Here's the sinister truth about Pakistani rape gangs and the national inquiry failure - Alex Story

Those who sought to raise concerns were labelled as “Far Right”, just as our Prime Minister shamelessly did earlier in the year. Nothing, you see, can challenge the “diversity is our strength” mantra. Our womenfolk have thus been sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism.

Back in 2002, Ann Cryer Labour MP for Keighley spoke out.

Distraught mothers approached her. Their daughters were “groomed” by young “lads” from the “Pakistani community”.

"They said the girls were being used for sex by them and handed around – not as prostitutes but were being handed around the families of these lads. This was underage sex,” she said.

Cryer initially thought the outrage a local issue. Then the Rotherham scandal erupted and she realised it was a national phenomenon.

“It reduced me to tears”, she said.

She went on to explain mothers had asked “why is it that West Yorkshire police won't do anything about it, social services won't do anything about it, when we have given them the names and addresses of the men abusing our daughters?”.

The MP quickly found out. Her son, John Cryer, said last June that his mother “was called racist for raising the grooming gang issue”.

She was shunned and stood down as an MP in 2010.

In January 2011, former Home Office Secretary Jack Straw said following the sentencing of the ringleaders of the Derby child sex abuse gang that Pakistani men “target white girls” because they are “easy meat”.

A few weeks later, he apologised for “the offence people feel I have caused”.

While the humiliating pattern of genuflection to the new and all conquering pagan God of Diversity embedded itself in our leaders’ habits, the cat was truly let out the bag by investigative journalist Andrew Norfolk when The Times published his devastating findings entitled “Revealed: conspiracy of silence on UK sex gangs.”

Our girls were prostituted, drugged and abused. And when they sought justice, they were seen as “slags”, treated as second class citizens, blamed, often arrested and silenced.

The horrors visited on them were unspeakable and without doubt the biggest stain of shame on our national soul.

At least the truth was out... But our authorities felt it too inconvenient.

As a result, the core issue would never be addressed. The scandal metastasised.

So a long list of published and unpublished enquiries, each more terrible than the next in their implications and revelations, were commissioned in lieu of action. Inevitably - and by design, one must assume - they led nowhere.

Indeed, Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion, showing some gumption, wrote two opinion pieces, one for the Mirror in 2015, the other for the Sun in 2017.

In the first one, she called the rapes of our daughters a “national disaster”.

“There could be up to a million victims of child sexual exploitation in the UK, it is feared,” she wrote.

In the second, she said: “British Pakistani men are raping and exploiting white girls… and it’s time we faced up to it.

“Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying problem for what it is?”

On the Home Affairs Select Committee, when she heard Rotherham council justify their failure, she was “stunned”. She said: “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I had to do something”.

So, she did. She was called a racist, resigned her seat in the shadow cabinet and recanted.

Only last week did London Chief of Police Sir Mark Rowley say his forces will reassess “9000 potential” rape gang cases.

Stunning: he revealed that there were 6.4 times more rape cases in London than the already mind-blowing 1400 Rotherham “conservative” rape victim estimates.

A few weeks before Sir Mark’s intervention, Jess Philips MP and Safeguarding Minister said in Parliament “I would be lying if I said that over the years I had not met girls who talked to me about how police were part of not just the cover-up but the perpetration”.

If and when a new national inquiry is launched, we can expect unconscionable delays, obfuscation and dishonest fudge. Turkeys usually don’t vote for Christmas.

If, by way of a miracle, this new exercise was to be conducted fairly, freed from political taboos, the findings would be the genesis of Richter scale busting tremors so great as to threaten much of what we now see contemporary Great Britain to be.

So more of the same, it will be.