Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy
How about she reads the names of the thousands of little girls she turned a blind eye to?
Let’s start with:
Lucy Lowe was 14.
Sarah Wilson was 11
Fiona Goddard was 14.
Charlene Downes was 11 or 12.
Sammy Woodhouse was 14.
Victoria Agoglia was 13.
And there are countless more.
They were children. Many barely out of primary school, so young and in no way responsible for the atrocities committed against them.
These are the little girls that Jess Phillips voted to deny a national grooming gangs inquiry.
When she accused whistleblowers of politicising child rape and being far-Right racists — these are the little girls she was accusing.
When she ignored local councils’ requests to meet with her as Safeguarding Minister, when she refused their pleas for local inquiries, voted against a national Grooming Gangs inquiry, then stripped down the government’s local enquiries until they were cancelled altogether.
She had to be dragged kicking and screaming into an inquiry, and is now trying to claim that she cares.
Think about what gangs of Pakistani-Muslim men put those little girls through.
Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs plied them with alcohol and drugs, they raped them in graveyards, they put them into the back of taxis and drove them to be gang-raped by 20+ of their friends, they dismembered them and sold them as kebab meat, they inserted a pump into their anal cavity and had multiple men sodomise them at once, they raped them on filthy mattresses above takeaway shops, they forced panties down their throat to muffle the screams, they threatened to murder them if they told anyone, they brutally beat them, they killed them and torched their houses with their family inside, they picked them up from local authority care homes to be raped, they forced them to take crack cocaine and heroin, they convinced them they loved them so they could abuse them, they killed their unborn children, they targeted the most vulnerable and marginalised, they told them no one would believe them, they forced them to get abortions, they passed them round like a piece of meat, they threatened to kill their families, they gaslit and manipulated them.
Now think about the people that were meant to protect them. Who comes to mind? Police, local councils, social services, sexual health clinics, schools, care homes.
People like Jess Phillips.
People like Keir Starmer.
But they didn’t.
Powerful people turned a blind eye for decades while little girls were being raped, tortured, and murdered.
Every party failed.
Every party played their part.
But Labour were the worst by a landslide. It was Labour-led towns, Labour councillors, Labour politicians, and Labour local authorities.
They branded them “white slags”, “child prostitutes”, and “paki shaggers”. They walked in on victims naked and drugged with 20+ adult men and only arrested the child, they arrested girls for prostitution and handed them back to the same men that were exploiting them, they added the victims to dockets as co-defendants in their own abuse, they downplayed the scale of abuse, they refused to investigate reports, they paid for the taxi rides the girls got raped during, they silenced whistleblowers, they blamed the girls for their own abuse, they tried to block inquiries, and more.
Now think again about how young they were, how vulnerable, how innocent.
And understand the true evil of politicians like Jess. They are trying to rewrite history, but we will not forget.