Telford: the forgotten outrage

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Telford: the forgotten outrage

Pete North • 12 July 2022

Don't expect the Tories to act on grooming

Obvious evidence of child sex crimes in Telford was ignored for generations leading to more than 1,000 girls being abused, an inquiry has found. Agencies blamed children for the abuse they suffered, not the perpetrators, and exploitation was not investigated because of “nervousness about race”. The inquiry was set up after the Sunday Mirror revealed gangs had been abusing girls in the town since the 1980s. Chairman Tom Crowther QC said the abuse had thrived unchecked for decades.

Other key report findings include:

Teachers and social workers being discouraged from reporting abuse
Offenders becoming “emboldened” by the absence of police action, with abuse continuing for years without concerted response
Exploitation was not investigated because of nervousness about race, that investigating concerns against Asian men, in particular, would inflame “racial tensions”
Even after an investigation leading to seven men being jailed for child sex crimes West Mercia Police and Telford & Wrekin Council scaled down their specialist teams “to virtual zero” in order to save money

I would dearly like to know what any of the Tory leadership candidates have to say about this. But it will likely fall through the cracks. When it comes down to it, the mass rape of teenage girls in forgotten places just doesn’t rate in establishment parties.

This is partly why I re-joined UKIP. The issue will prove “too Ukippy” for Tice’s Reform party. We have to speak out on it. I refuse to let the far right take ownership of this issue by being the only ones talking about it.

In just a few days we’ll probably have a decent idea who the Tory party is set to inflict on us as their next PM. The Tories are likely to stay the course on Net Zero, and Brexit will be swept under the rug. The parliamentary party wants to drag the party back to the centre ground and pretend the whole Johnson incident never happened. And if that happens, you can forget the Tories caring about grooming (aka child rape).

You can also forget about the Tories fixing immigration. They were never going to. Fraser Nelson of The Spectator is once again pushing the case for an amnesty for illegal immigrants, thereby incentivising more of the same, and the liberal wing of the Tory party has always preferred a steady supply of cheap exploitable labour to keep costs down and prop up ailing GDP.

Once the voting is over, if Tory members even get a vote, we’ll probably see an exodus of Tory members. Now is the time for them to come back to UKIP. UKIP has had its share of problems in recent years, but we’re still here, and the one thing we can say with confidence is that we have the best manifesto of all, and UKIP is the only party you can trust to implement it.

Conservative voters have been in an ages long abusive relationship with the Tory party where no matter how many times they get burned, they still go back to the abuser. There is only one home for real conservatives and that isn’t the Tory party. That Penny “trans-women are women” Mordaunt is a front runner in the parliamentary party ought to tell you everything you need to know. There is no place among conservatives for those who deny basic biology.

The best we can hope for from the Tory party is a continuation of the policies in play – which simply isn’t good enough. Raab’s marginal tinkering with the Bill of Rights does not remove the ECHR influence, and Patel’s Borders Act is already stillborn. Hundreds more migrants pour in through Dover every single day.

We won’t get radical reform form the Tory party because the Tory party, at its core, doesn’t want the hassle and its MPs don’t want the social inconvenience at dinner parties. Waiting around for the right Tory leader is a strategy that has failed the right time and again. Johnson was their one chance at redemption and look how that turned out.

Meanwhile, the Tory party preens about the ethnic diversity of the candidates on offer. UKIP isn’t an ethno-nationalist party, but we object to the mindset of the Tory party that still seeks to placate the left by parading its diversity credentials. It tells us that the party is still running scared of the left wing agenda which is why we can’t believe they will make any serious reforms to human rights or immigration law.

If we are to fulfil the promise of Brexit, it should be viewed in terms of a constitutional revolution, dismantling the baked in political correctness that goes with Blair’s human rights regime. That means removing the influence of foreign judges and courts and restoring the primacy of national laws made by elected bodies.

Thanks to Tory betrayal, we now have a long and hard road to rebuilding a movement capable of putting our demands front and centre. The so-called “revolt on the right” made the foolish error of trusting the Tories to take us over the finish line. We won’t make that mistake again. UKIP has experience in building a movement, and with your help we can do it again. Join UKIP today.

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