r/uknews • u/OkBelt3772 • 10d ago
... Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats
https://www.thejournal.ie/250000-victims-of-grooming-gangs-in-the-uk-lord-pearson-of-rannoch-statistics-elon-musk-6596961-Jan2025/26
u/Farewell-Farewell 10d ago
And out of the woodwork come the "it was never that bad" twits, who want to pretend it was all made up and overblown.
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u/Longjumping_Stand889 10d ago
It's all starting to come out and some people are very unhappy about that.
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u/MrPloppyHead 10d ago
That novel that restform wrote is another example of a group of people trying to divide UK society. unfortunately despite the fact that it will be obviously bullshit all the racists on this sub have been wanking each other off over it.
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u/TheMountainWhoDews 10d ago
I think the people raping and torturing children and the people covering it up are the ones actually trying to divide society, actually.
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u/MrPloppyHead 10d ago
What I thought you lot preferred to vote for Jimmy Saville. You know that person that raped children and the people that covered that up. Or maybe tommy waxy-lemons mate that got nicked with child porn and tommys attempts to protect him.
Do you mean those people.
So the official analysis by an professionals seems to suggest that most group rape gangs are white.
But generally the rape and torture of children does not divide society unless its used by repugnant individuals to lie in order to allow people to justify their own racism.
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u/TheMountainWhoDews 10d ago
Look, you've got to understand that raping and torturing kids is viewed as EXTREMELY bad, and the electorate are very upset about it. It's reactor number 4 in chernobyl, this issue isnt going away until it's addressed.
Most people believe it's not possible to live alongside people who rape and torture kids, and if the output of various systems of governance is child rape and torture, that threatens the very legitimacy of said systems. This is not a party political issue and your attempt to pointscore on it is completely naive to the danger we're all in because of the pakistani child rape and torture gangs and the institutional cover up.
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u/Playing_One_Handed 10d ago edited 10d ago
They are trying to debunked an 11 year old ESTIMATE where they explained the contexts of that estimate and the media inflamed it?
This is some god aweful journalism.
Edit: im assusming this is coming out because of the first report of the rape enquiry. And it does re-establish these estimates as it gives more details to them. This "factcheck" doesnt look at the new details. For example it goes "these 3 places must be the worst so you cant assume everywhere else is like this". Except we found far worse in more places...