When working-class girls were sacrificed to ideology – spiked
It s the scandal that refuses to die. Despite the best efforts of our spineless elites who d rather talk about anything on Earth other than grooming gangs it keeps creeping back. For all the left s cheap, libellous cries about how racist it is to talk about these gangs, people keep talking about them. In the face of official indifference to the suffering of thousands of poor and working-class girls at the hands of these groomers and abusers, people have demanded a reckoning. There is a public thirst for truth, and no amount of top-down slander and censure can crush it.
Three days into 2025, grooming gangs are back in the news. As British readers will know, grooming gangs is the somewhat euphemistic name given to those marauding bands of men from mostly Pakistani backgrounds who subjected girls of the white working class to horrific abuse. In towns across the UK Rotherham, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Oldham, Telford, Oxford gangs of men plied girls with drugs, demeaned them, exploited them, raped them. Conservative MP Robert Jenrick has a point when he says the flat phrase grooming gangs seems designed to sanitise depraved crimes . They re rape gangs , he says.
Brendan O’Neill.