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Political correctness has stood in the way of a reckoning for far too long. Source - Spiked 3rd January 2025 Link Fury over Britain’s grooming-gangs scandal seems to have finally reached boiling point. This week, it was revealed that Labour safeguarding minister Jess Phillips had refused last year to initiate a formal government inquiry into the historical child-sex abuse that gripped the town of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, throughout the 2010s. The response online has been fierce, attracting international attention. Even X owner Elon Musk weighed in, going as far as to say he believes Phillips belongs in prison and accusing prime minister Keir Starmer of being ‘complicit in the rape of Britain’. The shameful treatment of England’s grooming-gang crisis really does deserve this global outrage. The mass rape of mostly white, working-class, underaged girls by groups of primarily Pakistani-heritage men has been largely swept under the rug by our own establishment. The horrors suffered b...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is planning to use a potential byelection to test its strength in Labour strongholds as it seeks to deploy its growing membership in local elections. The Guardian - Sun 29 Dec 2024 07.00 GMT Link The party has been attempting to keep up its momentum after securing five MPs and more than 4m votes at the general election. Farage provoked a row with the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch last week by claiming Reform now has more members than the Conservatives. He has also been trying to persuade Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, to make a massive donation to his party. However, insiders are now examining the political opportunity that could arise in the Cheshire seat of Runcorn and Helsby, where MP Mike Amesbury was charged with assault last month after an incident following a night out. He has yet to appear in court. Amesbury was elected as a Labour MP, but was suspended by the party after the allegations emerged. He has described the incident as “deeply regrettable”. R...

Labour’s Budget was self-harm on steroids – and more pain is coming Daily Telegraph Link As I say a furious farewell to 2024 I have to pinch myself: how could a new government be so stupid in its first six months? Even the most dyed-in-the-wool and loyal Conservative supporters would have to agree that Rishi Sunak’s government had lost its way. Take the tourist tax – it was the Conservatives that ended the VAT rebate for tourists that has ripped the heart out of Britain’s lucrative luxury goods market. When it became cheaper for foreigners staying in London to take a return trip on Eurostar to Paris to buy expensive jewellery, watches and haute couture, everyone could see the game was up. But Sunak and Jeremy Hunt refused to listen and the huge tax revenues (£11bn) that once kept the personal taxes of average Britons lower, were foregone and we all pay more as a result. It was the Conservatives who forgot what they stood for and regularly attacked the aspirational self-employed through...

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