O/T just a town full of *****s

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Are we (thankfully) losing this dubious accolade?

https://theworldnews.net/gb-news/nin...grooming-trial

No mention of this by the way on the BBC website, they seem to be ignoring it.

[flourbasher]

It's the scale of the abuse in Rham that sets it apart......1400 victims

I still can't comprehend how this happened to 1400 different children.

[gkotw]

It's the scale of the abuse in Rham that sets it apart......1400 victims

I still can't comprehend how this happened to 1400 different children.

No Flour. Nobody at all has claimed that there was more grooming in Rotherham than in any other large town/city. The scandal in Rotherham was that the authorities were aware of it and turned a blind eye for fear of creating racial/social tensions.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

No Flour. Nobody at all has claimed that there was more grooming in Rotherham than in any other large town/city. The scandal in Rotherham was that the authorities were aware of it and turned a blind eye for fear of creating racial/social tensions.

Careful here. Local MPs John Healey, Sarah Champion and Sir Kevin Barron categorically denied that they knew anything about it. They even sued a UKIP bloke for suggesting otherwise.

Legally we have to accept that, however the argument that they should have known about it, even if that was restricted to a few rumours, if as local MPs they should have had their finger on the pulse of local issues.

But maybe that’s the problem with MPs that spend more time in London than locally.

[flourbasher]

Careful here. Local MPs John Healey, Sarah Champion and Sir Kevin Barron categorically denied that they knew anything about it. They even sued a UKIP bloke for suggesting otherwise.

Legally we have to accept that, however the argument that they should have known about it, even if that was restricted to a few rumours, if as local MPs they should have had their finger on the pulse of local issues.


But maybe that’s the problem with MPs that spend more time in London than locally.

Agree with this. People in power should have known. The MP,s ears would have been ringing every day if the Police and Council did the jobs they were paid to do.
Ignorance is no excuse and is not a defence

[great_fire]

Careful here. Local MPs John Healey, Sarah Champion and Sir Kevin Barron categorically denied that they knew anything about it. They even sued a UKIP bloke for suggesting otherwise.

Legally we have to accept that, however the argument that they should have known about it, even if that was restricted to a few rumours, if as local MPs they should have had their finger on the pulse of local issues.

But maybe that’s the problem with MPs that spend more time in London than locally.

Denis MacShane spent more time in Europe than in Rotherham, if he hadn't been sent down he'd be a leading Remoaner now.

[flourbasher]

No Flour. Nobody at all has claimed that there was more grooming in Rotherham than in any other large town/city. The scandal in Rotherham was that the authorities were aware of it and turned a blind eye for fear of creating racial/social tensions.

Grumps. One of Alexis Jays opening comments was the 'alarming scale' of the abuse.
Telford abuse, which was branded as one of the largest, had an estimate of 1000 victims. Nowhere near 1600.

Reading fans were singing it after we equalised.....inevitable at every match I,m afraid from now on

[Stovicmiller]

1600.and it happened because the local Labour Party looked the other way.

[Stovicmiller]

Sorry not party but council not much difference

[flourbasher]

yes I thought the figure may have gone up.

....and the public still votes in the negligent council with no second thoughts or challenge.
Equally as astonishing as what happened to those poor 1600 young people