Guy Dampier
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So the scandal itself dates back to the early years of the 2010s, although the actual cases date back into the 1990s and possibly even beyond. It started with a journalist called Andrew Norfolk at the Times of London.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
He started doing investigations based on court documents that he'd seen, and he gradually revealed that there were gangs of largely Pakistani-origin men in the north of England who had been grooming and then sexually abusing underage white girls often in deeply sadistic ways.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
This really, really burst into the mainstream properly when his stories about a small town called Rotherham resulted in an inquiry. And the inquiry found that in the small town of 250,000 people, that 1,500 girls have been abused there between 1997 and 2013. And the police had failed to stop it. The council had failed to stop it. Sometimes that had been because they're incompetent.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
Sometimes it had been because there was a certain degree of corruption going on. But a lot of the time it was because they were afraid of being called racist. And that's because most of these child abusers were members of the Pakistani community. And that community was only about 5,000 people large. So although the exact number of perpetrators is very difficult to ascertain,
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
One academic report found that one in 73 Muslim men between the ages of 16 and 60 in Rotherham had been prosecuted for the crime, which is a staggering number. And that was followed by inquiries into other places like Telford and Rochdale, and they found thousands more victims. So the real number of victims of these gangs may well be over 10,000.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So when the story originally broke, it was in the British press. And if it appeared overseas, it would have been in the pages of the foreign newspapers. Now it's on Twitter. It's on X. And people have been posting extracts from the sentencing remarks of the trials. And they contain some absolutely shocking, shocking details. So that suddenly has gone viral and it's brought attention to it.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
And I think it's very important that these sources are official sources. Because as you suggest, it can be really hard when you're discussing the grooming gangs not to sound like a conspiracy theorist. Can it really be true that thousands of girls were raped whilst the police looked the other way because they didn't want to be called racist?
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
that the fathers who tried to rescue their daughters were arrested by the police rather than them arresting the abusers. And that girls as young as 11 were being gang raped in British towns. So the fact the information was coming from official reports with, you know, very clinical, very bloodless language, that made it very hard to deny.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
Oh, definitely. And it all comes down to that tricky issue of ethnicity. Not just because some people still fear being called racist, but because it's very hard for some people to accept that many of the criminals involved were abusing these girls because of the color of their skin. In the transcripts, they often call the victims white slags or white whores.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
And over the last few decades, it's been a strong pressure from the media, from politicians in Britain to support anti-racism and multiculturalism. And those aren't necessarily bad things, but it's generally meant telling white people that they're racist and they are the ones that need to learn to live with the cultures of other people.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
And the grooming gang scandal is a stake through the heart of that. Because what it shows is that the greatest race hate crime in Britain was against whites. And it shows that some parts of these foreign cultures are in fact bad. you know, a lot of the abusers felt that white girls were loose or they were easy, and that because they were outside of their own community, they were fair game.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So over the years, various left-wing activists and academics have worked quite hard trying to deny the reality. They've tried to muddle the statistics. They've pointed to white child abusers who, of course, do exist, but Nobody's ever been able to point to this kind of massive reuse of one group by another. It really is unique.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So the current battle in Parliament is about whether there should be a national inquiry. So there's been a big child abuse inquiry over the last few years called the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse. But it wasn't about the grooming gangs. And the phrase grooming gangs doesn't even appear in the final report.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So even though it's the biggest recent child abuse scandal, there's still this desire to look away. One father that GB News recently spoke to, called Jack, has spoken out about how he was arrested by police officers when he tried to rescue his daughter from his abusers.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
He's one of the many who was backing a call for a national inquiry, pointing out that the last inquiry that they had only looked at six towns. And of those six, only one of those is one of the 50 where we know that a grooming gang has operated. So they've deliberately been looking in the wrong places.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So in Parliament this week, we've had Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, and he's raised this issue of the independent inquiry into child sex abuse. He said that the inquiry was like a shotgun shot. You know, it had covered a wide variety of issues, but there was only a little subsection on grooming gags.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So he said what we needed now is we need a rifle shot, something that's very specific, that's aimed just to this issue, and that really takes the target down. Mm. But even if we get a national inquiry, we're going to need a lot more. There have been inquiries in various towns, but lots of them have had weak recommendations. They've been ignored or just nothing's changed.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So we're going to have to look at tougher measures. One of the most obvious one of those is to deport those who are guilty of these crimes. A lot of them are either Pakistani citizens or they're eligible for it. But despite that, not one of them has ever been deported. And that's because of our human rights laws. So those need to change.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
It's absolutely unconscionable that we have victims who can walk in the supermarket and see their abuser looking back at them. Another thing is punishment. Loads of these abusers have only served about half their time in prison.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So you've got gang rapists who've been sentenced to six years, but they've only served 2.5 years, and then they're pretty much free, and they go back to the community, and they're welcomed with maybe not open arms, but they're certainly not kicked out. And then finally, we need to look at the police and we need to look at the local government officials who failed.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
Despite the inquiries finding failures over and over again, none of them have ever gone to jail. In fact, none of them have ever lost their job. They've been allowed to resign at best. So a lot of them have then just moved from one public sector job to another.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
So one thing I've suggested is that we should have a public sector blacklist where the public servants who are named in inquiries as having failed are barred from working for the public sector or on any private sector projects that involve taxpayer money for a period of years.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
Unfortunately, yes. I'd love to say otherwise, especially after all these inquiries, but the truth is there are still arrests going on every year. In the first year since it was launched, the grooming gang task force was involved in 550 arrests. So that gives you an idea of the scale of the problem. There's a lot of work to do, and we're going to have to be much tougher.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
So he made these remarks at a press conference for the government's new immigration white paper. And he said that he wants to take back control of our borders. And he's called the previous era of mass immigration squalid. So here's a little bit of that speech.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
He's also blamed the previous Conservative government for the large increase in immigration since 2021, which saw net migration quadruple in only a few years. In 2023, migration was actually over a million people, which is nearly the same size as Birmingham, the second biggest city in the whole country. And he's called this a one-nation experiment in open borders.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
And he's warned that Britain's at risk of becoming an island of strangers. So although he praised diversity and described migration as part of Britain's story, he said that immigrants have got to commit to integrate. They've got to learn English. And he's also extended the period required to apply for permanent settlement. So it's gone from five years to 10 years.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
And that will reassure a lot of people who are very worried that the millions of low skilled immigrants who come here in the last few years would very soon be eligible for settlement, at which point they could access the welfare state. And we could have been looking at a bill in the billions of pounds.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
So immigration policy has been dominated by this idea that immigration is always good for the economy and it's only ever illegal immigration, which is bad. So this is a big rhetorical shift.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
We have a Labour government at the moment, their left wing. And as you expect, there's been a lot of outrage from their base. They had a few councillors resign. Some of their MPs have come out against the speech. With that said, most people agree with what he said.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
People can see all around them that mass immigration has been bad for the country, whether we're talking about the low economic growth and stagnant productivity, or serious things like rape gangs who prey on vulnerable girls, and hate marches where we've seen people carrying pro-Hamas banners.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
So in a lot of ways, the prime minister is really reflecting the mood of the country rather than driving it. Very recently, we had local elections, what you probably call municipal elections, in which the Labour Party did very badly. And the Anti-Immigration Reform Party, which is led by Nigel Farage, did very well.
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Biden Health Coverup | 5.19.25
So some people will think that this is an attempt to win back voters and stem that collapse in popularity. But for people on the right, this is also a vindication. The prime minister is saying things we've argued about for years, but a lot of us are going to be skeptical about whether the prime minister is actually going to achieve what he claims he's going to do.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
So the ruling is all about what constitutes a woman. And it starts with the Scottish government. So the UK has a slightly unusual system of devolved governments. So there are governments in Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland who've got powers devolved to them from the main government in Westminster.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
And in Scotland, the Scottish nationalist government, which is very left-wing, have been seeking to extend what they call trans rights. The most controversial part of this is that they've been pushing for a self-ID, which essentially allows somebody to declare that they are a woman and be recognised as a woman without any doctor being involved, without any surgery, without anything else at all.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
So that's very, very open to abuse. And we've seen some bad cases, as in the United States, of individuals using that as a cover for sexual fetishes or for other things. Now, the particular argument here was about a new law to increase the number of women on public boards. It's what Americans call affirmative action. In Britain, it's called positive action.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
And it's allowed by something called the Equality Act. The Scottish government argued that this positive action should include transgender women. as long as they had a gender recognition certificate. So they would be counted as women and you would basically be allowed to hire more of them, even if they had lower standards, just to reach a 50-50 level.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
The campaign group for Women's Scotland disagreed and they said that this should be restricted only to biological women. They had a long court battle. There's been judicial reviews. They've won some things. They've lost some things. And it's finally gone all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
And that court has now decided that the use of sex and the use of women in the Equality Act refers to biology and to biological women, which means that transgender women are not protected against discrimination as women because they aren't women. They are still protected against discrimination as people who've undergone gender reassignment, however.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
It's going to be a very far-reaching ruling. Britain, much like the United States, this has been a really contentious topic over the last few years. There's been a huge battle. And in fact, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, was famously once unable to say whether or not a woman has a penis. He sort of flip-flopped on what he considers to be a woman. But at the same time, he's a former lawyer.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
So this should hopefully be professionally clarifying. And I hope that going forward, he will now be able to confidently say that the law is clear that a woman is a biological woman. What it means in practice is that the Gender Recognition Act, which is the law in Britain that covers transgender people, is going to be pretty null because the law is now saying that sex is biological and not social.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
That said, transgender women who have a gender recognition certificate can still have all their legal documents describing their sex as female. And as I understand it, it's discriminatory to ask somebody if they have a gender recognition certificate.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
There may well be. I mean, the ruling has now gone out, and that is clarifying, but it's going to change a lot of things. So, as the Supreme Court said, Parliament is going to have to legislate to deal with those issues, including the fact that the Gender Recognition Act has now basically been superseded and will need to be amended in some way, probably.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
We just have to hope within that that the current Labour government will recognise biological reality. The danger is that the party is very split on the issue. On the other hand, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has been very clear that the law now says that single sex spaces must be based on biological sex.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
So I think there'll probably be a battle within the government over the next few years about this, and they're going to have to legislate. But that legislation will be very controversial. And we can also expect to see legal challenges from left-wing activist groups.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
I think the hope has to be that we've hit peak trans, that the vibe has shifted, that the tide is beginning to roll back against the madness we've seen over the last decade. There have been a lot of scandals recently in Britain because people have looked into the clinics that are dealing with transgenderism.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
And they were encouraging children to have life-altering surgery and not really giving them all the information, not really letting them understand that these were completely life-changing operations. And for most people, you know, while some people do have real confusion over their sex, Most people actually just get over it and it turns out it's not a real issue at all.
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Dems Defend Maryland Deportee & GEC Operation Ends | 4.18.25
So we have to hope that if the vibe has somewhat changed, that this sort of irresponsible push for vulnerable people and vulnerable children to change sex will decrease and that there will be an admission that this is something that's biologically impossible. Let's hope that the culture catches up to that.
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My pleasure. Thank you for having me.