

Not just that, those animals who were caught and sentenced often remained in the country, even in the same community - to walk the streets with their victims.

Honestly, I just don't have the words.

White, vulnerable, working class children fed to the rapists all in order to protect this warped and false idea of a successful multicultural society.

As a parent to one of these little girls, how would all that make you feel?”

Ah, but that’s Rupert Lowe, Reform MP, saying it.

So why didn’t you say it? Do you deny the facts? Or just dislike what the facts reveal about your political preferences?

You can still find your voice. But I doubt you will. It’s a political choice.

If your first thought is that the political right will fight the issue – or any issue – for its own ends, then you are part of the problem. Your position is basically this: shut up for the sake of [enter your political preference]. Shut up, draw a line under it, move on .. those of us who campaigned for justice for the Hillsborough victims were told this, too.

The people who want to shut things up are people who will be happy to curtail free speech. There are indeed people who believe that the mass rape of thousands of white working class children is a price worth paying to live in a multicultural unicorn land that can never exist except as middle class fantasy. A price worth paying. The words Margaret Thatcher used to justify the mass unemployment she and her government inflicted on the industrial heartlands in the 1980s. Middle class liberals agree that life was better before they were confronted with the consequences of their utopian ideals; they agree that the victims should be silenced. Again. ‘There is no alternative.’

People who identify as Left and call themselves socialist – especially those who are working class – should hang their heads in shame. Middle class liberals have an excuse. Being middle class and liberal, they loathe the working class, and welcome every opportunity to abuse the working class. But working class leftists have no excuse. They should be embarrassed by the fact that the likes of Douglas Murray are pointing out the iniquities visited upon working class people, doing their job in their absence. Murray points to the existence of a large number of working class people in the UK who saw this scandal and outrage happen to relatives of theirs, who had girls in their families who were drugged and raped by gangs. When they went to the police, they didn’t get any help, when they went to the social services, they didn’t get any help; when they went to the local council, they didn’t get any help, when they went to their MPs, they didn’t get any help. If they organised a protest movement, so-called anti-fascist groups immediately organised to shout ‘far right,’ ‘racist,’ and ‘fascist.’ Because, of course, if you are white and working class and you object to the mass rape of young white girls, you are necessarily a Nazi. ‘All of this was done to make it utterly impossible for anybody to discuss this, and particularly to crack down as hard as possible on anyone who was white and working class and felt voiceless. Instead of giving these people any sympathy or any hearing, most of the media and most of the political class turned away.’ (Douglas Murray to Freddy Gray, The Spectator 3rd January).

You can keep a scandal this big down for only so long. There are Labour MPs saying there has been lots of inquiries and lots of people have gone to jail. The inquiries made little difference and did little to address let alone resolve the problem. The number of accusation of rapes means that the proportion of men who have been convicted and sent to prison is only a fraction of those who took part. Justice hasn’t been done, not remotely. What we have seen in recent days is a classic example of avoiding primary problems by highlighting people who raise the problem in an inadequate way, not to everyone’s taste, and then ensure that the focus is on them and not the issue. Deflection and diversion, cowardice and complicity. If you are one of the ones complaining about Musk now, then you are in this group. And now the facts are known and incontrovertible, that makes you complicit.

Ah, but Douglas Murray is a x or a y or a z. He may well be. But he has spoken up. Why haven’t you? Who is allowed to speak up? Anyone? You didn’t listen to the victims and their families. Did you want them to just go away? ‘Those abused girls should shut up for the sake of diversity.’ Is that an argument you want to put your name to?

Legitmate concerns are not right-wing dog whistles: they are legitimate concerns.

But it seems clear that there is a certain Leftism that is congenitally incapable of learning the lesson. Take this from a certain Dr Karen Ingala Smith:

“You need to take a hard look at yourself if you’re RTing disinformation posted by right wingers who are desperate to undermine the Labour government … I don’t know whether you’re knowingly or unknowingly being played by strategists for Reform and are either happy with that, or in denial or too naïve/racist to care.”

What about all the people who tried to raise the issue before Reform were even formed? The issue goes back decades. What did Dr Karen and other good doctors say then? We know that people who tried to raise the issue were labelled racist. We know that such labelling ensured that the mass rape continued.

It’s not racist to want mass rape to end. It’s basic human decency. And Farage and Reform triumph, like Trump has triumphed, twice, it will be in large part because Leftists like Dr Karen became apologists for depravity. Caught out, caught bang to rights, they double down. Lessons won’t be learned because they cannot be learned. These political positions are not errors, they align perfectly with social positions and material interests. These people are anti-working class. Once you understand that, then the unbelievable becomes all too believable. If it interferes with their ideology and obstructs their interests, then no sacrifice of the working class is too great.

Let’s remind ourselves how Labour MP Naz Shah responded back in 2017:

“those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity.”

She is still an MP.

The Left seriously needs to ask themselves why stopping child abuse is considered "right wing" issue but not a left wing issue. To say that Labour have abandoned the working class doesn’t quite do it – Labour and the people it represents and serves see the working class as their class enemy. The same with respect to the Democrats in the US, and the official Left all across the Western world. And once you understand that, it all becomes crystal clear – there is no betrayal or treachery. This is how people act when serving their material interests, words otherwise are meant to fool and obscure.

 The extent to which those who identify as Leftist in politics – or left liberal or progressive - deny the truth of the rape gangs because those on the right in politics are the only ones addressing it is remarkable. They ignore the issue and vacate the terrain, with the result that it comes to be picked up by the right, which then causes the so-called Left or liberal left to identify it as a right-wing issue. It isn’t ‘far right’ racism to identify the truth that is now an open sore, but years and years of refusal on the part of leftists and liberals to acknowledge it. Many preferred to believe that a few far-right rabble rousers were exaggerating the story for their own political ends. They may well have been using the issue to their own political ends. But the horrible truth is that there was no exaggeration. Politics of all descriptions has obscured the truth and denied justice. This was all known by 2013 at the latest. The subject was aired in the media.

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said tackling child sexual abuse was a national priority on a par with organised crime on Tuesday, announcing measures to prevent systematic abuse.

Britain has been rocked by a series of child sex abuse revelations, including a case in Rotherham, northern England, where some 1,400 children, some as young as 11, were abused by gangs of men.

"I've just spent half an hour with some of the survivors of abuse in Rotherham and these are stories that are going to stay with me forever. They are absolutely horrific," Cameron said at a meeting of victim groups, police and child protection experts held in his official London residence.

"Young girls ... being abused over and over again on an industrial scale, being raped, being passed from one bunch of perpetrators to another bunch of perpetrators."

Classifying child sexual abuse as a national threat will create a duty for police forces to collaborate across regions to safeguard children, Cameron's office said. Cameron also announced other measures to improve coordination between public bodies and a helpline to encourage whistleblowers.

Referring to the Rotherham case he said: "This has happened with too many organisations and too many people walking on by and we have got to really resolve that this stops here, it doesn't happen again and we recognise abuse for what it is."

The government has begun an inquiry into decades of child abuse and suggestions powerful public figures covered it up.

Cameron says child sex abuse to be classified 'national threat'

That was over a decade ago. So what happened? Nothing. And where were you? Nowhere. Busy looking the other way, deflecting and diverting, leaving it to the far right and the racist so that you could continue to claim it was a far right and racist issue. And your pure liberal, leftist, and progressive principles achieved what? A continuation of the mass rape of working class girls. We don't need to listen to anything bourgeois progressives and liberals have to say on anything ever again. They are all compromised.

The victims approached every authority and office in search of some kind of help and support. They turned to every place from which you would expect some kind of justice: social services, the police, local councils, other authority figures. Wherever these young girls turned there was a closed door and they were told to shut up and not make a fuss. This message was repeated by institution after institution. This has been apparent for many years, decades.

As I said above, this is more than cowardice and turning a blind eye – there are certain people among the liberal middle classes who have a visceral hatred of the working class. And they like to have that hatred satisfied by abuse. That comes out clearly in the verbal abuse constantly hurled at the working class. And it is expressed in a certain approval – concealed in cowardly fashion behind deflection and diversion – of other forms of abuse: “For any non-Brits bemused as to how Britain turned a blind eye (or worse) while Pakistani Muslim men raped white and Sikh working class girls - you could not imagine the visceral hatred that the Guardian reading chatterati who run the country have for our working classes (visible here in Labour MP Emily Thornberry's sneering at a white van man who clearly loves England). The working classes refuse to let go of their patriotism, cultural identity, humour, resilience and community spirit - all things despised by wokeists - and the left stopped even pretending to represent them a long time ago.” (Leo Kearse).

Jones claims to be on the Left in politics. He's more animated about Musk than he is about industrial scale rape of white working class girls. If he, as a journalist, had spoken up, he would have saved Musk the need to. But he didn't. They have been caught out. At last. Pick your sides.

The Left and liberal left railing against Elon Musk’s ‘foreign intervention’ in defence of democracy and national sovereignty is hilarious. Like we haven’t noticed that they don’t care a fig for either.

There is a case for arguing that Elon Musk is using the issue to serve his own political ends, as part of the war he is waging against the UK government. This issue needs to be addressed properly. Musk’s intervention may be more hindrance than help in that it enables those who have been engaged in denial and deflection – indulging their prejudices with respect to working class people whilst parading their piousness – to continue to dismiss the issue as a right wing conspiracy. There is indeed a case for arguing this. But how many decades are you prepared to wait before the issue is addressed properly? By who? The authorities and their apologists have made it clear that they will continue to deflect and divert, and parade their piousness and prejudice. They don’t give a damn. There have been people trying to address the issue properly. They have been marginalised, told to ‘shut up,’ resisted. And labelled ‘right wing’ and racist anyway.

There are many complaining about Elon Musk’s intervention in UK politics. Musk is putting the UK under the spotlight and what the world is seeing is ugly and unpleasant. How telling that the response of so many is to criticise and abuse Musk. Had they been prepared to call out what Musk is now calling out, then there would have been much less of a problem. But they didn’t then, and they aren’t now – they want it all covered up. The country has sunk into corruption, degradation, and depravity as a result. It seems that there are still people who think the rape and torture gangs is a racist narrative and myth. They are too ideologically invested in and politically committed to that narrative of their own making that they cannot look facts square in the face. I went and checked estimates of the numbers of rapes in the Rape of Nanjing – between 20,000 and 80,000. We are looking at a quarter of a million in the UK. It takes politics and ideology to diminish and invisibilize such numbers.

A different timescale, you may object. What kind of ratio would you find acceptable? How many rapes in what period of time? Although the figure of 250,000 is given, that has been described at the 'lower end' of the estimate for how many British girls have been groomed and raped. Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion spoke on this issue back in 2015:

“The day after the first report broke the victims started coming to me. They couldn’t go to the police, they couldn’t go to the council. So who do you go to?

“For the first three weeks I generally thought I was losing my mind. I nearly lost my mind because of the level of depravity and horror.

“Listening to what these, now women, had gone through and how they were just left discarded, to flounder on their own.

“It was utterly mind-blowing and then the problem I had was that I was getting new cases coming to me, ones that hadn’t been reported which they wanted me to report. But I didn’t know who I could trust in the police to report it.

“There was this parallel universe going on and it is mindblowing.”

That’s very much how it seems trying to raise the issue with people who simply dismiss it by definition. “I generally thought I was getting close to having a nervous breakdown because I couldn’t process these two worlds going on and that anybody in a professional capacity would not have acted about what was going on. It’s obscene.”

Talking of the cases she has encountered, she told of one horrific case when a girl from Rotherham was traced to a terraced street in Blackpool by youth worker Jane Senior who she employs.

“She knew where the girl was because of the queue of men down the street and up the stairs,” The MP said. "It feels like the Government is leaving Rotherham to die. It feels like we’re not on their doorstep so it doesn’t matter.”

Champion welcomed experts coming into Rotherham to help them but said the Government should have stepped in after the Jay Report, six months ago. “We would have been able to move forward as a town much quicker,” she said. “There are hundreds of thousands and I think there could be up to a million victims of exploitation nationwide, including right now. Girls in the process of being groomed,” Champion claimed in 2015.

Child sex abuse gangs could have assaulted ONE MILLION youngsters in the UK, by Lucy Thornton, 5th February 2015, Daily Mirror.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/child-sex-abuse-gangs-could-5114029

People who are unmoved by one abomination, or a dozen, or a hundred, are unlikely to be moved by any number, even a million. They have a political side, they filter reality by way of ideology. That’s how crimes against humanity get committed. And the people committing them tend to think of themselves as the good guys. I make the point in the hope that leftist friends who have indeed gone down the rabbit hole may finally, at last, see it, and check their descent. I won’t say it won’t end well – it already hasn’t ended well. And it may well get worse.

This is one of the greatest crimes ever perpetrated against the people of the UK. There are those calling it a racially or religiously motivated crime. I set it in the context of the class struggle that has been waged against the working class from above these past few decades. The middle class and upper middle class liberals, the educated, certified people who owe their social position and wealth to the class structure, who are openly apologising (and secretly cheering), do so on class ground rather than race and religion. Race and religion to them are just preferences and prejudices on their political and value hierarchy. They may well be in for a shock and a surprise in the near future, but no-one but themselves ever thought these characters were smart and far-sighted?

There are people demanding a national inquiry. Labour are refusing, as the Conservatives refused in 2022. I find the demand incoherent. In face of systemic institutional failure embracing every department of government, people are placing faith in a national inquiry conducted from within that corrupted establishment. But, yes, all those involved by way of action and inaction - the police, the local authorities, the social services, the politicians, the crown prosecution service, Parliament, academics and the academy, charities and NGOs all need to be brought to account … I wonder if the people demanding a national inquiry to ensure such accountability quite see the scale of the problem. That’s the entire institutional make-up of the country. The only people who can bring all those people in all those organisations to account are the people themselves. Those who are not fully absorbed in politics and ideology. Class war, civil war. Institutions won’t cut it. If the jig’s up, it’s game on. A people that can’t protect its own children hardly seem powerful enough to take on the establishment and the dominant class. It is no wonder that so many prefer to bury the facts behind claims of a false narrative – it saves them having to face reality, show courage, and act. Ultimately, we are looking at corruption and cowardice beyond the institutions. There is a moral and social failure at work here, not just institutional failure.

There may be some hope that people, at long last, are waking up to suffering of tens of thousands of white working-class girls at the hands of the rape gangs up and down the country. Maybe, possibly. The outrage has received a public airing in the past, over ten, fifteen years ago, and people have chosen to look away. Denial may be cowardice, it may be an attempt to avoid a reality that is too difficult to deal with. Throw the accusations of racism on top of any concern, and you can understand why people look away and run away. It is still cowardice. I hesitate to say that this has been the greatest cover up in modern British history. I hate to compare. As a Hillsborough survivor I think the enormity of the Hillsborough cover-up takes some beating. But it’s not the only one. Working class people can expect no justice. Imagine if identities here had been reversed and multiple groups of white working class men had been targeting underage Muslim girls, and imagine the reaction. Does anyone think that the police and politicians would have been taking no action? Or the media and the academy would have been running stories about false narratives?

Dennis McShane, MP for Rotherham until 2012, points to a culture of silence, for fear of rocking the boat of multiculturalism. I think mass rape does that. If you need to overlook atrocities in order for society to be functioning, then your society is not functioning, it is sick to its rotten core. If atrocities need to be overlooked to preserve race relations, then those relations are already broken. But it is indeed easier for the establishment and its apologists to overlook the consequences of its policies than to own up to them – and own them. Your society is bust at every level. There is no point appealing for justice to those who have been instrumental in spreading injustice.

“Too many pundits are focussing on Musk’s row with Labour, completely neglecting the revelations about the abuse gangs.

They want to focus on ‘toxic’ social media over compelling testimony.

Make no mistake: this is another form of censorship. They’re telling you to shut up.”

(Charlie Peters).

Textbook distract and divert. By the book. Typical deflection: react to the person pointing at the problem rather than reacting to the problem.

Ask the survivors:

“I’ve known many of these adult survivors - some of whom are in the public eye, some who retain anonymity - for many years. They’ve never had so much of a focus on their plight.

They all express optimism at the interest in the scandal. For them, it’s an opportunity for action.”

(Charlie Peters).

“Tonight in my speech I suggested Britain should have a monument, in the heart of Westminster, for the countless victims of the grooming gang scandal so that the elite class are continually reminded of their failure to protect our children.”

(Matt Goodwin)

Class plays a huge part in this. The political Left hasn’t been for the working class for decades (and, in truth, had a very ambiguous relation towards the working class from the first, hence the tendencies to vanguardism). It now openly calls its former working class constituency ‘far right’ and racist. This travesty of the truth saves the political Left from looking the truth square in the face, and looking in the mirror to see the horrible truth about what it is. Culpable.

"I can't see what she did wrong," a former Green friend opined when the fuss over Thornberry kicked off. I pointed out that my dad drove a white van in his job as a builder. Hard graft. Lockdown - when the work of 'essential' 'key' workers was praised and valued for once - made clear the extent to which there are people in society, the people who like to get their own way and have their interests served and views respected, are possessed by a visceral loathing of the working class. I've always seen them. I'm encouraged that more and more people are seeing them now. It's not right wing. It's a condition of getting a proper left wing back. And those who disagree need to answer this riddle: how it that the greatest transfer of wealth and resources to the rich - now superrich - has been happening on the watch of the progressive middle class liberal left?

Former Chief Prosecutor, Nazir Afzal, has form. In 2019 on BBC Radio 4 he said this: ‘In 2008, the Home Office sent a circular to all police forces in the country saying "as far as these young girls being exploited in towns and cities (are concerned), we believe they've made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour and therefore it's not for you police officers to get involved in.’

Gordon Brown, former Labour Prime Minister said the girls were making a 'lifestyle choice'.

That word ‘choice,’ so dear to liberals. On point of law, underage girls can’t consent to sex.

Moral cowardice, racial fear, and pure class snobbery, prejudice, and hatred lie behind this.

If you are still denying how deep the sickness and immorality of this society runs, you are sick and immoral yourself, and part of the corruption.

There are numerous reports of young girls seeking help only to be denied. Local authorities, councils, police have shown extreme reluctance to take these girls seriously. There are harrowing accounts of girls going to the authorities and asking for help, only to be ignored. There is an account of one girl going to the police saying she had been raped, they considered her to be drunk and sent her away, and she ended up being raped again. That’s the level of incompetence and complicity we are talking of. When the girls asked for help they were not taken seriously and were not just sent away but sent back into the arms of their abusers. People have sought to raise the issue, only to be dismissed as racists. We need an exposé and a clear out. There is a culture of moral cowardice but more, a culture of fear and loathing with respect to working class people. The people who are afraid that people would react angrily when the truth is admitted should know that there is a such a thing as righteous anger. Anger in face of mass rape is appropriate. Those who seek to clamp down on basic human emotions are inhuman.

Now that it is out in the open, it will be interesting to observe any, if any, realignment in the sides that have already been taken: on one side are the rape gangs, the established and authorities who covered them up, and the apologists who diverted and deflected; on the other side are the victims and the people seeking justice. I’ve seen these sides before with respect to the Hillsborough Disaster and the unlawful killing (call it murder) of 97 football fans. And I have bad news: only very late in the day, after two decades of campaigning, did public opinion swing behind the families, with the authorities cracking sufficiently to admit the truth. There was still no justice. And the worst part may well be that I never thought there would be. To win the class war on a scale large enough to bring justice in matters this great requires a revolution sufficient to bring about the end of class division and class society. And I don’t think this society has got it in it.

“ALL THESE ENQUIRIES including @IICSAVSCP Rochdale, Augusta, Oldham have all led absolutely NOWHERE! Nothing changes. Millions wasted. Lawyers getting rich defending the indefensible.

Because those leading these “enquiries” have always wanted to cover up the truth, to hide it. And I’d say it’s become even worse in recent months with those who dare to speak out finding themselves in prison within a couple of DAYS….. when victims wait 6/7/8 years for a trial!! Corrupt and just wrong!

I firmly believe we need totally independent people who will ensure it’s not just another attempt to delay and hide the truth. Radical change and overhaul of all our public bodies. And bring in. Criminal accountability for all our senior police and public officials who have turned a blind eye.

Those with vested interests who pop up when this hits the headlines then fade away again when it all dies down will not bring change. They’re in it for themselves I believe. Conservatives and labour are all equally to blame imo, and Keir_Starmer as former DPP is perhaps as guilty as anyone I know in where we find ourselves today.

We all know what’s going on, but I don’t trust a single one of those who to date have been entrusted with keeping our children safe and prosecuting serial rapists. They’ve failed. Repeatedly. Knowingly. Criminally.”

This was Maggie Oliver’s coruscating response to Nazir Afzal’s attempt to deflect from a national enquiry into the Muslim Rape Gangs. Nazir Afzal was Chief Prosecutor at the CPS. He doesn't inspire confidence.

The kind of people responsible for denying truth and obstructing justice use their success in those ends to justify not seeking truth and justice in the first place. The people whose rulers go down that path are imperilled - a society without either truth or justice, only naked power, lies at the end of that denial.

But, maybe inadvertently, he is exposing the truth that class power counts more than justice in class society.

As a Hillsborough survivor, this feels like being taunted. 97 Liverpool football supporters ‘unlawfully killed,’ and members of the establishment taunt us with the lack of justice. I reserve my greatest contempt, though, for those who still refuse to see the embedded nature of injustice in class society – who persist in thinking class an outmoded concept – and who refuse to fight back. The worst part is in knowing that too few people have the courage to see the naked assertion of power, when power is finally exposed, and fight back. When you finally expose them for what they are, they turn and taunt you, knowing fine well that too few have got the guts to challenge them. Ain’t that the truth.

All those inquiries, and only one conviction. With Hillsborough there was no conviction. The truth was established and a verdict of unlawful killing returned. But there was no justice. No one was brought to justice. And I never expected that there would be. Crimes and cover ups like this involve the entire establishment, the whole lot. That was never going to happen. And it didn’t. You should know that this is the establishment as a whole protecting itself against the people it purports to serve. Surely to goodness, the cover is now blown. The naifs demanding ‘government’ act on one crisis or another, empowering the state all the time, will find that they have betrayed their own causes. Social restitution and democratic re-empowerment is key, as I have argued since learning the lessons on Hillsborough. I learned the lessons in 1989. I didn’t need decades of disappointment, betrayal, and cover up to learn. Learn that lesson and learn it quick.

We should investigate and prosecute all those involved, comes the demand. It sounds easy. When you see how widespread the corruption is, you will understand why any reckoning compatible with justice will require root and branch cange.

 Will a national public inquiry bring justice?

As a Hillsborough survivor, who was in the pens that day, the fact that truth was established and yet there was still no justice being used as a reason not to seek truth and justice turns my stomach. We need to ask what kind of people are misgoverning us and root out the rot. 

The denial of justice is now being openly offered as a reason neither to seek nor expect justice. The entire history of ethics is now being re-written, in the interests of pure, naked power.

And that, of course, is intentional. This is an assault on democracy and on the idea that people have a right to be governed by laws they have had a hand in making.

“We need a completely outside body .. I don’t trust the officials in our country to want to get to the truth. If they wanted to get to the truth there are many experts and survivors who have lived and breathed this horror story, this corruption, for years. The other thing I would say is that the official findings of the Augusta Manchester Review in 2020 was that Greater Manchester Police, the Chief Constable, and the Gold Command Group deliberately closed down that investigation with a hundred paedophiles. I worked on that case on a day-to-day basis. It was a deliberate closing down of a large investigation … Five of the senior officers who made that decision were referred to the alleged independent office of police conduct. None of them would be interviewed, none of them were dealt with, they are still walking the streets with their pensions, unaccountable for gross criminal neglect. You peal back a layer and it just goes on and on.” (Maggie Oliver to Ian Collins, Talk Radio, 3rd January).

It all sounds depressingly familiar to me as a Hillsborough survivor. This is the way the establishment handled the Hillsborough Disaster, with years and years of obstruction and deflection, with the terms of any enquiry forced by the families deliberately hobbled to produce results the establishment knew would fall far short of known truth. That exposed the families to years of abuse and pressure from members of the public who were tired of hearing demands for truth and justice. We were told that we had had justice and didn’t like the truth: we were told that Liverpool fans had killed their own and that the families were interested only in compensation. And the establishment deliberately created that atmosphere, giving the appearance of seeking truth and justice, but with enquiries whose parameters were set to deliver neither. It was quite deliberate, and was done to protect powerful people against working class football supporters, whose lives were deemed disposable, of no account. It took the biggest inquest in UK history to have the truth recognised. And still there was no justice. We told you then.

“We now need a national enquiry about this crisis,” says Matt Goodwin.

That’s what we demanded for Hillsborough. It took decades fighting the establishment to finally get the initial verdicts over turned in 2016. That was over a quarter of a century out of people’s lives. It was a war of attrition waged by the establishment. Liverpool people who not go away. With the verdict of ‘unlawful killing’ people thought the Liverpool people had ‘won.’ They had simply established the truth and forced the establishment to acknowledge the truth. The truth was known from the very first. There was still no justice. All those involved in the work of deflection and obstruction in the aftermath needed to be brought to account. They never were.

Goodwin continues: “the real question everybody out there is currently asking themselves is why haven’t more heads rolled, why haven’t more people in the establishment been held responsible for this horrific scandal. No police officer or government employee has ever been imprisoned for their gross misconduct in dealing with the grooming gangs horror. The grim reality is that for too many people in positions of power they have ignored this scandal for too long and they have avoided telling people the truth.”

‘What’s the point?’ Tony Blair asked with respect to Home Secretary Jack Straw’s raising of another enquiry into Hillsboroigh. There have been enquiries, truth has been established, justice has been done, we were told. And we, as in the Hillsborough survivors, campaigners, and families knew fine well that the truth had been covered up and justice had not been done. And now we are hearing the same claims yet again. From the same people, the same corrupt establishment and its apologists.

We have had an investigation and we didn’t find anything. We are expected to believe that. Just as Hillsborough campaigners were expected to believe that justice had been served with the hobbled and nobbled inquests. As with Hillsborough, if you dig deep and expose the truth, the establishment will be in deep trouble. Hence the cover up and denial. This is power protecting itself. People around the world talking about this issue. It’s not going away. But these people are not going to fall on their swords; they are going to fight back and fight hard and dirty. As they did over Hillsborough.

“Another day, yet another report about the failures of a police force to protect the most vulnerable in our society, even when there is irrefutable evidence to prosecute offenders and safeguard children. This report yet again clearly evidences catastrophic failings by the force and their repeated attempts to cover up and hide these failings both from the victims and from the public they serve, and that is extremely worrying.” (Maggie Oliver).

We are being told that we have already had an enquiry in Oldham, a ‘thorough piece of work,’ a report of 200 pages, but ‘there was no evidence of child sexual abuse.’ ‘That was an inquiry that reported and took a considerable amount of time. I’m sceptical about the need for another inquiry, we have had that investigation. We’ve also had the independent child sexual abuse investigation across England and Wales that took seven years that cost £200 million that produced nineteen reports covering fifteen investigations.’ ‘There are lessons to be learned from those inquiries and reports.’ (Quotes from a Labour advisor to Yvette Cooper Danny Shaw).

The council should conduct the inquiry, despite the inquiry that was conducted showing failings within the council.

It’s rollocks. All of it. I’ve heard it all before with Hillsborough. We were told we have had inquiries and had justice. It was all part of the cover up. Maggie Oliver is clear: the National Child Abuse Inquiry was a cover up. They are covering up, pure and simple.

Maggie Oliver can tell you all about the inquiries and the politicians.

“The newspapers are saying we need a public inquiry let me remind everybody we've had one. We had the Ixit National abuse inquiry it took 7 years, cost £100 million and two weeks of that inquiry was given to the ‘grooming gang’ problem and within that two weeks 95% of the time that was allowed to be spoken about this was given to Chief constables, to heads of Social Services. There was one victim allowed to speak. People like me as a non-institutional core participant, we were denied any right to speak. Our statements were massacred. It was a cover up. And 20 recommendations that followed after seven years, not one has been implemented.’ ‘There has been a whole catalogue of failures. So it's all right calling for a public inquiry but the thing is I don't trust any of them to be entrusted with that public inquiry because if you don't have the right people who want to see change you can spend another 5 years wasting your breath in the way that I have on the Ixit inquiry, the Rochdale inquiry, the Augusta inquiry, the Baird review. We get recommendations and we get words and we see no action and we see repeats of the same failures time and time and time again. And what I want to see is real people. I'm a spokesperson for the millions and millions of decent ordinary people throughout this country who look at children and know that we as a society should be protecting those children, whatever it takes.

‘I am relieved that we have Elon Musk and other people in other countries who are as horrified by these failures as I still am, because I am sick and tired of speaking to politicians. I've met them all. It fades away again but it doesn't fade away for the victims they spend their lives trying to get justice, trying to deal with the trauma, trying to overcome the fact that they have been blamed and criminalized and let down by a country which should be protecting them.

Repeated governments, repeated politicians, professionals have failed children monumentally and I want things to change.’

The truly depressing thing is that these very words apply to the Hillsborough Disaster and the decades that was spent in pursuit of justice, confronted with cover up and denial every step of the way. The same wasted words, the same wasted time and energy – the same corrupt establishment, the same moral cowardice, the same claims that truth is known and justice has been done.

It’s no wonder that ‘the authorities’ are in favour of curtailing free speech.

The lid has been blown off this scandal, and it’s not going away. The dam has burst, and people in power – and the activists and ideologues with their pet causes – should take note. I expect them to doube-down in denial - they are in too deep to do anything else. Bang to rights.

Brendan O’Neill writes of white working-class girls sacrificed to ideology. (Brendan O’Neill, When working-class girls were sacrificed to ideology, Spiked, 4th January 2025). Why should we be surprised. The term ‘luxury belief system’ has been coined to describe those who assert principles and advocate policies that cost them nothing and gain them much, the costs and consequences being borne by others. There is, of course, a class aspect to this. It is not just institutional failure and ruling class cowardice that allows ‘grooming’ gangs to get away with rape, but classism. And to think that there are people out there who insist that class is an outmoded concept, an example of ‘us and them,’ ‘black and white,’ thinking that is antiquated. I am using terms that environmentalist friends have used to me, whenever I had dared to advocate for a class analysis of the environmental crisis. How telling it is that it is the well-heeled and well-off who are most insistent in asserting that class doesn’t exist. It saves them having to confront the class reality behind their own privilege.

O’Neill writes of ‘our spineless elites – who’d rather talk about anything on Earth other than grooming gangs.’ I tend to avoid references to elites, asking for precise identities and locations within the social order. Further, whilst various authorities have indeed failed to do their jobs as public servants, I’m also of the view that the notion of public service in a class society is an ideological claim, a claim to serve the universal interest when actually defending and preserving a particular interest. Looked at from this angle, the spineless elites misgoverning us are actually cold and brutal class warriors ensuring that their interests, and the interests of those they serve, are ensured.

Official indifference to the rape and suffering of tens of thousands of poor white working-class girls has been accompanied by claims of racism levelled against those who dare raise their voices in protest. There needs to be a reckoning, and my view, which I expressed too on Hillsborough, is that this reckoning entails something far more and far deeper than a national inquiry. Decades of demands for a proper enquiry over Hillsborough led to the biggest inquest in UK history. The truth wasn’t so much as established as finally recognised and accepted – Liverpool football supporters were unlawfully killed – but there was still no justice. A class injustice cannot be resolved by institutional intervention within a class system.

As a term, ‘grooming gangs’ is a slippery euphemism that tones down and sanitises mass rape. There were tens of thousands of victims. You can look up the details if you are still in doubt (and checking prejudices against facts is the last thing those still in doubt will do).

The horrors were compounded by the calculated indifference of those in positions of authority – each and every one of which looked the other way and passed the problem on and around. Protecting the ideology of multiculturalism was seen as more important than ensuring the safety of poor working class girls. ‘The girls were sacrificed to ideology,’ writes Brendan O’Neill, ‘their humiliation treated as a small price to pay for upholding the edicts of political correctness.’ I would see their humiliation as an integral part of the humiliation of the working class, a systematic scouring that is the aftermath of defeat in the class war. The men are to be killed, in a socio-economic sense, certainly – or induced to kill themselves, as in the ‘deaths of despair’ now prevalent across deindustrialised regions, the womenfolk are to be raped. It’s the way of war, and this is precisely what this is – class war. I don’t labour the point about Pakistani and Muslim identity – they are part of the important servant class, warriors and workers, to do the bidding of those who benefit from the corporate form. Corporate power benefits at the top, and the liberal middle class benefits from cheap labour.

For all of the anger focused on Elon Musk, it should not have taken Musk to have brought this outrage to light. And the truth is, he didn’t. The issue was raised decades ago, only for it to be systematically suppressed as a racist narrative. There is a constant erasure at work here, with the media and academy class constantly at work to bury the issue as a right wing narrative. Julie Bindel addressed the issue back in 2007. The outrage was exposed in public, and buried. Just as the victims themselves raised the alarm and sought help from various authorities, and received none. Those complaining about Musk’s intervention need to answer this question: why where you more concerned to bury the issue than raise it?

This outrage has been given a public airing*, but those who expressed concern and fury were labelled racist, preventing the reckoning that is required. Numerous local inquiries have catalogued the gross failures of the various authorities, but the scandal has failed to incite the broader political conscience. We have discovered the limits of conscience in a class society. In liberal society, everyone expresses the love of all ‘humanity.’ In the abstract. In particular flesh, lines are drawn around class. In ‘polite’ society, the rape of thousands of working class girls at the hands of gangs of non-white men is the great unmentionable, the atrocity that dare not speak its name for the class that dare not speak its name.

*But not that much of an airing (although a little should have been more than enough).

Iain Martin at The Times challenges Nigel Farage’s claims on grooming scandal that the mainstream media “did their best not to cover it.” Martin describes that as ‘rabble rousing and simply not true.’ ‘The Times led with investigations,’ he claims.

‘I just did a search on your own paper The Times,’ Matt Goodwin responds:

Grenfell 3,300 articles/mentions

Black Lives Matter 2,320 articles/mentions

Windrush 2,159 articles/mentions

George Floyd 1,065 articles/mentions

Grooming gangs 188 articles

We can call it just another psyop from the media. We used to call it bare faced lying.

One article should have been enough.

The culture of cowardice and culpability is class-ridden to the core: ‘Thousands of girls subjected to vile abuse while officialdom, the police, the left and even many feminists looked the other way because they value communal calm more than working-class life and dignity? No wonder they wish this scandal would go away. No wonder they’re content to acknowledge it but never interrogate it. No wonder they’re more comfortable talking about a Tory MP putting his hand on a middle-class journalist’s knee. They simply lack the psychological and moral resources to reflect on what it says about their rule that thousands of poor and working-class girls were raped right under the nose of their bureaucracy.’ (Brendan O’Neill, When working-class girls were sacrificed to ideology, Spiked, 4th January 2025).

I’m less than sure that that many do actually acknowledge the atrocity. Even now, the media and academy class are at work denying it.

O’Neill has a big point in drawing attention to the ‘mammoth’ nature and scale of the scandal and the immense and interconnected questions it raises. This is what makes so many so reluctant to address the problem. It is one of the great outrages of the postwar period, and one that requires a appropriately great reckoning. As with Hillsborough, justice requires that the establishment convict and hang itself. It won’t do it. And if those demanding justice by way of national inquiry were powerful enough to indict ‘the system’ and its various authorities, it would do so. That’s the paradox in play. Justice transcends the institutions of class society. To keep channelling demands for justice through the institutions of class society is to invite failure.

This is ‘the moment the state failed, catastrophically, in its most basic duty: to protect its citizens from harm. It’s the scandal that exposes the sinister self-preserving instincts of the bureaucratic elites, who we now know will do anything to protect their ideology and influence, including turning a blind eye to the rape of destitute girls. They shout “racist!” at anyone who talks about “grooming gangs” because they know our pesky questions threaten to unravel their moral pretensions and shatter their political authority. They know what’s at stake.’ Which, if true, means that the state didn’t fail, for the reason that notions of having a moral duty of protection are purely ideological, forming part of the claim that the state serves the universal interest. We have discovered, yet again, that the state as the servant of the universal interest is an ideological project, being concerned above all with the preservation and extension of particular interests – the dominant interests. The ‘grooming gang’ outrage exposes claims to serve the universal interest for what they are – an ideological cover for dominant class interests.

Nothing exposes the dangerous aloofness of Britain’s new ruling class as much as the ‘grooming’ gang scandal does. ‘This scandal speaks to their classism, cowardice, and deep distrust of us, the public. Every step of the way in this horror, they were guided by their fear of the masses, their dread of the plebs. From their panic about stirring up “Islamophobia” to their fear of fuelling the “far right”, they confirmed, again and again, their view of everyday Brits as a mob-in-waiting, as so bigoted and volatile that we cannot be trusted with the truth about these gangs, or anything else. They failed working-class girls and then demeaned the whole public. They treated poor girls as trash and then trashed the right of everyone else to protest against it. This scandal is far from over. It has only just begun.’

The jig’s up, it’s game on.

It has long since been time to expose all those who helped cover up the crimes of the child rape gangs across the UK. The scale of the scandal is due entirely to the complicity of powerful people in the establishment as well as to a particular class of people in wider society. There are people in this country who openly and actively loathe the working class and not merely turn a blind eye to the various iniquities and indignities visited upon working class people, approve, encourage, and enjoy. Their cover was blown with Brexit. The people who expressed anger and outrage in the most vicious and abusive of terms over the leave vote patently had no knowledge of the dire social predicament of the working class across the country, and could care less. They are the same people who are happy to demand extensive and expensive governmental programmes with respect to Net Zero, oblivious of the extent to which food and energy stress impact on the less well-off. Assertions of ignorance here are actually a generous assessment – they know, and could care less. They don’t care for the working class, they hold the working class in contempt. Green politics is now part of the class war from above being waged against the working class. The working class are now disposable, unexploitable; they are being disposed of. With ‘deaths of despair,’ its members are disposing of themselves. This is the class context behind the introduction of state-sanctioned death. The lives of the working class are being made miserable as a deliberate strategy, its few joys being removed one by one. We are governed by sociopaths, but there is a class logic to the depravity.

We are told that police forces across the country refused to investigate these child rape gangs on account of being afraid of stoking racial tensions and damaging race relations. I would suggest that in a context of systematic, mass rape, race relations are already broken. That the cover up has been widespread indicates just how rotten the establishment – and wider society – is.

Drink and drugs were involved, of course. These things are rife in broken communities of broken people. We are looking at the demoralisation and destabilisation that follows deindustrialisation – working class people thrown on the scrapheap, denied a future, the continuity between the generations broken, families broken, people left without stakes in the present and hopes for the future. Without direction. A vacuum waiting to be filled.

And the comfortably off middle class liberals turn and blame victims for their own poor choices. Liberalism as the smug self-validating philosophy of the privileged. For the record, as a simple matter of criminal law, it is impossible for a girl under the age of 16 to consent to sexual intercourse in any circumstances. Police officers visited premises where young girls between the ages of 12 and 14 were found in a state of undress, worse the wear for drink and drugs, with a number of adult men. They were considered to have consented and no action was taken – other than to arrest the girls. At the same time, the smug liberals blame the parents. Up and down the country police forces refused to investigate, ignoring the law and the age of consent.

The girls made a ‘lifestyle choice,’ said Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown. That word ‘choice’ is so dear to liberals. On point of law, underage girls can’t consent to sex.

Moral cowardice, racial fear, and pure class snobbery, prejudice, and hatred lies behind this.

There are numerous reports of young girls seeking help only to be denied. Local authorities, councils, police have shown extreme reluctance to take these girls seriously. There are harrowing accounts of girls going to the authorities and asking for help, only to be ignored. There is an account of one girl going to the police saying she had been raped, they considered her to be drunk and sent her away, and she ended up being raped again. That’s the level of incompetence and complicity we are talking of. When the girls asked for help they were not taken seriously and were not just sent away but sent back into the arms of their abusers. People have sought to raise the issue, only to be dismissed as racists. We need an exposé and a clear out. There is a culture of moral cowardice but more, a culture of fear and loathing with respect to working class people. The people who are afraid that people would react angrily when the truth is admitted should know that there is a such a thing as righteous anger. Anger in face of mass rape is appropriate. Those who seek to clamp down on basic human emotions are inhuman.

The police do not operate in a vacuum. The context is a widespread contempt and loathing for working class people. This is apparent in the media. Channel 4 have commissioned a three-part documentary on false grooming allegations in Northern towns. Some quarter of a million school girls have been gang raped, and Channel 4 commissions a three-part documentary on one alleged liar. Generalising from the particular is precisely the philosophical sin that those academics who describe the grooming gangs outrage as a racist narrative cite the most. Just because x amount of people commit a crime doesn’t mean that all do. And other such trite drivel. They commit the sin themselves, going out of their way to find false allegations and using these to claim the whole issue of grooming gangs is not merely a false narrative, but racist. You need to understand that none of this is accidental. Once you grasp that there is a strategy, a purpose, and a politics behind it, the supposed anomalies – so manifestly contrary to fact and reason – make sense. The BBC have also produced a documentary on what they call ‘the fake grooming gang scandal.’ The only reality of the scandal, they argue, is the racist one of racist people. The BBC documentary went so far as to claim that the school girls who were drugged, raped, and abused were ‘more sexually experienced’ than the rapists and abusers. One of the defendants claimed in the court that he'd never even seen two people kissing yeah I mean it actually makes me. The BBC ran with the line that being good moral and religious folk, the rapists and abusers could not have been guilty. The girls, by definition, were immoral and asking for trouble.

it’s deliberate, protecting their narrative at all costs. They want people to see that and assume the entire issue is fabricated. It’s a sickening tactic designed to downplay the suffering of victims and deflect attention from the truth. Absolutely disgusting.

It’s an utter disgrace. And it won’t be addressed by a case-by-case guerrilla war. This is class war. Worse, it is a class war that is being run as a divide and conquer strategy, with corporate interests seeking to weaken a society from within, bringing about moral and social collapse. The bourgeois are its agents, tools and fools manacled and manipulated by way of their prejudices.

The police officers, senior individuals within councils, those in politics and the social services – every institution across society - ignored the issue. They all need to be rooted out. It’s another national scandal to join the others, Post Office, Grenfel, Hillsborough, how many more do people need before they see the systemic, institutional rot at the heart of British society. The UK has an establishment and system of government whose members are adept at shifting blame onto other people – and ultimately back onto the victims seeking justice. The failures by social services, the health system, the education system, the police, the councils, the judiciary, the political class indicate systemic failure across all departments of government at all levels. As with the Hillsborough Disaster, it will take more than a national inquiry to sort that out. A class struggle is not resolved by institutional redress.

 The only people who stood up for the victims were the victims, their families, and isolated others in positions of authority. I identify MP Sarah Champion, too, in Revaluing Labour, and note how she was reprimanded by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. Institutions at every level failed the victims and their families - as they did the Hillsborough victims and families. Which begs the question as to what purpose they serve, if not truth and justice?

I shall end with excerpts from my account of the Hillsborough Disaster, as one who was in the pens of Leppings Lane that fateful day:

This is about more than football. This is about who we are, what we value, the way we govern our affairs, the way we relate to each other. This is about the vital roots that feed community. The Hillsborough disaster showed that there was something very rotten in our institutions, that ‘the establishment’ had something less than the public good as their first priority. Even more important, though, the fight back of the Liverpool fans and families showed that we, the so-called ‘ordinary people’, don’t have to accept what those in positions of authority and trust do to us and what they fail to do for us.

The lies told about Liverpool fans have been shown up for what they are, not just lies, but the lies of powerful people out to cover their backs and protect their interests. Cold iniquitous power carries on not just by force but by fraud, and it’s not the lies that are the problem so much as the fact that so many amongst the governed are prepared to believe them. The lesson is much greater than this. No matter how dire the situation we find ourselves in, we can do always something about it. In reclaiming the human dignity of the dead and the injured and the scarred of Hillsborough, the Liverpool campaigners reclaimed our status as citizens in a public realm that we can call our own. This is a universal theme, an enduring message to all those seeking to transform politics and society.

The effects of the disaster have reached out from Liverpool to be felt throughout the land, raising questions about authority, politics, the law, the media. But most of all the aftermath of the disaster and the response to it raises questions about ourselves: who we are, what do we expect of ourselves, of others, for ourselves, for others? How do we wish to live? Do we live for ourselves only? If I am not for others, who will be for me?

These are the deepest questions. The Liverpool campaigners answered those questions with a strength and a clarity that, finally, the massed ranks of the establishment, from incompetent, mendacious police to cynical journalists to pusillanimous politicians, had to acknowledge. Finally, the authorities have had to concede. That they could lie so big for so long says something about the institutions which purport to govern our common affairs. That they have had to give in says even more about what we can do to reclaim the government of our lives and settle that government on human dignity and decency and justice. The Hillsborough Justice campaign has been a lesson to the world as to how we may reclaim the public realm from those who misgovern and misrepresent us.

The Liverpool fans and families have done more than win a victory for truth and justice, they have shown that the attainment of these things are no mere factual settling of accounts, but are essential to giving value and meaning to life. The efforts of the Hillsborough campaigners over the period of twenty five years have given us a glimpse of a possible future and an example of how we may achieve it.

I've made my views on Hillsborough public many times. To no great response. It's almost as if middle class liberals and progressives think football supporters are hooligans, thugs, and 'far right' racists - much like the white working class in general ... Take a long, hard look at yourselves. The greatest transfer of wealth and resources to the rich in history has been underway, and the dominant voices in protest and politics are busy with causes that do nothing to check the corporatisation of the world, and plenty that advance it.