Rotherham grooming probe ‘poised to become UK’s biggest-ever CSE investigation’
An investigation into Rotherham child grooming may cost nearly £7m this year as it potentially becomes ‘the single largest CSE investigation ever undertaken in the UK’.
A new report has highlighted the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood as one of the key financial pressures on South Yorkshire Police.
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Remember when we were told, CSE was a myth?
Not long after the first rumblings of the enormous problem Rotherham has, a blog by the name of Roth Brad Politics came into existence. On the 23 January 2013 this post appeared. It gives many clues as to the arguments … Continue reading
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This little gem from the Andrew Norfolk Archive, points the way to the ‘nub of the issue’. Readers may also wish to read this for some more background:
Rotherham Politics 
Nobody is saying to asian lads selling drugs non stop driving big cars they have never done a days work.
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Just add this amount to the total debt this council has and don’t forget it is still not fit for purpose with a deputy chairman who denied the Jay report and several councillors who were on the scrutinies panel. The people of the borough put them back in so you reap what you sew
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How could the people of Rotherham vote Labour back in after they allowed this. You reap what you sow.
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• 40-year-old man from Rotherham was arrested in his home town by local officers on behalf of Lancashire Police.
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/community/community-news/six-people-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-blackpool-gang-1-7462934
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RMBC webcast of 16/9/15 made interesting and incredulous viewing…Modern technology allowed me to view live the council meeting of my old home town from New Zealand. It’s clear the opposition have an uphill and frustrating job and will need the sustainability and bite of a terrier . I admire their fortitude.
Frankly, I don’t understand much about political jargon … That isn’t necessary though because the character of the councilors is there for all to see on webcast and character is the most important quality because it requires brains and heart to be an public servant.
I doubt Chris Reed and his second in command are interested in the views of an elderly woman but IMV it would be good medicine for them to view their performance on the webcast. It has a cringe factor that is funny and worrying at the same time.
Something I have observed over the years in people who flatly refuse to take responsibility is they constantly use the term “we need to move on or move forward”… It’s Chris Reeds default answer to the matter of justice…. The past injustices impinge on the present and the future for victims who are unable to trust the very people who let them down in the first place.
A Vietnamese friend once told me that there was no such word as ‘sorry’ in her culture. It was a meaningless word to her. Council should note it is a meaningless word to the victims and families who were wronged on every level. I don’t care if Chris Reed has brains leaking out of his ears; he doesn’t have the heart to do the job that Rotherham needs at this time. He comes across as a spin doctor and smart a..e and that makes him incompetent for his esteemed position as leader of the RMBC.
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“A Vietnamese friend once told me that there was no such word as ‘sorry’ in her culture. It was a meaningless word to her”
Tôi xin lỗi
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I will pass on your correction to my Vietnamese friend Reg… She will be so grateful to you I am sure; as of course I am.
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I did check with a Vietnamese friend!
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“Something I have observed over the years in people who flatly refuse to take responsibility is they constantly use the term “we need to move on or move forward”…
I suppose that if you are a member of a political party which has been complicit in epidemic grooming, rape, sexual torture, trafficking and pimping of young girls by turning a blind eye to it and totting up the bloc votes then that is the sort of morally defective line you would serve up.
Labour are rotten to the core. Take the unprepossessing example of the porcine new Deputy Leader Tom Watson MP – for some years now he has been instrumental in the allegations about a purported high level child abuse ring involving Tory politicians. He has links with the dubious Exaro organisation whose leading light, Mark Watts, was a propagandist for the Iranian regime(Press TV).
The “case” against Heath, Proctor etc is now falling apart
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3222908/Grave-doubts-claims-key-witnesses-VIP-sex-abuse-inquiry.html
Watson was also instantly off the blocks in calling for a “comprehensive investigation” into the so-called Cannock Chase VIP paedo ring, which looks to be the same sort of fantasy that “Nick” was coming out with.
But portly Tom has not – afaik – ever uttered a word about the Pakistani grooming gangs in the West Midlands which bear “significant similarities to Rotherham. He hasn’t said a damn thing about the West Midlands Plod cover up
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/west-midlands-police-report-reveals-7948902
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-knew-grooming-gangs-were-9518461
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2015/05/02/sex-abuse-gangs-in-black-country-significant-similarities-to-rotherham-scandal-say-police/
Anyone with an ounce of common sense and an operational bs detector should be able to understand Watson’s game – he has been creating a diversion, putting up a miasma of confusion and deception, covering his tracks and that of his Party with a dense smokescreen
Voting demographics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11581329/Senior-Labour-politicians-Liam-Byrne-and-Tom-Watson-attend-segregated-Muslim-rally.html
Watson’s links to the Pakistani Labour fixer Faisal Rasool, chairman of the “Muslims Friends of Labour” were recently exposed in a sting operation by the Sun newspaper
“He needs £30,000 to £40,000 now. Once they become leader they don’t talk about money. If you can’t give £40,000 just give £30,000 and I guarantee you are going to see Watson. He is a very powerful man.”
Ahead of the meeting with Mr Burnham, Rasool had boasted of being able to deliver Asian votes through to his roles with the Muslim Friends of Labour and Labour Friends of Pakistan.
In a first meeting with our man on August 24, at the Colony Restaurant off Park Lane, Mayfair, he said: “There are four people fighting this election. Whoever wins, they will come to me because I’ve got 1.5million votes. I have got a position…….”
….He also boasted of his friendship to Mr Watson, the MP for West Bromwich East. He said: “He came to my house the other day. He is very close to me. I am taking him to Pakistan.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6632443/Labour-hit-by-cash-for-access-scandal.html
One is tempted to suppose that Labour could go no lower, but I am sure they have, and will
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Yeah I get that impression too, his constant little in jokes belay the whole seriousness of the matters that he is supposed to be be sorting out.
I think he basically got the job by default anyway which is worrying enough .
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Linda Wheeler
I enjoy your participation from afar
I didn’t know you knew Chris Reed personally
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Steve, I don’t know him personally … His performance on RMBC a dead giveaway….
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PS, I omitted to say in my comment Chris Reads performance on RMBC webcast is a dead giveaway……
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Hi RR It doesn’t surprise me at all that your computer is your nearest and dearest friend …
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