Kemi Badenoch tries to Block Childrens Safety Bill to score Political points

 January 2025 started off with a BANG in the political western hemisphere. Whilst the USA MAGA clan is channelling its Star Wars empire era with its Supreme Orange Leader threatening the invasion of Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland, across the pond another kind of inner political war is waging albeit within the boundaries of its own parliament building. 

The right hand side of the UK's team "democracy," the Tory party along with Reform UK have decided instead of trying to help run a country efficiently after 14 years of decadent abuse in power, they have spent their time over the last week  creating a false scandal to try and bring down the Labour party.

Specifically,  a co-ordinated hit piece on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Labour MP Jess Philips about not doing anything about child exploitation and grooming gangs in Oldham over the last decade has seen multiple tabloid headlines and right wing hillbillies launch an assault on the Labour government to make it look like they are complicit due to negligence. 

The news broke like a tabloid tsunami, wave after wave of front page, billionaire owned, Tory backed newspapers as if Labour MPs were caught bungling children into vans on cctv the night before. So much so that Fuhrer in waiting Elon Musk waded in with his hot take, tweeting a "rape genocide" was allowed to have occurred. 

They have accused the Labour Government of refusing to open an inquiry into child grooming gangs after Labour MP advised the Oldham Council they could open their own inquiry as the UK government would not be doing so. On the face of it, you might think that this doesn't sound great, after all, who wants grooming gangs roaming around? Why the fuck would the Labour Party and Jess Philips say no to Oldham council? 

There have been 10 inquiries and reports into the grooming gangs. 

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse by Professor Jay was published after eight years in 2022. It finds police and councils downplayed the scale of the problem and children were often blamed for their abuse.

It made recommendations, including mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse by people working with children, the establishment of a national financial compensation scheme for victims "let down by institutions" and the creation of a child protection authority. 

Within the review were 20 recommendations that were to help improve the law and prevent such occurrences from happening in the future. Unfortunately from 2022, none of those recommendations were put in place by the Tory government. If you see a Tory MP accusing a Labour government of anything to do with this "scandal" bear this in mind. 

On January 8th The Labour government was trying to pass The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in order to improve Child safety.

This Bill includes:

• All councils being required to hold a register of children who are not in school
• A unique number for every child, in the same way every adult has their own national insurance number
• Parents no longer having an automatic right to take their children out of school for home education if the young person is subject to a child protection investigation or suspected of being at risk of significant harm
• Local authorities having the power to intervene and require school attendance if any child's home environment is assessed as unsuitable or unsafe
• All teachers will be part of the same core pay and conditions framework whether they work in a local authority-run school or an academy

However the Tory party and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch submitted an amendment in the bill for the inquiry into child grooming gangs to be opened (again) ultimately trying to stop the bill if the amendment was granted as no new recommendations could be implemented until the new inquiry ended. The last one took 8 years remember.  Labour voted the amendment down 363-11. 

Today's Tory tabloid headlines (9th January) in the Daily Express: "Fury as Labour MPs vote down Kemi Badenoch's bid for grooming gangs probe." 

"Labour MPs have blocked Kemi Badenoch's bid to force an independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation by Muslim grooming gangs.

Sir Keir Starmer whipped his MPs to vote down the Conservative amendment to the child safety and education Bill, which would have blocked the legislation on the grounds it does not commit to a new probe." 

Kemi Badenoch was the  Minister for Women and Equalities for the Equality Hub between 25 October 2022 and 4 July 2024 for the Conservative Party during their time in government. This is the same time the inquiry into child grooming gangs was released with its recommendations. 

The party in charge, with the woman in charge of Women's equalities who failed to put any substantive legislation based on the inquiries recommendations in place is trying to block a Children's Bill to improve  their safety. They are literally trying to kill the bill so they can score political points for the very thing they did not do in 2022. I would call it irony but to be honest, that's too polite. These people need to be strapped to a Space X rocket so they can live out the rest of their miserable lives on Mars. 

How dirty is the game of politics that there are people actively refusing to help the public in order to get one foot in the door of number 10 Downing Street. Newsflash, we are 5 years away from a general election and there is more hope the Orange one donates his life savings to charity than Kemi Badenoch becoming the next Prime Minister. But how is a society meant to function when our system of government backed by its media is set on tearing itself apart from the inside? 

There needs to be mass change in the regulation of how party members act, that they do so for the betterment of society and not themselves. And for the bought media to stop spreading fucking lies. 

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