The councils in the areas where the abuse took place were all Labour controlled and the lack of action was driven by fear of being branded 'racist' by left wing zealots like you who are more concerned with seeing racism everywhere rather than protecting our children from rapists.

Edited by georgenorman (05 Apr 2023 2.24pm)

Or of course the answer could be that you were spouting nonsense as usual.

I wish we were having this conversation down the pub.

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Accurate of course, no dispute from me, however WE has uncharacteristically made a very sage point IMHO.

Both Labour and the Tories have strayed from their original identities and are nothing more these days than parties subservient to any zeitgeist they feel will earn them election to power and control - 'Barely a piece of paper between them'. There really isn't much conservative about the Tories now asides from conserving themselves and their bank accounts. That's why we are seeing initiatives like Rwanda and their shocking epiphany around the incorrect and nonexistent pursuit of grooming gangs. They also seemingly hold a desperate need to announce this in order to rattle some sabres and attract/gain the support of certain groups albeit probably to the detriment of others. Whether any effective action is taken is anyone's guess, mine is that it won't for the same reasons you have identified.

In all honesty every time-honoured stereotype of politicians has been evidently correct for me in my lifetime and the lesser of two or more evils is the only stance I believe to be relevant in casting a vote these days. You either vote for red and brace for an incoming disaster of sincere magnitude or vote blue to be lied to around just about everything but hope for a less enthusiastic nosedive towards the aforementioned disaster.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

What is truly clear from your repetitive torrent of posts is that you have no idea what you are talking about. You are merely a pile of disaffected prejudice, spouting copy and pasted ideas. You have proved this time and again.

I have no more time for truly left wing politics than I have for hard right politics. I am a centralist. Economically conservative but socially liberal. Which is where I think most people are at heart.

People who don't recognise alternative thinking tend to react with laughter. Which is quite sad, as they cannot see where the actual deficiency lies.

Labour controlled areas are not exclusively the more deprived, but it's the deprivation which results in the politics, and not the reverse. If you haven't got a lot you tend to vote for those who plan to take it from others and give it to you. Just the same as if you have a lot you tend to vote for those who let you keep it.

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Whilst I don't agree with all of this, I respect the opinions, which are expressed logically and without rancour. I think many of our MPs are decent people whose motivations are honourable. My own MP, with whom I have an hour-long private meeting next week, is a good example. She works very hard for her constituents, has taken a personal interest in my issue and has written to Ministers on my behalf. They don't though seem to get to positions of power. They fill the backbenches whilst the ambitious Eton boys on the Tory side form governments and the ambitious from everywhere else get to the top elsewhere.

As I have written here before I don't think we will see improvement unless and until we change the system.

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