Frank wrote on Jun 22
nd, 2026 at 10:13am:
Although the Conservatives can claim no glory whatsoever on the gangs' file, the Labour Party's abject failings make them look good by comparison. Here are some outtakes from the Lowe report, which not only spotlight Starmer's failings, but the presumed incoming leader of the Labour Party, Andy Burnham:
The Labour Party bears primary responsibility for the longest and most deliberate cover-up. As the former Conservative councillor Liam Billington emphasised to our Inquiry, Labour-dominated local councils and MPs repeatedly prioritised electoral dependence on Pakistani Muslim communities above the safety of children.
Labour councils surrendered streets, ignored parental reports, and allowed perpetrators to operate, among other reasons, because Muslim voting blocs were electorally vital.
Former detective constable and Rochdale rape gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver has criticised the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, with whom Oliver herself has worked, for failing to piece together a full picture of the information necessary to combat the rape gangs that still operate in his area.Despite ordering some preliminary independent reviews into CSE across Manchester, Burnham stands accused of focussing exclusively on the failures of the past.
Commissioned in 2017, [Andy] Burnham's limited independent review concluded that authorities had failed to protect children from paedophile gangs in Manchester, Oldham, and Rochdale. However, no officers were fired or stripped of their pensions for the historic failings exposed. Nor has Burnham exercised his powers as Police and Crime Commissioner – a position he automatically holds as an extension of his Mayoralty – to prosecute any of the officers found to have failed the victims of predatory gangs.
In January 2025, Labour MPs voted en masse against a Conservative amendment calling for a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. The amendment was defeated by 364 votes to 111. Sir Keir Starmer and his frontbench abstained or opposed the measure, dismissing public concern as 'far-right' agitation. It took sustained external pressure, including the damning Casey National Audit, this independent inquiry and public outrage, to force a U-turn in June 2025. Even then, the government watered down local inquiries, with reports that plans for five separate reviews were quietly dropped 'to avoid offending Pakistanis'.
This is the same Labour Party that has consistently weaponised accusations of 'Islamophobia' to silence anyone who stated the obvious: that the gangs were and remain overwhelmingly Pakistani Muslim men. As a result, the nation has suffered decades of state-enabled child rape on an industrial scale.
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