The government was wrong to water down its proposal of local enquiries in just five towns into the scandal of the rape gangs. They attacked children in the most disgusting way. It is thought this happened in at least 50 towns and cities.
One of the issues is did senior local Councillors and Council officers help cover this up? They should not decide whether to hold an enquiry, and should not conduct it.
Katie Lam MP spoke for most people when she challenged the Minister seeking to smuggle the dilution through an almost empty House of Commons. Rupert Lowe has also done good work on this issue.Bring on a proper enquiry with full powers of independent investigation.
April 11, 2025
Good morning.
This is a stain upon our nation. But an enquiry is worthless unless those that turned a blind eye for so long are punished. The punishment of not reporting a serious crime such as this must be greater in order to deter such connivance. I do not hold out much hope that those that facilitated this will ever be held to account. There are, I believe, too many of the ‘higher-ups’ for any government to stand.
April 11, 2025
Agree Mark. It gives the appearance that the Government doesn’t want an enquiry which identifies failings in local government run by (largely) labour councillors with alleged perpetrators being (largely) labour supporters.
A significant number of enquiries have been held to investigate harm to single people or small numbers of people. Given the scale of these child abuse problems it is staggering no national investigation is happening.
April 11, 2025
The Conservatives also avoided this subject while in power. It is not just a Labour fear, it is establishment avoidance in case of having to say something uncomfortable about a minority.
April 11, 2025
Yes. They are protecting a great many senior “public servants” who would be open to prosecution if the truth were known.
April 11, 2025
@Mark B – the original excuse was that such an enquirey would upset people of a certain background, to which others concluded they (Government) were worried about upsetting their natural Labour Voters.
April 11, 2025
Who could do any investigation? The police seemingly cannot be trusted to do it having turned a blind eye, not being interested and even arresting the victims. This will never be investigated properly, it is only because of the efforts of journalists that this has come up at all, its been going on for decades with authority not wanting to know. The police seem content to bury it and by inaction condone it. What would the situation be if it had been white Christian perpetrators? – I think we all know the answer to that – collars would be felt. And now of course we have a police force wanting only ethnic recruits. This racism must be ended and the top management dismissed.
April 11, 2025
Starmer thinks we should not have an enquiry into gangs who brutally raped/abused thousands of children. Instead he pontificates about forcing all children to see the fictional film “Adolesence”. He and his supporters are disgraceful, prioritising votes and woke ideology over child abuse.
Katie Lam’s intervention was compelling. The Minister’s response was bearing on the contemptuous. I’m glad you acknowledged Rupert Lowe’s pressure, too.
April 11, 2025
+1
April 11, 2025
Well said. I am entirely FOR a thorough and effective National Enquiry — PROVIDED it takes no longer than 12 months and addresses the key issues, resulting in truth, and consequences where appropriate.
My worry is it will, again, be slow, performative and irrelevant in large part, as so much of or government activity.
PS, where are the parents/guardians of these poor children?
April 11, 2025
The parents were silenced and bullied and sometimes arrested. There is an interview with one of the fathers on YouTube, search – it’s worth listening to.
The original crimes were compounded comprehensively by those administering the State weighing in against the ‘11 year old British sexual predators’ aka the victims.
There must be criminal charges for the consequences of this malfeasance in public office.
April 11, 2025
Hindsight is a great thing. But at time, the Covid problem was new. Even relatively young and healthy Boris ended up quite seriously ill in hospital from Covid. Sure, maybe we should have been more like Sweden. But no-one really knew.
April 11, 2025
In many cases, the Local Authority was acting in Loco Parentis. In others, a parent appealed to the authorities and police and was threatened with arrest him/herself.
April 11, 2025
In some cases the children were in local authority care.
April 11, 2025
@Wanderer – as his title TwoTierKier suggests it is about TwoTier Justice. If you are what he deems of the ‘left’ you deserve to be let off – nothing happened, nothing to see here. Those that oppose him are always of the extreme right and need what ever punishment can be contrived out of very little objectivity or evidence just a personal view
April 11, 2025
Indeed but we will either not get one or we will get a rigged one. Look at the sick joke of the Covid 19 inquiry under the dire Heather Hallett. Studiously avoiding all the serious issue like the damaging net harm lockdowns and net harm ineffective vaccines. These coerced even into people who did not need them even if safe and effective (the younger people and those who had had Covid already. The Tories and Labour and the appalling Sturgeon got everything wrong! Have they looked at the dire vaccine “regulation” and compromised big Pharma funded regulators.
April 11, 2025
The government “experts” were nearly all given honours or put in the Lords as rewards for their gross failure in getting almost everything wrong on Covid. Has “unequivocally safe” Sunak corrected his lies (?) statement to the house yet?
April 11, 2025
Covid is history. I agree with your frustration though. But let’s focus on things we can practically change.
The rape gangs not easy to solve (or maybe easier than we think – don’t know). But we have to focus on and try and deal with. Making people safe (and feel safe) is a fundamental duty of government.
April 11, 2025
People are still dying as a result of the CV19 jabs.
The unrelenting rape of British children has been ongoing for 20 years and continues.
How can the Governing class ‘make us feel safe’?
April 11, 2025
‘People are still dying as a result of the CV19 jabs’ – what’s your evidence for this (not saying you might not be right but where’s the evidence so we know how seriously or relatively not seriously the situation is).
‘The unrelenting rape of British children has been ongoing for 20 years and continues’ – so just don’t do anything about it because it’s being going on 20 years? And we do have hard evidence of atrocious, sickening things happening to girls.
‘How can the Governing class ‘make us feel safe?’ Good question. But making people safe and making people ‘FEEL’ safe (in particular women) is a priority.
Lastly, whatever you think of the jabs, it was done in good faith. But the appalling rape of gang rape of girls by adults is another kettle of fish altogether.
April 11, 2025
@Ed M. Our governments love to be told they should make us feel safe. They use that as an reason to clamp down on freedom of expression and all manner of less sinister but nannying and useless regulation.
April 11, 2025
But I’m talking here about grown men gang-raping girls and in an organised way here in the UK.
You make a valid point but chosen the wrong subject to make that point.
The other extreme of what you to say is to diminish the focus of how to get these people well and truly behind bars.
April 11, 2025
Covid vaccine damage is not history alas nor is the vast government debt the Tories created spending money doing this net harm.
Kemi:- it is absurd to get councils to carry out inquiries in the the rape gangs “when they “may” have something to hide”. “May” This lass is so bloody wet, we know for sure already that many in the council, councillors, council workers, social workers, two tier police, the prosecution authorities, teachers… have vast amounts to hide. Rather like the government Tory and Labour have vast amounts to hide over the dangerous & coerced dangerous covid “vaccines”!
Get off the fence dear. This on the rape gangs, the net harm Covid vaccines, net zero, fracking, energy, the two genders in sport etc., the size of the state, tax levels… no point in being Labour but not quite as bad you silly dope! You then would need to convince us the Tories would actually do these sensible things! Not easy after 14 years of blatant Tory fraud & lies!
April 11, 2025
@Lifelogic – that is now the UK Terror way of Government/Parliment award those that you agree with punish all others
April 11, 2025
@Lifelogic –
Failed in the job, get to join the ‘free-loading’ gravy train
Michael Gove is set to receive a peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list, according to reports.
April 11, 2025
The state will inevitably rig any enquiry with obfuscation from KCs and a biased judge, coating millions and taking years.
All of these girls were taken into care by local authorities and their parents were prevented from intervening by police and social workers. The state will not allow the truth to be exposed.
April 11, 2025
There have been no less than seven inquiries into the Pakistani rape gangs already
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, which published its final report in 2022, knitted several of these inquiries together alongside its own investigations. Professor Alexis Jay, who led the inquiry, said in November she was frustrated that NONE of its 20 recommendations to tackle abuse had been implemented – more than two years later. That’s right, NONE
The culprits are overwhelmingly men of Pakistani heritage who were abusing underage vulnerable white girls, some as young as 11 years old. The truth is that thousands of such men were active in the abuse, right across the country.
Recently a national newspaper, which had access to court transcripts, described the men involved as “rape torture gangs, perpetrating on children the most heinous sexual crimes imaginable on an industrial scale”
As with Windrush, the contaminated blood scandal, Hillsborough, the postmasters and Grenfell, the British state has gone to immense lengths to cover it up. Starmer was director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013 when all this was going on. At the least, the girls deserve an explanation from him – and an apology.
April 11, 2025
These women and girls deserve JUSTICE. Nothing less. The whole world is shocked at what Britain has become. If we ever want to be able to hold our heads up again, we must see JUSTICE which includes those who enable this crime to continue.
April 11, 2025
Indeed (though no fewer than seven perhaps). The people who did this are vile, evil or mentally ill, but the very many people who covered it up with their two tier justice are almost equally culpable.
Jess Phillips helpfully blames “all men”! She rightly would not I assume blame all Muslims or all Asians but all men is just fine with her it seems.
Add to your list of cover ups the net harm Covid Vaccines, the net harm lockdowns, the vaccine regulators funded by big pharma, the net zero fraud/scam, the PPE fraud…
April 11, 2025
There has been NO public inquiry, where witnesses would have to give evidence under oath. Your seven ‘inquiries’ achieved nothing, as you admit. Not until those guilty, and those guilty of the cover-up, are locked up for their crimes can this horrible saga be put behind us.
The political class need to be made to see what the whole country can see. They are a disgrace – SJR’s “an almost empty House of Commons” says it all.
April 11, 2025
With no recommendations acted upon, I can only suppose the same activity of rape gangs continues to the present day.
April 11, 2025
Starmer was director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013 when all this was going on.
No! we now have Two Tier Keir(TTK) in charge of what he defines personally as justice. If you are looking for fairness and equality under the Law look away, it is now personal and selective
April 11, 2025
“…when all this was going on.”
It’s not stopped ‘going on’, if you do nothing to discourage an activity, it will continue.
It’s a bit rich, Redwood coming out and calling for an enquiry, now, though.
April 11, 2025
The Pakistani rape gangs were not properly investigated by the Jay report. Only one victim out of at least 100,000 girls who suffered at least a million rapes (figures from Lord Pearson which will be out of date now) was involved in the report. Two High Court Judges and a Lord Mayor of London were seen off before Professor Jay was appointed.
April 11, 2025
The core of Prof. Jay’s report was published in October 2022. It hardly came to the attention of the public thanks to the ‘transition’ between PM Truss and PM Sunak. Practically none of the 20 recommendations of the report was even considered by the Conservative government despite Kemi Badenoch being at the time the Minister for Women and Equalities.
The present Labour government should implement those recommendations that the previous government did not find the time to address in more than 18 months.
April 11, 2025
How is it possible to have made a virtue out of inviting savages to come to this country and destroy our poor children’s already difficult lives?
How is it possible that institutions we once relied on to maintain civilised social behaviour in our country have as one shied away from even talking about the cultural dimension of organised rape gangs?
How is it possible for elected councillors, sometimes referred to as local leaders, were happy to raise their own children in a society they knew harboured the most vile depraved sexual predators ever known?
These are just three questions the public enquiry may wish to ask.
There are many more.
April 11, 2025
Well said.
April 11, 2025
@Rod Evans –
By denying democracy, and an independent Judiciary working to maintain properly constituted Laws. Laws derived from a Government and Parliament acting as the UK’s accountable responsible Legislator.
We have personal dictators that want to impose their image and their image only on Society. They instruct authorities to act for them personally not the Nation. They no longer serve the Country or its People, they are in it ‘for me’ that means two tier justice takes precedence – them and us.
April 11, 2025
Why do Labour assume that most of Muslim community do not want these rape gangs exposed and dealt with just as most other right thinking people do?
April 11, 2025
Exactly LL, there is every reason to think that the vast majority of British Muslims are as appalled by what has gone on as everyone else and Muslims should be involved in the inquiry. Men from one culturally backward part of one country have been disproportionately responsible and, although there are many of them, are probably no more representative of their religion than John Smyth was of Anglican evangelicals.
April 11, 2025
Yes a Natiional Judicial enquiry is absolutely necessary. In avoiding this, the Labour government, intent on protecting what they see as their muslim support, are in effect making themselves complicit in the whole evil crime. They are becoming the end game in the chain of official cover up, originating in local political government, local officialdom, those responsible for the care of children, those aware in the muslim community, and an unsympathetic disinterested police force. A judicial enquiry is a must.
April 11, 2025
They are not just preserving their Pakistani vote: they are preserving their own reputations as some really quite senior people in the Labour Party endorsed the judgement that “this was a lifestyle choice” and that the girls were seen as “easy meat”. Instructions came down not up that the crimes were not to be pursued.
April 11, 2025
Thank you for signposting Rupert Lowe’s initiative, it is a very good start and I’ve backed it via the current crowdfunder which has raised £558,417 todate from 17,748 supporters so far.
You are right to highlight the disgraceful actions by government on watering down enquiries but to be honest I would not trust any investigation by local, governmental or judicial figures. It’s all very well people like Farage demanding late in the day that it must have judicial teeth but how do you ensure no rotten apples.
Any punishments must be punitive to dissuade such barbarity and I agree with the view that those who covered up activities, even failing to report or turned a blind eye should be considered for as harsh a penalty as those actively involved.
Frankly, if the government and authorities wish a law abiding population then it must serve and protect the law abiding majority otherwise I suspect they risk the opposite.
April 11, 2025
I understand that if you know of a crime and do not take active measures to report/stop it, you are deemed to be a participant. This extends even to murder.
Why should those employed by the state be exempt from this principle?
We need a TRIAL.
April 11, 2025
Well almost no shop staff, nor the police nor other customers do anything much about shop lifting, car thefts and many other crimes! The police even say with will do nothing for under £100 is this per incident or per day you might easily be able to 20X£100 a day
April 11, 2025
There you go. Because the government has not tackled crime and the police, politicians, and just about everyone else is turning a blind eye, small crimes eventually become big crimes and we end up with politicians turning a blind eye to rape.
Yet, if you try to contact your doctor or open a bank account you are treated like a criminal.
Put the crooks in jail so we can go back to being civil to each other again.
April 11, 2025
Accessory after the fact.
April 11, 2025
It’s so sad when human beings in our society can collude to keep this under wraps.
The cover-uppers seem to include Labour ministers. Disgusting.
April 11, 2025
Of course there should be a National Public Inquiry. The mass grooming and gang-rape of thousands of young white girls by mainly ethnic-Pakistani men is probably the worst example of mass criminality and State “failure” in our history.
But Labour will continue to refuse and will do everything it can to prevent local ones because it knows that a great many so-called “public servants” in mainly Labour-controlled areas were complicit in the abuse: either by turning a blind eye to it; refusing to intervene and stop it or, in some cases, by directly participating.
The message from Two-Tier is “the mass rape of thousands of young white girls is unimportant …. look instead at this fictional Netflix “documentary” about a teenage white boy murdering a girl.”
etc dd
April 11, 2025
The moral panic at the BBC and elsewhere over Adolescence is amusing to behold – rap music has promoted extreme misogyny and gang culture for years and the BBC has had not problem actively promoting that.
April 11, 2025
Maybe we need to ‘crowd-fund’ for a civil case against the individual people who had authority but who failed to stop this – indeed even instructed the police that they were not allowed to investigate it!
April 11, 2025
@Donna
+9
April 11, 2025
Yes there should be a proper inquiry, but sadly i would fear that if one is held it will take years, and like many others in the past (and Present) will cost a fortune, will miss the simple failures, and in the end hold too few to account.
The most simple fact is that the police and child services failed to act in timely manner, failed to investigate claims and reports properly, probably due to a number of reasons amongst which would be the excuse of lack of funding, lack of manning, lack of management priority, lack of accountability, and for fear of being called racists.
Yet again public services being shown up as unfit for purpose.
April 11, 2025
There was an inquiry into the Catholic church and its fondness for choir boys.
Fair is fair, there should be an inquiry into certain Muslim men and their predilection for young white girls. There is much that can be learnt, not least how to avoid ignoring issues like this for fear of causing offence.
April 11, 2025
Many of the poor victims were or are School children.
Schools have a mandatory duty under the Safeguarding and Prevent regulations to identify and report upwards to the Local Education Authority (LEA) at County level their concerns regarding behavioural changes in their pupils.
Behavioural changes in a child might include frequent absences, separation from their friends or isolation from the peer group, lack of interest in classroom or emotional outbursts.
Safeguarding training is mandatory for all school staff, and governors. Teachers and other staff members would recognise these symptoms and report them upwards, in the first instance to the appointed Safeguarding staff member and then to the headteacher.
It seems logical, therefore, to start any enquiries into this horrible issue at school level. The first question to be asked should be “Have you or did you report any Safeguarding concerns regarding a girl pupil to the LEA”?
If the answer was yes, then attention should be turned to the LEA, who have a mandatory responsibility to investigate the reported Safeguarding concerns and must bring the police into the investigation.
In short, start at the bottom – if a school or schools did report their Safeguarding concerns upwards to the LEA, what actions were then taken? That might then expose where the matter was perhaps dropped or glossed over by those that should’ve taken rapid and effective action to identify the true scale of the problems.
April 11, 2025
The cover-up of this vile racist behaviour undertaken by Pakistani Muslims goes way beyond councils/councillors. It goes through the police through the government right up to the top. Ask yourself why is Two-tier Keir so keen to avoid a genuine national enquiry?
Who was DPP when the worst of these atrocities were happening? Keir Starmer, that’s who.
April 12, 2025
Senior Labour Party politicians including, it is alleged, a former Prime Minister decided that the young white girls had made a lifestyle choice so they didn’t need protection from the Pakistani rapists and no action should be taken against the rape gangs.
The Establishment isn’t just protecting the rapists; the wagons have been circled to protect their own.
April 11, 2025
Sir John
There is contempt shown for the Law at every level. I would suggest it is because our legislators abuse it for their own personal, very personal ends.
Good laws, require clear thinking to happen in the first place from competent legislators. Laws created that can be used to reflect a personal opinion are not Laws, that should just be ‘free-speech’ in action and should simply have a counter balance of an alternative opinion.
The administration of the Laws requires everyone without exception to administer them on an equal basis. Creating exceptions, what are personal exceptions is not upholding good Law that is bring Laws into disrepute.
The UK as is practised by the World’s free sovereign democracies should return to using ‘English Law’. That alone would rebalance the system, and remove the ‘contemptible’ side of what some call Law that is nothing other than political manipulation.
It is Government and Parliament that are ‘playing’ the system, as our legislators they are trying to keep the ‘TwoTier Justice’ at front and foremost of Society, for personal ends. They are the ones that ended the serving the Country and the People and pushed for personal self-gratification.
The hiding of enquiries is a Government/Parliament wanting to uphold TwoTier Justice that is riddled though out this Government and Parliament. It refuses the Nation Democracy, and downgrades the ‘Rule of Law’ to being just a ‘personal’ political plaything not something that should hold society together. We have had a rotten and corrupt shower this Century, pulling the Countries chains, the sole purpose has been ‘destruction’ of Society.
April 11, 2025
We don’t need an inquiry, we need a government, local government and all its various departments and quangos to be positive towards the indigenous people of the UK, its history and patriotic towards our common laws & culture and its Christian beliefs
April 11, 2025
Maybe the inquiry should also investigate why there were vulnerable girls in the first place. Were they the offspring of dead-beat dads? Were their mothers unable to cope without the father’s support?
Perhaps the lesson to be learnt is this is what happens when a society abandons the responsibilities of marriage, and indulges in serial and shallow relationships. However, with so much hanky-panky right up to the highest level, this will be a necessary lesson strenuously avoided. “We mustn’t stigmatise single mothers” will be the excuse, even though that’s not on anyone’s agenda.
It’s not just the hideous behaviour of people of recent foreign descent, but the UK furnishes them with fertile ground for their criminal activities.
April 11, 2025
This falls under the category of ‘HMG looking like they are doing something for an issue’ when in fact they are doing all they can to avoid it. Watering it down is the correct description of the approach taken, and no way should councils who have been implicated in this national scandal be allowed to whitewash any inquiry.
There are already plenty of individuals and groups that have amassed evidence against perpetrators – that should be the starting point for a real inquiry.
Why is the labour party so afraid of an honest in-depth national enquiry……?
I could spell it out here, but the answer is pretty obvious, and it could go on for several pages!
{Nice to see our host on GBN last night adding some reality to the discussion}
April 11, 2025
Interesting and enlightening to view on GB News yesterday a broadcast of Trumps latest Cabinet meeting, a classic Commercial run management meeting, with concise reports being given to him of progress by all Departmental Heads around the table, all seemingly up to speed and in control of their brief, and able to answer directly any questions he raised with an immediate and factual response.
April 11, 2025
In 1989 the UN said rising sea levels due to global warming could wipe entire nations off the face of the Earth … by the year 2000
They are still peddling these same lies today – nothing changes except that the deceit gets wilder.
The last time I checked, the Maldives had not sunk beneath the waves.
April 11, 2025
The UN never said in 1989 that the Maldives would be covered with water in 2000. First it was not the ‘UN’ but the First IPCC report published in 1990 (IPCC.ch) and such a risk was forecast for 2050 with an error margin of 20 years, depending on improvements on ocean modelling.
As a matter of fact the Maldives now have an increasing problem getting fresh water for their permanent and tourist population
(lowyinstitute.org, 04/07/2024 ‘The fight for freshwater in the Maldives’).
April 12, 2025
That would be because they have expanded their tourist population and it now exceeds the ability of local water sources to provide for it.
The problem is nothing to do with the climate and everything to do with excessive exploitation of local resources (very similar to the one we have here since the Uni-Party decided to import 10 million people in a couple of decades without making any provision for them).
April 12, 2025
Good, the people who lost their houses in Felidhoo and had to replace them with a floating one on the lagoon near Mahe (thanks to the Dutch Docklands Maldives BV) will be happy to learn it had nothing to do with climate.
April 12, 2025
You are not looking at the report quoted.
In any case the IPCC is/was a part of the UN.
We all know various figures have been quoting this 10 year window for decades.
April 15, 2025
Which makes your original comment particularly biased, don’t you think?
April 11, 2025
Not only does our Civil Service refuse to have a national enquiry into rape gangs it encourages the illegal immigration into the country of fighting age young men, whose culture is definitely not in line with the UN’s sustainable goal #5, “Gender Equality”, with free collection from French waters, free accomodation and healthcare, free mobile ‘phones and entertainment and the freedom to roam the streets unhindered. This is in addition to the millions allowed to come legally.
Despite 6000 illegal migrants arriving on small boats this year only 5 people have been convicted for piloting these boats. Have the Chinese suppliers developed pilotless small boats?
If you import the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world. This is not going to end well.
April 11, 2025
The issues are:
Who pushed the British Nationality Act 1948 enabling an influx of unassimilable aliens into this country?
Who deliberately shipped in unassimilable aliens into this country in order destroy its monoculture?
Who pushed changes in our laws to give preferable treatment to alien importees over the English?
Who put ‘Hate crime’ laws on the statute book to shut the English up?
What has been happening in our country to thousands of English girls ever since these predatory aliens were shipped in was an entirely predictable consequence of that heinous crime.
Unless the enquiry exposes the actual destroyers of our culture, the whole enquiry is a waste of time because what is salient is there is a group of people who instigated this chain of events and we need to deal with them on a permanent basis because clearly they are manifest evil in our midst.
April 11, 2025
The PM’s refusal to hold a public enquiry into these rape gangs is appalling. The law and justice should be blind, so it does not matter who was involved or their ethnic origin. What matters is the vile abuse of these girls and their treatment by social workers, police and local councils.
Obviously, for the PM, vile abuse of young girls is not a crime, whereas writing something on a social media platform that he does not like is! Two tier Keir is absolutely right.
PS – Note to Sir John: your system does not keep my name and email. I have to retype it every time, even though I tick the save my name, etc. box.
April 11, 2025
It is I suspect uncomfortable to many that the roll call of those drawing attention to the rape gangs scandal include former BNP leader Nick Griffin and the imprisoned “Tommy Robinson ” alongside others who were ignored such as Labour MP Ann Cryer. However the desire for cover-up does explain the extent of vilification and ostracism of such people by authorities seeking to hire their own involvement.
The PM was director of the DPP at the time when many of these events were coming to light. It seems he may have already developed his two tier approach to justice that makes him unfit to govern our society.
April 11, 2025
If anyone 9including he himself) is suggesting he was ‘unaware’ of events (and I note that he has already done so in some egregious cases) then either he is terminally incompetent, and should be stripped of his knighthood, or he deliberately distanced himself from matters that were within his responsibility, in which case much the same sanction would apply.
April 11, 2025
To invert a parable, there is no-one without stain to cast the first stone
April 11, 2025
We have a Parliament recall announcement for tomorrow, to discuss or herald the nationalisation of steel production in the U.K. I have no hangup with nationalisation as a concept, only with the incompetence British politicians bring to it.
There are three keys to achieving a modicum of success.
1. Electricity at a cost that competes with the lowest in the World.
2. Coking coal from a U.K. mine.
3. A high level of professional management. Government, consultants, and quangos to be kept out of sight.
I would explore the possibility of a team from Mitsubishi Steel managing it or Nucor USA doing something similar. The Japanese have a talent for people management and a track record of producing very high quality steel in my personal experience. The Americans have a good record in running a steel industry that is kind to the environment.
Let’s see what happens, it will define this labour government.
April 11, 2025
I think we know what the first thing that will happen is. The workers will all get an above inflation pay rise. The next thing will be having a union senior figure on the board along with a DEI appointment to ensure trans and ethnic minorities are given priority employment at the furnace.
Rachel from accounts might even offer to increase NI contributions just to give the newly nationalised entity commercial experience of unhelpful state policy. The money needed will of course always be there coming straight out of the tax payers pockets as is always the case with Labour.
Having said all that, I am pleased the government has finally recognised steel production is important to our national security/ It has taken them long enough.
April 11, 2025
Any Council or Police force with accusations against them and their staff or their members who will investigate this, do they have an external assessment, who by?
April 11, 2025
Yes we need more than a national rape gang inquiry, we need a new national police unit setup which actively arrests and goes after the many people in the public sector, including police forces, who turned a blind eye.
I see parliament is being recalled to nationalise whats laughably left of “British steel”. Every organisation which makes things has been encouraged to shut production here due to expensive electricity (driven by nutty fake green measures), the most expensive anti pollution kit mandated in the world, the most expensive safety kit mandated in the world, tough requirements to pay for all software licenses etc, and protections against labour abuse like using child labour. That with the way pollution licensing works, and gets traded internationally in steel, makes it way too expensive to operate here. So making stuff has been moved to China & India, from where we import their output. All we have done is moved the pollution to another part of the world, net world pollution has gone up, and that is one of the big problems with “green” measures implemented here. It is social engineering by the political class over decades which has led to this, and now we have the politicians at the last minute going to nationalise the little bit of steel left, it is madness.
We don’t need nationalisation. We do need to change our regulatory regime to demand we are in the best quartile of least polluting countries PER INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRIAL PROCESS and not the very best. We need to have a tariffs regime which adds costs to imports from countries which pollute more than we do, to level the playing field. We need to cut the fake green crap in electricity production and make electricity average world price, not the most expensive on the planet. We need to reform the pollution trading agreements, and take back the quotas this country was originally awarded, and remove them from India & China where they have moved.
And we need to get the state out of the way. The state is the problem not the solution.
Who are they going to get to run a state backed steel company? The mind boggles. Probably the same calibre of people who are running GP Energy, or Network Rail, or the Scottish nationalised shipyards. Etc.
Free the people up. Don’t invent more layers of bureaucracy to counteract mistakes the state has made, get the state out of the way.
April 11, 2025
Dear Sir John,
If there is to be an inquiry with judicial powers it must have clearly defined objectives. The long-running inquiry that led to the Jay Report offered 107 recommendations, including many institutional chnages and vast amounts of extra administration but few would have had any impact on the rape gangs.
If the aim is to offer some “justice” to victims (apart from compensation), it would have to involve detailed local investigations by a national body to name, shame and or punish those who failed the victims whether through cynicism, moral cowardice or active obstruction.
If the aim is to remove the underlying malignancy, only a national approach could reveal the common factors and the possible links between the gangs in different towns and cities, apart from the obvious one. Perhaps the
most urgent need is for intensive moral education: for British men in suspect communities, where local imams would need to play the key role; for immigrants from a very few countries where there are still perverted cultural values that need to be extirpated, and for vulnerable girls, particularly socially naive girls under the care of local authorities and most of all those in childrens’ homes.
April 11, 2025
Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list is out – Peerages: The Rt Hon Michael Gove The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt The Rt Hon Grant Shapps …..OMG ……this needs to stop !!!
Reply Hunt and Schapps did not get peerages. Hunt is an MP !
April 12, 2025
You’re correct …Hunt & Shapps got Knighthoods
April 11, 2025
My money’s on Chinese winning the trade war (for lots of reasons)
And this could really intensify the moment when China will one day be the biggest economy in the world.
That will be one of Trump’s legacies. I can’t see how he can beat China at trade war?
April 12, 2025
you impose tarrifs proportional to how good anti pollution regime is in the country you are importing from, how good their safety regime is, how good their intellectual property protection is, how well they prevent child labour, etc. if we all did that properly production would move back to the uk, Europe and USA. so a more scientific version of what trump has done. expensive anti pollution measures here just leads to more work moving to India and china, and we become third world. we are stupid if we don’t address this.
April 11, 2025
Labour knows that an inquiry will result in severe criticism and possibly prosecution of the Labour party representatives on the Council and will show political pressure actually from within each local authority’s social services, housing and police structures, (even possibly regional CPS officers) under pressure from voters of one persuasion who can – in one way or another – deliver power to any party they choose.
The result will be that Labour will be voted out (both as councillors and as MPs, perhaps even deselected) and those voted in will not be Tories or Reform or Independents, but Muslims who represent only their own.