Chaired by Wes Streeting, Jess Phillips’s brief Leadership campaign was supported by Peter Kyle, that close friend, closest ally, and former lover of Ivor Caplin, whose bail expired yesterday to no apparent effect.
It was also backed by Kyle’s political patroness and Anna Turley’s, who had been Chief Whip at the time of the Iraq War, when the Whips’ Office had included Caplin, Phil Woolas, and Dan Norris, who was also close to Caplin, and whose proxy vote is still cast by the Whips. All three were made Ministers soon after the vote on Iraq.
That nexus belongs nowhere near the grooming gangs inquiry or Phillips’s present portfolio. Or any portfolio. Or Parliament at all. But if not this inquiry, then what? A Royal Commission?
Nothing is ever going to satisfy the people who have a fixed version of what "must" have happened, that this is just what Muslims do and it was covered up by Labour councils depending on Muslim votes.
ReplyDeletePhillips herself told the Commons that there were policemen among the perpetrators. Were they Pakistani, or Muslim? Is Ghislaine Maxwell? And Muslims hardly do vote Labour anymore, anyway.
Delete"Labour protected them to keep Muslims voting Labour" didn't work then did it?
ReplyDeleteThat is not Labour's base. Labour has been protecting its real one, though.
DeleteYou're right, except under Corbyn Muslims haven't been very Labour since Iraq and are very anti-Labour under Starmer. This is about protecting the social work establishment in councils, academia, consultancies and all that. You've been writing for 20 years about the normalisation of adult-adolescent sex in that field. It's also full of core Labour voters and often members, middle-class, usually white, mostly female. Phillips has let the cat out of the bag that some of the perpetrators were police, are they Pakistanis? It would be still wrong but more accurate to blame the Masons.
DeleteI agree with all of that, except that I have been going on for at lot longer than 20 years "about the normalisation of adult-adolescent sex in that field".
DeleteYes, that's why the victims don't want it chaired by either a social worker or a copper.
DeleteAnd that is why the Government does want one or the other.
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