But how can we hold them accountable if the findings, and therefore the potential solutions, are not in the public arena?

The primary issue of this entire disgrace is actually one of two specific failures.

The first is that scumbags were allowed to abuse vulnerable girls. Now I am not downplaying the severity of that in the slightest but that is a pattern we see repeated throughout history and in every culture. s*** behaviour that needs clamping down on with an iron boot. I cannot imagine you would disagree with that.

But the second, and with FAR wider implications for the UK, is the systematic and decades-old cover-up that went on around it. With that already a known fact from numerous other local investigations.

Meaning that the findings of any nationwide specific investigation have to be made public. Zero excuse for not publishing it and I suspect the reasons are probably not what you think they are but rather political wrangling.

None of which excuses the fact that this report is being deliberately withheld from a British public who have numerous nailed on reasons why they should NOT trust any part of our public authorities be it local Government, Social Services, the Police or Parliament when it comes to this specific issue. The previous cover-ups are a fact. This issue, above all else, has to have public scrutiny or else it is worthless. Less than that in fact. Actually dangerous because it adds to the wider narrative that because these girls were, in the main, white and their attackers, in the main, Muslim the cover-up was deliberately orchestrated by people not only in positions of power but also by those who owed these girls the biggest duty of care responsibility because they deemed the crimes less severe than the consequences of being labeled 'racist'.

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

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Action like this?

And let’s be honest; when have any politicians or officials been anything other than 100% honest and correct in everything they think, say and do? Well, except one in America who seems to buck the trend.

Right. So not like the last 18 years. This time it’ll be different. And if it isn’t it’s only a few years until we can elect the fifth PM since the first report was ignored. Good to know.

No it's not like the last 18 years. I think that an awful lot has changed during that time, mistakes realised and lessons learned. There is always a big danger in trying to see what happened a decade or more ago through a lens focussed on today.

There will still be mistakes. People make mistakes. They won't be the same mistakes though and there will be a awful lot of people watching to make sure that when they happen we all know about it.

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Look around. Everything is changing all the time. Nothing really stands still. Politics included.

Parliament and cabinet by Zoom!

The growth of social media, spread of disinformation and consequential distrust of the traditional, edited, media.

Everything is under a constant 24 hour spotlight today. Visit your married gf when you ought not be out and the world knows tomorrow. 18 years ago it would have taken a News of the World hack weeks of sifting through dustbins to get that dirt.

No, if there is no action then it won't just be able to be brushed under the carpet as it might have been in the past.

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