I would be lying if I said that over the years I have not met girls who talked to me about how police were part of the perpetration, not just the cover up – Jess Phillips
This week, Starmer government MP Jess Phillips made a stunning admission in the UK parliament – and the legacy media aren’t telling you about it.
Not only did Phillips, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, tacitly admit that she knew for 14 years that Pakistani rape gangs were abusing children in Britain, but that police were among the perpetrators.
Read that again: British police were part of the child-rape gangs. Not just the coverup, but the crime itself. And Phillips knew about. And, by her own admission, did nothing.
Here is what she said in parliament:
I would be lying if I said that over the years I have not met girls who talked to me about how police were part of the perpetration, not just the coverup.
Over the years… How many years? Just a few months ago, Phillips let slip just how long she had known this shocking fact.
In June, Phillips admitting doing nothing about the Pakistani child-rape gangs which she knew about for over a decade.. In response to a question from the opposition as to why the government still hadn’t delivered a framework for an inquiry into the rape gangs, following Baroness Casey’s shocking report, despite promising it a month earlier, Phillips responded:
I do apologise for the, I suppose, the month’s wait. I waited 14 years for anyone to do anything.
Fourteen years.
For all that time, Phillips was no ordinary citizen, helpless to take a stand against a sprawling, industrial-scale child-rape culture.
She was not an ordinary citizen without influence. She was an MP. She was a national campaigner. She is now the Minister for Safeguarding Girls. For 14 years, she knew and she stayed silent.
During that 14-year period where she knew and did nothing, Phillips worked for the Women’s Aid Federation of England, responsible for managing refuges for victims of domestic abuse. In 2012, she was elected a Labour counciller, and appointed as the victims’ champion at Birmingham City Council, lobbying police and criminal justice organisations on behalf of victims.
Her job was literally to help girls who were being victimised – and yet, when she knew girls were being victimised in the most horrific way possible, she did nothing.
She also served on the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel. So, if she knew police were complicit in child-rape gangs, it was literally her job to do something about it – and she didn’t. Yet, she has the gall to say this:
I have seen this with my own eyes, in cases I have been involved in. People have said, ‘Oh, it might cause trouble.’ I have definitely seen this, and it should never have been allowed to happen.
Yet, she allowed it to happen. She still is.
Late last year, Phillips rejected Oldham Council’s request for an independent public inquiry into historic child abuse by grooming gangs.
So, how about that? She said she would be lying if she said she didn’t know that the police in some cases were the perpetrators in some of those horrific crimes. And yet she in writing refused a national inquiry into what was going on and along with many other labor ministers initially refused an inquiry until an independent report said that they absolutely need an independent inquiry to see exactly what happened systematically across the country.
With stunning hypocrisy, Phillips also said this:
People who “disgraced” public office by failing to tackle grooming gangs should be sent to prison, Jess Phillips has said.
With a few honourable exceptions, the UK media are actively covering up these latest bombshells. GB News and the Telegraph have covered it: the BBC and the Guardian have not. In fact, the Guardian has stridently defended Phillips against criticism from Elon Musk. The Conversation called criticism of Phillips “powerful men trying to silence women”. Australia’s ABC has also leapt to Phillips’ defence.
In fact, the people silencing women – girls, really – are powerful women like Jess Phillips.
Victims of the Pakistani rape gangs should have no confidence that the Starmer government’s ever-longer-delayed inquiry into the rape gangs and the cover-up will be anything more than a whitewash – if it ever even happens. This week, Starmer appointed a new Home Secretary, the minister who will be responsible for the inquiry. The new minister is Pakistani Muslim MP Shabana Mahmood.
As for the police who were part of the child-rape gangs, if you’re picturing the classic English bobby, you’re very much mistaken.
A South Yorkshire Police officer who was under investigation as part of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal died on the day he learned of the allegations against him.
PC Hassan Ali, 44, was killed when he was hit by a car on 28 January 2015.
He was just one of many.
Five grooming gang victims have come forward to claim that they were abused by police.
One victim claimed she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police officer who threatened to hand her back to her abusers if she did not comply.
Three retired officers have been arrested on suspicion of historic sex offences dating back 30 years as part of a new criminal investigation into the involvement of the police in the Rotherham grooming scandal.
Should we be surprised, then, that fewer than one in eight sexual grooming offences recorded by South Yorkshire Police resulted in a charge last year?
The question now is whether Phillips’ career can survive or if she will be the seventh Starmer minister forced to resign in just over a year.
Then there’s the cloud hanging over PM Keir Starmer himself: the chief prosecutor for much of the time the child-rape gangs’ existence was covered up.
