PM announces national inquiry into grooming gangs

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1. Forced into it. Shame on Starmer and Labour for it taking this long to u-turn, and shame on those who were defending their decision not to (there were lots of you on here).

2. The Casey Review must be an absolute horror of official failings for Starmer to announce an enquiry even before its published. I suspect some heads will be rolling after the dust settles on all of this.

3. If it brings up nothing new from the previous one then this will have been a waste of time and money to appease people who will never be appeased.

   I hope the survivors get the help and support they require and stop getting used as a political football.

4. Good.
   I’m from the Muslim community and want the noncery stamped out conclusively.

5. The odds of this reporting prior to the 2029 election are minimal.

   And even ignoring that, unless it somehow comes back and says “deport all Muslims now!” it will be derided by Farage and his client press as a whitewash.

6. Also do one on social workers and police calling abused girls prostitutes and fobbing off concerned parents because let’s face it they were classist and misogynistic and thought the girls deserved it.

   I expect pervy fucks to be pervy fucks and for men to close ranks and protect eachother but social workers and police are literally paid to do the exact opposite yet protected abusers.

7. I’m interested in what changed Casey’s mind on the necessity for an inquiry. Speculation on my part I guess, but something pretty damning must have been found

8. Nothing will be found and people who call it out in the future will be called racist.

9. How about a National Enquiry into why both the Police and Social Services ignored these young girls for years, constantly dismissed them and never followed up on the numerous complaints…

   Oh that is right, we don’t need one because we all it was because they came from poor / deprived backgrounds so that makes it okay

10. Can’t wait for civil servants to kneecap this, like when they removed the previous investigator of the Jay Inquiry, Dame Lowell Goddard.

11. Labour really need to totally redo their comms strategy. They push back against this for months, piss everyone off, and then when everyone forgets, they announce that they will do it. 

12. Why do I feel like most government enquiries turn up less of the truth than I could by just walking into a few local pubs and asking about?

13. > [Starmer] added that Baroness Casey had originally thought a new inquiry was not necessary, but she had changed her mind having looked into it in recent months.

    Sounds like announcing the inquiry is reasonable, if that is the case. Of course, we’ll have to see what the terms of reference are. I see from the article that Farage has already prepared his attack line, and why – no matter what the inquiry does or says – it will be the fault of the “establishment.”

    That said, while I don’t think it is true, I like the idea of everyone going “oh, we don’t really need another inquiry, and then Louise Casey – concerned about where her next pay cheque is coming from – saying, well, I can always recommend another…” She’s been living off these government inquiries and investigations for 20 years or so.

    > Reacting to Saturday’s announcement, the party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, said: “Keir Starmer doesn’t know what he thinks unless an official report has told him so.

    There is something to be said for this. Obviously it is good for the Government to follow recommendations of official reports, rather than the other way around (fixing official reports to match the Government’s political agenda – as the Conservatives prefer). On the other hand, Starmer could do with having some opinions of his own at some point, and pushing things for ideological reasons, not just because there is a report saying it.

    Plus then you have some reports (like the Cass Review) which aren’t worth the paper they are printed on, and it is important that Stamer recognise which reports are worth following, not just blindly trusting them all.

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