The leadership in question is voted in by a much smaller number than what US elections manage. FPTP means not only are some regions completely devoid of the winning party, but have never voted for them as a local majority in decades, if ever. The secondary and tertiary problem with this situation is that neither do the alternative parties ever really offer anything different, remember before the current Labour gov the Tories were in power for about 14 years, but also that the population never really seems to stick to actual alternatives when "offered" them. So it swaps back between Red or Blue just like in the USA except the differences between the two now seems even less obvious than when Blair rewrote the playbook.
I'm a dual citizen, half English and half American, and shuttled between London/Oxford and Manhattan for most of my life. I lived in Paris for five years and in Budapest for two years.
America has its problems, France has its problems, Hungary has its problems, but Muslim grooming gangs are NOT one of them.
Muslim grooming gangs are, as far I can tell, PURELY a British (mainly English) problem. Even the other Islamised countries in Europe don't have this problem.
I cannot explain this difference but the difference is STARK. It's only Britain, and within that, only ENGLAND.
yeah, I should have been more clear. I mean similar in the sense of politicians turning a blind eye to immigrant and refugee-related crime for fear of being branded racist.
that being said, you raise an interesting point, why is the grooming gang issue a uniquely British/English problem? additionally, why is it most of the perpetrators are pakistani muslims? is it a leftover grudge from the imperial days? is it the sheer concentration of pakistanis in England? is there some unique factor to england that doesn't exist in the rest of the world?
Understanding the why would go a long way to addressing the issue, though even then you have to have leaders with spines...
"Why is the grooming gang issue a uniquely British/English problem?"
I do not know, but I strongly suspect that the British class system has something (I cannot yet identify what) to do with it. Then-PM Gordon Brown was able to send around a "circular" to all plod around the country announcing, basically, that since these underage girls were essentially white trash, they ought to be considered as consenting and no police ought to get involved.
France had a touch of it, and arrested the rapists involved- deterrent achieved. Same for the Netherlands, and same for Belgium.
Only Britain was instructed not to touch these rapists - this after reports of a 12 yr old getting her tongue being nailed to a table as she was being mass-raped, and an 11 yr old being raped with a broken bottle, destroying her internal organs. She spent six months in hospital and can never have children. Knowing all that, Gordon Brown sent all police in Britain a stand down notice.
I hope the truly evil people who read these reports and STILL commanded that police universally stand down because they were "slags" (at 11 yrs old- hardly likely) burn in hell, but before they do, I want to see them tried and imprisoned.
I wouldn't say the British People, but certainly your leadership has dropped the ball in a big way, regardless of what party is running what...
For what it's worth, we've had similar problems here in the states...
The leadership in question is voted in by a much smaller number than what US elections manage. FPTP means not only are some regions completely devoid of the winning party, but have never voted for them as a local majority in decades, if ever. The secondary and tertiary problem with this situation is that neither do the alternative parties ever really offer anything different, remember before the current Labour gov the Tories were in power for about 14 years, but also that the population never really seems to stick to actual alternatives when "offered" them. So it swaps back between Red or Blue just like in the USA except the differences between the two now seems even less obvious than when Blair rewrote the playbook.
I'm a dual citizen, half English and half American, and shuttled between London/Oxford and Manhattan for most of my life. I lived in Paris for five years and in Budapest for two years.
America has its problems, France has its problems, Hungary has its problems, but Muslim grooming gangs are NOT one of them.
Muslim grooming gangs are, as far I can tell, PURELY a British (mainly English) problem. Even the other Islamised countries in Europe don't have this problem.
I cannot explain this difference but the difference is STARK. It's only Britain, and within that, only ENGLAND.
yeah, I should have been more clear. I mean similar in the sense of politicians turning a blind eye to immigrant and refugee-related crime for fear of being branded racist.
that being said, you raise an interesting point, why is the grooming gang issue a uniquely British/English problem? additionally, why is it most of the perpetrators are pakistani muslims? is it a leftover grudge from the imperial days? is it the sheer concentration of pakistanis in England? is there some unique factor to england that doesn't exist in the rest of the world?
Understanding the why would go a long way to addressing the issue, though even then you have to have leaders with spines...
"Why is the grooming gang issue a uniquely British/English problem?"
I do not know, but I strongly suspect that the British class system has something (I cannot yet identify what) to do with it. Then-PM Gordon Brown was able to send around a "circular" to all plod around the country announcing, basically, that since these underage girls were essentially white trash, they ought to be considered as consenting and no police ought to get involved.
France had a touch of it, and arrested the rapists involved- deterrent achieved. Same for the Netherlands, and same for Belgium.
Only Britain was instructed not to touch these rapists - this after reports of a 12 yr old getting her tongue being nailed to a table as she was being mass-raped, and an 11 yr old being raped with a broken bottle, destroying her internal organs. She spent six months in hospital and can never have children. Knowing all that, Gordon Brown sent all police in Britain a stand down notice.
I hope the truly evil people who read these reports and STILL commanded that police universally stand down because they were "slags" (at 11 yrs old- hardly likely) burn in hell, but before they do, I want to see them tried and imprisoned.