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Guy Dampier

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Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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?

Morning Wire
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?

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.