Fulminating over Muslim grooming gangs is a reactionary vote-winner?

Reactionary. Adj. Opposing political or social progress or reform.

Yes, you read it on Unherd. Getting angry about the targeted, racist, mass abuse of young children is to oppose social progress.

Jog on.

If there was one thing, one huge thing, the pivotal thing…………………………..

Single Mothers……. The end of two parent, mother and father and their biological children, Families.

I am too jaded these days for much to get to me, but that was just depressing to read.

While politicians and the media fulminate over Muslim grooming gangs because it is an obvious, reactionary vote-winner,
Presumably, this article has passed by an editor of some description – in which case I’m pretty stunned that such a crass comment has made it to publication. I really expect better for my subscription. Disgraceful.

I have worked in a couple of major UK cities.
A lot of Londoners from the East end always like to big up their connections to gangster, particularly the “twins” since the think it gives them credibility. They also thinks anyone who works for a living is a mug
In my current abode a lot of my colleagues form ethnic minorities boast about how connected they are to the city’s criminal gangs and what they know about who was responsible for this or the other hit
None of this has anything to do with poverty and everything to do with decay. Since the 60s Hollywood and television have glamourized gangsters and the idea of working hard to in order to get what you want is roundly ridiculed.

We are rapidly approaching the situation that fermented in Northern Ireland where when citizens find that recourse to the law is so impossible (or indeed expensive in Britain) that an ” alternative route” tempts. I am frankly suprised, given the state of our divorce laws, whereby the legal profession profit from stirring hatred, confrontation and adversity, that the alternative route is not far more of a problem, with lawyers as well as spouses the targets?

As the police become less interested, more corrupt, lazy and dishonest, ” taking the law into one’s own hands” will become a serious problem as an ever increasing number of immigrants from violent countries make themselves available at ever lower prices.
I see a follow on with tobacco smuggling, as ever further restrictions and price rises make tobacco an alternative gold mine to illegal narcotics.

But several organised crime sources have told me — all with the same sick, macabre pride — that they have groomed 12, 13 and 14-year-olds to do their dirty work

We’ve been told recently that we should be shocked that the police have been strip-searching children, sometimes without an appropriate adult present, and often Black kids.
Well, if the serious criminals are getting the ‘youngers’ to carry the drugs and the weapons, then don’t the police have a reason?

You end by blaming an “anaesthetised society and political class that witnesses such violence before quickly turning the page” but what would you have society and the political class do? You offer no solutions. Based on your article the only possible solution I can find would be the elimination of single mothers.

Anyone any idea on which planet is this poverty-stricken Britain, suffering from nationwide nihilism, infested with shifty middle classes in its dark underbelly, and an anaesthetised society and political class which don’t want to recognise the mayhem on their streets of shoulder to shoulder hitmen of all ages roaming unhindered?

Could have been interesting but ruined by left-wing idiocies about grooming gangs, Boris and “poverty stricken Britain”.

When they abolished capital punishment in the UK, the public was re-assured that the murder rate would go down, and those convicted of murder would never be released. More lies.

Thank you