'Sacrificed at the altar of political correctness' - Brendan O’Neill on the grooming gang failures

[@vinay7397]

what does the Pakistani community have to say about this ? they know how to be vocal, everyday on the streets protesting the Gaza thing.

[@JSRandhawa221]

Pakistanis are 2 faced as they may protest fro palestinian lives but forget that General Zia ul Haq killed 30000 palestinians on behalf of Jordan....... not many muslim countries give a stuff about palestine really

[@BumberClarke]

They don’t mix with no one because their religion teaches them that we are disgusting and eat pig and so on

[@myrasmith1603]

Instead of achieving a certain understanding this defence of certain minorities achieves the opposite.

[@David-hq4lq]

Well said !

[@JSRandhawa221]

pakistanis kiling palestinians comment disappeared....oh dear

[@ChiefWizard666]

What Brendan overlooked is that the Labour party were frightened of losing the Muslim vote!

[@CriticalLinker]

And what does that say about Labour's perception of Muslim voters? That they're largely in support of the rapists.

[@wendyandrew3707]

Agree 100%.

[@maggieattenborrow6725]

Absolutley!!!! That was their main concern, not the little girls !! Shocking.

[@Goldenlion148]

They still are which is why they refuse to deal with it.

[@roywatson8133]

i bet he already knows that

[@twigletz7384]

If Elon Musk highlights this abuse to a wider audience, more power to him. The more people that speak out about this, the nearer we might get to a national enquiry.

[@maggieattenborrow6725]

I hope a Public Enquiry, where Survivors, their families and The OutRaged Public can make sure there will be no more cover-up and those guilty are bought finally to Justice!!!!

[@LoftisforTreasurer]

Musk is exactly what is needed to move this issue to the forefront. Our leadership class is one marked by cowardice...and only a persona such a Elon Musk can move those cowards to the acts of selfless honor and integrity.

[@jacobcohen-p2t]

I basically agree with what you say, however, we must be careful about allowing these powerful foreigners with unprecedented access to social media to influence our internal politics.How would you react to him supporting a policy you don't agree with,that's the question.

[@maryhancock1077]

​@@jacobcohen-p2tCareful? I don't think he has ever intervened before. He's a father and this is CORRUPT internal politics. So which policies are you thinking of that he may step in and you wouldn't agree with. We need all the help we can get. Don't care who it's from!

[@maryhancock1077]

​@@jacobcohen-p2t. Afterthought. Internal government were "CAREFUL" to not rouse multicultural dissent.

[@barbararice6650]

This is by far the worst collective crime in Britain's history, by far 😑

[@DarrenWalley]

This is Britain's holocaust.

[@annrobinson7766]

Not really if you know the history of the Empire. It’s been very grim indeed.

[@NuachtNuacht]

It really isn’t. Check out kincora in Northern Ireland

[@annrobinson7766]

@ totally forgotten

[@artiemiss1724]

In the history of the world. Even the grape of Nanking atrocities & Korean 'comfort women' wasn't allowed to continue with GOVT support and cover ups for over FOURTY YEARS.

[@familycompactthegrange7014]

Well done, Spectator, for having Douglas Murray AND Brendan O'Neill on.

[@livingadventures5623]

This week's content.

[@The1stMrsO]

The pair of them (with others too) have been very good. 👏

[@stevesoapy7411]

I totally agree. I've never read the Spectator or even knew about SpectatorTV. But today, I've had my eyes open widely, to this disgusting issue, by accidentally seeing SpectorTV on here (KZbin). So many facts and sense said.

[@DavidRose-p1z]

I don't know how those who allowed this sleep at night it's still going on so they did nothing

[@DavidRose-p1z]

People are fed up with the coruption

[@Hickalum]

If you get two years for an offensive tweet then what is the punishment for protecting rapists ???

[@EvgeneXI]

@@Hickalum a knighthood…

[@simanothername3035]

A Knighthood.....

[@alisongreen7576]

Well, this is a grey legal area. If you KNOW a crime is occurring, and do nothing, you can be guilty by association, but if someone says “investigate this, it’s a crime” and you don’t investigate, then you can argue you didn’t know for certain, can’t you? If it is your official duty in your job to investigate, and you don’t , then you might be guilty of “Misconduct in a Public Office” or whatever the wording is, but that can be difficult to prove because you can claim you weren’t aware of the problem and it’s up to a prosecution to prove who knew what and exactly when - which is hard. Plus, with everything being done by “committees” and no record of who voted to block an investigation, it becomes impossible to pin it on one person.

[@kw8757]

@@EvgeneXI And a pension protected from taxation, unlike anyone else in the country.

[@andreashahr692]

None obviously. Demanding punishment is "extreme talk" according to Brendan O'Neill. The solution is talking according to Brendan, but not extreme talk, like holding people accountable.

[@hemlock527]

And if the groomers were white and victims brown .... we know EXACTLY how the SAME peopke would have responded.

[@edmurks236]

Well they cant claim that was because of white privilege or brown hatred.

[@tinajohnson-bv9yx]

Exactly right. We are being discriminated against in our own country by our own government

[@chaosenergy1990]

And they’d call it a racially motivated attack.

[@brigittedaniel8365]

God, I'd say! Especially after my experience....and the response I got after reporting it!

[@michelles2299]

what are the views held about women by different cultures and separately ask what views on white western women and girls are held by whoever

[@user-ge3jk6fg1l]

It’s still happening that’s the scandal. Get Maggie Oliver on for an hour and she will tell you what’s going on. Well done Brendan O’Neil

[@brianheale5064]

This is the worst scanadal in living memory. No excuses, no enquiry just prosecutions and deportations. Government/counsils/police and CPS must also be prosecuted and jailed

[@magentamagenta1274]

@brianheale5064 There haven’t been deportations they relinquished their dual citizenship and fought to stay, it’s cost the tax payer over 100 million pounds, there are also many more men who haven’t been caught.

[@chrisgraham9778]

Worse than Jimmy saville? Invited to chequers 8/9 times by Thatcher and given the keys to an NHS hospital by Edwina Currie? The Tory party covers up for nonces.

[@rogerwoodhouse7945]

Our so called 'governments' are too scared of being accused of 'racism 'to stand up to these Islamists./muslims

[@carlarthur4442]

Seems too many politicians are involved with a cover up , They knew it was going on but it was kicked into the long grass , when you think who was in charge 🤔

[@goffthomas2554]

@@brianheale5064 The spineless gutless people in the police,government and home office must be held to account, and named and shamed!

[@radicalcartoons2766]

Rotherham is 2025's "Children's Capital of Culture", you can't make this stuff up.

[@ph8077]

Really?! Wow, it's like the woke establishment does it deliberately to add insult to injury. 'Utter contempt & disregard for those victimised vulnerable girls.

[@cp4512]

This is disgusting and is clearly an attempt to whitewash and cover up the grooming gang crimes. Rotherham is not famous for ‘children’s culture’, it’s only famous for disgusting Muslim-culture Grooming Gangs which continues to this day.

[@zombinosh]

Didn't Bradford get a similar accolade this year?

[@Songbirdstress]

No child should be allowed to set foot in Rotherham.

[@tiggerthecat1]

They always do psychopathic little flourishes like that. They just gave S0ro’s the medal of freedom!

[@douglaslewis2190]

It's not historic alone, it's happening now.

[@maggieattenborrow6725]

And it is happening in Towns and Cities all over England, and probably other Countries!!! DEI has much to apologise for!!!!!

[@MrGraemeb2022]

They're going to lose it anyway. As soon as the Muslims have a 30% demographic they will lose the Labour label and reinvent themselves as Muslim ' Independents '.Watch what happens in the next general election.

[@BirenKumarMohanty-i7s]

Fully agreed with your views. Islamic crime is not only historical but also concurrent.

[@inevski]

Have you reported that

[@FHIPrincePeter]

Tommy Robinson. It was his report that first alerted me to this story. Also his documentary that the MSM don't talk about "The R#pe of Britain."

[@timhawksley193]

And they put him in prison for calling out the truth. Madness! The whole system stinks of corruption.

[@Sardarji-bq6oj]

They put him in prison back in the day because he had the balls to challenge the dirt T bar stewards outside the courts and we got to see how these people were. The establishment is out for this man and it’s even got the attention of the richest man in the world. George Soros your days are numbered ! 🇬🇧🇮🇱

[@tangfastic7075]

What about white, working class men - like Tommy Robinson - who've very publicly demonstrated about this subject .... and even gone to prison. Its odd.... all this talk of openness and they can't even mention his name. So we can talk about working class girls as victims as long as the middle class can come to the rescue.

[@maryminty5876]

Local councillors ethnicity is a factor not examined as far as I can ascertain. Make up,of local law enforcement. It shouldn't be left to a Freedom of Information question to find out, but I expect that is what will happen, delaying the full picture

[@Nick-io9uk]

@@maryminty5876 I do wonder if that is why we havent heard of far larger scale atrocities in cities like Birmingham or Bradford, as in child rape victims in the tens, or even hundreds of thousands. 1400 in Rotherham, 5000 in Telford may seem a lot, but these towns have muslim populations under 5%. Perhaps as low as 1% when the crimes began. Given how the atrocities have occurred from small, predominately white towns like Banbury (male pakistani 20-40 population only a couple dozen when the crimes were committed), it seems unlikely towns like Birmingham (male pakistani 20-40 population in the tens of thousands) do not have vastly more numbers of prosecutions. I can only assume this is because the police, council & entire civic structure is now run like a caliphate, where non-muslims are relegated to dhimmi status and will never get justice, because we infidels are in legal terms subhuman.

[@pinabruno-grieve1988]

Unfortunately these people continue to literally get away with murder!

[@watchman4todayreloaded192]

It is amazing how many Muslim girls still go on "holiday" and never come back. Either they are married off to live in a culture they nothing about, or something worse happens, and many of these "marriages" are a cover up.

[@fanny5105]

Ah, the beauty of multiculturalism brought to LIGHT !

[@bluephonixe7371]

Thanks to Elon Musks and Tommy Robinson for bringing this to the forefront.

[@wendyandrew3707]

Hear hear.

[@iavdortmunder8132]

Maybe you just didnt listen until the richest man spoke. Apparently its been going on for 50 years, how is it that it takes a racist and a narcissistic megalomaniac to find it useful that it now comes to the fore in this way?

[@allykatharvey]

Masses of other people have been calling it out. Weren’t you reading or listening to the right things?

[@Candolad]

But it's only gone mainstream because of Elon Musk. The Post Office scandal only went mainstream when ITV broadcast a drama about it. Unfortunately the masses only listen when an element of entertainment is added.

[@Suzanne-x3u]

I am sure nigel farage will be putting his head above the parapet to say it was him that brought this into the light of day and no one else. He seems to want to squash how much tommy robinson has done and appears to highlight his criminal past even though some of it is questionably criminal.

[@adamgynn7338]

Sacrificed for 6% of the vote should of been the title.

[@wendyandrew3707]

Well said.

[@Lee-de2wl]

I’m in Australia and I’ve been hearing about this scandal for years, spoken mostly about by 1 man and you all know who that is, he’s in prison.

[@purdyday2195]

Yep, now they're showing some minerals....this has been decades!

[@lindalee-brown5539]

I'm Aussie too. I watch a LOT of British police shows for years with this storyline, so many that I just assumed they must be based on fact. Turned out they were.

[@yotony0]

I am an Australian too - who was at school in London 1972/76, and later worked there for a total of 4 years between 1980/91 after my Monash Uni years. Gee, and we thought we had problems here with the youth crime (much of it being by new migrants by the way) and bail issues . Mind you, my old London mates tell me knife crime really is an issue in London these days. So sad.

[@mariaspencer4183]

After Tommy Robinson the flood gates have opened. It's long overdue, however it's happening. Prevention is better than cure. Start by freeing the messenger.

[@crowbar9566]

@@yotony0 Both Britain and Australia used to be very safe countries, as did the all the other European countries affected by mass migration like France, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.

[@nascar0509]

Bourgeois "political correctness" and the emperor has no clothes on the anti white working class bigotry exhibited by such people of the Guardianista types.

[@DarrenWalley]

Correct. This is Britain's holocaust.

[@cosmos237]

The most heinous sin in the bourgeois cult is racism. Not being racist, but merely tainted with the sin is enough for immediate exclusion from the herd. They're detestable.

[@SladeL]

I never knew (I am Dutch) that the hatred for the white working class was this bad in Britain. So bad that they are fine with white girls being groomed, raped, tortured and some even killed. So these white Guardianista types are racist to white people. Yes I know in their eyes, racism against white people does not exist, but these gangs also raped Sikh girls. Why dont these white supremacists inverts care about the Muslim girls growing up in such cultures and all they are dealing with and also sexual violence? I cant think of anything else but them being very evil sociopathic people.

[@inevski]

Bourgeois almost certainly. I disagree it was political correctness at the start. I think it was a slippery slope of VAWG and brutality. In a permissive society that devalued vulnerable children and families, clashing with laissez faire migration.

[@barriehemming1189]

This whole thing is completely disgusting. Im glad I can see so many political activists and commentators, calling for it to change. The uni-party has completely lost its way. Jess Phillips protecting the party was a mistake.

[@mataform]

A mistake? A bloody disgrace. She should get out.

[@vallanceress]

@@mataform trialed and jailed, not just fired.

[@harnois75]

Nothing wrong with Elon Musk getting involved, if only because it's made it a much hotter topic and more 'outed' issue, and it needs to be. People have dragged their heels on this for decades.

[@councilspend]

Jess Phillips - personification of "fake it, 'til you make it"... and she never has, she has failed.

[@MsJackrussell2]

Describes Two Tier Keir and the entire cabinet!

[@aidy6000]

Remember what she said about the sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany in 2016... She has form for it.

[@user-ge3jk6fg1l]

A big mouth in opposition and a coward in power

[@councilspend]

@@aidy6000 she reminds me of Jim Hacker in Yes Minister when he said "Can't we just hush it up???" when things weren't going his way. I think in the "Open Government" episode.

[@barbaraallen435]

The Tekford inquiry did nothing no accountability in fact a member of Telfords Labour Council is now the mp for Telford .

[@the_Overproof]

9:25 You might not like Elon Musk’s approach Brendan. However, his tweets have contributed to this issue being brought to the forefront again. Why else would you be having this discussion? I don’t think he’s trying to be a “white knight saviour”. He’s helped to raise international awareness, when successive governments in the UK have buried their heads in the sand. Talking about it for years is part of the problem because it hasn’t resulted in any real meaningful, long term change. The problem still persists.

[@BikeNutt1970]

@@the_Overproof 💯

[@GeneralMilosivic-db9io]

Agree 100%

[@j_k_roaming_]

Spot on. 👊

[@scottdownton5007]

Agreed

[@oliverbrooks1348]

Don't you find it laughable though that he's bankrolling and supporting a man (DJT) who has been proven to have done this very thing (albeit against an adult). It's rank hypocrisy. How can you call anyone out on it when you're literally funding a man who has been proven to have abused someone?

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

This is not limited to the North. Look to Oxford and Banbury in Oxfordshire. IT IS EVERYWHERE AND STILL GOING ON.

[@Songbirdstress]

50 cities.

[@julieclonan2427]

​@@Songbirdstress72 and Rising

[@zrymill]

Its probably happening all over Europe, just no one has brought it to light yet.

[@julieclonan2427]

@@Songbirdstress 72

[@julieclonan2427]

@@zrymill All over Europe, look at Sweden, Germany, Italy......

[@steadfastandyx4947]

I'm grateful for all of Mr O'Neill's work. I disagree with his criticism of Mr Musk's involvement. He, or someone with a enormous platform, has had to magnify this horror. Normal methods have been ineffectual and ignored.

[@hazelnut975]

I quite agree and was rather surprised at Brendan‘s comment. I would’ve thought that having Ellon’s global platform highlighting this systemic abuse is a huge advantage in galvanising and encouraging immediate action.

[@wendyandrew3707]

I agree too. Brendan doesn't have to criticise Elon to keep his credentials. Hes already condemned as "far right" anyway and unless you are "left," then you are condemned yo be far right, so please dont do that Brendan.

[@catherinelw9365]

@@hazelnut975 Apparently he’s miffed that Elon is more effective than he is. He’s too weak to deal with this scandal.

[@Anna-bv1om]

​@@catherinelw9365I am afraid you are spot on.

[@d.pbriers8060]

Censorship is about control. Neil is contradicting himself. We don't need Musk...? Thank God for Musk speaking about it .

[@edmurks236]

Yes govt trying to pass laws re censorship of the general population so they know even less of this stuff??!

[@oweng7987]

Anyone still supporting the Uniparty can now consider themselves as complicit collaborators in the largest, most vile, disgusting atrocity EVER perpetrated against the people of these islands.

[@Nick-io9uk]

The irony is, the middle class who decided to put the uniparty back in power every election for the past 100 years absolutely love their animals, but despise the working class. If Pakistanis were operating sex rings sodomizing dogs, or goats, there would be a civil war. But because its only working class white girls, its determined to be the girls own fault by polite society. You can still read articles the BBC hasnt deleted yet, such as Sunday, 29 July, 2001, 06:01 GMT 07:01 UK Child prostitution crisis Yes, the BBC, protector of Jimmy Saville, serial rapist, was calling 12 year old girls being bundled into cars, driven across the country and then gang raped by adult men 'Child Prostitutes' That is how much the BBC cares about Child Welfare. As the oft repeated saying in America goes - "However much you hate the media, it isnt nearly enough" And all those local rags that have the 'pulse of the community' now whining about going bust...why if they were so good at knowing what was going on in the community were they silent. There is plenty of blame to go round. the pakistani community itself, The police, The civil service The media and, in some cases, the feckless parents of the children.

[@bigpete4227]

Quite right.

[@credenza1]

Multiculturalism is specifically intended to suppress and demoralize the working class. Alien culture rape of working class children is just a windfall feature from the Establishment point of view. They get to make disapproving noises while refusing to take the obvious steps to crush it. The Uniparty has no interest in resolving the situation. It will never affect them.

[@crowbar9566]

Basically anyone in a managerial position, which is the people those parties exclusively represent.

[@karlarcher8773]

There shouldn't be a inquiry simply into Oldham. There should be a national enquiry to show the full breadth of the atrocities and to understand what the causational legislation and guidance has led to the scandal.

[@ph8077]

A bit too much publicity for the medieval barbarian apologists & facilitators!

[@MCCOLDT]

Have we not had enough "enquirys"? We need action. Not words.

[@amarieski5832]

Look at oldhams council members

[@MrBuffalo2]

Followed by army snatch squads in ALL the towns involved.

[@p0ssiblypossiblynot557]

The upper echelons of British society seem extremely reluctant to address child abuse in any of it's forms - WHY? Justin Welby illustrates this perfectly.

[@TheOwlsarewatching606]

Very good question

[@syro3471]

Just Because upper echelons are Pedophiles them selfs!! That's why! 😈

[@wendyandrew3707]

Spot on

[@kw8757]

Welby made light of it in a recent speech, absolutely vile creature.

[@tommcfadden5232]

Maybe this question should be put to Prince Andrew?

[@JenniferBartlett-xi3tq]

The fathers got arrested for trying to save their girls.

[@sbwords]

Yep, the police wanted it covered up. The cops were complicit in the crime and never held to account.

[@mariaspencer4183]

Underage girls are being held against their will. No support from police and fathers having to take the law into their own hands. Am I missing something here?

[@mariamichael1669]

And how many Muslims have come out to condemn these vile atrocities the do called religion of peace. The silence speaks volumes! The whole dreadful vile debacle is a travesty on every level with all concerned. God forgive them all 🙏🙏🙏

[@cosmos237]

@@mariamichael1669 there are no moderates and this is the proof.

[@williamhodgson6250]

And we thought the Saville case was bad, this is nothing short of horrendous. I’m not sure what we are lacking the most in this country, leadership or morality.

[@magentamagenta1274]

@williamhodgson6250 Both!

[@bl4531]

I agree, and poor morality certainly is not a quality that's condusive todecent leadership. Hmm.where can we find such evidence/ examples 🤔 ​@@magentamagenta1274

[@Nick-io9uk]

The Saville case, or inaction to his crimes, was somewhat *understandable* from a power hierarchy point of view. As in he was an incredibly wealthy & powerful individual who had connections to the highest level of state. The insane thing here is that Pakistanis, who are supposedly our most downtrodden minority group, or so they would claim, are essentially as untouchable as the most powerful individuals in white society. 50 years of freedom from prosecution is testament to that That is the power the Pakistani lobby has over us. And it was never because the police are 'afraid of being called racist' - thats the cover story. If you are a white police officer unfortunate enough to have to patrol a non-white area, you'll get called racist every day. Its the go to defence for the street criminal. No, its because Pakistanis have tribal solidarity and WILL stand up for one another. And, ultimately, the numbers being what they now are, will outnumber the police 100 to 1. The police are afraid of riots, of losing control. Remember, the police must uphold the law AND maintain order. And sometimes the latter comes before the former, so the law becomes redundant. I still remember that video of TR being grabbed in his car while showing an australian (or american, i forget) reporter the muslim area of Luton. Within seconds literally hundreds of the brothers were emerging from doors, alleyways, even what appeared to be solid brick walls as back-up. Its almost like a hive mind. You arrest one muslim & 'the community' will put the police station under siege to ensure his release. We all remember the protests of last summer, with deferential police chiefs basically having to plead with the Imams to appeal for calm, because the brothers wouldnt listen. That is the key difference. The police are SCARED of muslims. They are not scared of the white working class who do not have tribal solidarity, and havent for many years.

[@ragingchimera8021]

Courage.

[@Songbirdstress]

It's the worst thing to happen to Britain.Since the bubonic plague, in my opinion and then you'd have to go back to the Viking invasions

[@Vacaiable]

I disagree: It seems to me that Elon Musk understands this debacle very well indeed. Anybody who does anything to impede a real investigation into this reprehensible lack of action from the institutions responsible, should be facing prison sentences, and that would include Jess Philips.

[@sabinereynaudsf]

In September 2022, the then minister for safeguarding, Amanda Solloway, wrote to an Oldham councillor dismissing a request for a public inquiry. “It is for the local authorities in individual towns and cities which are responsible for delivering local services, to commission local inquiries,” she wrote.

[@Dagrdottir]

Douglas Murray, Maggie Oliver, and Tommy Robinson need to be knighted. Starmer and Khan need to be stripped of theirs

[@wendyandrew3707]

They have made knighthood worthless.

[@tommcfadden5232]

Flogged too?

[@nickbarber2080]

I'm afraid it actually DOES look like Britain needed someone like Musk riding in on his white horse....how much progress was being made until he spoke up? Now it's finally being spoken about in ways that hit home after years of obfuscation.

[@clintonbaptiste998]

"The complexities and nuances of this situation" Those words right there are exactly why the monsters were allowed to carry on with their vile activities.

[@grannyannie2948]

That was my interpretation of his words. There is no nuance, what happened was wrong and disgraceful.

[@bradwhelan4466]

There is know complexity or nuance. Its actually very simple, it was largely labour run councils who deliberately turned a blind eye, not because of political correctness, but for political gain. They were worried about losing the support of Muslims, so decided it would be better not to investigate these horrendous crimes, rather than lose votes. It sounds unbelievable to ordinary folk, but to a power hungry sociopath, its an easy choice. Personally, I'd like to see every one of them prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but I won't hold my breath.

[@emily-ti4vy]

@@grannyannie2948it was & still is evil.

[@Raymond-w5i]

Telling the truth is not phobia

[@crowbar9566]

A phobia is an irrational fear. Theres a lot of rational reasons to fear muslims, they just don't share our values.

[@kevincoade1992]

The way the MSM essentially colluded to play down this story for the past 10 years is truly repulsive. What have we turned into? And how can so many people who were complicit in this just get away with it?

[@apebass2215]

Too many people have forgotten the existence of evil.

[@credenza1]

The Establishment, which includes the mainstream media, has no interest in stopping the crimes. Multiculturalism is specifically designed to suppress the working class, and these crimes are just another feature of that design, albeit perhaps unintended.

[@GeorgiaMostly]

The past ~25 years, not just the last decade- it’s been a full quarter of a century since the first Muslim child rape gangs in Britain and police/politician collusion were reported on.

[@paulpanther4772]

There needs to be prison sentences… I’m Sick to Death of Apologies From The public Sector..

[@adrianlloyd6403]

Look what an ITV drama did for highlighting the Post Office and Horizon system scandal of the prosecution of innocent postmasters and postmistresses to the public.I wonder if the BBC,ITV or SKY would have the guts to do the same with a scandal like this.I'm not holding my breath on that happening.Far too sensitive a subject matter, they would argue no doubt.

[@TheOwlsarewatching606]

They do very nicely on salaries and pensions. Publi sector equals grifters

[@BessBlack-td8qx]

It's still ongoing. Our Politian's are complicit in this

[@edda682]

Still happening.

[@h.m.7218]

Will keep happening until we do something about it. Psychopaths don't care about being talked about...

[@nidgeontour257]

Nick Griffin reported this in 2004 in an interview with Gavin Essler and was almost put in prison for this! Now everyone is talking about this!

[@spectre8788]

You’re right I don’t want Inquiries - I want prosecutions of every person who turned away - MPs included

[@sharksbreath7]

I have to disagree about the significance of Musk, I first heard of this in 2018 and I was late to the knowledge, it's NEVER received this much attention. The solution isn't coming from him, but he's done well.

[@KeithChegwin24]

What does he mean "we don't need Musk". It has been covered up since the 1970s, of course we need someone to force the hand of politicians. O'Neill is typically wrong on this.

[@maggieattenborrow6725]

His approach has, so far!!!, got those survivors no freeking justice!!!!!!

[@Jacky5299]

500k girls in 4 decades.

[@Lindsay-t2e]

Thats wild. 😢

[@teamev1976]

It really is shocking. I don’t think most of us knew the scale of it and the actual cruel abuse and torture these girls went through. Disgusting. Diversity is good eh?

[@amarieski5832]

@@Jacky5299 lets not forget, they are children not young girls

[@julieclonan2427]

1 Million, 72 Town's and City's 😢

[@dancingdingo]

At least, heaven knows how many victims have been quiet about it while being too afraid to come forward.

[@jimmyyorkshire4495]

Safeguarding. Her pension !

[@garysmith5641]

The country will pop if they dont sort this out , a lot of people need to go away

[@Nick-io9uk]

You might want to note one of the things one Tony B.liar said he would do first thing upon assuming office all those many years back in 1997 was to force every police officer to reveal if they are a mason or not. And yes it was the first election promise he was to betray. Virtually every police officer is a mason...their duty is to each other, not the public. We need martial law for a few years. Army to police the streets & the police to each, individually, have to prove their innocence if they were in the areas a gang operated.

[@Songbirdstress]

I think the british state could fall with this. It's that serious, plus all the other stuff.

[@steve1619]

It's taken Elon to get this to this place?, why should that be?, without him, this was just the usual drip feed BS, that never went anywhere from the media, thank you Elon

[@manc66]

It's ongoing, and I feel sick how this is being covered up, to lie that multi culturism is working in our once safe country.

[@jaynebuchanan4612]

This is NOT something that happened years ago, it’s STILL HAPPENING TODAY!!

[@Neil-r6o]

Needs to be a national enquiry.

[@joycestewart8685]

BRING BACK FREE SPEECH ‼️ WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS WITHOUT THREAT OF PRISON 😢‼️‼️‼️

[@crowbar9566]

Everyone should've been supporting the righteous rioters last summer.

[@ElisaMcGowan-t2q]

The perps AND the facilitators MUST go to jail for a LONG TIME for this.

[@iansteel5569]

At least Elon has put this back on the front page, this needs to be dealt with and people responsible made to explain their actions.

[@scottdownton5007]

Agreed

[@stellam8157]

Why haven't any Imans or leaders or other Muslims come out to speak up for the victims

[@freethinker--]

Predictable silence.

[@paulburnett1344]

Because in their eyes, white non Muslim girls don’t count. The rapes have serious racial overtones.

[@teamev1976]

Because the victims were not from Gaza I’m guessing.

[@freethinker--]

@@teamev1976 maybe woman should protest every Saturday until a national enquiry is approved.

[@ToLoveTruth]

Because they support and promote the vile ideology that underpins this evil.

[@ToLoveTruth]

Brendan might feel there’s no need for Elon to intervene (cack handed or otherwise). I can’t help but wonder however if the young girls who CONTINUE to be groomed and assaulted by those filth who call themselves men would reject ANY efforts to stop these hideous crimes against children and the cowardly bureaucratic coverups. Not trying to be harsh here but if Brendan was a victim (or any of his loved ones were victims) I wonder if he might set aside his dislike of Elon’s approach and simply be incredibly thankful and relieved that someone like Elon cares enough to do and say something! When Britain has clearly failed to appropriately address this for decades! Come on Brits…get a backbone, step up and save your children from these vile, evil monsters.

[@maggieharris3721]

It was Elon Musk that brought this awful problem to the fore, that's why everyone is talking about it, give him credit.

[@endofthelinejoel]

"Grooming" obfuscation word should not be used.

[@bronson9836]

No, the word should be Atrocities!

[@sticksman1979]

It’s the wrong word. Sounds like being groomed for MI6. It’s rape.

[@garrybro12791]

No, we do need Elon Musk to ride in on his white horse to save us. Who else is calling for Tommy to be released and calling him a political prisoner??

[@marieparker3822]

About 20 million British people.

[@garrybro12791]

@ really? Most idiots in this country believe what MSM say about Tommy.

[@emily-ti4vy]

@@marieparker3822 Yes but we’re being ignored. Musk has money & a global platform. We need BOTH!

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

​@@emily-ti4vyI agree!

[@crowbar9566]

@@marieparker3822 They just gaslight us and wait for our attention to turn to another issue.

[@sparkyinsertnamehere6673]

Officials and police? They need to be named. This can't just flare up for a week in the media and then fade away again, which is what I fear the disgusting Labour Party is hoping for.

[@reppingeason]

Elon Musk does not understand the complexities and nuances of grooming gangs? As a citizen in a western country outside of Britain, it and the solution seems pretty straight forward.

[@grannyannie2948]

I'm also from a different country, and this phrase shows Branden to be part of the problem. There is no need for nuances the facts speak clearly

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

​@@grannyannie2948Same here! It maybe more complex than chasing people who said unfiltered things on social media but it shouldn't be that hard.

[@imagecollections6665]

She had Muslim blokes shouting at her as her victory was being announced but she is a traitor.

[@mikefish8226]

However, when asked, she was completely unable to identify any unifying characteristic about the hecklers except they were men....

[@stoneroses1001]

well we clearly cant save our selves can we ! if Elon Musk had not have bought Twitter we would be in deep shit

[@MsElfdee]

1997 my dissertation for my politics degree at Huddersfield Uni couldn't be published and I was told to be quite when i accidently uncovered a child trade in collages, taxis etc or i would be accused of racism. i had to leave the country.

[@David-hq4lq]

Tell us more friend !

[@stevie3screens]

Musk has brought this to the international stage in a way no one else could have...Do not softly deride his efforts Brendan nor ignore the efforts and sacrafices made by Mr Robinson. Without his perpetul reporting on this matter the Times newspaper would have never picked up on it.

[@ufoenigma7858]

Somethings gotta give here. UK is at boiling point over all this.

[@Nick-io9uk]

It really isnt. 12 years have gone by and not a peep from all those supposedly 'tough northerners' in Rotherham itself, let alone the UK at large. Its a lost cause. Emigrate or convert to Islam.

[@julieclonan2427]

@@Nick-io9uk Go where?

[@GeorgiaMostly]

@@Nick-io9ukThe lack of vigilante justice in light of the scale and violence of the gang rapes of these British girls going on 25+ years now is pretty stunning. Or are we just not hearing about it when it occurs due to a media blackout on the topic? Maybe?

[@ufoenigma7858]

@@Nick-io9uk Neither of those options are happening pal

[@Suzanna123]

Brendan please give me a break, all these years this nation has cover up this scandal and English people has done nothing to bring this to light. I totally agree Elon Musk and Trump's admin should continue to put pressure on our government to bring justice to these victims.

[@scottdownton5007]

Agreed

[@ac1646]

People have done a lot to bring this to light. And thanks to new media, it's being kept in the light.

[@purdyday2195]

English People were bringing it up, but they were labeled racist and ostracized.... look in a mirror.

[@foreverengland6590]

They wanted multiculturalism, so deal with the consequences of multiculturalism and the culture continually given special privileges over the native people and native culture.

[@wendyandrew3707]

Multiculturism is the word for nice bits - lovely curries, colourful, interesting clothing, novel customs, exoticism. Nothing else.

[@catherinewilkins2760]

What is understated is the anger. What is not noted many of these children are now adults and able to take on the state for its failure and collusion with the perpetrators. Its not going away.

[@emily-ti4vy]

Not really. They are broken & still having to live in the same towns as their abusers & still being told to shut up & still not receiving support. Eg the judge who told one of them recently she could not ask for her abuser to be deported in court. Mass deportations now.

[@GeorgiaMostly]

Sincere respect to the extremely mentally strong and courageous adult victims who are still speaking up and pushing this issue to their national stage to demand justice. They are about a million times braver and deserving of everything good than the adults who chronically failed them or the evil monsters who preyed on them.

[@ghoshty]

He said we don’t need musk to pinpoint our problems ! I think we do as in the uk we have no back bone . Tommy for all his political faults at least tried to get action and where is he?

[@johnjc4645]

ITS STILL HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!!!

[@steadfastandyx4947]

Yes. The perpetrators remain.

[@ph8077]

Yep, look out for the whale-tail bodykitted cars parked outside schools at home time....while the pathetic police are trawling X for insults.

[@justmyopinion526]

still going on!

[@jumblyman]

As a kiwi I appreciate how Brendan has always emphasised the class element of this issue. It’s a blind spot for so many English commentators.

[@catherinelw9365]

Yes and he unwittingly revealed himself as one of them.

[@AgnesFay-k5c]

King Charles has to say something about this if he wants to have any relevance at all

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

Don't get your hopes up! With love and support from the Netherlands!

[@GeorgiaMostly]

Nah, not interested in hearing from Saville’s little bosom buddy. I would be more inclined to hear from the Prince and/or his wife or Princess Anne, but I’m most interested to hear from the British people on this. Apparently they can’t freely post on social media, though, without getting arrested by police who don’t dare to arrest gang rapists. Also, would be great to hear from other religious leaders like the Pope and Dali Lama, except that they’d hardly dare to throw stones in glass houses with all the pedophelia the Vatican continues to cover up while moving offending priests around to places like boy’s deaf boarding schools to shelter them as they continue to reoffend and the Dali Lama literally sucking on prepubescent boys’ tongues in public venues. Let me replace “religious leaders” with cultural leaders, and I guess we have that happening with Douglas Murray and some others stepping up.

[@brucehulmes]

Why leave it to a local council, when it is endemic through England, it is a national crime organised nationally.

[@Songbirdstress]

Yes, the girls were trafficked all over England.

[@Sergio-v5v]

Does anyone think this terrible thing is now no longer happening in our country? C’mon!

[@xypa-fr3yx]

This was the greatest challenge facing the British people since World War 2. And they made a right pig's breakfast of it. I am absolutely astonished as to how an entire country can be so morally dead

[@jonh9561]

Expat watching this horrific story unfold from overseas and note that this is an appalling scandal that has been laid bare for all the world to see and to judge modern Britain by.

[@jasoniles86]

We need Gross Misconduct in Public Office to apply to ALL Public Offices!!

[@nathanporrata9274]

Why shouldn't people go mad over this?

[@scottgee148]

At 9:33 you state that Elon doesn’t “grasp the complexities of this discussion” and that you “have been having this discussion for “quite a long time”. I don’t think you grasp the “complexities”. Young women and girls have been sexually assaulted and tortured for years. It’s a crime of epic proportions. It’s been reported and nothing has been done. What’s complex about it. It’s a crime, punish the perpetrators!!!! And whilst you’ve been talking about it for “quite a long time” it’s still been going on!!! I know you guys aren’t responsible for this and have actually helped bring it to light but man I feel like that’s a couple of really sh!t things to say. From out here in the rest of the world your country looks beyond salvation.

[@DD-lc5ts]

Here here. Well said.

[@DD-lc5ts]

There is no complexity about it.

[@GeorgiaMostly]

Well, Germany did the same exact thing with the mass sexual assaults of over a thousand German girls on New Years Eve around 2015. The pro-immigration government forced the police to retract initial statements on the horrifying attacks and hide that the perpetrators were in fact a couple/few hundred adult male Muslim immigrants. The cover up only failed in that case due to the scale of the public assaults- the ‘men’ swarmed the German girls en masse in the streets and public squares all across Germany and there was a ridiculous amount of cell phone footage from citizens. The government was eventually forced by the tremendous public pressure- assisted somewhat by one of three police chiefs disobeying their orders and making a factual public statement confirming the public suspicious around a party-led coverup in the name of the pro-immigration policy/politicians-to come clean about their actions to prevent the police from properly investigating, reporting on, and arresting the sexual offenders on the basis of their immigration status making the party pro-immigration policy look bad. Eventually I think like 20 arrests were made months down the line, with the majority of the assailants never being charged due to the government’s interference in the investigation and time delay it caused. There continues to be no justice for those girls and women.

[@tinajohnson-bv9yx]

I would have been classed as a poor girl from a working class family, a broken home. I wasnt abused thankfully and grew up to own a very succesful business in a male dominated world. The potential of these poor children has just been thrown away

[@neilg4208]

The ignorant voters who are learning of this for the first time bear a lot of responsibility

[@Nick-io9uk]

A lot arent ignorant, but middle class white social climbers view the working class as subhuman. Remember all those right-on middle class lefty 'comedians' lampooning that northern working class guy for sounding like 'muslim ray guns' because his speech wasnt the queens english. I would go so far as to say one of the reasons we have suffered so much racial/demographic change over the past 50 years is to avert the gaze from Britains still very rigid class structure, where, to this day, the middle class continually abuse & harm the working class.

[@catherinetaylor982]

@neilg4208 underage girls got arrested for being drunk and disorderly in a house full of men.

[@chrisison3299]

Why are British men not handling this? Do we have to save you again, England?

[@emily-ti4vy]

Yes please!

[@tadpringle3148]

Curious how no one EVER, EVER mentions that sex-slavery and lying are permitted in Islam.

[@christineince5841]

Nothng's changed. IT'S STLL GOING ON. They didn't just stop in all these towns assaulting 11, 12 and 13 year olds because of a bit of publicity. A couple of people were convicted the hundreds of others are still free.

[@pablovalentine8976]

We had this problem in Australia many years ago about twenty or more . . The country was outraged and made their point known it was not one ethnic group but were Muslims, No one blamed all Muslims only the rapists and there was well over 30 of them or more , Throughout the Sydney suburbs of NSW , The police done a good job of tracking it all down . Not everyone got caught but the dozen or more that did got massive sentences and it put a stop to it . But they were calling them white trash and saying they deserved it , Sometimes a dozen men would show up on one young girl . Unless it is solved it will never stop. You need some Moral Crusaders to stand up and do something about bringing the justice to all the victims

[@ivonneguerinoni3881]

I read of this when Elon Musk wrote about it a few days so thank to him this UK woman can be hear

[@thistleproductions6431]

Brendon stop distracting the seriousness and accountability by focusing on Musk's delivery, its to late to be worrying about how someone is criticizing the ongoing crimes against children. Time to call it out what it is we need more people direct talking like Musk.

[@scottdownton5007]

Agreed

[@ianleigh5157]

Agreed, the more people that call it out the better.. And Elon has a big platform to call it out which will highlight it even more...

[@maxprize829]

Nobody is hearing about it for the first time- they’re just finally fed up and done with the intimidation and fear from the establishment ruling class

[@dazjackson1972]

Jim McMahon MP was leader of Oldham MBC from 2011-2016. I find it odd that his name isn't included in the recent reporting.

[@aidy6000]

Raja Miah has plenty to say about him suggest you look him up. Very brave guy

[@dazjackson1972]

@aidy6000 Will do 👍

[@Sean22ei]

I’m afraid that mr O’Neill is coming across as a bit pompous by not mentioning the work Tommy Robinsons work on these rape gangs and his criticism of musk interfering when the politicians have been covering up this issue for decades.

[@JenniferBartlett-xi3tq]

Elon told it like it is.was anyone talking about it a month ago???

[@leunisvandewege9651]

Maybe time has shown that yes, you needed somebody from outside to break this open. How could this horrible scandal otherwise exist for so long a time without being adressed properly??

[@howardsawyer6194]

The conversation needs to include the women in these British Pakistani communities - the mothers, wives & daughters of the men - & their spiritual leaders. If they are not engaged this pattern of behaviour will not be broken.

[@howardsawyer6194]

And if we can get the 'nudge unit' on the stand then I am all in favour of a public inquiry. I want to hear from the people who went to work & were paid to do the job to trivialise, minimalise & and sweep this under the carpet.

[@JSRandhawa221]

job of the muslim mother is to take the kids to the mosque to ensure they soak up the totalatarian islamic ideology where this behaviour is sanctioned.....they are at war with the infidels

[@wendyandrew3707]

That will not happen. It would need an overnight evolution in their community that is bound by their book.

[@emily-ti4vy]

Conversation?! Most of them can’t even speak English

[@steveatkins814]

You may think Elon Musk is being a little cack handed but without him the current conversation wouldn’t be happening.

[@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob]

Same goes for Tommy Robinson. He's in prison largely as part of the cover up.

[@oliverbrooks1348]

The biggest irony of all is that Musk is bankrolling, supporting and sharing a stage with a man who has been proven to have committed this type of abuse (albeit against an adult). Proven in a court of law. It really is laughable. How can you pretend to have any moral superiority in relation to these types of offences when you're bankrolling a man who has proven to have done something very similar.

[@maryminty5876]

It only wants Musk to link with Maggie Oliver for her proven statistics and the balloon will go up.

[@ParaBellum2024]

Musk has entered the fray because it's in America's interests to stop the Chagos Islands' transfer to Mauritius, and one way to achieve this is to find any way to bring down Starmer and hopefully, the whole Labour government.

[@joge2468]

Just because you’ve just heard about this, doesn’t mean the conversation hasn’t been happening. You want links to?

[@colin_a]

Sorry, we DO need Elon Musk to ride in.. Nothing happens if we deal with these matters internally.. We need outside people with the weight Musk carries to get these subjects out for discussion.

[@greenbank4800]

Elon Musk has brought this a very wide global audience cross a wide range of demographics, it has taken an external push that O'Neill refuses to actually credit as the spark that has pushed this to a wider UK audience and the whole globe. The previous media exposure O'Neill describes did nothing to generate the serious and accurate condemnations on the level that X has achieved.

[@nethe0]

The Kings and Queens that built this country would never had allowed anything like this to happen and invade us.

[@clintonbaptiste998]

No "royalty" built anything in this country, all they've ever done is take.

[@JSRandhawa221]

most of those kings and queens invaded first LOL

[@ph8077]

@@JSRandhawa221 Yeah but those nations aren't self-flagellating over their colonisation of Britain are they?!

[@freyagoldilocks]

@@JSRandhawa221We’ve not been invaded by one of our Kings since William the Conqueror, since him it’s been the folk along England’s borders trying their hand unsuccessfully and the French.

[@truthseeker9975]

How unbelievably disgusting of Jess Phillips to reject an inquiry: she is rotten to the core.

[@dawnsadler]

I read about this over 20 years ago and was shocked to find out that it's still going on today, its not reported here in Australia