The Labour government’s decision to reject a local town (Oldham) council’s plea seeking a national inquiry into the grooming gangs’ scandal has been made keeping in mind the vote bank of the ruling party, sources familiar with the issue told ET.
The issue has recently been brought to focus by Elon Musk. On X Musk said “So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to be in prison for this”. Musk even blamed the current UK PM for the crisis.
“In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013,” Musk wrote.
It is no secret that British citizens of Pakistani origin British citizens are among the biggest vote banks of the ruling Labour party. Sources alledged that police in the UK has deliberately covered up the child sexual exploitation by Pakistani-Afghani grooming gangs for decades for vote bank considerations of political parties.
The issue of Pakistani-origin men-led grooming gangs raping vulnerable white and other non-Muslim girls first became widely known in UK towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford.Beginning in the 1980s in the British town of Telford, girls as young as 11 were picked up, raped, beaten, sold, and even killed by grooming gangs or rape gangs for four decades.The UK National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) claimed in a 2023 report that there has been an 82% increase in online grooming offences against youngsters over the past five years.