The point here is that you are all obsessing over the far-right and why?

This is a story about the rape of potentially thousands of girls, frequently based on their race and class. Added to that is a great number of questions as to whether these horrific crimes (which we all absolutely agree were horrific) were allowed to go on for longer than they should because of a political culture that didn't want to investigate fully for fear of being labeled racist or other racial sensitivities.

It is not a story about the far-right. The far-right, the right, the centre, the left and far-left will ALWAYS exploit crisis for their own end. That, unfortunately, is politics. Labour exploited Grenfell and police rape scandals. The Tories exploit this. The Workers Party of Britain successfully exploited the war in Gaza for political gain in the last election. Reform exploit migrant crime etc etc.

Political exploitation is a story, but THE story is why this happened. Dancing around the edges, scouring the internet to find videos where people are talking about the far-right is in all honesty and example of the kind of culture that allowed this absolute filth to go on for so long and potentially still is going on.

Imagine for a moment that gangs of far-right people were targeting little Asian girls, grooming, taping and torturing them and that the authorities potentially turned a blind eye to some extent to indirectly allow it to continue for a while.

Imagine then that people rightly were outraged but some right-wingers instead turned their anger on the left for trying to "exploit the situation" politically (by talking about inquiries etc..hardly unheard of) instead of addressing the real issue at hand. Imagine that, and what you would think of those people. You would think they were absolute dickheads.

In fairness, the threads title isn't particularly helpful in discussing the wider topic but honestly, I find it utterly unfathomable that on this story some people still can't bring them selves to do much other than talk about the far-right. Frankly, it's shameful. No one on here has anything but contempt for these crimes but some are absolutely twisting it to make their own wider points, including some who profress to oppose others doing that very same thing