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 9, 2025
A proposed new duty requiring barristers to advance and promote equality, diversity and inclusion would be âunlawful and misguidedâ. Barbara Mills KC, (who is herself black) who took over this month as Chairman of the Bar Council representing the 18,000 barristers in England and Wales, said she was concerned that the barâs regulator was seeking to use the barristersâ code of conduct âas the vehicle to attempt to change our cultureâ.
If itâs unlawful for the Barristers then itâs unlawful. Full stop.
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 9, 2025
That’s why Two-Tier is refusing to hold one. If the Establishment and so-called senior “Public Servants” had nothing to hide, they’d have nothing to fear from an Inquiry.
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 9, 2025
Agreed. We know the kind of abuse/rapes/torture which was being carried out.
What we don’t know was WHO aware of the abuse AND in a position to stop it or at the very least publicise it yet
didn’t do everything they could to stop it.
And WHY they didn’t.
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
The professionals involved in covering-up the dreadful exploitation of vulnerable underage white and Hindi girls by Pakistani rape gangs are, in my view, as culpable as the men who did it. Labour’s intention to make failure to report CSA a criminal offence is laudable – except that it is the police themselves who failed to protect the girls . They were part of the cover-up. For decades. If there is any new inquiry needed, it should be into exactly how and why the police were persuaded to blame the girls and not their abusers.
Repeated, unsuccessful, attempts have been made to deport men involved who had finished their sentences. The reason? Their lawyers have cited the ECHR, claiming they have the right to “family life” in the UK. So what about their victims? This scandal is fuelling the rise of the far-right in this country – and now Elon Musk has made sure that the whole world knows.
We do not need thousands of perverted men from Pakistan abusing our children. Part of the solution is to get them out of our country.
January 8, 2025
âThe full force of the lawâ meant Kier Starmer. And thus Britain is mocked, shocked, shattered and broken.
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
We don’t need another enquiry, they seem to cost millions and take forever, for very little (no) action to occur – apart from the pathetic “lessons will be learnt”.
No, form special Police Teams and give them the money instead. Pursue the perpetrators and jail or better deport them and have them locked up in their home countries. Living in this country is a priviledge, not a human right.
If any Senior Official, Politician or Police Officer has deliberately ignored (or hidden) these crimes they should be charged with obstructing the law.
No need for new laws. A middle aged man having sex with a minor is illegal – start there and then add rape, drug peddling and anything else that applies. If someone can get seven years for a Tweet, then I’d expect the State to be a lot more harsh on these animals and very unforgiving to anyone who turned a blind eye to it.
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 9, 2025
Then they are charged and tried.
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
The disgusting shame is these failures are endemic across all institutions, political parties, police, local authorities etc and they continue.
Some convicted and due to be deported have no surprise, been allowed quietly to remain. So corruption rampant across multi agencies. It took the threat from Reform to make private prosecutions to charge men filmed attacking the police.
Tory MPs as well as others were bullied by police, ministers etc into keeping quiet. I cannot believe any MP did not know in general, not necessarily the specifics, of the cover ups in the name of multiculturism. Badenoch now disgracefully opportunistic having stayed silent for years.
I have worked across communities around London and have seen how the narrative on racism has been allowed to target purely white people and be blamed for the failure of at least one community to be as successful as many others. Indeed I heard many cross community racist comments.
Musk has done the wider British public a favour in highlighting the swamp that is U.K. racial politics.
Reply As an MP with a large caseload and economy preoccupations I had no idea of the massive scale and brutal nature of these gang activities as no case came to me.
January 9, 2025
But we know that desperate parents DID go to their MPs. One father was even arrested for reporting that his daughter was being gang raped systematically.
Eventually it was a Labour MP who spoke out. Excellent a brave woman. Canât recall her name atm, but there was a mother and son on the House at the time, it was the mother.
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 9, 2025
Off topic but JP Morgan have dropped out of Carneyâs Net Zero banking group. The wheels are coming off.
January 8, 2025
It is widely evident that the law must be applied and enforced against the guilty, having not been done in the disgraceful cases raised.
Accurate identification and profiling of all criminal groups can be essential for detection of those guilty, and protection of potential victims via prevention.
If 78% of fraud happened to be caused by left-handed women aged 33-41, detection of new cases would be sensibly focused on such relevance. Bending over backwards for some sake of equality is crass. Ultimately equality destroys difference and is useless for detection of crime.
( paragraph left out ed)
Every person is unique, each with their own fine qualities, and many share similarities in numerous multi-variate groups: bridge players, weight lifters, chemists, and so on.
Identifying similarities is essential to ID, because without ID there is no detection and however strong the law may be it cannot reach the unknown.
January 8, 2025
FaceBook the social media outlet has become concerned that their censorship department created by one of the architects of a failed UK, Nick Clegg had a sixth of its (FBs) staff employed as free speech deniers.
Mark Zuckerberg, the boss finally admitted: âWhat started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions.â As in deny âFree Speechâ All very Socialist UK Uniparty
This highlights who defines censorship, what is racial hatred, what is a hate crime, when you follow each situation back it is never, fact based it is always by an individualâs personal choice at a moment in time â usually to appeal to a noisy minority.
Free Speech is hated by a few as they suggest it produces opinion that opposes them. But, thatâs the point, opposite opinions are how we advance, how we are challenged regardless of how abhorrent they may seem to us personally. Society and Individualâs should not be protected from offence, to try to do so should be an offence in its self. Too often individuals are so wound up and focused of their own personal situation that they donât think the wider world exists. The other thing missed by the âfree speechâ deniers (Labour Party, faux Conservative Party, the alternatives – Liberals/Greens) if you get to know the extreme views of others, and you get to see, understand where they are coming from before dismissing them. Then you get to view the different perspectives so the right directions can be found. Then UK wouldnât be saddled with bad Laws. What is increasingly coming over as a corrupt legal system as it is forced to make personal interpretations on bad situations forced on them would then be respected. Bad Government, Bad Legislators, make Bad Laws
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
Which recommendations of the Jayâs enquiry have been implemented by the Conservative government? Which ones by the present one? Which recommendations are not good enough to be implemented?
Reply Why not tell us which ones are good and what this government is doing about them. Labour has been in office for six months with a huge majority and usually has a one line whip with no legislation on mondays.
January 9, 2025
R2R: Youâre the politician, Iâm not. When you write âRecommendations are being implemented. Not all enquiries recommendations are goodâ, I can expect you to be a bit more precise, otherwise it is just blablabla.
Reply I am not a politician. I am a commentator and provide this blog
January 9, 2025
And if you donât know what it is all about, what about you reading Stephen Bushâs 09/01/2025 âInside politicsâ column (part of the FT subscription).
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
MT, Oh come on, me giving the direction of travel? Please tell me, donât you every day follow/accept/comment on what Sir John is giving you as âtopic of the dayâ?
Sam, are you comparing little me with a SACA rich man who has 200m+ followers on the social media channel that he owns and that has been tweaked so as to put his thoughts at the forefront of the news? Are you happy after getting back your sovereignty from the EU to be told what to think by this guy?
January 8, 2025
Yes commenting MT
Would you refuse his right to speak out if you disliked his words?
January 9, 2025
I realise like many on the left of politics hefner that you would like to stop those you dislike from speaking.
Your right to speak your mind is directly connected to his right.
Perhaps he has 200 million readers because he says thing people like.
I am not being told what to think by him or you and it has nothing to do with the UK leaving the EU.
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 9, 2025
The Jay inquiry made lots of recommendations about what should be done in future. It didn’t inquire sufficiently into why the law was not properly enforced in the past. Which police forces and which local authority officials ignored what was being done to which girls – that is what should have been fully investigated, and in more than just the handful of towns selected by the inquiry. Robert Jenrick made this point recently, and was promptly targeted by the usual ‘anti-racist’ attack dogs, which means he was focusing on the real issue here.
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 impression is that those gangs operated with impunity because of their race while they selected their victims along racial and religious lines, ie not Pakistani and not Muslim. Imagine this in reverse. The same victims, many of whom were in state care (according to accounts by Jayne Senior in her book Broken and Betrayed) were abused by fathers and sons. The details are gut churning.
It is the authorities who are in question, not the wider Pakistani community. They were pursuing and humiliating Sir Cliff Richard over allegations of sexual offences live on BBC TV at the time, remember.
This is a two-tier country for sure.
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.
January 8, 2025
Two-tier Kier has gone to some amazing lengths to avoid a public enquiry into the mass rapes and beatings of young white girls by Pakistani Muslims.
I wonder why?