Laila Cunningham@policylaila
Labour put a Labour peer in charge of the rape gang inquiry then admit it won’t be exhaustive. That’s not an inquiry. It’s a stitch-up. If they were serious, they’d appoint a judge, expose every failure, deport the rapists, and ban visas to Pakistan until abusers are taken back. Victims, like Jade deserve justice, not more cover-ups.👇
The case of Jade Nurse. Her story, published this week is a catalogue of failure: raped by hundreds of men from the age of 14. “Freshies” from Pakistan
who were flown in to rape them.
A system of targeted gang rape that operated in the open, and likely still does.
This wasn’t just grooming. It was sexual exploitation tourism, happening under the nose of the British state.
What visas were these men arriving on? Visitor visas? Spousal visas? Were they ever vetted? Were they ever removed? How many even left?
We issue hundreds of Pakistani visitor visas every single day over 200,000 granted last year alone, more than double the number issued just two years earlier, with barely any meaningful checks on criminal history, local enforcement records, or links to rape gang networks, how many, like the men Jade described, are here to rape?
If we had a single serious safeguarding department in Whitehall, these questions would already be answered. But they’re not because no one dares ask. How many more Jades are there?
We now know that what happened in Rotherham, Rochdale wasn’t an exception. It was a model.
Networks of Pakistani men were allowed to operate openly for over a decade across towns and cities in England. They weren’t just ignored. They were enabled by police, by social services, and by politicians who feared losing their seats or individuals who feared being called racist more than they feared being complicit in the rape of children.
These weren’t isolated incidents. They were nationwide, organised, targeted abuse. The victims were mainly white girls. The rapists knew it. They called them “white bitches”.” They told the victims the police wouldn’t act, and if they did they would say the victim is racist . And for years, they were right.
If Labour or the Conservatives want to talk about protecting women and girls, they can start here: How many rapists are coming in from Pakistan? And how many have been deported?
If Pakistan refuses to take back its sex offenders, the UK must introduce immediate visa bans. That’s what real safeguarding looks like. You don’t protect women by letting the risk grow. You stop it. You remove it. Or you lose the right to say you care. Protection means prevention.
Right now, a convicted sex offender can fight deportation under “Article 8 right to family life.” He has rights. His victims don’t. And while Labour clings to the ECHR, British girls are targeted.
Borders matter. Enforcement matters. And nothing in Labour’s plan tackles either.
Labour wants to teach boys to respect girls. But boys don’t learn respect from worksheets. They learn it from what the state tolerates. And what the state has tolerated for decades is the mass rape and torture of British girls, while the state let the guilty go free and kept the door open to more.
We are not short announcements. We are short of action. The only way to make this right is to do
what no government has done, not even the Conservatives, who had every chance and looked away:
Admit the truth about who was responsible .Remove every offender who has no right to be here. Cut off the pipeline of visas from countries, such as Pakistan where rape is being exported And stop pretending this is about demonising a group of people. Its not. It’s about justice.
Because justice for Jade and every other girl like her will never come from a new strategy. It will only come from a reckoning.
