Streeting: Grooming gangs rhetoric could lead to UK version of NZ mosque attack

Wes Streeting has warned of the dangers of vilification successful regards to grooming gangs, pointing to the 2019 mosque massacre successful New Zealand arsenic what the effect could look similar for Britain if “entire communities” are “tarred with the aforesaid brush”.

In March 2019 Australian far-right extremist Brenton Tarrant opened occurrence successful 2 mosques successful the metropolis of Christchurch, connected New Zealand’s southbound island.

A full of 51 radical were killed and a further 89 were injured, making the atrocity New Zealand’s worst-ever wide shooting.

Tarrant livestreamed the atrocity connected the societal media level Facebook, with his weapons and ammunition adorned with achromatic supremacist symbols.

One clip of ammunition clip had the “For Rotherham” scrawled upon it; seemingly a notation to the kid intersexual exploitation ungraded uncovered successful the UK town.

Victims’ voices person been wholly marginalised, and I deliberation that’s a disgrace

Health Secretary Wes Streeting

In an interrogation with the Guardian, the Health Secretary said helium had “no trouble oregon qualms” successful calling retired the “sickening” crimes of intersexual maltreatment gangs successful the UK.

He besides criticised the “well-meaning, but yet fundamentally misguided and warped views of governmental correctness” of constabulary and assembly agencies that fto down thousands of children who desperately needed their protection.

The Ilford North MP said: “At the aforesaid time, determination are radical successful my assemblage who person either Pakistani practice oregon look different, who are present much fearful contiguous than they were before.”

“Victims’ voices person been wholly marginalised, and I deliberation that’s a disgrace,” helium said.

He past challenged Tory person Kemi Badenoch to look halfway astir the satellite to spot wherever “irresponsible and coarse nationalist sermon tin pb connected this issue”.

“If Kemi Badenoch is successful immoderate uncertainty whatsoever … look connected the different broadside of the world, successful Christchurch, New Zealand, wherever someone walked into a mosque and killed guiltless Muslims stone acold dormant with a weapon whose mag had inscribed connected it ‘for Rotherham’.

“We person to beryllium highly wide astir the failings and the quality of it, and not let governmental correctness, fearfulness of stating the information arsenic it is to neglect victims, arsenic has happened before. We indispensable besides marque definite that full communities are not tarred with the aforesaid brush.”

Mr Musk’s barrage of attacks against the Prime Minister person dominated Westminster implicit caller days and led Sir Keir to impeach critics of spreading “lies and misinformation”.

He has defended his tenure arsenic manager of nationalist prosecutions and claims helium tackled kid intersexual maltreatment charges “head-on”.

The Conservatives accused Labour MPs of having “turned a unsighted oculus to justice” for victims of grooming gangs aft their amendment to the Government’s kid extortion Bill calling for different nationalist enquiry was rejected, portion tech billionaire Elon Musk described it arsenic “unbelievable”.

Mr Streeting suggested to The Guardian that Mr Musk’s caller input into nationalist sermon connected the substance of kid exploitation successful the UK could beryllium a motion of the value of technology’s relation successful democracy.

“As with immoderate revolution, the cardinal happening is that power, wealthiness and accidental is successful the hands of the many, not the privileged few. I deliberation exertion tin person a liberating role,” helium said.

“We’ve got to marque definite that exertion is harnessed for the communal good, and we’ve got to marque definite that it’s governed by antiauthoritarian principles.

“There is going to beryllium a large planetary conflict implicit this implicit the people of this century, arsenic to whether it’s ideology oregon tyranny that triumphs successful this space.”

Mr Streeting’s comments travel successful the aftermath of caller online and governmental statement that has seen calls for an enquiry into kid rape by Pakistani men, with Reform UK person Nigel Farage demanding a probe into “to what grade were gangs of Pakistani men raping young achromatic girls.”

However, Richard Fewkes, the manager of the NPCC’s Hydrant programme targeting kid intersexual abuse, said determination is nary “significant issue” with “any peculiar ethnicity oregon setting”.

New figures from the constabulary database amusement that, wherever ethnicity information was available, 85% of “group-based” kid abusers were achromatic successful the archetypal 3 quarters of 2024.

The aforesaid information for the full of 2023 showed 83% of offenders were white.

“(The data) reflects what you would expect to spot crossed the state successful presumption of ethnicity,” Mr Fewkes said.

“Offences wherever grooming gangs are progressive are predominantly white.

“There is not a important contented present with immoderate peculiar ethnicity oregon setting.”

Mr Fewkes’ comments travel aft tech entrepreneur Elon Musk utilized his societal media level X to wage an online run against the authorities implicit the contented of grooming gangs.

Grooming gangs are down 2 kid intersexual maltreatment offences reported to constabulary each day, The Telegraph reported.

The billionaire has accused the Prime Minister of being “complicit successful the rape of Britain” implicit his grounds arsenic a erstwhile manager of nationalist prosecutions, and called safeguarding curate Jess Phillips a “witch” and a “rape genocide apologist”.

On Monday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the Government would statesman to instrumentality Professor Alexis Jay’s telephone for mandatory reporting of kid intersexual abuse, with further details expected to beryllium acceptable retired successful the coming weeks.