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    1. do_or_pie on

      > “Nigel Farage should apologise. What he said about us is categorically untrue, saying we shouldn’t be on the panel because we are watering it down and we are survivors of other abuse, not grooming gangs. We are survivors of grooming and grooming gangs.

      > “Farage’s lack of knowledge and assumptions about our experiences as victims and survivors of grooming gangs proves he should not have a platform to make decisions about us or our input.

      > “His ignorance and untrue statements about us, our experiences and the validity of our involvement, his lack of understanding or care to look into our lives to make sure what he was saying was true, has meant he has dismissed people who this inquiry is for.”

    2. LopsidedLegs on

      If he does apologise it will be a mealy mouth “I’m sorry you feel that way” type statement where he doesn’t actually apologise.

    3. I said at the time, but there really is something disgusting about how happy the right are to pit survivors against survivors, and present some of them as *legitimate* while others as *wreckers*. It shows how little they actually care about dealing with sexual abuse, and how they just want to use sexual abuse victims to score points.

    4. zeros3ss on

      >“But here’s the truth about the other five. There are two very distinctly different groups of young people who are sexually abused and raped by adults”.

      It’s clear that for Nigel and many Reform UK supporters who remain silent about this issue, some survivors seem to matter more than others. If the perpetrators aren’t Pakistani, then suddenly the outrage disappears, no matter how awful the crimes are.

    5. GhostRiders on

      Unfortunately because so many Councils and Government Agencies, both Tory and Labour utterly failed at their responsibilities these now women do not stand a chance of ever getting real justice.

      This is just like the Post Office Scandal.

      It will rumble on for many more years with the vast majority still waiting for a resolution.

      As both Parties utterly failed they will constantly delay and spend most of their time blaming each other trying to score political points then actually coming out and taking any kind of responsbility.

      We all know that the vast majority of abuse was allowed to continue for so many years was simply because the victims came from poor backgrounds.

      The Police and Social Services along with many other involved simply dismissed them as slags who were looking for a payday or just outright lairs.

      The ethnicity of the men is irrelevant and is simply being used by the Police to deflect blame and the likes of Farage because it pushes his own political agenda.

      Sometimes I do not know who is worse, Farage for pushing “It was because they were Pakistani” narrative to look good to his racist supporters or Jess Philips for her disgusting levels of Gaslighting the victims and acting like she is somehow completely innocent and has no blood on her hands.

      I am sorry but I have yet to see any politician genuinely give a damn about any of the victims and they are either just out to save their own skin or using them as way to beat the opposition.

      The entire situation is utterly shameful.

    6. Hanamafana on

      The inquiry should be about the cover up by the police, social services, council workers and the government.

      If these girls crimes were also covered up then they should be included.

    7. According_Parfait680 on

      This is an absolute disgrace. Coming out with views like this should make you unfit for ever standing for office, end of. We all know what the subtext here is for the racist right – ‘grooming gangs’ is shorthand for Muslim grooming gangs, thats what they want an inquiry into, and their interest in it is nothing to do with concern for the fact that young girls have been systematically raped and abused, and purely because they want to use it as another point scoring exercise to justify their Islamophobia. No one who was genuinely concerned about the most important issue here (the fact that young girls have been systematically raped and abused) would make ANY distinction between crimes based on the ethnicity of the perpetrators, let alone tell survivors they were victims of ‘a different kind of abuse’. For the leader of a political party to come out and say that is absolutely staggering. Then again, this is a man who idolizes a rapist who hung around with a known nonce, so its not surprising that he has zero moral compass when it comes to this. I hope everyone who considers themselves a Reform supporter is looking at their dear leader and feeling very proud.

    8. SojournerInThisVale on

      > The women who backed Phillips said they worry that focusing only on street grooming will exclude those whose group-based exploitation had begun online, through peers or family members.

      So it is a different category then

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