Robert Spencer
PJ Media
The Muslim grooming gang scandal in Britain just keeps getting larger and more bizarre. Hundreds of thousands of British girls were victimized, and to add insult to injury, British police and other officials often turned a blind eye to their suffering, with their eyes more on political calculations than on the well-being of the people they were supposed to be protecting and serving. In the latest in a long series of strange turns of events, a former British prime minister has been named as a “core participant” in upcoming inquiries.
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It’s not actually hard to imagine that the complicity in this ever-spiraling scandal goes right to the top. The lives of as many as 250,000 British girls were destroyed at the hands of these gangs, and it’s hard to imagine being able to commit crimes on that scale without drawing the attention of reasonably competent authorities. And so GB News reported Thursday that “Sir Keir Starmer will be summoned to give evidence to the national grooming gangs inquiry.” The far-left Starmer, who was prime minister from July 2024 to July 2026, “has been listed as a core participant. The inquiry will commence its National Accountability Hearings in London in December and January.”
There is a great deal for the inquiry to look into. In the city of Rotherham, where 1,400 girls became victims of the Muslim rape gangs, a report that Rotherham Borough Council commissioned stated that “children as young as 11” were “raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated.” Children were “doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone.”
The report noted, meanwhile, that Rotherham police were not at all inclined to rush to the aid of the victims. Instead, they “regarded many child victims with contempt.” This was because when they looked at them, they saw professional and possibly even personal ruin. “Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” Staff members spoke about how hard it was to deal with matters that were “taboo,” and so they ended up “ignoring a politically inconvenient truth” as they believed that dealing with it could harm “community cohesion.” And, of course, there was the ever-present “fear of being thought racist.”
Keir Starmer may have had the same fear. For five years, as the Muslim rape gangs marauded all over the country, from 2008 to 2013, Starmer was director of public prosecutions. In those five years, the future prime minister had many chances to prosecute rape gang members, and yet he did not do so. Nor did he become any kind of spokesman for the victims in the intervening years.
As far back as 2014, just days after the Rotherham report was released, journalist Sean Thomas wrote in the Telegraph, in an article that has since been removed: “We don’t need to rehearse the facts. We’ve all read them, and reeled away in horror. The interesting question is how and why would any country allow the racialised gang-rape of its own daughters?”
Then Thomas answered his own question: “Why? Because too many in that country, especially on the Left, most especially in the Labour Party, despise their own ordinary people: the white working classes.”
Thomas’s assessment was correct. The whole thing was a product of the cultural self-hatred that the left has worked so assiduously to instill in the masses on both sides of the Atlantic. That was likely to have been one reason why ordinary police officers were so afraid to incur charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia” by acting decisively against the rape gangs. They had been carefully and comprehensively indoctrinated with the idea that white Britons were fundamentally racist, and that this was one of the worst, if not the very worst, thing that someone could be. When confronted with the duty of apprehending criminals who were overwhelmingly members of a prominent racial minority, these officials could all too clearly see the prospect of the end of their careers and public disgrace.
Keir Starmer was one of the leftist elites who worked to instill that self-hatred. It’s good that he will have to participate in this inquiry, although his comrades will likely protect him from any legal consequences of his criminal negligence. That’s how these things work. Still, it is good to see that at least some people realize that in Britain, the rot started at the top.