Most people agree with our constitutional theory. We are all beneath the law. The law should be evenly enforced. The more severe crimes of violence against  people should be given priority by the services set up to prevent  crime, to investigate crime and to prosecute suspects.
Punishments should be related to the severity of the crime. Long periods in prison should be used for those who did most harm to most people, to protect the public and act as a Deterrent.
The law against racial abuse should be enforced. It should not be used as an excuse not to prosecute or investigate a suspect. If a suspect is from a minority group others should  not generalise from the conduct of a criminal from that group. All racial groups contain small criminal minorities.
Many people are shocked by what has emerged over grooming and rape gangs. The call for a further enquiry is frustration that the previous enquiry did not go into the full extent of these horrors or propose suitable  remedies. There is a feeling successive governments and Crown  Prosecutors have let people down over a wave of serious crimes. The government needs to come up with a stronger response.
January 8, 2025
Good morning.
I do not believe that an enquiry is needed. It will take too long, cost a lot of money and will resolve nothing other than a few sacrificial lambs being put up to silence the masses. A totally pointless exercise.
What needs to happen is for the police to do the job they were employed to do without fear or favour and investigate not just those that committed serious crimes but those that turned a blind eye to what went on and, to this day, still goes on.
I very much agree, Sir John. Which begs the question, why have the government still not prosecuted those men who attacked and broke the nose of a WPC at Manchester Airport ? They wasted no time in arresting and prosecuting those for posting hurty words on social media, giving them lengthy sentences. Or that of a Labour Councillor who called for the cutting of peoples throats ?
It seems thanks to the law a those who have ‘protected characteristics’ it seem that George Orwell was right when he said in his book, Animal Farm – “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”
January 8, 2025
I believe charges have now been made against the alleged perpetrators at Manchester Airport, but the delay in bringing them has caused disquiet about two-tier justice; as indeed has the severity of the sentences for social media posts and the convictions of such alleged criminals when they pleaded guilty after being imprisoned on remand without bail for long periods.
January 8, 2025
The law against racial abuse should be enforced. That is an interesting subject, we know only white people can be racist officially so things like the grooming gangs should be called out for what they are. They are racist attacks on vulnerable white girls.
Tommy Robinson is given an extraordinary sentence for contempt of court for saying things which are patently true but don’t fit the government narrative. Musk is correct to highlight the sheer hypocrisy of the establishment. I’m sure there will be much hand wringing when Trump starts to dismantle the whole stinking house of cards
January 8, 2025
Once again our power network is running at 43gw
CCGT is on 95%, nuclear on 100%. Wind is dying off due to high pressure creeping in. We have STOR generators on and an open cycle gas turbine running.
We are Importing approximately 10% of our electricity and only have imports left to pick up any further demand.
Just where is the power going to come from to supply all these heat pumps and EVs which the government are mandating
January 8, 2025
@Mark B +1
Well said.
January 8, 2025
Indeed with âprotected characteristicsâ two Tier Justice is actually written into the law. Not applicable however for young white girls, in certain towns (over 50) it seems.
January 8, 2025
Two men have been charged in relation to the Manchester Airport incident. The trial of the Labour Councillor you mention starts later this month. Best check your facts before posting.
January 8, 2025
What was their sentence, Roy?
January 8, 2025
Took them a while though !
January 8, 2025
I agree Roy – but it took a long time before it happened
January 8, 2025
If the Archbishop of Canterbury had to resign, why not the Prime Minister who was the Attorney General! The same comment applies to Jess Phillips.
January 8, 2025
“The law must be fairly enforced”.
I agree. Unfortunately that’s not what is happening in our country.
The rape gangs got away lightly because of their ethnicity. This was the start of the rot, where individuals with a specific identity got differential treatment. Then we had people who got away lightly because of their professed opinions (BLM rioters and climate protestors).
Now it’s got worse: individuals who belong to disfavoured identities or who hold disfavoured opinions get harsher treatment than average.
This breakdown of our legal system is destroying the Lockian social contract.
Also we haven’t even considered what “the law” itself comprises. There has been a terrifying overreach in the extent to which it shackles us. For example, being penalised for “non-crimes”, arrested for silently praying etc
January 8, 2025
The enquiry should be into who covered up what was going on.
January 8, 2025
I want a further enquiry, not to propose preventative measures but to identify how such wickedness was permitted.
I want to hear the excuses of the individual police officers, councillors, social workers, civil servants and politicians involved, for why they failed in their duties so dreadfully. I want to hear their evidence on oath, read their names, see their faces.
I want our official and ruling classes to know that actions have consequences and society has teeth.
January 8, 2025
Your last para. is where the work needs to be done; who is not doing what they should be doing and why? The crimes are now known and can be readily found, why have they not been prosecuted? How did we regress into such a politicised and possibly corrupt social management system that has allowed these crimes?
January 8, 2025
Joshua Rozenberg, on his blog today, points out that this morning a tranche of evidence of war crimes by British Forces in Afganistan has been published by a Judicial Inquiry. This is shocking.
But if this is so, then possibly the attacks on British civilians are at least partially ârevenge attacksâ.
I have had total faith in the conduct of our troops both at home and abroad, but when one considers the actions of âcharity workersâ abroad then in the modern, debased era, I suppose we have to contemplate the possibility that in military terms too, we are not what we once were.
Time to stop sending charity workers and the military abroad to interfere in other peoples countries and certainly to interfere in other peopleâs wars.
January 8, 2025
Does the Equalities Act undermine the idea of equality before the law de facto if not de iure?
January 8, 2025
Once again our power network is running at 43gw
CCGT is on 95%, nuclear on 100%. Wind is dying off due to high pressure creeping in. We have STOR generators on and an open cycle gas turbine running.
We are Importing approximately 10% of our electricity and only have imports left to pick up any further demand.
Just where is the power going to come from to supply all these heat pumps and EVs which the government are mandating
January 8, 2025
And happens if the enquiry does, as is suspected, find evidence that the authorities including politiicians are found to have been reluctant or evn not permitted to prosecute for fear of losing Muslim/Pakistani votes?
January 8, 2025
Sir John
No one is going to disagree with your train of thought. But in some high profile situations the Law has drifted away from the intention it was first prescribed to tackle. “The law against racial abuse should be enforced” what is racial abuse? is it personal interpretations( it certainly is in UK Courts) or is there a standard logical fact based that can’t be an anything else situation. In UK Laws in England used to be interpreted by the phrase ‘The man on the Clapham omnibus’ , now it appears to be the Judge or more recently ‘Two Tier Kier’ that defines the Law for every instance.
If something cant have precision, based on logic and facts, i.e. not open to interpretation no sane legislator would make it Law
January 8, 2025
I agree Ian, these child grooming and rape gangs have an element of racial abuse in them, I wonder if sentences are lengthened because of that?
January 8, 2025
Sir John – the recent highlighted abuse appears to have had a pause button held over it simply due to personal, purely personal beliefs into ‘racial’ issues and not the Law.
January 8, 2025
In a recent case in the US has led McDonalds to abandon its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. As with all these sound-bite get down with kids and chase popular culture situations it was found that they (McDonalds) discriminated on racial grounds.
Anyone having or using diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their operation (most HR on particularly State HR departments) are first and foremost practising and imposing racial discrimination, and discrimination generally on a society, yet the Law in the UK doesnât chase them or charge them out of âfearâ.
The UK never had a problem of Harmony, until it was invented by those embroiled in the popular (social media) of âthem and usâ culture created it.
January 8, 2025
What is the point of having a Public Enquiry when the list of recommendations are never implemented ?
The PE recommendations should go before Parliament & become law
If they cannot become law then the resposibility falls to the Home Secretary to take action
Reply Recommendations are being implemented. Not all Enquiry recommendations are good
January 8, 2025
It’s not just that the police are doing their job with bias, that bias is integrated into instructions and legal statutes.
I wonder if things would be better if police commissioners were not political decisions.
There is far too much evidence for Starmer to ignore this abuse epidemic, but he does anyway, suggesting a lack of honest appraisal. He was allegedly involved in the Saville affair, so has history in cover ups.
Two tier justice is a phrase we hear all too often these days, and that is down to the way politicians have confused the status of immigrants to suggest that they be treated better.
What is also wrong is that ideas and words have become crimes – THIS is pure insanity, when a ruling elite can define what we are allowed to think or express, and even more damaging to our society than the infestation of abuse against women and girls.
January 8, 2025
Sadly freedom of speech has been seriously damaged since New Labour arrived with Political Correctness PC and the Police were politicised by Blair, & Blair..
Previously police would be free to describe the ethnicity or colour of a criminal on incidents and stats.
Now folks are afraid to mention a person’s attributes for fear of being smeared with the dreaded Racist label.
So by default everyone has to cower due to this threat and the result is confusing. It explains why the Oldham abuses mushroomed into a toxic nuclear like problem and like Chernobyl was capped , cordoned off, avoided.
January 8, 2025
âThe call for a further enquiry is frustration that the previous enquiry did not go into the full extent of these horrors or propose suitable remediesâ.
Alexis Jayâs investigation was initiated in 2015, it cost ÂŁ186m, interviewed 7000 people, the report was published in October 2022 and included 20 recommendations.
Now Sir John, at the time how many did you ask the Conservative government to implement? And tell me, how much of your interest in these questions has suddenly erupted because of the intervention of an South African-Canadian-American rich man criticising the present government? Why werenât you more vocal on these questions between Octâ22 and June 2023? Just asking.
(I guess that as usual âthe owner of this blog will reserve the right to publishâ.)
Reply I did not raise this issue because I had no cases of it in my constituency so could not add anything to evidence needed of widespread rape gangs. I did pursue the abuse of postal staff because I had a local case which alerted me early to the travesty of justice.
January 8, 2025
June 2024 âŠ
January 8, 2025
Did you expect 344 Conservative MPs to all ask searching questions between Octâ22 and June 2023?
Why single out Sir John, when as he points out no known cases were detected in Wokingham constituency?
January 8, 2025
What was in June 2024?
I’m curious from the date of the report what action was taken or were the Conservatives too busy fighting internal power games to elect Truss and Sunak?
January 8, 2025
Why should being a South African Canadian American rich man disbarr someone from commenting on politics in another country?
I see you giving forth your opinions on all kind of worldwide topics hefner
Should you be restricted in sounding off?
January 8, 2025
commenting or leading direction of travel?
January 8, 2025
Dear Mr. Redwood,
The government’s stronger response might be that Keir Starmer ‘has a word’ with the Speaker so that he does not select either of the two Conservative and Reform UK’s ‘reasoned amendments’ to the Childrenâs Wellbeing and Schools Bill that is going to be debated today.
After all, he has form on this kind of thing. When Leader of the Opposition, he was accused of putting pressure on the Speaker over a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza to stave off a potential rebellion by his own MP’s.
After what we have learned this week on the cover-up of the rape gangs scandal, why would anyone trust a single thing most of our political class says – about anything whatsoever. If Keir Starmer eventually bowed to pressure and launched a national inquiry, would anyone trust him not to appoint one of his cronies to lead it?
January 8, 2025
I read that the previous enquiry made over 20 specific recommendations and you government did absolutely nothing. Is this inaccurate?
January 8, 2025
This should have been written a long time ago. Action is needed now to force the police to try to rescue the girls, who are being abused up and down the country now. Unfortunately we are ruled by a traitor class.
January 8, 2025
It can also be that much of the frustration is also due to previous enquiries having made recommendations that have not been followed through. I do not have sufficient knowledge to say if those enquires had the right scope to include the cover ups for fear of offending, if they did let’s hear the recommendation, if not then something more is required.
I also understand many arrests and trials have happened and it may well be helpful that the outcomes of these were better known.
January 8, 2025
The current leader of the Conservative party was Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022 to 2024 so why didn’t she start an enquiry then and what has changed to make her call for one now ? No new facts have emerged, this has all been known about for years, decades almost, and there have been multiple trials and convictions. Her change of mind in the past few months is puzzling isn’t it ?
January 8, 2025
I am not sure that a Government inquiry of the sort we have unfortunately got accustomed to would do the trick, but something needs to be done to clear out the Augean Stables. For there is a stench of corruption rising from both activity and inactivity not only of the police but of many local politicians and MPs who were more intent on not rocking the boat and upsetting their relations (and therefore votes) of the Moslem Community than seeing justice was done for these unfortunate girls. Doubts have also been raised at the conduct of the DPP at that time. I would have thought he would have wanted to clear his name from these aspersions.
January 8, 2025
It’s all very sad. Some men, across all ethnicities / class get away with what they are allowed .
The rule makers / enforcers must be squeaky clean.
“Squeaky” being not a religious thing but an innate human thing.
Most normal men recoil, 2% don’t.
January 8, 2025
Women have so much strength and power; they can produce life, and they live longer, hopefully to help their offspring raise their grandchildren, as a video I watched on female quotient reminded me. Yet, it takes the intervention of, yes, Hefner, a wealthy man from America whose grandmother was English, Elon Musk, to be heard in the UK.
Kemi has serious questions to answer as the Minister for Women and Equalities from 2022 to 2024, what did she personally do about child grooming gangs, people say she did nothing, even after the report was published in 2023, I find it difficult to believe that.
January 8, 2025
I dissent to the extent that the law, lawyers and Judges cannot be supreme in a proper democracy but must be beneath democracy.
I also suspect those in authority were afraid to act properly through fear of the minority involved becoming riotous and violent. George Floyd’s record as a petty criminal did not stop him becoming a hero and poster boy for the wave of violence ‘Black Lives Matter’, the movement founded in his support set off in the United States of America. Yet violent crime has to be punished rather than ignored, whoever causes it -otherwise it will only get worse and become endemic.