This headline is inaccurate, but I guess you don’t care… plus a certain other party were the ones in power until very recently and (checks notes) instigated zero investigations but now they’re in opposition they’ve changed their tune.
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What's inaccurate about the headline?
a.) A political party would not investigate under UK law.
b.) She was of the opinion that the council in question (Oldham?) should lead any investigation.
So Labour Party says local council should conduct (the first?) investigation of the horrific events that have and are going down. Headline makes it sound that Labour are happy to ignore child rape.
Disclaimer: imo both Labour and Conservative parties are packed with career politicians and probably don’t have five statesmen (statespeople?) amongst them. They are both as bad as each other and are a disgrace.
I'm not familiar with how UK politics works, so forgive me, but the article this article sites says:
The Government has formally rejected repeated requests for a Home Office-led inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham after the town's council voted on the matter earlier this year.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/oldham-grooming-gangs-labour-government-inquiry-abuse-scandal
Does Labour run the Home Office? If so, the headline makes sense. Members of a party in a certain portion of the country doesn't represent the entire party the same way members of the national chapter do, so I could see how an Oldham investigation wouldn't be viewed as a Labour investigation, but a Home Office investigation would be.
She was of the opinion that the council in question (Oldham?) should lead any investigation.
She still refused to have the Home Office investigate this alleged scandal though, right?
Damn. I never thought I’d click on GBNews (I feel like I need to disinfect my handset now.)
To quote their final paragraph:
“There is a precedent for local authorities delivering successful independent inquiries into the grooming gangs scandal, such as in Rotherham and Telford, where thousands of victims were identified after decades of abuse were ignored by the authorities.”
Whilst, yes, the government should be running the Home Office in reality the Civil Service runs the Home Office.
Another, older, article with a decent précis of what has gone on before:
As always, the whole truth is way too complicated to sum up in headlines and soundbites.
Thanks! I really appreciate your thoughtful response.
And I thank you for reading it.
Just to clarify my GBNews comment - they employ current and past Conservative politicians as show anchors so their impartiality is immediately compromised. It’s often seen as Fox News UK in that respect.
Hmm, an article written by Tyler Durden, on a site called ZeroHedge in a section called Markets, pushing Elon Musk and Lizz Truss's propaganda... I'm sure this is a perfectly normal, reputable news source and I'm not being manipulated at all by reading this.
Get this biased, twisted drivel out of here.