BritanniQ - Issue 29
Issue 29 covers grooming gangs, the European Convention on Human Rights, why ‘The Coffee Class’ wants mass migration, crime in Britain’s deprived regions, the 1970s compared to today, the attack on the family, and wind power.
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The latest issue, Issue 29, covers grooming gangs, the European Convention on Human Rights, why ‘The Coffee Class’ wants mass migration, crime in Britain’s deprived regions, the 1970s compared to today, the attack on the family, and wind power.
Britain’s Moral Stoneage
For many years now, girls and young women, often from Britain’s most deprived backgrounds, and sometimes with serious psychological problems, have been preyed upon by men, mostly of Pakistani ethnicity. These so-called grooming gangs rape and press into prostitution the girls, frequently after plying them with drugs or alcohol, and often coercing them by means of threats to their families. It is likely that tens of thousands of girls and young women have been victimised in this way. It is probable that the practice continues in many of Britain’s towns and cities.
When famous women told their stories of ugly sexual harassment on the casting couch in Hollywood, an entire movement, MeToo, was started. If an MP is tragically killed, British Lawmakers seek to pass legislation. And yet if tens of thousands of Britain’s most vulnerable daughters are rapes and forced into prostitution by organised gangs there’s… well, a bit of nervous shuffling and some perfunctory reports.
Ed West, in an excoriating essay detailing the failings (corruption?) of the police, elected politicians, council workers and social services, wonders where on earth the moral outrage is. An extremely good question.
“It’s significant that this has been left to GB News, a small and still fringe television channel, to tell the story. It should be on BBC1; this should be regularly discussed on the Today programme. My local arts cinema should be telling me about a new film portraying the scandal.”
Quite. Just think for a moment what all this says about Britain as a nation.
