Grooming gangs: Jess Phillips slates Tory condemnation of abuse towards her

[@brubeker12]

Make note the Tories did nothing to implement the recommendations from the child abuse enquiries not one single recommendation.

[@grahambuckerfield4640]

Ministers who didn’t include Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch.

[@Doherty0182]

It’s also worth considering that Labour haven’t decided to do anything about it until now with the current pressure. You’d think it would’ve been the first priority when getting voted in instead of giving pay rises to their mates. You’d also think they would’ve hounded the tories for the entire 14 years to but it was rarely brought up. Shows that both parties never really cared until. Despite their attempts to dress it up.

[@Oflaherty86]

Andy Burnham has requested inquiries in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale, it's even resulted in a new police investigation.

[@nasty__nancy998]

Jess phillips turned a blind eye so not to offend her pakistani brotherhood.

[@Oflaherty86]

@@nasty__nancy998 I'm from her constituency and call BS. Bet you haven't even bothered to look at her Wikipedia page.

[@gertrudert]

"...but we've lost a decade, and we need to get on with it now" is such a good descriptor for basically the whole of the last Tory rule

[@nickjackson5534]

Tory rule with Labour objections to everything Conservative tried to do. Then Labour biggest hippocrates in our history. Jesse P another one not fit for office.

[@robertaskew3677]

@@gertrudert yes Surprised that Labour don’t want another review, BECAUSE they have very dirty hands ,the only person who lost her job was the police commissioner who exposed the rape gangs in the first place, WE need a review to see how deep this really goes this is not about only the poor girls but those in charge !

[@DarkKnife1100]

Nothing more conservative than doing nothing .-.

[@grumblegroan]

How disgusting using child rape as a political weapon , shame on you

[@DW-indeed]

​@@grumblegroanand yet you're the one holding the weapon. The OP's point is a matter of fact.

[@drcommonsense1]

Those of us with an IQ higher than a potato know this topic, and noise is merely a distract and smear tactic. Those making noise have little care for the victims but want to use them for political gain. Disgusting. Shame on them all.

[@Linda-XYZ-b8g]

I remember when Boris Johnson said Conservatives should not be " spaffing money up the wall" on Child Sex Abuse issue😮

[@BananaCologne]

Yeah - and I heard on LBC today that funding for all the relevant organisations under the Conservative administration worked out as something like 40-odd quid per Child per year too! As a Survivor of s.a. myself, I sat listening to the radio most of today with my jaw open, fuming at the hypocrisy of the Tories who could have at least started to action those 12 recommendations from the 7 year enquiry with a simple stroke of a pen as it landed on their desks in its completed form an entire 18 months before they lost the election, but what did they do? *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING*

[@findstephen70]

Gulpy McGulpy is a disgrace to our Parliament, how he kept his seat is beyond me

[@SJ-fr7jp]

Blame the people of Croydon South

[@mattpalmer1109]

It's really unnerving!

[@findstephen70]

@ wow & how 🤯, he’s literally one of the worst MPs in the history of some shocking ones like Johnson or Truss

[@glyndavies]

What a weasel!

[@kendiamond8722]

I'm saying that they are all the same, terrible narcissistic bigoted freeloaders, easy street, It's a party without a name, they don't stand up for the workers anymore, and they are heading in the wrong direction 😂

[@FatPandaCat-im9ec]

The tories should be thrown out for daring to politicise the grooming gangs. Their own Home Secretary rejected calls for another national inquiry and in the entire 14 years of their tenure they haven’t implemented a single recommendation from the report. How they have the shame to criticise a government for not doing in 6 months what they themselves ignored for 14 years is disgusting.

[@tdtm82]

Indeed. The hyprocrisy is astounding. The right-wing press taking this on full-tilt and blaming Labour is also a scandal. It's a political move by Kemi because it was on Twitter and she used it for leverage against Labour becuase she's desparate.

[@socillizt4life]

@@dianamincher6479 What does the skin tone of anybody have to do with anything ? Suella Bravarmen is not “black” btw. She is of Indian descent & is brown skinned but that’s got absolutely nothing to do with her being the most racist & anti Muslim politician of my 45 years on this planet & I’ve followed U.K politics very closely my entire adult life.

[@andrewmark2783]

​@@dianamincher6479Braverman isn't black...

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Gordon Brown told police to ignore these crimes because they were 'lifestyle choices' by the victims. So I suggest you wind your neck in.

[@garydownes2111]

@@dianamincher6479 wow you made legitimate criticism racist somehow. reported.

[@StevenGoundry]

Everybody involved in the cover up of these crimes should be in prison

[@adrianshaw7293]

You've fallen for the far right lack of intelligence test.

[@elwolf8536]

All of them

[@mikeh5656]

@@StevenGoundry Amen.

[@apathyintheuk265]

That's a hell of a lot of politicians from all parties, religious organisations and police.

[@ivermektin6874]

They run the prisons, they pay and appoint the judges.

[@serpentinefire77]

So what did the Tories do in their 14 years of government to protect children from abuse? SFA.

[@darylsmith9455]

And Labour just covered it up in the first place . Both parties are a disgrace.

[@Tallorder-n]

The question is, what will Labour do? It would appear...NOTHING! It's already a crime to sexually groom children, already a crime to traffik minors for sex ...... Just get on with policing this properly, it still continues today, what is Labour going to do? That is the question, they now have access to more information than ever before about these crimes ......but all they can do is call everyone wanting to get to the bottom of this 'Far right'. Ludicrous

[@RightisRight-e3b]

Nothing, but at least they didn't do what you lefties did and accuse anybody who raised the issue of being a racist so don't even try and take the moral high ground.

[@serpentinefire77]

@@darylsmith9455 How did they cover it up? There was no cover-up at national level. Once the charges had been made for the numerous grooming gangs, they were imprisoned and then the investigations and enquiries were held, the huge national commission was finalized after 7 years in 2022 and the Tories didn't implement any recommendations.

[@darinharrison3900]

@@serpentinefire77 and who was in charge of the CPS when these reports were filed? Same bloke who didn’t prosecute Saville I believe.

[@ecwfanatic]

14 years of lining the pockets of their mates, parties, scandals and lies. Everyone either has a very short term memory when complaining about this not being fixed or they're bots

[@drcommonsense1]

Exactly. People like Lee Anderson making noise is pathetic. Nothing was done when he was part of the Tory govt. He is more complicit than anyone he is attacking.

[@MinkieWinkle]

Remind me again which party paid off all the banks in 08.... oh yeah. Labour

[@lloydjones4882]

@@ecwfanatic hmmmm after all the scandals from starmer, Sadiq, rayner and reeves......I'm surprised you've got the nerve to say anything.......

[@paulchristopher746]

It is the 40 year failure of successive governments. Labour are just the most recent.

[@Oliver-fu1go]

Amazing how Tories can try take the high ground saying they’re above the racial element of this and not racist to care about this, but didn’t actually do anything to act on these recommendations.

[@Themanwithnoname386]

Absolutely correct. The Conservatives did nothing, which provides labour with the perfect excuse not to do anything either.

[@trailersfromhell2539]

Please remind me which party ran most of the councils in the towns and cities where this was an issue.

[@MinotaurSauce]

"we're not racist or far right but one of the very first things I will mention about these abusers is their race"

[@trailersfromhell2539]

@@MinotaurSauce And?

[@Linda-XYZ-b8g]

Boris Johnson once said throwing money at CSA is " spaffing money up the wall" .Tories aren't innocent either!

[@Albemarle7]

This was not a scandal, but Act Of War against the British people.

[@shoelessjoe428]

Anyone else find it weird that people who pal around with Trump, Hegseth or Gaetz are suddenly concerned with historical sex crimes in Britain? What a disingenuous performance. I also wonder how much work Farage has done to tackle child abuse in Clacton? Do these people really care or is it just a vehicle for their own careers.

[@genevievedolan1288]

A vehicle for something. Not sure what their game is, except they want to destabilize governments everywhere to advance their political aims. I don’t think they care about girls or women’s rights. Unfortunately their interest in the grooming gangs is going to make it even harder to get the inquiry that should definitely happen. If it is called now it will look like the government caved into them. All the things she says here sound good. But why hasn’t a full inquiry into who was complicit never happened?

[@simondebeer9917]

He’s only been an mp for a months you twit

[@Milominderbender586]

I think the answer to your question is blindingly obvious.

[@cptsteele91]

I didn't think Farage made a habit of being in or around his constituency, much less his constituents, more interested in being a loudmouth on TV. Honestly I'm appalled that people are turning this into a left vs right political thing, altogether missing the point entirely, it isn't an issue of party politics it's a major issue of safeguarding children and the police as well as local councils entirely failing the people they're there to serve and classism seems largely to blame for the apathy from the authorities (to the point where I'm wondering whicn wrong posh girl has been targeted that we're even talking about it now honestly) neither sides hands are clean on the government's end, it has been known about since 1997 at least that's 27 years and it continues to this day, we have been through both labour and the conservatives governments in that time, neither did anything, both are deplorable for that, the fact that it's being boiled down to left vs right just shows that even now they don't actually give a scuttering fuck about the victims and are fully prioritising their careers still.

[@kyorin6526]

A rhetorical question...

[@paulking2039]

The Tories had 14 long tedious years for an inquiry. Why now and not when the Tories were in power ?

[@davidcolin6519]

They had 2 enquiries, as was pointed out by Ms Cooper. They did nothing of any substance.

[@nerojay2105]

Okay so let’s assume the tories failed these girls… why do you want labor to fail them again? Makes absolutely no sense.

[@martygrimsted4290]

It started and became a problem under Blair

[@segue2ant395]

@@martygrimsted4290 Something like half of Thatcher's cabinet were found to be nonces, wife-beaters, rapists, and gropers. That's who you're lying to protect, FYI.

[@clemfandango619]

​@davidcolin6519 it was a whitewash.

[@Martin36544]

The Tories trying to ride the Tiger again. We all know where it ends

[@markgt894]

That isn't the story here, try getting outside your partisan bubble

[@DJB01]

@@markgt894indeed. Yvette Cooper sums the story up at 4:38, then goes on to say what labour will do about it.

[@markbedwell3100]

@@DJB01Labour will do nothing, the Tories will do nothing, neither actually cares. This has been going on for decades. Have you even read any of the old transcripts of what was actually done to these girls? I wouldn’t advise you do, it’s not something you can unread. If your response to a problem with a group of men, within one culture , is to start talking far right, you are playing politics. These girls were let down because their complaints ignored by politicians, the police, social services. No one wanted to hear. You guys are the problem.

[@ELYASELYAS]

@@markgt894It is exactly the story. A disgusting bunch of opportunists thinking they can manipulate gammons like you but in the end it's our society that suffers the consequences of dimwitted ignoramuses thinking they're the sharpest tool in the shed, and getting excited about racism.

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@DJB01Lots of deluded Labour supporters on here or should I say red Tory supporters.

[@albertbrammer9263]

All the Tories cared about was spending time on an expensive, failed Rwanda scheme

[@fleurtaylor7311]

And PPE contracts to cronies.

[@davidcolin6519]

@@fleurtaylor7311 And cancelling the one major infrastructure project that they started. The one common denominator? support for Tory party donors.

[@dianamincher6479]

Conservative Black Braverman and Badenoch abandoned the children to spend time and money on themselves¬

[@God-Almighty]

Albert U sad old man . Should remove the vote from you oldies , you seen U not going to be here to experience it you see

[@socillizt4life]

🎯 100% fact.

[@p0ssiblypossiblynot557]

If you want to know how seriously all parties have taken child abuse, in all it's forms until now - Look at the sentences imposed upon offenders...

[@calum696]

The Tories allowed this to happen. Making a scale out of something and attaching it to a government that's been in power 6 months is just lazy.

[@terencepowell-c4o]

Starmer was head of crown prosecution even now he won't listen to whistleblowers

[@mcr2356]

​@@terencepowell-c4oHe was literally mentioned in the last report for the positive progress under the CPS when he was in charge

[@simondebeer9917]

Stop making it party political, both parties are complicit

[@findstephen70]

@ no they are not, stop being an apologist for a government who did nothing, this was first bought to public attention in 2011 & was ignored until cases were reopened in 2018 because a head of the CPS & head of DPP were both new into the roles & tackled it head on including changing policy specifically to reopen cases & prosecute, who where the two people running it then 🤔

[@andrewganner6581]

And so was labour complicit

[@DavidHeffron78]

Where is the Leader of the Opposition? Couldn't be bothered?

[@jamv2122]

hiding he's to embarrassed to show himself cause he knows he would be asked about said gangs because he was chief prosecutor and fumbled many a time. he be more effective as a rodeo clown. dont like the fact that they are going to further work with them on data being published on ethnicity that sounds like there directly interfering with data. especially when they say the accuracy and robustness of data and analysis if the data is already done and published. you wouldnt publish your first draft so this to me feels like government overreach. or only allowing half truths to be published.

[@christommo4402]

@jamv2122 Well said sir!!

[@Generalscorpio]

If a government minister is addressing the house, their counterpart in the shadow cabinet is the one who's required to be there.

[@jamv2122]

@@christommo4402 funny enough my comment seems to be deleted must have hit a nerve.

[@nasty__nancy998]

Funny how you didnt noticed that keir starmer was missing.

[@eddjordan2399]

Tories blaming there failures on labor they should be ashamed

[@Themanwithnoname386]

Both parties are culpable.

[@jamessherburn]

The whinning and spitting B team fielded by ashamed and guttless senior Tories.

[@Thelawyer-e9d]

Labour run council's 😅😅😅

[@EdgyNumber1]

Tories had 14 years to deal with it..... Labour's said they'll deal with it from today.

[@douglastodd1947]

Whilst Starmer was @ The CPS from 2002 Queens Bench then Promoted to Director 2008 The Rochdale Rape Gang Enquiry was going on , Someone issed a Directive to Prosecutors & Police not To Arrest or Prosecute these Muslim Rape Gangs for Fear of Racial Tension ,, Pity if it hadn't been Covered Up , it wouldn't be 1 to 300,000 Victims as the numbers quoted since this became known or was first heard of in early 70's that's a 50yr period the estimated 1,000,000 Million is beginning to sound pretty close to true 20,000 per yr. average

[@Paul-b5g]

Both political parties are too blame,you are all involved. Disgraceful politicians

[@simonmitchell5801]

Wow some sort of new world record for the most bot comments in under 60 seconds 😂

[@MegaKapo12]

The space karen special

[@clemfandango619]

Not liking what you see?

[@CapraDemon101]

Calling people bots when you yourself clearly only think in binary, is wild.

[@JS51-q1i]

@@CapraDemon101wow! Clever boy!

[@davetdowell]

We know CSE crimes are the most vile of all Yvette, the question is why has the entirity of the British state done nothing at all about it for years.

[@philcudworth8491]

The waffle centre of the world. Millions of words, miniscule action.

[@Wokevolution]

Nice words, now let's see the action? We have to remember the victims are "CHILDREN"

[@cmwau]

The abuse was uncovered whilst Labour was in power and they had 13 years to address prior to the Tories getting in. In addition most cases were in Labour council/Labour MP towns and cities and when a few decent MPs councillors tried to address they were sacked. It is reported by Maggie Oliver that Gordon Brown, when PM sent a memo telling police forces not to prosecute. Starmer as lead for CPS didnt do enough. The Tories did not do enough, but is that an excuse for the current govt to block a national enquiry and to constantly on every matter blame the past Govt.

[@suejames6808]

Well said👏👏👏

[@kat2023.]

I really admire Jess. She's down to earth, and she genuinely cares about women and girl issues. She's a lovely lady and doesn't deserve the crap that Musk rat has been spouting. She cam hold her head high, its not her, Starmer or labour who let those girls down so badly.

[@mattpalmer1109]

Agreed!

[@Big_Johnson_Long]

She blocked a request from Oldham council for a national level, independent inquiry into these crimes. All in order to protect herself, her boss and her party from the political damage. Musk is just calling it as he sees it.

[@christommo4402]

Are you that stupid?? She is refusing an enquiry that would hold people accountable for not protecting vulnerable young girls. Honestly are you lefties that stupid??

[@Relisysification]

when I had her as my MP she was amazing, and whilst she had a number of very important things on her hands she didn't let that remove her focus for Birmingham Yardley and all of her constituents (even the horrible ones who treated her poorly during the election)

[@rosskrizevac9777]

Phillips said on Question Time that events akin to the mass sexual assaults in Cologne happened every week on Birmingham's Broad Street.

[@mikeh5656]

We need to tackle one of the biggest issues in all of this, which is the authorities responsible for pandering to race grifters need hauling over the coals, and maybe some of the countless funds by police and local authorities wasted on inclusion and diversity workshops or putting together Islamophobia weeks, might instead go towards holding people to account and ensuring it doesn't happen again. Also, rape by ethnicity against population off the back of this should become public information. % of white men committing rape by ethnicity is.......% of Pakistani men committing rape by ethnicity is........ Then we will see where this is more prevalent, and where we need to do the work. I'm afraid as we saw over 10 years ago, referring it to 'community leaders' to deliver sermons in the mosques simply isn't good enough. We aren't Sharia, our community leaders are the council and the Police. They need to deal with this appropriately. And if it turns out to be as big a problem as suspected, the immigration situation becomes even more apparent

[@simondebeer9917]

Excellent points

[@kevinwoplin9322]

Nailed it

[@AbigailBrown-y4g]

The Tories should be ashamed of themselves

[@nemz7505]

Where are the charges against those in authorities who failed to protect these children?

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Did you not watch the video? It is not currently a crime, the Home Secretary pledged to make it one in her policing bill due in a couple of months.

[@Toracube]

Saying the Tories did nothing about Pakistani grooming gangs isn’t an excuse for you to do nothing,

[@pmyumjr]

Did you not watch the video seems they have a pretty comprehensive plan of action.

[@Themanwithnoname386]

These things happened mainly in labour areas.

[@MagicSecretsandMysteries]

@@Themanwithnoname386 you say that yet labor are the ones willing to tackle the problem. When the politics is as polar as it is today, labour MPs are the only adults in the room thats willing to tackle the challenges indiscriminately.

[@maxrandolph6964]

Did you listen to any of the video 😅

[@Themanwithnoname386]

@maxrandolph6964 sure, I listened to MPs talking...and talking. Just like I listened to The torys talking and talking.

[@frederickdeslauriers8754]

Tories who are guilty of covering up needs to be jail NOW

[@Heshhion]

Words, all I hear is words - Again..

[@wendyknight9574]

Were you listening to the content of the series of Bills and frameworks to be brought before Parliament THIS Spring?

[@Nicbascan]

Maggie on the other hand was willing to sacrifice her career to support these victims! Why can’t more people be like Maggie?

[@jillkemp5521]

Maggy who? If it's thatcher, you must be aware that she was pals with Saville, along with currie. It was thatcher who allowed Saville complete access to patients In stoke Mandeville, have an office in broadmoor hospital, Rampton and ashworth hospitals. A relative met Saville at one of the hospitals and thought him a creep.

[@Nicbascan]

@ Maggie Oliver ! My last message just got deleted and all I said was Maggie Oliver 🤷‍♀️

[@sqrd3536]

Reckless statements and arrogance will cost Labour many votes. Insuniating that concerned citizens, victims and their families are Far Right is disgraceful. A public enquiry and a meaningful public apology would put this to rest.

[@34xrfad]

Thank you for speaking ln depth like this. The carpet has become too thin to brush so many of these crimes under the carpet.

[@juliusoba6488]

She’s quick to mention the Church of England but stayed silent on the religion of the gangs.

[@pausereflect5911]

Catholic Church is the actual Church!

[@fil9982]

I know not surprisingly from this disgusting woman

[@pilninggas]

You've got to be some special sort of scum to be told a child in your area is being abused/coerced/trafficked and say "no don't do anything, the abuser is part of a minority". Regardless of political persuasion, we need some deep questions about how this even became a thing.

[@flyingdutchman3483]

IT seems the Conservatives sat on this report and did nothing and now Labour are implementing some of the recommendations the Conservatives along with Reform and not forgetting Elon Musk who seems to be driving this on behalf of the right want another report. But it seems the right want to keep inferring that these horrendous crimes are solely committed by people of colour so that the right can continue to blame all of Britains problems on immigrants..... Why don't these 2 parties on the right just say 'We are Racist' and be done with it, because it is becoming plain to everyone they are, and then it will enable our right wing press and media to be honest and acknowledge they wish to pursue racist agendas.

[@simondebeer9917]

And your comment reveals exactly why this was covered up for so long. Didn’t you listen to cooper reading some of the findings. All races commit this crime but it’s only those committed by the Pakistani grooming gangs which were covered up for fear of being called racist. And here you are doing exactly that again, calling those who highlight this particular issue as being racist or right wing. You should be ashamed

[@terencepowell-c4o]

Its all talk get on and do something useless mps why are we paying them

[@garysmith5641]

if you hate rapists you are far right ?. We want the people responsible in the councils that covered it up facing justice along with the police that helped . Is that normal or far right ? please i need to know what direction we are in ?

[@mcbunson]

Well now it is going to be criminal offense to cover it up thanks to labour. Unfortunately in this case laws can't be retrospective so years and years of inaction have failed many victims.

[@kevinsmarts9953]

It is not far-right to want justice or to see justice served. It is far-right to make a crime that is mostly committed by white men in a mostly white country somehow a problem due to immigration. Hope that clarifies.

[@garysmith5641]

@@mcbunson you are talking as if its over lol or in the 50 other citys and towns

[@lumc15]

It should be a public enquiry. All cases should be dealt to the end. Those people should be in prison or sent wherever they are from. They are young girls innocent and scared by these men.... How disgusting can it be???????

[@franksidebottom8503]

After 14 years in power the Tories are now the hot dog guy party. And they are very angry about whoever caused this mess.

[@gertrudert]

Wow, actually felt proud of our politicians for a nice long moment there, and then the Tory stood up and somehow made it feel slimy and racist again, even though he wasn't disagreeing with any of the very fair points Labour had made

[@WallE-p1f]

Repeated the same baseless racist rhetoric, showing no understanding of the facts, the figures involved or providing any evidence for who covered up what. Independent analysis reveals that Pakistani gangs account for 0.3% of offenders, while 89% of offenders are white.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

'Slimy and racist' for telling the truth. LABOUR councils led the cover up. GORDON BROWN told police to ignore these crimes as 'lifestyle choices'. Your attitude is why nothing happened.

[@simondebeer9917]

And your comment is exactly why this has been a problem for so long, accusing people who highlight the race dimension of this as racist. You should hold your head in shame

[@robertsandison2298]

So you are proud when politicians run cover for rapists to defend "diversity"

[@simondebeer9917]

And having listened to again to what he said, I’m intrigued to know which particular points he made were racist.

[@QuantumInspired]

Counsils employees particulary safeguarding departments, all needs to be changed because all of them led to this situation to continue for years and years. No anti- bullying steps, no protection, no real action just overwhelming cover ups , corruption, and overwelming negligence. Nobody can throw rasism cards, and people should all be equal on the face of law.

[@paulbett-n2n]

Labour don't want an inquiry, because it's labour councillors who covered all this up, everyone who covered this up should be in jail

[@pmyumjr]

Keep up. Enquiry was completed in 2022

[@simondebeer9917]

@@pmyumjra very partial inquiry that looked only at 6 towns where this was not really an issue whereas this was happening in around 50 towns

[@suejames6808]

Completely agree!…multiculturalism Does Not Work!!… medieval religious beliefs and culture is incomparable with modern day European societies…There is No Excuse from Anyone who neglects , covers up, makes excuses for OR perpetrates the vile crimes which were AND STILL ARE BEING COMMITTED!!!🤬🤬…

[@suejames6808]

Please watch this woman…Ayaan Hirsl Ali … who ‘fled from a repressive religious regime in Somalia… is now a speaker on the consequences of multiculturalism . Latest video on Gb news …on Utube title ‘Grooming gangs and theIslamic primitive mindset’… speaks clearly and authoritatively about what is happening and why… no sensationalism just The Facts !!…watch it !!!

[@ElanovaAutumn]

I loathe Tories, the way they try to blame Labour is disgusting, using the pain and suffering of children to score pathetic political points.

[@simondebeer9917]

Most of the crimes were committed in labour areas & coveted up by labour politicians. Have you asked why Mp Shaun Hughes tries to stop an inquiry when he was a labour council leader?

[@mikeh5656]

@simondebeer9917 Wouldn't be the fact that rape gangs are generally linked to young Pakistani men, and 75% of young Islamic men vote labour? Surely not.........

[@lynlittlelion]

But your Boss says we are all far right to be concerned 🤬

[@adrianellis4497]

Two sets of children arguing in a old building pretending to be adult and acting in the best interests of the country, what a disgrace parliament has become.

[@oldschool3670]

Sickening tories

[@JohnMccabe-kr7du]

​@christommo4402 there have been 8 inquiries so far

[@JohnMccabe-kr7du]

@christommo4402 how do you know

[@clemfandango619]

It was Labour, not the tories

[@Themanwithnoname386]

An enquiry into 6 towns. What about the other 46?

[@JohnMccabe-kr7du]

@@clemfandango619 it was tories not labour, you so realise tories were in power last 14 years

[@LeilaJasmillia-m2f]

Peeling the layers of an evil onion 😢

[@TheLukob]

The title is incorrect. She said two words

[@williammorrissey1545]

Jess Phillips has more humanity in her hand than the tories put together ❤

[@DiegoSobieski]

Labour appear to be completely insensitive. That Muslim vote is SO important, that Labour will ignore and deny the most heinous of crimes imaginable. Just how much further will they push their vulgar obsession with their lust for power and their immature policies. Every person I know would be horrified by the activities of these gangs but of course so few actually see the court transcripts. The BBC/Sky would NEVER include any in mainstream broadcasts, even after the watershed. Only Labour politicians (and Tories for that matter) find glee in concealing the facts from the public. The truth of these crimes exceeds the worst perverts' imagination. Musk is simply on the side of civilisation.

[@The1trueDave]

If the Muslim vote is that important do you want to have a crack at explaining their stance on Palestine? Because they were punished for that by Muslim voters in the GE...

[@josephattwood4168]

Labour openly discuss child abuse and say how they're going to implement the findings from the report from 10 years ago. Online bots/absolute mouth breathers online: "THEY'RE COVERING IT UP".

[@trailersfromhell2539]

@@josephattwood4168 How is that possible when the report with the suggestions was published in 2022? Also, you seem to forget who was in charge prior to the tories. You also seem to forget who runs or ran most of the towns with g gang related problems.

[@GlasPthalocyanine]

​@@josephattwood4168 you need to look at how the Justice system, and local councils obscured these crimes from public scrutiny over the last 50 years. Power doesn't shift every time the Government changes.

[@josephattwood4168]

​@@trailersfromhell2539 National reports were 2017, and 2022. Local government reports were much earlier around 2012 and 2013. I actually worked for the police helping investigate these sorts of offences back in 2012. Very difficult to uncover, with all sorts of complexities like victims not willing to come forward, or even see themselves as victims. Lack of intelligence sources due to institutions working in silos with limited budgets rather than together. No concrete legislative definition of child sexual exploitation (grooming) vs. what's defined in the Sexual Offences Act. The merry go round that is foster care, and youth services and their lack of funding. I could go on. Point is, much of this has come up as a result of a ketamine addled billionnaire trying to sow dissent in the UK, who has little to no fucks to give about the actual victims of these horrendous crimes. Nor solutions for that matter. I think we all agree that govt should take action and not leave it to the extreme right wing who will do nothing of substance but maybe burn down an asylum housing centre.

[@lumc15]

When is the MP will answer properly about gromming gangs. It's to fail young girls and those people still in the streets laughing at these innocent girls. Supervise your daughters and what kind of friends they have. I hope this man will answer properly at least one question not like black hole goes on and on.

[@Nicbascan]

These girls were as young as 11. That’s primary school age! 😢 it’s still happening now! It’s awful!

[@drepachi77]

WHERE ARE THE MINISTERS ??????????????? THE HOUSE IS EMPTY

[@brianconnelly-s5e]

Like farage doing other jobs

[@drepachi77]

@@brianconnelly-s5e FRAGE DOESNT MATTER AHOLE? this is from Gordon Brown

[@eddjordan2399]

@@brianconnelly-s5e lol

[@jamesgreer9748]

@@brianconnelly-s5e - Truly great comment, thank you.

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Most MPs actually do stuff in and for their constituency, they have a schedule set weeks in advance to assign the days they will be in the house and those they will not. Typically they try to be there on Wednesdays for PMQs so the rest of the week it is normal for there to be a lot of empty seats especially if the planned debates today were not that important. The Home secretary and her opposite number plus a couple of other front benchers probably had to change schedule to be there because they had to, for others who didn't have to be there a schedule change would have been more destructive to their work (which could include local issues relating to child sex abuse) than not going.

[@MiataBRG]

That's not Jess Phillips.

[@maxrandolph6964]

Nahh just the home secretary

[@arlrb76]

She just mad no one would even grape her

[@jamiewalton666]

Didnt Tommy Robinson get jailed for calling this out years ago.

[@andrew30m]

No he got jailed for contempt of court, his actions almost led to them getting off

[@bartsimpsonhead2790]

If Tommy Robinson released the names and faces of the accused in videos it endangers their prosecution, as it meant the jury might develop a bias even if some/all of the people were innocent/guilty, and they be convicted/let off in error. Basically he was endangering the trial for his own self-publicity and grift.

[@jamiewalton666]

@andrew30m but he called it out years ago didn't he and was labelled a far right racist thugs for it.

[@andrew30m]

@@jamiewalton666 He wasn’t put in prison for being a far right racist he is called that because of who he is BNP, EDL, BFP,

[@bearnecessities9568]

@@jamiewalton666 becuase he IS a racist far right thug. Who highjacked the narrative to push his agenda and ALMOST blew the case apart which would have meant those men got away with it. Thank fuck he got locked away before he could do more harm. Also notice Tommeh never called out his EDL pedo buddies though....

[@jonh9561]

For those blaming ALL of this appalling scandal on the Tories, seem to have conveniently forgotten that it was Labour that was in power during the time when one of the most notroius of the Pakistani rapes gangs that was active in Rotherham from 2002 to 2007 and claimed an estimated 1,400 girls, an was described by researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by local officials and warned them about the exploitation of children, has since described it as the "biggest child protection scandal in UK history". It is also notable that the vast majority of these rape gangs operate in areas that are run by labour councils, so labour should employ some inward reflection as opposed to trying to put all of the blame onto the Tories. On another point, it is deeply concerning that neither the PM Starmer or the leaders of the opposition parties attended this extremely important debate. They all need to start taking this scandal more seriously and providing real help to the victims and not just announcing yet another 'plan' which cost a fortune to produce and nobody bothers to read.

[@keefwolfson]

Why are you so terrified of an inquiry?

[@michealridgway7607]

They have already had one but the last government never implemented the regulations

[@Fendermanpaul]

You mean the enquiries that have already been done.......and completely ignored by the tories when they were in power. All 5 of them.

[@keefwolfson]

No, I mean the one they are terrified of having. I wonder why?

[@BananaCologne]

@@keefwolfson With all due respect, I’d ask you to re-read the comment above yours once again. This last enquiry took 7 years and is over 400 pages long, culminating in 12 immutable recommendations that were strongly worded to be actioned with immediate effect. That report landed on the Tories desks a whole 18 months before they lost the election, and they could have started acting on those 12 areas with the stroke of a pen. What did they do? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. But now they have the gall to finger-point and accuse the current administration of failing children without taking any responsibility for their own inaction while they were in power - and if that wasn’t insulting enough, they want to waste tax payers money for yet another enquiry? Can you not see the hypocrisy and time-wasting here? THAT’S why a new enquiry was refused, because we already have the findings reported by a 7 year enquiry they called for themselves yet did sweet f.a. with. As a Survivor of s.a. as a teenager myself, I have very little patience for political point-scoring when I know all too well myself how this insidious predatory behaviour leaves scars people who’ve been fortunate enough not to have endured it will never understand and how it destroys lives. I have no time for a party like the Conservatives who are more interested in one-upmanship and point-scoring when kids lives are at risk. I put my faith behind a party who are prepared to put their money where their mouths are and make some unpopular hard calls in the here and now so that 4 years down the line we’re not all finger-pointing yet again and moaning about inaction and no change for the better. Sorry for the rant, but the politicking over this subject in particular really p*sses me off!

[@JackSlsno100]

This is how labour loses the working class vote

[@marcusineson]

Jess Phillips is amongst the best of us. The condemnation of Musks comments should have been instant and unequivocal from everyone.

[@Themanwithnoname386]

But it shouldn't distract from the actual problem of gangz.

[@emmal7920]

The best, really? When she was on BBC Question Time she compared mass sexual assaults in Cologne to a Saturday night in Birmingham. She’s only interested in her Muslim voters. Vile individual.

[@jusouza8996]

If you didn't do anything wrong, there is no reason to fear the inquiry!

[@annabellesapphire]

Absolutely can't stand Jess Phillips she is vile my goodness is this the best of female MP's, Lord we are in trouble

[@DaveGreen-go9vl]

Stop talking get them rounded up and deported including all there families and all involved.

[@annabellesapphire]

Yet the boats keep arriving putting more women and young girls in harms way. Enough talk GET ON WITH UPHOLDING THE LAW

[@kevinsmarts9953]

The Pakistani gang that was busted and had many offenders sent to jail where all legal immigrants who would have flown in to the country with valid visas (or second generation of legal immigrants). None of them arrived on a small boat. Stop channeling Stephan Christian Yaxley-Lennon and his harmful lies.

[@4adiarmuid]

musk should be condemned by all politicians on the record and asked to apologise fully

[@simonrae3048]

Not at all. He should be and is being congratulated. And he will never apologise. Why should he?

[@mansnotbot4160]

Because he's literally lying. Ugh, why am I arguing with a bot 😂

[@Mayberrino]

@@simonrae3048what planet are you on?! Musk is literally an accessory to a man convicted of 34 separate felonies and seems happy to employ immigrants in order to avoid paying proper wages yet somehow he’s the authority on whether Jess Phillips should be in prison? Do me a favour. Personally I’d ban the sale of Tesla in the UK and sanction him until he apologises and shows real reform and respect towards our country Clearly you’re happy to back someone who supports Trump, Tommy Robinson and inflames abuse towards a serving MP. Doesn’t sound like British values and patriotism to me.

[@3brenm]

That's what you're most bothered about after watching this video? I want Musk out of British politics but come on...

[@suburbanyobbo9412]

@@mansnotbot4160It is interesting how all you Labour Party shills are desperately trying to use the “Anyone who criticises the Labour Party are bots” narrative. I wonder if you realise how obviously false your accusations are and how weal it makes you appear.

[@lisaturner8682]

All complicit. Order the enquiry Phillips!!!!!

[@chrisbarnsey8974]

⛳️ I don't believe you think rapists and murderers should be on the uk street why people are taking up prison space for a plant it's a joke someone using cannabis is not harming anybody versus assault, rape and murder which destroys lives where cannabis legalisation could open up coffee shops which could help people to meet and socialise in a safe and friendly environment offering a massive strain variety and the money coffee shops can bring in from tourism is unreal.

[@PE-dq2em]

We DON'T CARE about Jess Phillips.

[@markgt894]

Amazing the number of comments here that are more concerned by Musk or the Tories than the actual story here. Get outside your partisan bs and echo chambers

[@jangomoonstomp]

The Tories were in power for 14 years, did nothing to help sexual abuse victims, are you going to condemn them, or are you complicit too?

[@trailersfromhell2539]

​@@jangomoonstompof that's true, then surely you must support the calls for this inquiry, yes? Given that nothing was done. Let's see what the status on G gangs are today.

[@trailersfromhell2539]

@jangomoonstomp the overwhelming majority of towns and cities with a G gang problem have or had labour run councils. Decades worth. Are they complicit?

[@jeangenie5807]

But it is only a story because it is a confected story by various right wing groups, who have been trying to point the finger at Starmer, without having the nouse to know the real facts from the various court cases, enquiries and reports and recommendations. At least Labour is bringing in the recommendations......which is something the Tories ignored for decades. Also far from being a champion of free speech Musk and Zuckerberg are making it easier for child abuse to be shared online. So the words kettle, black, and pot come to mind.

[@Hugh839]

@@trailersfromhell2539 That's not actually true. And also rape isn't a political leaning, so pretending it is is just insulting the victims.

[@MinkieWinkle]

Anyone that does not support and investigation into the scandal is all the more reason to have one, especially against those that opposed them in the first place

[@crosschara-cter5113]

Evil just pure evil these people do not speak for the public they only care about the pay package and bonus'😢

[@BR-qf3wq]

Institutions have been covering up this type of behaviour for decades, they only need to look down the road

[@belbrighton6479]

We love you Jess. We know all that you have done. ❤ haters gonna hate. ❤❤❤

[@christommo4402]

No we don't, we detest this horrible woman! She's out her depths!

[@petepottieski6673]

The same Jess that won't do a proper investigation? Some of the councilors are in on it. So a good idea is to give the problem to the groomer to solve? Intelligent.

[@KevinOlsen-q9l]

Corrupt Phillips resign 🤬🤬

[@garydownes2111]

@@petepottieski6673 numerous inquiries. maybe let’s implement recommendations to protect kids & women ?

[@garydownes2111]

@@KevinOlsen-q9l I don’t think you understand what corrupt means. how about we implement existing recommendations to protect kids & women?

[@annread859]

The families want a new investgation and enqiry into these historical cases. Starmer and Labour can only sweep so much under the carpet. Starmer was Head of CPS at the time. If the police can start a new inquiry into Fahads historical abuse cases at Harrods then why cant there be one against historical abuse cases in Rotherham and other areas.

[@mcbunson]

There has already been an inquiry which was ignored. Lets get it implemented rather than sweeping it under the rug.

[@BritWolf1]

'The most vile and horrific crimes'.. CLEARLY NOT AS THEY GET THE LOWEST SENTENCES!

[@wendyknight9574]

Lower than what? What did you base that opinion on? 2 minutes research to find a fact: Operation Stovewood: (Rotherham) Seven men jailed for a total of 106 years for sexually abusing two young girls in Rotherham. The sentences were 14/6/15/24/24/13/9 years + 1 yr on licence. Fact.

[@adamc9058]

Were the majority of councils if not all of them Labour councils 🤦🏼‍♂️ the audacity of Labour is believable 😂🙌🏻

[@michaelmarshall9132]

Don't tell me this wasn't going on and being ignored long before the tories got in power

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

@@michaelmarshall9132 Since man walked uon the earth. Organised, in the 1960's through institution's. Not just Muslim gangs the elites were more sophisticated and had access to vulnerable children.

[@stabes70]

She didn’t even have the metal to speak up for herself…guilty cover up for her colleagues!

[@clario2178]

Phillips is a good actress I’ll give her that

[@michaelfairclough-s1q]

Terrible actress sad faces definitely not convincing

[@Andrew-e4m]

Vote Reform get all these parliamentarians out .They are not going to do anything.Blood on all their hands.How many Labour supporters have they deported over this scandal.

[@MagicSecretsandMysteries]

Nigel farage supports Andrew Tate and their prospective donor musk supports convicted sexual assault criminals. You don’t have a leg to stand on.

[@johnhoulihan4000]

Reform won’t be arsed. Farage can’t even find Clacton. Big promises by Farage and nothing ever delivered except excuses. Farage, the champagne working class whisperer laughing all the way to the bank.

[@dulcettonezzz8229]

Every area affected by this under Labour leadership. Weird

[@TheCeladons]

Using so called threats as a way to deter from the fact that they let this happen is the labour way. Labour out NOW, Jess and Keir belong in prison

[@JS51-q1i]

How do you work that one out!

[@antonyeastham4564]

Labour where not in power during the time in question. They are now dealing with the incompetent mess the Tories left during 14 years. Explain yourself.

[@Nikolai508]

@@antonyeastham4564 He's a Reform voter, they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

[@TheCeladons]

@@Nikolai508 explain where voting the same Labour / conservative have got us? I would argue that you blind sheep that vote for the same shit every GE are the dumb ones here.

[@patriciawhite619]

Thank you for this…

[@MW-ml5eq]

Maybe she should slate the rape gangs rather than covering them up

[@Doobtube.]

So then get Tommy Robinson out of jail !!

[@stuc3195]

Odd title? Jess philips slates the Tories condemnation of abuse?

[@ravenmad9225]

NHS queue jumping Jess thinks she did nothing wrong. Because that's exactly what she did.Nothing. Shame on her.

[@darrenjohnson1952]

Labour should be ashamed of themselves remember all this was done in labour run council areas .. no wonder people want a inquiry and labour dont .. anyone who calls this out they then call far right .. because thats all labour can do how about the tweet mo labour naz shah tweeted about these poor girls saying they should keep quiet for the sake of race relations.. labour through and through we don't want to lose the Muslim vote .. thankfully only a minority are at fault but im sure Muslims would like a public inquiry at least the decent people would!!!!!!

[@tdtm82]

Tories could have held a national enquiry and they didn't. They didn't push through with any of the recommendations in the report. And you still blame Labour. Are you already forgetting that it was last year that race riots happened where Muslims and BAME and migrants were abused and attacked when they did nothing wrong? Stop reading GB News. Why do you love the Tories?

[@Thelawyer-e9d]

Exactly lefties think conservatives.... Labour run councillors

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

The worst case was never in Muslim areas it was in a predominately White area in a institution run by the state and covered up by the police. The elite want people like you to divide so they can rule.

[@pmyumjr]

Enquiry was completed in 2022

[@darrenjohnson1952]

@pmyumjr not into all of the places that grooming happened or is still happening to why people have said this needs a proper enquiry not a selective one which was just done

[@fil9982]

Labour are truly disgusting. This really is the last straw. Labour have truly proved themselves incompetent. An enquiry completely independent of the government needs to happen.

[@michealridgway7607]

@@fil9982 already had one,what did the Torries do....nothing

[@fil9982]

@michealridgway7607 hold them all to account Labour, Conservative, CPS, police I don't care. This is an utterly despicable crime and as a society if we leave any stones unturned it will be a stain on our society. The current enquiry has left many questions. Conservatives have admitted action should have been taken which of course does not absolve them but at least shows a willingness to shine a light on this, why Labour (and certain Labour supporters) are supporting pedophiles is beyond me. As a Labour supporter (potentially an x Labour supporter now) I can only come to the conclusion that Labour are more keen to trade votes than to protect vulnerable children which is grotesque.

[@Angel-j8e]

I’d like to see you discuss this with Maggie Oliver publicly, she will put you straight and who let the children down. Tommy pointed the corruption out too but ignored .. labour has only now addressed this due to Elon musk calling it out. I just pray you follow this through with action and justice. The prisons are full?

[@Oflaherty86]

What do you mean "only now" Andy Burnham ordered an inquiry in Oldham, Manchester and Rochdale years ago. It even resulted in new criminal investigations. But what do facts matter?

[@robertoproz]

.... this happened before labour was in power and was only brought up because of Kier Starmers' time in the CPS. He did his part in trying to prosecute as many of those disgusting monsters as possible. A lie spreads faster than the truth. He isn't the reason why jimmy Saville got away with it for so long. Misinformation is very easy to spread, especially with bots doubling down on the rhetoric. Elon musk should stay the fuck out of politics.

[@garydownes2111]

@@Angel-j8e Tommy nearly collapsed a trial which would have set perpetrators free, he doesn’t give a monkey about victims. And unfortunately Maggie Oliver has after helping victims drank the far right cool aid. her last statements actually don’t make any kind of specific claims about Starmer’s conduct prosecuting gangs at all, that’s just been added by right media.. interesting that

[@nathanielratcliff7456]

This statement was by Yvette Cooper. I'm not sure Jess Phillips holding up a 'zero' hand sign is classed as slating.

[@johnruan]

Gordon brown started the cover up and so it continues

[@adrianshaw7293]

How so?

[@jjwatcher]

WE need a National Public Enquiry that can genuinely investigate those police who ignored the victims, local enquiries can be manipulated, and pass responsibilities on to others, so only a full national enquiry will do.

[@Beaubrummie2000]

Jess Phillips is a greater human being than any of the losers on the other side of the House. And doesn't Chris Philp realise his party have sat on their hands for the previous 13 years! And he is only Shadow Home Secretary because the talent puddle is virtually empty now 😅

[@RightisRight-e3b]

Spoken like a true SWP member. Both sides are complicit in this. That Saint Jess is happy for Oldham council who employed the leader of the Rochdale rape gangs as a welfare officer to handle it's own affairs tells you all you need to know. The ringleader of a notorious grooming gang was employed as a welfare rights officer by Oldham Council, a major report has revealed.