Pakistani taxi drivers join Catholic priests as the only people who can expect any media disapproval if they have sex with 13 and 14-year-olds. Even in the case of teachers, that is extended only if the perpetrators are male and the victims are female.
Sex between men and teenage boys, especially, is otherwise the stuff of acclaimed television drama and of the novels of a National Treasure. Sex between women and teenage boys is treated as a joke even when it goes to court, as it almost never does.
On Rotherham, meanwhile, what says the valiant trio of Tom Watson, Simon Danczuk and John Mann on the question of whether this is primarily about "Pakis" or what have you, or primarily about middle-class white neglect of working-class white girls?
Whether or not the inhabitants of Rotherham blame the Labour Party, as sections of Twitter would have them do, will be as evident on the day after the forthcoming General Election as it was on the day after the Police and Crime Commissioner Election that had resulted directly from these events.
Alas, the doomed UKIP candidate at Rotherham is not the PCC one, who had failed to notice anything remotely amiss throughout his several decades on the Force.
Whether or not the inhabitants of Rotherham blame the Labour Party, as sections of Twitter would have them do, will be as evident on the day after the forthcoming General Election as it was on the day after the Police and Crime Commissioner Election that had resulted directly from these events.
Alas, the doomed UKIP candidate at Rotherham is not the PCC one, who had failed to notice anything remotely amiss throughout his several decades on the Force.
Nothing even happened in Rotherham
ReplyDeleteOh, but it did.
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