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When it comes to Britain’s Muslim child-rape gang scandal, there are very, very few heroes to be found in the ranks of the governing classes. From police, to social workers, to politicians, the UK’s authorities have near-universally covered themselves in the most ignominious shame.
With some few, noble exceptions.
One is Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe. Without Lowe’s relentless pressure, the UK government would have buried the scandal, yet again. Rather than let the Starmer government, which has too much to hide, gaslight the British public with yet another ‘inquiry’ whose function seems more intended to obscure than reveal, Lowe launched a privately funded, survivor-led investigation, to prioritise evidence gathering, report production and potential private prosecutions where official responses had failed (by design).
Another hero is former police woman Maggie Oliver.
Where too many police, from the lowest ranks to the highest, were complicit in the child-rape industry, including as perpetrators, or simply as cowards who put their careers ahead of abused girls, Maggie Oliver stood firm. In 2012 she was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale. She resigned rather than do so.
Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission.
With no political party backing, no platform in Whitehall, no big money footing her bills, Maggie has yet won a small but important in Britain’s High Court. Her foundation was granted a full judicial review into what, if anything, the British state has done. Not least, actually fulfilling its own recommendations from the previous [whitewash] inquiry which wrapped up four years ago. The Home Office, the Department for Education, the Crown Prosecution Service (infamously headed up for many years by now-PM Keir Starmer), the police inspectorates, all ‘accepted’ the 2022 recommendations.
And did nothing.
The recommendations gathered dust. The departments ‘restructured’, and those in positions of culpability were shuffled around the lobster pot of officialdom without ever being held to account. The victims grew older, with the UK state apparently hoping they’d just go away. The merest fraction of the Pakistani child rapists were ever prosecuted, let alone given meaningful sentences. Meanwhile, new Pakistani child rapists took their place (the great lie is that the horror was ever stopped).
The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history […]
That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt.
They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce – to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental – will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt.
What happened to Maggie Oliver was a microcosm of the criminal failures of the British state. When she began to uncover the horror that was hiding in plain sight in Rochdale, as in so many British towns the length and breadth of the country, she was promptly ordered by senior officers to back off. Solely because the perpetrators were Pakistani Muslims. That simple, terrible fact made the matter untouchable for British officials, who were not only terrified of being called ‘racist’, but of losing a key voter bloc.
Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace.
I just hope she’s not holding her breath.
