Gangs First, What About the Clients? | Trending Ep368

Investigations into the UK grooming gangs continues, but Jaymie asks the question, 'When will others involved be investigated too?'. Who were these girls being trafficked too? Australian Senator accused of 'antisemitism' for using the term 'globalist' in the latest attempt to silence questioning voices. Russian warship fires shots in the English Channel and TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson reveals he has an aggressive form of cancer.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Wednesday's episode of Trending. I hope you're well wherever you are in the world. We've got quite international stories today. We've got a bit from different parts of the world. We're going to start here in the UK. Now, the subject of grooming gangs has been on mainstream news, alternative news, it's been discussed in politics for about the last three to four years extensively, because it's very, very clear that a number of young girls were let down. And I'm not talking two or three, I'm talking hundreds. They were let down in terms of being allowed to be abused in the way they were, and then the lack of investigation and the lack of justice for them since just, you know, compounds it and what's gone on. And it's very clear that the establishment in these local areas, the famous ones being towns like Telford, like Rotherham, and so on, it's very clear that local authorities, whether that be the police, whether that be the councils, whether that be other safeguarding organizations that were meant to be there to protect, were one, either complicit or two, turned a blind eye. And either way, it's unacceptable. And a number of those police officers and people in the positions of power in the council that were made aware of this are probably in higher positions now, getting paid more money by taxpayers' funds. When what they've done is they have failed the very people that they were there to protect. Now, there's been a consistent cover-up because I think we know or people know that something's gone on, but I still don't think they even begin to comprehend the extent of what's gone on and the scale of it. Because, like I said, you're not talking a handful of people, which would be bad enough. You're talking hundreds and hundreds, probably thousands of girls over an extended period of time of decades, not five minutes. Now, those sort of things don't happen. People don't get away with things like that unless the system is involved in some way, shape, or form, whether that be ignoring the facts and turning a blind eye, or whether that actively being involved. Now, every couple of weeks, every time there's uh any form of election, every time there's any form of major public debate in this country, this topic is always very, very high up on the agenda, and it's no different. There's been calls for a national inquiry for years, and a real full-scale national inquiry to uncover the extent of what's gone on and also uncover the extent of the system's involvement in it. Now, the Conservative government didn't do this, the Labour government that are in power now haven't done this, because in most of the towns and cities where these accusations and these rings were going on, they're working class places which tend to be Labour-run councils. So Labour would essentially be investigating themselves and their own. Now, they're not going to do that, are they, voluntarily? The amount of public pressure that's been put on them just to get what's there already is absolutely colossal. Now, there is now a complex investigation into what has gone on. It's falling short of what of being called a national inquiry. And I don't believe, I think the difference from what I have read is that at a national inquiry, people would be forced to testify under oath and therefore would be liable legally for whatever it is they say or don't say, and what that might implicate them in. With this, it doesn't go quite the same way. People are not testifying under oath. It's more of a voluntary kind of thing. And whether any heads roll, whether any people lose jobs, whether any people face jail time, if it's proven that they were very much involved in what's gone on, time will tell. But for now, this story is uh from Sky News. First batch of grooming gang cases returned to police to reinvestigate. The National Crime Agency says Operation Beaconport is the UK's most comprehensive and complex investigation into child exploitation and abuse. Operation Beaconport is examining cases between January 2010 and March 2025, where there are two or more suspects accused of sexual abuse that are still alive. There's a victim of a sexual offence with physical contact. Cases have not already been reviewed and no further action has been taken as of yet. In November, 1,273 such investigations from 23 police forces had already been referred to the National Crime Agency, 236 of which were prioritized because they involved allegations of rape. So what has, if you go back to the beginning, what has happened here is allegations have been made against a number of men in a number of different towns and cities. The police either failed to investigate or didn't investigate properly, and these people got away with it. It was very clear that this is institutionalized, this is an organized grooming ring. It's not the odd individual person here and there. This is organized crime. And these girls were trafficked and consistently abused over an extended period of time. Now, one of the main reasons that people get upset and people get frustrated, and people call for a two-tier or call the justice system we have in this country, whether that be the judiciary, whether that be the police and local authorities, they say it's two tiers. It's one tier for uh one demographic of people and it's another tier for a different demographic of people. The reason they do that is because for years, these grooming gangs have mainly been Pakistani men, young Pakistani men, and they've not been treated in the same way. Now, I don't think child abuse is dealt with strongly enough, whoever is behind it, because I think I don't believe there's a crime quite as abhorrent as that, in my opinion. I think most people, the overwhelming majority of people, have the same attitude as myself, which is at all costs, children should be protected. People that flip that and invert that and inflict this psychological and physical pain and abuse on these children. I don't think I can think of anything off the top of my head that is more abhorrent than that. And I don't think that's dealt with strongly enough. I really don't. But it's certainly been dealt with differently when it's coming to these grooming gangs. Firstly, for years there was an absolute wall of silence around it. You were called racist, you were called a bigot for simply asking if these gangs even existed. And when it when the evidence got to the point that they couldn't ignore the fact these grooming gangs existed because so many victims had come out in so many different places, 23 different police forces, as this story says, that's right across the nation. Now all of a sudden, they have to admit that this happened. And they're trying desperately as hard as they can to cover up either their failings or their complicity within it. And I don't think people are buying it like they would have once before. The way they're trying to gaslight people into disbelieving what they see with their own eyes, I don't think people are buying it in the same way they perhaps would have a decade ago. Because we've been let down by the system so much, and even people that trusted the system once upon a time have been let down by it so many times in so many different ways that that trust is gone. And as I've said many a time on this program, that is a great thing. Because once you understand that the system that works supposedly for you actually doesn't, then that's step one towards waking up and starting to really question everything you see and hear and everything you thought was real. So, as we know, you've got a power struggle in this case. You've got the system desperately trying to cover its tracks, and you've got people who are calling and campaigning for the real extent of this to be exposed. Because if it was, I think those numbers I've read there: 1,200 investigations, 23 police forces, 236 involving rape, are a drop in the ocean. I'd expect those numbers, if if truly exposed, to absolutely dwarf those numbers there. Because it's clear that this has gone on for decades. It's clear that this has gone on in so many different vulnerable communities, involving how many thousands of girls, involving how many thousands of men? Because one thing that's interesting that that's never that's not pointed out is the grooming gangs themselves are being talked about, are being exposed or starting to be exposed in terms of the root of these gangs, who they are, where they've come from, what they were doing, how they covered their tracks, the infiltration to within the police, the councils to avoid prosecution or protection or whatever. But similar to the whole Jeffrey Epstein situation, is people always talk about his crimes and absolutely they should be exposed, as should the grooming gangs, 100%. But who were they trafficking these girls to? That's the next question. Who was Epstein trafficking to? Epstein is known as the most prolific um trafficker of sexual victims in history, but to who at this point? Same with Ghlaine Maxwell. To who? The people that were on those planes, the people that were on that island. I I want to see them investigated. What were they doing there? If he was doing that, what were they doing there? What was he your best mate for, Mr. Trump? What else have you been up to, Andrew? What else have you been up to? All those people that visited that island. Well, the same question applies here. These grooming gangs in Telford and in Rotherham and in Rochdale and in all these other towns, who were they trafficking these girls to? Who else in these local communities was a part of this? That's the next question. Because it can't just stop at exposing the gangs, it has to start with exposing the gangs, but then it has to go to who else was involved. It's so important that we don't let this let this, you know, lie, because if we do gangs go away, gangs come back. New gangs form. And if there's still the people out there that are willing to go and abuse these girls, it doesn't matter which gang it is, the next one will just give the fix. Like like Gareth said a few weeks ago, you don't just stop being a drug addict because your drug dealer retires, you find a new one. Well, it's the same principle here. So I'm happy that these are being investigated. I hope a lot of heads in authority roll. I hope safeguards are put in place to stop this happening again. I hope this whole illusion that you're called racist if you talk about any other ethnicity than white British committing a crime. I hope that goes. But who was going? Who was going to these kebab shops? Who was going to these flats and abusing these girls on a regular basis? Because these grooming gangs don't exist unless people are paying to go and do those types of things. And that I'm talking a large number of people in these communities that would have had to have been doing that. So where are they? Are they ever going to face justice? I sincerely hope so. Right, if you're watching with us on Twitter or YouTube, that's it for the first part of the episode. We're going to talk about Malcolm Roberts in Australia. We're going to talk about Russians firing a warning shot towards some British yachters in the c in the British Channel. And we're going to talk about Jeremy Clarkson. I'll see you over on iconic.com.

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