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T_i_B

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3. Shocking stuff
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 03:09 AM
Aug 2014

Some thoughts

1) The Police & Crime Comissioner for South Yorkshire, Shaun Wright, was responsible for children's services at Rotherham Council from 2005 to 2010. His position is looking untenable.

2) Far right knuckledraggers are queueing up to make the Pakistani community scapegoats for this, but abuse on this scale can't happen without involvement from people outside that community.

3) I would not be surprised if this isn't just going on in Rotherham. For starters, were victims in Rotherham shipped elsewhere for others to abuse?

4) I have been rude about Rotherham Labour party on here before, and the fact that Rotherham politics is so utterly dominated by 1 party only makes those in power more able to get away with cocking things up. If the main opposition flagging up this issue is groups such as UKIP, who have no real regard for Rotherham's best interests then that doesn't make things any better either.

where were the parents, so many questions hollysmom Aug 2014 #1
In a similar, but smaller-scale, abuse scandal in Oxford where I live... LeftishBrit Aug 2014 #10
Have been listening to BBC Radio TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #18
Terrible. 840high Aug 2014 #2
Shocking stuff T_i_B Aug 2014 #3
I have identified time this week to do some serious reading about this. non sociopath skin Aug 2014 #4
The far right is loving this T_i_B Aug 2014 #5
The Far Right - of which UKIP is typical ... non sociopath skin Aug 2014 #6
Police commissioner quits Labour (but doesn't resign as PCC) T_i_B Aug 2014 #7
The odds are that, if he goes, his replacement will be a rightwinger ... non sociopath skin Aug 2014 #8
Results from last time T_i_B Aug 2014 #9
Blog on manning a polling station for the West Midlands PCC by-election last week muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #11
Which brings us to another issue with PCC's T_i_B Aug 2014 #12
Keith Vaz seeks law to sack South Yorkshire PCC Shaun Wright T_i_B Sep 2014 #15
And he's finally resigned muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #16
Not before bloody time. non sociopath skin Sep 2014 #17
The Shia Chat site ChazII Aug 2014 #13
As some Taxi firms have been heavily implicated in this T_i_B Sep 2014 #14
Beyond Rotherham: scale of child sex exploitation T_i_B Oct 2014 #19
Rotherham Council 'not fit for purpose' over child abuse failings T_i_B Feb 2015 #20
Deeply worrying non sociopath skin Feb 2015 #21
Indeed T_i_B Feb 2015 #22
how utterly horrible niyad Jan 2016 #23
Still no arrests over top ranking paedophile rings dating back to the 60s. Bad Dog Jan 2016 #24
We're starting to see arrests in Rotherham T_i_B Jan 2016 #25
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