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There was a not insubstantial public inquiry into child sexual abuse. The chair of it is complaining today of the lack of progress on her recommendations.

Not a 'lack of progress' she is complaining that they were ignored by the previous government.

Even if I didn't have the greatest respect for Jess already, the abuse she receives on a daily basis and keeps going is unreal.

Indeed if anything happens to Jess I will hold Musk, Badenoch and Farage personally responsible.

Sadly, I feel another political assassination is inevitable. Perhaps a female backbencher with a low profile and lighter security.

Perhaps it might be better if a few posts on this thread were deleted.

I see that they are coming after Jess again. And by “they”, I mean the Tories, of course. Badenoch yesterday was calling for Jess’s resignation supposedly on the basis of 4 of 30 abuse survivors who have quit the oversight and advisory panel involved with setting up the new public enquiry into the circumstances around “grooming gangs”, supposedly because they have lost trust in Jess as the safeguarding minister.

Now, I have precisely zero evidence to support this suspicion, but I can’t help but wonder whether there might be some sort of collusion, or at any rate encouragement, going on between the four panelists that have resigned and Tory front-benchers keen to secure a political scalp. A look into any recent political affiliations or sympathies of the four resignees might prove instructive.

Objectively, the notion that Jess Phillips, with her exemplary decades-long record not only of standing up for and campaigning on behalf of the victims of abuse against girls and women, but actively working to help and protect them, is somehow not to be trusted as a government minister charged with setting up this important enquiry, is absurd and nonsensical.

Yet Badenoch and her band of desperados are using the – legitimate- worries of some abuse victims as a weapon against Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips. There is negligible evidence that Badenoch actually gives a toss about victims.

Your suspicions appear to be correct. Now the enquiry they've been screaming for is taking place, all Reform and the Tories have left is to wreck it.

Who's going to want to take on chairing the inquiry? If they give any indication at all of being open minded, they'll get bucketloads of shit. Any words in conclusions that can be lifted out and made to sound "politically correct" will be endlessly reshared.

Reform and the Tories who insisted on it being set up are trying to wreck it. Utterly the worst politics.

She has the full confidence of Starmer. Just like Rayner and Mandelson.

As I've said before, there are people who don't want an enquiry as such, the only thing they're going to accept is an official declaration that all Pakis are nonces and all nonces are Pakis.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:32 am A look into any recent political affiliations or sympathies of the four resignees might prove instructive.

A comment one normally sees BTL on the Daily Mail about judges...

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:40 am Your suspicions appear to be correct. Now the enquiry they've been screaming for is taking place, all Reform and the Tories have left is to wreck it.

Not that it makes Islamophobia in any way ok, but it is sadly predictable that girls who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Muslim men, might grow up to have a chip on their shoulder about Muslims in general and be attracted to racist parties.

They want the conclusion that there are only Pakistanis doing these crime, but how do you test this without "widening the inquiry" to other cases?

They'll throw in a few awkward looking white men in anoraks and NHS specs.

The victims in question appear to want it to apply just to their case only - which I thought had been covered in a court. But have no consideration for other victims who suffered the same, or even worse than them.

Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post

Kemi?

You watch those 5 will cop it now, and if they've spoken to Jess Philips in the last year, or anyone else remotely Labour/Lib Dem, they'll be a bunch of silly girls who've been put up to it.

I still can't get over the antics of Kemi and co. Not just the shift from barely bothering with the Jay Report to strident support for this inquiry then seeing it primarily as a means of getting Jess Philips sacked. It's as if Michael Foot had responded to Willie Whitelaws's appointment of ex-cop Lawrence Byford to lead the inquiry into the Yorkshire Ripper investigation by kicking off at the "cosy Tory cop whitewash establishment" or something. Party politics in just the most grim circumstances.

Talking of which.

He suggests the chair candidates should appear in public before the select committee. That's if there are any. And could be a platform for grandstanding clowns.