Are there ‘grooming gangs’ in London? Sadiq Khan accused of stonewalling Tory questions. Susan Hall asks mayor nine times whether there are ‘rape gangs’ in the capital.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/grooming-gangs-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-stonewalling-tory-questions-b1205508.html
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Video in the link.
“But Sir Sadiq repeatedly asked Ms Hall, the former Tory mayoral candidate, to clarify what she meant by grooming gangs, claiming: “I’m not clear what she means.”
He said young people were being “groomed” in London by County Lines drugs gangs.
Ms Hall made clear she was referring to “rape gangs” that prey on girls and young women for sex, and mentioned cases in Rotherham and Bradford.
In her questions to the mayor on Thursday, Ms Hall chose not to make any reference to the heritage, nationality or religion of any alleged perpetrators.
The City Hall clash came only hours before Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced small-scale local investigations in five areas after weeks of pressure for a new national inquiry.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has linked the grooming scandals to “peasants” from “sub-communities” while former Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has blamed “alien cultures”.
Ms Hall told The Standard on Friday: “Sadiq Khan needs to take this seriously.
“The public deserve answers, not a mayor who plays schoolyard games to avoid answering questions and who chooses to stonewall instead of being open.”
Grooming gangs in London should look at the houses of Parliament and among the royal family
To which the response should be “I don’t know, ask your friends in your party who did sod all on this for several years and who have now decided this is a convenient thing to kick the government over.”
He just doesn’t seem to care.
Good. We all know she’s not after a genuine answer, she’s after something she can take out of context and use to shit-stir.
When she ran for Mayor two thirds of Londoners said her social media activity was completely racist. That’s why she lost and that’s why she cannot be trusted now. Asking if there are Grooming Gangs in London is like asking if there are Gangs in London or people who Groom Children (the majority of which are white by the way).
The UK deserves better than this bollocks. Elon Musk and Farage turning the very heads that need the most help and support. Focused on boats and Grooming Gangs and not why they are having to use Food Banks or have no heating or Dentist. Labour have said this week that they will be holding another enquiry but what does that matter when the aim of this discourse is not to give victims answers and justice but to feed the racism for votes pathway used by Tories and Reform.
Susan “I could have been a contender if my wallet hadn’t been ‘stolen’” Hall.
Apparently the Conservatives don’t have policies any more, they just have culture war scaremongering.
What an odious snake he is.
There’s probably grooming gangs in every city.
Are these different from the grooming Hans that the Tory’s allowed to run riot in their 14 years in charge or are they different ones that have suddenly come up in the last 6 months??
More people live in London than Scotland & Whales combined, statistically its near certain there will be grooming gangs
Susan Hall is crazy – deserves to be ignored.
Our new overlord Herr Musk deciding the narrative again.
I’m not a fan of the guy let me start by saying that.
He says yes :
SK admits there are grooming gangs in London, yet not doing anything about it.
He says maybe :
SK the mayor of London doesn’t even know how many grooming gangs are operating in London.
He says working on it :
SK on this tab consecutive term term still failing to eradicate grooming gangs that he admits is operating in London.
If Susan hall is sure that there is grooming gangs in London, why don’t she tell the police and go arrest them?
Ok, let’s take a step back from the whole “He didn’t confirm my assumptions, therefore he’s evil” tone which everyone in this thread seems to be taking.
What answer doesn’t result in bad shit, here?
If he says “yes” (which let’s be fair, in a city with nearly 9 million people is likely), then he’s immediately pressured to tell the police to arrest them, which might be premature and mean there isn’t enough evidence for a conviction. If he doesn’t issue those orders, for the perfectly sensible reason that we actually want rapists to go to prison, not be released because of lack of evidence, then all the papers immediately run that he doesn’t care.
If he says “I don’t know”, then he’s criticised for not giving the issue any attention, which is almost certainly untrue and unfair.
If he says “No”, even if this is what all the information the police have says is true, the moment two mates rape a girl, he’s immediately going to be called a liar.
There’s no good option to this question. The truth, no matter what it is, doesn’t work and neither will lies. His refusal to answer is honestly the sensible course of action.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
What did the Tory’s do under there watch?
She is a bad faith actor with no interest in public service, only power.
The same Susan Hall who claimed to have been pick pocketed and then her purse was handed into the police after she had actually dropped it?
Almost every secondary school in the country has early to middle 20s men hanging around waiting for their “girlfriends”, and they aren’t all in the upper sixth.
Those of you defending Khan here, make me sick. It’s a simple question and is pretending to “not know what she means” so he can bait her into saying Pakistani and then label her a racist. What a vile man he is
Now whenever I take my dog to the groomers I think they’re going to rape him.
Isn’t this an issue for the police?
Its part and parcel bigots.
Here’s a wild one. Why doesn’t he just stop bullshitting and tell the truth?
I know this is an alien concept but assuming this is actually correct : “The police are pretty sure there are unfortunately, they are working hard to track down potential victims and arrest all perpetrators immediately. We must rid the country of this scourge immediately at any cost”
However unfortunately the fact he skirts around it and doesn’t give that answer just makes him seem complicit.
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