Dominic Cummings is right about the gangs. The so-called “grooming gangs” scandal is a shameful story of turning a blind eye to evil.
It is a story of neglect and wilful abandonment of girls who were some of the most vulnerable in our country.
Cummings claimed that, way back in 2011, the Department for Education pressed Michael Gove to help Rotherham Council to suppress a story in the Times about the “grooming gangs”.
This is, sadly, unsurprising. We all know stories about “woke” civil servants and councils.
Stories about all those “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “DEI” officials, the flying of gay pride flags, and all of that, can seem funny.
What is certainly not funny is the appalling rape and abuse of vulnerable white girls by gangs of men, overwhelmingly of Pakistani origin.
And herein lies the problem. The victims were overwhelmingly from one racial background, the perpetrators from another.
To the naive and identity-conscious officials in both local and national government, this simple fact was, and still is, acutely embarrassing.
Embarrassment led to a cover-up, a wilful attempt on the part of officialdom to suppress facts.
The embarrassment has two principal causes. The first is to do with the multicultural myth-making, which supposes that groups coming to Britain would integrate.
They would behave, so the idea went, more like British people as they integrated into society. This, in the case of the rape gangs, clearly did not happen.
If anything, these men doubled down on their own ancestral “values”, which were profoundly misogynistic. Their crimes were cruel and barbaric.
Dominic Cummings is right about the grooming gangs. We all know stories about Whitehall - Kwasi Kwarteng
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The second myth was that it was always white people who were the oppressors, while ethnic minorities would always be victims of white aggression. That’s how the “woke” narrative goes.
The Pakistani rapists turned this on its head. They were the perpetrators, while the white girls were clearly the victims of hideous crimes.
To the official mind, steeped as it is in anti-racism and multicultural dogma, these facts were impossible to handle.
Some Labour politicians went one step further. They did not want to alienate their Muslim voters by tackling this issue head-on.
What we are left with is a shameful record of inertia and neglect. It was almost inevitable that Sir Keir Starmer would bow to the wishes of the many who urgently argued for a national inquiry.
To say the Tories weren’t much better on the issue of the “grooming gangs” simply reinforces Dominic Cummings’s central argument.
No matter which political party runs the government nominally, the same civil service mentality rules the roost.
The Whitehall “blob” has a grip which seems impossible to unlock.
Labour are at the forefront of all this. Sir Keir and Angela Rayner proudly bent the knee in the Black Lives Matter furore.
They are “woke” to their fingertips. But the mindset was prevalent in the Tory era. I saw it in Government.
These officials are liberal, metropolitan, smugly “anti-racist”, embarrassed about British history, and hopelessly out of touch with the majority of their countrymen and women.
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