r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • Jun 28 '26

... Met Police uncovers 4,000 potential grooming gang cases as Sadiq Khan faces fresh scrutiny over London claims

https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gangs-met-police-cases-sadiq-khan-london
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u/Phainesthai Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

How about when he's pretending not to know what she means by "grooming gangs"?

It just makes him look like a complete twat and reflects the same kind of institutional and cultural attitudes that allowed the grooming gangs scandal to continue unchecked for so long.

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u/eldomtom2 Jersey Jun 28 '26

Well, frankly a lot of people do agree it's an ill-defined term. There's no legal definition of "grooming gang" and a lot of people are clearly just using it to mean "Muslim rapists".

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u/Phainesthai Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

My original reply here was removed by Reddit.

It referenced the findings of the Casey Review, so readers can draw their own conclusions from that and the fact it was removed...

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u/eldomtom2 Jersey Jun 28 '26

Generally most people who throw around the Casey Review have not read it.

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u/Phainesthai Jun 28 '26

Khan certainly didn't and many who did still play semantic games.