On the TV news yesterday evening (15/05/13) I watched a procession of Social Services, Local Government and Thames Valley Police officers all seek to deny culpability in terms of their failure to intervene earlier in the Oxford sex ring saga. It appears that all these agencies were alerted to the fact that something was wrong as log ago as 2010. Several of the men who have now been convicted of these horrendous crimes were questioned by police and were known to Social Services yet nothing was done to properly investigate them.
I think that it is significant that the majority of the men involved are of Pakistani origin and the others were of North African extraction. While I would not seek to draw the conclusion that all men of similar ethnic backgrounds are perverted sex fiends, I do ask the question as to whether the agencies responsible went easy on them in their investigations because of the fear of being labeled racist?
It is now acknowledged by many that the previous government's policy of "multiculturalism" lead us to the point where any discussion of immigration was stifled by accusations of racism. I wonder if the same attitudes were promoted to pervade the culture of the police and social services so that it became difficult to investigate people if they were from a different ethnic community. Does the failure to stop the Oxford sex ring lie at the door of New Labour's metropolitan Marxist doctrines of political correctness and multiculturalism?
I think that it is significant that the majority of the men involved are of Pakistani origin and the others were of North African extraction. While I would not seek to draw the conclusion that all men of similar ethnic backgrounds are perverted sex fiends, I do ask the question as to whether the agencies responsible went easy on them in their investigations because of the fear of being labeled racist?
It is now acknowledged by many that the previous government's policy of "multiculturalism" lead us to the point where any discussion of immigration was stifled by accusations of racism. I wonder if the same attitudes were promoted to pervade the culture of the police and social services so that it became difficult to investigate people if they were from a different ethnic community. Does the failure to stop the Oxford sex ring lie at the door of New Labour's metropolitan Marxist doctrines of political correctness and multiculturalism?
