Nigel Farage has just refused to answer the question, from The Critic of all outlets, of whether he thought that advertisers should use fewer black actors. Still, come on, Shockat Adam, Jeremy Corbyn, Adnan Hussain, Ayoub Khan and Iqbal Mohamed, volunteer to be on Farage's parliamentary committee of inquiry into the grooming gangs. So long as he withdrew the Reform UK whip from Sarah Pochin.
Pochin's defenders have moved on to drama, complaining that there are too many black characters. Yes, really. But EastEnders, Coronation Street, and most of the 9pm flagship dramas are set in the big cities. If anything, EastEnders, in particular, would be "too white", although it could reply that it was largely about families that were supposed to have been several generations into living in Walford in 1985. But this is all the wrong question. Why does that point need to be made?
It wasn't this bad in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteRelatives and friends say that they can never remember it like this.
DeleteEllie Reynolds, one of the victims who resigned from Starmer’s rigged enquiry, has just told the press conference sat next to Nigel Farage “I find it quite overwhelming that every one of these media here has written something about a comment that’s been made by Sarah Pochin, which is fair enough, but it’s taken them decades to report these gangs of Muslim men that are raping our children because they’re white. That’s also racially motivated and it is racist.”
ReplyDeleteHear, hear! Bravo to Ellie Reynolds, what a brave young woman.
If white paedophile rings were specifically targeting non-white girls for abuse across the country, do you think Labour councils, police and social workers would have covered it up for decades and then tried to first block and then sabotage a national enquiry into it? We know the answer.
We do, because they were.
DeleteThere is a LOT more to come out, Anon 17:41 must be very young but he should still ask around.
DeleteIt may never come out. Imagine the ramifications if it all did. But we know. And they know that we know.
DeleteAin't that the truth. What do you think of the treatment of victims as experts?
DeleteIt needs to be handled very, very carefully. Farage would not say how he and Reynolds knew each other.
DeleteIn years to come there'll be terrible stories of abused children who were ignored because they didn't fit this narrative. Male victims, female perpetrators, non-white victims, non-Muslim perpetrators and so on.
DeleteThat is already largely the case.
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