The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - January 17, 2025


Grooming Gangs: How They Occurred and How to Spot Them - From a Survivor | Samantha Smith EP 220


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00:00:00.000 The average person's outraged and the average politician is trying to cover it up.
00:00:03.740 Groups of Pakistani Asian men, many of them work at local takeaway shops or convenience stores
00:00:08.740 and they first come in, fly girls with alcohol, drugs, pre-taxi ride
00:00:13.560 and then progressively introduce them to the wider gang and will sexually exploit them. 0.55
00:00:19.120 Wild.
00:00:19.680 It is an issue that just started with Elon and yet Elon seems to be the only person
00:00:23.980 that has been able to make mainstream politicians actually pay attention.
00:00:27.400 Five years old when my abuse started, the experience of myself and the experience of countless other girls was that we were at fault for the abuse that we suffered.
00:00:35.920 Every number that is being thrown around was to minimise the scale of abuse.
00:00:40.080 Because again, the people that are releasing the data are the same people who failed to protect those little girls.
00:00:45.660 It has been allowed to happen for so long because those in power were too scared of being called racist.
00:00:50.480 Keir Starmer himself branded every person who is speaking out about this essentially a far-right bandwagon jumper.
00:00:56.960 There's no conspiracy because it's the truth. It's out there in the open.
00:01:05.200 Samantha Smith, welcome to my podcast.
00:01:07.700 Thank you for having me.
00:01:08.880 Yeah, thanks very much for coming on and talking about this.
00:01:11.700 I know this must be an incredibly stressful topic.
00:01:14.840 It's stressful for me and I'm just reading about it online.
00:01:19.340 So before we get started, could you give a brief background about who you are
00:01:23.960 and what it is you do and how you came to be immersed in this topic that we're about to discuss.
00:01:30.820 Yes, absolutely. So I was raised in Telford in one of the epicenters of child sexual exploitation
00:01:39.680 and grooming in England. There were three key areas in England that were, I suppose,
00:01:46.560 most highly publicized when it comes to the grooming gang scandal, and that was Telford,
00:01:50.040 Rotherham Rochdale I was raised in Telford for almost my entire life I went to school there I
00:01:58.380 grew up there I was in and out of local authority kids homes as a teenager up until I turned 18
00:02:08.400 and I am now a political commentator and a political analyst I write for the Daily Mail
00:02:14.760 the Telegraph the Spectator I didn't get started talking about my own experience in Telford and my
00:02:20.880 story until about 2022 when the Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein story broke and was fast in
00:02:29.360 in the news at which point obviously I again growing up in Telford I knew my own experience I
00:02:35.220 I knew the the stories of thousands of girls like me and it felt as though a blind eye was being
00:02:41.240 turned by the media who were obsessing over this international high-profile case while ignoring a
00:02:47.540 crisis in their own backyards. And so that was when I used my platform first to speak out and
00:02:52.960 share my own story and then have continued to do so for the past two and a bit years since.
00:03:02.820 Okay, that makes sense. Let's see. Well, let's start out talking about it because this has been
00:03:09.360 wild on x in the last couple of weeks i know you you've been talking about it for years i didn't
00:03:15.320 come across any of this information until elon kind of splashed it all over the news
00:03:20.020 a couple of weeks ago so can you just briefly explain what's going on now in the uk with the
00:03:27.380 grooming gangs i'm going to call them grooming gangs i think for this episode because i don't
00:03:31.320 know what youtube is going to flag if i just call them what they should probably be called so maybe
00:03:38.340 we can discuss that and see see what happens but can you describe what's going on in the uk now
00:03:43.380 how long this has been going on just to give people on youtube an idea of what's happening
00:03:48.580 no absolutely and i know a lot of people uh just on your point about calling them grooming gangs i
00:03:53.860 do i know a lot of people would prefer they were called something else i think it's very important
00:03:57.780 to make the distinction that they are grooming gangs because this crime is so reliant on the
00:04:03.540 grooming aspect that's what makes these these gangs so complex so effective so efficient and
00:04:10.140 so manipulative in their abuse and exploitation of little girls is is the way that they are able
00:04:17.040 to draw them in and convince them that the abuse that they will go on to perpetrate is normal and
00:04:23.520 is acceptable and so I and I know quite a few other survivors of grooming believe that grooming
00:04:29.800 gangs are the the correct term for it so absolutely i agree and i'm happy to continue calling them
00:04:36.520 that um when it comes to child sex exploitation and particularly pakistani muslim grooming gangs
00:04:42.500 in the uk this is an issue that is that dates back to the 1970s um in in britain and has been
00:04:50.100 investigated through a series of local reports um and local inquiries as of the the early to mid
00:04:58.400 2000s. It is still going on today. Little girls are still being groomed, manipulated, exploited
00:05:07.300 and abused and even murdered by these gangs in towns like Miners, Helford, Rochdale, Rotherham,
00:05:14.880 Bambury, Birmingham, across the UK. It isn't centred in certain areas. Oldham isn't the first
00:05:23.760 nor is it the only town to have suffered this this scandal and it is characterized particularly
00:05:32.340 by groups of of pakistani asian asian men of predominantly muslim um religious affiliation
00:05:42.280 working together across county lines or in within a local area many of them will be taxi drivers
00:05:48.100 many of them work at local takeaway shops or convenience stores and they first come in ply
00:05:53.940 girls with alcohol drugs um free taxi rides many of the girls being vulnerable and then 0.97
00:06:00.340 progressively introduce them to the wider gang and will sexually and criminally at times exploit
00:06:07.160 them okay so i got exposed to this a couple weeks ago like i said because elon was talking about it
00:06:14.400 and some of the court transcripts came out, and they're so awful.
00:06:22.520 I can understand why people are talking about it now.
00:06:26.480 I can't understand why it's been hidden for so long,
00:06:28.960 but I couldn't get over how evil this is down to its core.
00:06:34.920 And so I wanted to talk about it on YouTube to tell people what was going on
00:06:37.760 because it's completely unacceptable.
00:06:39.600 I also thought it would be helpful for people to know how these gangs go about grooming girls so that maybe parents, because if it isn't eliminate, it should be eliminated now.
00:06:54.100 But if it's not, people should at least be aware of how this starts and how to potentially prevent it or how to know that you're being targeted to be groomed.
00:07:02.640 So can we get into that? Like, what's the pattern? What do these people do to kind of entice these girls or pressure them or whatever's happening? Is there a pattern that these people use?
00:07:13.560 Absolutely. And let me let me be clear. I don't know, like you said, what YouTube will flag. So please do let me know if I need to change up my language or anything like that.
00:07:22.620 But it is still going on in Britain. It is still happening. I see it on council states in my hometown. Other victims and survivors and those investigating this and who aren't turning a blind eye see it every day. We know that it's going on.
00:07:41.460 girls are coming forward that are as young as 13 14 today not in the 1980s not in the early 2000s
00:07:47.860 today children today are coming forward and saying i am being sexually exploited by pakistani muslim
00:07:54.180 men and that is a fact that's an unavoidable fact there is a pattern there is a process and a very
00:08:02.480 clear methodology by which these gangs target young girls many victims of pakistani grooming gangs
00:08:09.540 will be between the ages of 11 and 15 although it can be older or younger i there are girls who
00:08:16.560 were first targeted when they were 16 17 um and it is across age age ranges it's across
00:08:25.380 um social classes although again the majority are white working class girls there are cases where
00:08:31.800 um asian girls or african origin british girls have also been targeted but the the the most
00:08:39.560 common victim is a white working class girl and that's what we saw in telford oldham brother and
00:08:44.800 rochdale these men will target most of the time vulnerable girls girls who are already known to
00:08:51.020 social service who may be under local authority care who have been abused before whether that's
00:08:55.120 by a family member or a trusted adult who already have blurred boundaries and and a weaker
00:09:02.380 understanding of what is okay for adults to do to them myself for example I was abused from the age
00:09:08.340 of six and that set up my grooming later on in life as a teenager because I didn't understand
00:09:15.020 that the abuse that I had suffered wasn't normal and wasn't okay I had been taught that these
00:09:22.180 men had a right to my body in a way that that no adult man ever should over a child and so
00:09:28.320 they target the most vulnerable girls in society and they
00:09:32.440 whether it's offering them money or drugs or alcohol or food or just love and attention the
00:09:40.980 boyfriend model was a very popular one uh in in pakistani muslim grooming gangs for example where
00:09:47.520 the girls would refer to their abusers as their boyfriend they would say well i've got these
00:09:52.000 boyfriends they take care of me they do these incidents okay because they're my boyfriend
00:09:55.660 but that isn't the only way that that that this happens it can be men who as I said take advantage
00:10:02.080 of vulnerability who feed them clothe them take them places and groom them which is why they're
00:10:08.500 called grooming gangs and why I'm so firm on referring to them as grooming gangs because they
00:10:13.280 groom young girls they draw them in they make them feel safe and wanted and loved and as though they
00:10:20.060 they can trust these men and then that's when they introduce them to the sexual abuse it often
00:10:25.480 starts with just just the main abuser the the ringleader or or one member of the cell and they
00:10:32.900 will sexually abuse them rape them and then introduce them to their friends or their family
00:10:37.580 members their uncles their their dads and say well you have to do this for my dad and my uncle as well
00:10:44.080 because you did it to you did it for me or you know he's going to pay you for this or you know
00:10:51.040 i i expect you to do this otherwise i'm going to i'm going to break up with you i'm going to 0.78
00:10:55.780 harm your family or whatever it is that they can leverage at that point once the girls are once
00:11:02.240 victims are under their control and scared of them and and fear losing them or fear what they
00:11:08.420 might do to them if they do try and leave that's when the wider group-based abuse starts and that's
00:11:15.960 how again girls for long periods of time are able to be abused by multiple by multiple offenders
00:11:23.540 because it it balloons it expands it comes from from one person in a small circle into
00:11:31.120 10 20 30 men are endless endless perpetrators who all have the same
00:11:39.280 approach to the victim and who all can leverage that same control and abuse that vulnerability
00:11:46.080 so how come this has gone on for so long like if this happens to one person say say a working
00:11:52.880 class girl in one of these smaller towns and they go to the police what has been happening
00:11:58.160 when they go to the police well the experience in my case and this is echoed across the board
00:12:05.620 when it comes to to victims and survivors is that those in power turned a blind eye i for example
00:12:13.340 when i first spoke out about my abuse i told one of my key workers at the kid's home that i was
00:12:18.040 living in and she had a mandatory reporting duty and passed it on to the police i had a detective
00:12:23.680 come round to to where I was and and uh questioned me from the CSE team the child sexual exploitation
00:12:30.920 team and one of her first questions that she asked me was whether I consented to sex at any time
00:12:35.940 and bear in mind I was five years old when my abuse started a child cannot consent under any terms
00:12:42.080 to sexual activity and yet the the experience of myself and the experience of countless other girls
00:12:49.240 was that somehow in some way those in power and in authority believed that we were at fault for
00:12:57.040 the abuse that we suffered that in some way we were active participants or that we brought it
00:13:01.700 on ourselves that it was a lifestyle choice this is what was uh echoed in in the Telford report
00:13:07.880 in particular and in Rotherham and Rochdale the other two towns who had independent inquiries
00:13:12.300 into child sexual exploitation it was seen that to quote the Telford report directly that police
00:13:19.280 had failed in their most basic duty to prevent girls being abused and that this was due to a
00:13:25.040 mixture of incompetence ignorance and attitude towards the victims that that they were somehow
00:13:31.380 responsible for their abuse so girls were often labeled as child prostitutes and in fact arrested
00:13:36.840 and and and charged at times for prostitution when in reality they were being abused and raped on a
00:13:43.560 nightly basis by adult pakistani muslim men against their will they were called uh i don't
00:13:49.880 you can bleep this out obviously if it's not if it will get flagged by youtube but they were called
00:13:54.300 white slags and pakishagas and told that essentially there was no case to answer because
00:14:01.060 they must have consented that it was their fault that they were troublemakers and that it was a
00:14:05.080 lifestyle choice and so continually when girls were speaking out and this is this is another
00:14:10.300 key point it isn't as if victims weren't coming forward because victims were victims and their
00:14:15.460 parents would bang down the doors of police stations go to sexual health clinics track down
00:14:19.800 the perpetrators hand in lists of abusers and police and local authorities and and key workers
00:14:26.600 would take no action they were aware of the abusers they were aware of what was going on
00:14:30.860 but they simply did not care nor believe that the girls were deserving of the support and
00:14:35.540 protection that they owed them just insane it just insane and are okay and then so there are
00:14:45.620 numbers being thrown around about how many people this has happened to and i know it's gone like
00:14:51.700 depending on who you ask it's like in the thousands and then 250 000 has been tossed around
00:14:58.940 what do you think like what numbers do you think are reasonable for how many people this has happened
00:15:02.980 to there's no reasonable number in my in my opinion and absolutely not yeah i think that
00:15:10.820 every number that is being thrown around has it previously was to minimize and and try and reduce
00:15:17.760 the scale of abuse and and downplay it by local authorities because again the people that are
00:15:22.120 releasing the data are the same people who fail to protect those little girls child sexual
00:15:27.560 exploitation and grooming gangs statistics aren't separately recorded in national databases and by
00:15:32.760 the police or by the office for national statistics and that's by design it's it's entirely intentional
00:15:38.840 because if they can't hide from the numbers they'll suppress them instead and so everything
00:15:43.420 is amalgamated under the umbrella of child sexual abuse which includes every kind of abuse whether
00:15:48.720 it's abuse from a family member uh priests abusing uh children anything any kind of sexual abuse in
00:15:55.920 the UK is all bandied under the same general figure we don't have a statistical breakdown
00:16:00.800 of the different kinds of abuse we have it by age range we have it by ethnicity for child sexual
00:16:06.900 abuse but nothing when it comes to child sexual exploitation in particular and and grooming gangs
00:16:12.140 based sexual abuse so whether it's a thousand or a hundred thousand girls we have no way of knowing
00:16:19.640 the only thing that I can speak from is my own experience and I will say that in Telford I don't
00:16:24.640 know a single person that has lived in Telford for the majority of their lives that doesn't know a
00:16:29.640 girl who was abused by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs who was victimized by child sexual
00:16:36.340 exploitation who was raped and exploited and threatened and manipulated and even killed
00:16:42.980 by these men it is a cautionary tale and something that was used as a don't be like them
00:16:51.140 you know you know what happened to them be better don't don't fall into the same
00:16:55.740 trap as them and yet again it was never the girl's fault we all we all know someone that
00:17:03.440 experienced it or experienced it ourselves and no no figure could ever truly capture the level
00:17:11.780 of and scale of of abuse and and the impact of this on on communities like mine well it's
00:17:19.260 absolutely ridiculous for full adults to be suggesting that somebody who's even 14 even the
00:17:26.400 numbers like 16 and 17 those are still young people like I think anybody reasonable who thinks
00:17:32.960 about themselves at 16 or 17 is like yeah I was naive and I was a kid you know for a while but
00:17:39.340 then when you see these numbers that are like 10 11 12 well I can't believe that anybody who went
00:17:47.980 through that who went to an adult i don't understand what frame of mind the adult could
00:17:53.620 be in to say well did you consent it's like your brain isn't even fully developed yet for a while
00:18:00.160 like how can you even bring up the idea of consenting it's so infuriating it's unbelievable
00:18:06.700 absolutely and it's also worth saying that in the uk a child is any person under the age of 18 even
00:18:14.320 though the age of consent is 16 in the uk under the children's act 1996 and per the sexual
00:18:22.060 offenses act it is it is under 18 that still counts as a child so whether you're 16 or 17
00:18:27.740 getting raped by an adult you are still a child you might there might be a legal age of consent
00:18:33.000 but you are still classified as a child and vulnerable and and and it determines that you
00:18:38.040 require prioritized protection and enhanced protection because there is an understanding
00:18:42.560 under the law in england that you are still not adult enough not mature enough not developed
00:18:49.460 enough to be able to be making adult decisions or to be subjected to adult acts and so yeah even a
00:18:56.820 16 17 year old there is no excuse for police local authorities social workers sexual health
00:19:02.800 clinic workers to be saying that you you consented this you deserved this you brought this on
00:19:08.520 yourself under no circumstances is a child ever responsible for the abuse that they suffered and
00:19:13.000 yet that's what we were made to feel yeah i mean bringing age into it is worse like this happening
00:19:19.480 to young people is worse but even people who are over the age of 18 if this happened to it's still
00:19:23.940 unacceptable like it's not like it would be okay as soon as you hit 18 the entire nothing about any
00:19:29.300 of it is even remotely okay um we should talk about so since elon kind of blew it up um what
00:19:37.560 has the uk's response been like i know that there was just a vote for a national inquiry so we can
00:19:43.720 talk about how that went um so i guess let's start with from what like what are you seeing
00:19:51.560 is anything happening in the uk on the ground or are people talking about it more saying like thank
00:19:57.000 goodness people are talking about it like what's the average person's response to this
00:20:02.600 the average person's outraged and the average politician is trying to cover it up that's what
00:20:07.080 it comes down to I think. In the UK there has always been an outcry of public outrage
00:20:14.900 when it comes to child sexual exploitation and the people that have seen it with their
00:20:19.540 own eyes or experienced it have been speaking out for years. It isn't an issue that just
00:20:23.080 started with Elon and yet Elon seems to be the only person that has been able to make
00:20:28.260 mainstream politicians actually pay attention and and pull their fingers out on this issue
00:20:33.520 Because, like you said, on the ground, everybody believes that this is abhorrent.
00:20:40.180 Everybody believes that this should have had more decisive action taken decades ago and that it shouldn't still be going on.
00:20:47.600 But those in power, those in positions of power, even after the ground swelling of international scrutiny and media coverage that followed Elon's picking up of the cases and of the scandal, they've done nothing but try and cover it up.
00:21:04.520 The vote in the Commons the other day, the parliamentary vote, failed. It was defeated by the Labour Party, who, may I add, are the party who rule in most of the local authorities where child sexual exploitation was rife and is rife.
00:21:20.640 Telford is a Labour-led council, Rotherham and Rochdale, both Labour-run, Oldham, Labour-run, every major city or town that has been affected by child sexual exploitation has Labour politicians in charge, and Keir Starmer himself branded every person who is speaking out about this essentially a far-right bandwagon jumper.
00:21:47.080 So. Yes, the public believes in this. Yes, the public wants action, but I've seen nothing of note from politicians and the Labour Party, in fact, have gone even further in closing ranks around those who could potentially be held responsible for the failings and are continuing to blame the victims, blame the whistleblowers, try and deny silence, avoid and shift the blame onto
00:22:17.080 everyone but themselves we've seen a couple of outliers come out and and say that we should have
00:22:22.300 a national inquiry but for example the Rotherham and Rochdale MPs have both said that they would
00:22:26.860 now support a limited inquiry into child sex exploitation which by the way I I personally
00:22:32.640 believe they're only saying to cover their own necks in their constituencies because imagine
00:22:36.400 being the MP for that area and voting against a national inquiry into the biggest scandal
00:22:42.140 and the biggest injustice that young girls in their area faced.
00:22:46.260 And yet those same MPs voted against the National Inquiry in Parliament the other day.
00:22:50.540 So the action, I think, has been very performative, that which has been taken.
00:22:54.300 And the majority of politicians have taken no action at all,
00:22:58.860 or in fact have tried to block the cause even more.
00:23:05.560 Ridiculous.
00:23:06.520 I think for people listening who aren't aware, the Labour Party would be,
00:23:09.740 they had more liberal values if you wanted to compare it to the u.s they had more liberal values
00:23:14.460 than conservative parties it's like kind of the equivalent in the uk um and they just had a vote
00:23:20.480 and what was what were the numbers i couldn't believe the numbers it was like something like
00:23:25.600 you might know them it was 364 mps that voted against national inquiry into child sexual
00:23:32.480 exploitation and grooming gangs and 111 mps that voted in favor of it not a single labor mp broke
00:23:39.560 ranks to vote for a national inquiry and the entire so crazy democrats voted for
00:23:47.880 to blow to say to block it yeah that that's so crazy has anyone come out with any excuses like
00:23:55.080 we were voting against it because is it just that it's a right-wing conspiracy like what's the
00:24:01.160 excuse for voting against an inquiry into child sexual abuse like what could what's their there's
00:24:08.760 There's been a whole host of excuses. The major one that MPs have said is that because it was an amendment on an existing bill, so the vote was tallied on by the Conservative Party leader as an amendment to the schools bill, I believe it was, saying that an inquiry, a national inquiry into grooming gangs should be held.
00:24:31.460 And they were saying that if the amendment passed and it would kill the bill and reduce protection for vulnerable children, which is absolutely ridiculous, in my opinion, saying that they want to protect vulnerable children and that's why they want to vote against this while actively turning their backs on victims and survivors of child sexual exploitation is beyond the pale.
00:24:56.260 it's it's laughable that they're trying to to take the moral high ground that is the the major
00:25:01.580 one is that if they voted in favor of this amendment then the bill would be killed and that
00:25:05.540 it would slow down uh the process of of of essentially shutting down academies and bringing
00:25:11.640 them back under the state the state school system that was the main one that most labor
00:25:15.940 MPs quoted others said that a national inquiry wasn't uh necessary that local inquiries are
00:25:21.900 sufficient for such as in Telford, Rotherham and Rochdale. And yet Telford, Rotherham and Rochdale
00:25:26.640 all also requested national inquiries prior to being told, no, you have to do it yourselves
00:25:33.400 and being shut down by the previous Conservative government. Other MPs said that it was a
00:25:42.060 politicised attack on the Labour Party and that it was the far right that had hijacked the cause.
00:25:48.260 that was what Keir Starmer himself said by the way the leader of the Labour Party the Prime
00:25:52.840 Minister of the United Kingdom did a public press conference and called those speaking out about
00:25:57.700 child sexual exploitation members of the far right there was a complete and total disregard
00:26:06.620 for the victims and survivors and an attempt to essentially brand all those who who talk out about
00:26:15.040 it right-wing islamophobes yeah did you hear did you hear about this mp i just saw this floating
00:26:25.480 around on x iver kaplan who was a former mp who was kicked out if if anyone listening this is so
00:26:32.820 disturbing so he's a former mp he was kicked out not just a former mp a former minister he was he
00:26:38.380 was a member of the government yeah yeah okay uh he was kicked out last year or or something like
00:26:44.660 that. If you go to his ex, he has full on porn on his ex. About 90% of it is gay porn. 10% of it
00:26:53.860 is him backing up Kit Starmer. Yes. It's some of the most disturbing footage I've seen.
00:26:58.780 And it's full on there. And there are other members of the Labour Party that are following
00:27:04.080 him. It gets me pretty conspiratorial. Like why would people vote against looking into
00:27:09.720 child sexual exploitation and then you see this guy and it's like is that what the labor party
00:27:15.320 kind of looks like like the dark side of it it's worth mentioning Ivor Kaplan the the MP the former
00:27:20.560 MP and former minister that you're talking about he was on national TV just last week
00:27:25.820 attacking those who were speaking out about child sexual exploitation and saying that he didn't
00:27:31.420 support a national inquiry and that it was far-right agitators who were attempting to
00:27:36.760 thwart the labor government by bringing this issue up and a week later just a couple of days ago he
00:27:42.160 was arrested during a pedophile sting for allegedly trying to meet up with a 15 year old for sex and
00:27:48.480 sending indecent images to to said child he's sitting in jail right now on child sex abuse
00:27:55.560 charges which is why his ex posts are still available it's insane you can't make it up like
00:28:02.160 i don't know this is like trigger warning for anyone who's going to go look at that because
00:28:05.380 there's actual porn on his ex but it's like so that's the guy who was saying don't look into
00:28:10.340 pedophilia okay that's the guy that was followed by high-ranking labor ministers and officials
00:28:15.960 that's the man who is representative of the labor party and and was supported by them and and
00:28:23.640 kept within their ranks until i believe it was june 2024 he was a member of the labor party and
00:28:30.080 was a high-ranking official and continues and continue to have involvement with labor politicians
00:28:36.720 past his suspension that's so it's so disturbing it's like it sounds you know if you didn't want
00:28:45.780 to think people had the capacity to commit evil you'd think it was a conspiracy and then
00:28:50.460 it's so blatant it's such a blatant example of what's going on right there it's really horrifying
00:28:57.280 I don't believe that it's a conspiracy. I believe it's true. You can't hide. Oh, me too. There's no conspiracy because it is a documented cover up. The attitude of labor authorities, local councils, politicians, the police, service workers, social workers, sexual health clinic workers, teachers. It was a cover up, an orchestrated cover up for decades. And it's continuing to this day.
00:29:23.980 so there's no conspiracy because it's the truth it's it's out there in the open are these people
00:29:29.600 do you think involved in the cover-up so i know that there was the argument like we can't talk
00:29:34.340 about who's committing these crimes because that would be islamophobic that was a huge cover-up
00:29:39.120 and now there seems to be a like pedophilia element to it so are these people
00:29:45.180 i'm just wondering who these people are i don't understand how there can be so many people
00:29:52.600 involved in a cover-up to this scale like like you said police members of parliament the the
00:29:58.660 prime minister isn't even looking into it is like how deep does this go well in in greater manchester
00:30:05.240 for example there were police officers serving police officers that were charged with being
00:30:11.800 associated with the pakistanian muslim grooming gangs who were charged with child sexual abuse
00:30:17.760 crimes and were active serving police officers at the time there are members of local government
00:30:24.500 and current mps who played a part in the cover-up of this scandal the telford mp sean davis for
00:30:31.260 example was a previous council leader he was the leader of telford and reeking council from
00:30:35.940 2015 until 2024 and was a member of the labor cabinet and from 2011 this was during as i said
00:30:43.180 the I suppose the the height of the investigations into CSE in Telford and he and his council
00:30:50.620 continued to deny responsibility for the failings he himself was silent on on the day that the
00:30:56.180 Telford report was was published and he said at one point that he was three years old at the time
00:31:00.640 that CSE was going on well that's not true because I'm in my early 20s and CSE was going on and still
00:31:07.800 is going on in telford he is a member of parliament right now he's a labor mp a sitting
00:31:14.200 labor mp despite his failings and despite his role in the child sexual abuse and and exploitation
00:31:21.000 scandal in telford his members of his cabinet for example said the children and uh young people
00:31:27.620 cabinet member in telford at the time said that the journalist who broke the story on telford was
00:31:34.440 making it up to be able to sell a survivor's book and that the another senior Labour
00:31:41.240 politician at the time in Telford said that the numbers were made on the up on the back of a fag
00:31:47.140 packet these are politicians who are still in post in Telford or in in other areas some of them have
00:31:54.560 moved to to other local authorities we have the former leader of the council who's now a sitting
00:31:59.280 MP, and by the way, was absent for the vote, didn't vote at all. He was missing in action
00:32:04.260 in Parliament that day. The Telford MP didn't vote at all on whether there should be a national
00:32:09.900 inquiry when Telford is thought to be the highest, is thought to have the highest victim count of any
00:32:18.180 local area. So yes, there was involvement at all levels, and there continues to be. It pervades
00:32:23.980 all the way up into parliament yeah crazy i guess it would make sense that evil people would get
00:32:30.340 into the government to try and protect themselves so they have power so the people don't look into
00:32:36.120 what they're doing so i guess on that level it makes sense oh my gosh okay so what should people
00:32:42.220 now that they've just if if the labor party is a problem and they're not going to look into this
00:32:48.620 when is the next election in the uk is this i guess for lack of a better word evil so entrenched
00:32:56.640 that there's going to be able to be a switch in government so people look into it like where do
00:33:02.460 people go from here unfortunately the labor party commands the largest parliamentary majority i
00:33:09.440 believe in in history it's one of the largest parliamentary majorities ever and the next
00:33:15.260 general election won't happen until at least 2029 so we've got oh my gosh okay when did they get
00:33:21.940 so did they just get put in power just get got put in power it's been i believe less than 150 days
00:33:30.240 since they were in power since they since they uh were elected into office it was the conservatives
00:33:34.880 that were in power previously and they have an entire parliamentary term to serve which is i
00:33:41.140 think says a lot considering how heated the Labour government is already. Six months into their term,
00:33:46.320 they've managed to crash the economy, vote against an inquiry into child sexual exploitation. They
00:33:52.680 also took away heating payments for vulnerable pensioners this winter, by the way. That was
00:33:57.720 another scandal. They locked up 73-year-old pensioners for tweeting about the Southport
00:34:05.100 riots. This is six months of a Labour government. We've got four and a half years left of it. And
00:34:10.500 The only way that a vote would be able to be called a new general election was if MPs voted for it.
00:34:16.240 And when there are 300 odd Labour MPs in Parliament and only about 140 or 170 non-Labour MPs, the chances of that happening are slim to none.
00:34:29.580 This is bad. Yeah, that's not good.
00:34:32.540 There was a public petition for a general election that had, I believe it reached over 3 million signatures.
00:34:40.500 of British residents who were vote who put in a public petition to Parliament saying that there
00:34:45.720 should be a general election called and it was debated in Parliament for about five minutes
00:34:51.220 in which time they said not going to happen move on and that issue was dead even though three
00:34:57.980 million people vote said that it should happen and we all knew that that was the case we knew
00:35:02.140 that a public petition wouldn't do anything but it was more symbolic than anything to show the
00:35:06.960 level of discontent and anger at the labor regime this is a tricky situation after after like reading
00:35:14.360 details into these cases a couple weeks ago i was like why aren't people i get it but at what point
00:35:21.520 are people going to take to the streets like really it's because like how far does your
00:35:27.620 government have to push you before there's some sort of uprising now in canada this isn't associated
00:35:34.600 to like child sexual exploitation which is far worse but in canada there were i mean the trucker
00:35:41.740 protests there was the trucker protests which which actually garnered you know that when it
00:35:47.360 garnered negative attention but it also garnered positive attention so people did end up taking to
00:35:51.380 the streets but like i don't know what else there is to do at this point i'm concerned that if people
00:35:59.280 don't keep talking about it it's just going to be like something that comes up and then something
00:36:02.700 else bad is going to happen somewhere else and people are slowly going to forget about it and
00:36:07.100 then all these people and all these like girls in britain are going to be stuck in this situation
00:36:12.700 like people aren't going to know what to do i mean i've been speaking out about it for about
00:36:18.220 two and a half years many other victims and survivors have been speaking out about it for 10
00:36:23.100 or 20 years and we've seen the news cycles forget about child sexual exploitation grooming gangs
00:36:28.140 time and time again. I can count on two hands the number of times that it's hit national headlines.
00:36:34.140 People have said, oh, we need to do better. We need to take action and get justice for victims.
00:36:37.880 And then the 24-hour news cycle ends and people move on to the next political crisis. And we're
00:36:42.440 already seeing that in the UK right now. Politicians are moving on and focusing on
00:36:48.480 other things because it isn't the hot topic anymore. And the press is starting to die down.
00:36:54.080 The other fear, when you said about taking to the streets, people have taken to the streets before.
00:36:59.240 They took to the streets after the Southport murders.
00:37:02.520 I don't know whether you heard much about that, but three...
00:37:04.620 No, can you describe that?
00:37:06.460 Yeah, so this was a few months ago.
00:37:10.580 This was right at the start of Keir Starmer's time in an office.
00:37:19.160 Three little girls were...
00:37:20.340 Are you trying to think of another word for rain?
00:37:22.840 yes yeah he is ruling like a dictator and I'm trying to I'm trying to keep my my language
00:37:28.000 professional but he he deserves very little respect in my opinion um right at the start of
00:37:33.880 his term three little girls in in a town called Southport were murdered by a domestic terrorist
00:37:40.680 a a man called Axel Rooker Bander I can't pronounce his his surname but he was he opened
00:37:49.800 fire on a little girl's dance class on a child's dance class in Southport and three little girls
00:37:56.060 were murdered and the ensuing um uproar as a result of that led to nationwide protests because
00:38:05.120 it was seen that there was a cover-up and that uh the influx of illegal migration had had a hand in
00:38:12.620 the the increasing radicalization because this this was this is suspected to be an Islamic
00:38:17.440 terrorist attack so a lone perpetrator committing an act of terror on british soil and murdering
00:38:23.240 three little girls opening fire in a kids dance class um to wage a holy war and he his actions
00:38:33.620 the and then in the ensuing media coverage where they for example only published photos of him from
00:38:38.580 as an 11 year old boy and talked about how he was a an aspiring west end star and a shy school boy
00:38:45.240 trying to paint him as a sympathetic victim when he again was arrested on charges of murdering three
00:38:51.440 little girls led to nationwide riots and as a result of that there were hundreds of arrests
00:38:57.780 people were arrested for posting things on social media on x people were arrested for for taking to
00:39:03.880 the streets and protesting against illegal migration in britain there are people who have
00:39:08.100 already they set up 24-hour courts to deal with this bear in mind at a time when kia starmer is
00:39:13.760 currently releasing sexual offenders and violent offenders with sentences of less than two years
00:39:20.500 onto our streets because of prison overcrowding. He's sending pensioners to prison for two years
00:39:25.300 for social media posts. That was the Southport riots. That was the last instance of public
00:39:31.760 demonstrations. And that's what happened to those protesters. And so the fear right now, I absolutely
00:39:38.820 believe is retribution from the government and from police and from local authorities that again,
00:39:43.540 And the very same people who failed little girls in towns like mine will punish those who try to speak out.
00:39:49.560 I myself had the police show up at my door when I went on national TV to speak about grooming gangs.
00:39:55.080 And when I said that it was still going on in Telford and towns across the UK, and when I said that police were still turning a blind eye,
00:40:03.100 the very next day, West Mercia police showed up at my doorstep and tried to demand that I go down to the police station with them for an interview.
00:40:09.700 because quote-unquote when you go on tv to talk about grooming gangs you should expect to hear
00:40:15.180 from us they try to threaten me and intimidate me into silence and try to to penalize me for
00:40:24.120 exposing their failings another survivor sammy woodhouse just the other day about i think four
00:40:31.000 or five days ago had a call from south yorkshire police saying that she had to remove twitter
00:40:35.620 posts speaking about her story her life experience as a victim of of Pakistani Muslim child sexual
00:40:43.140 exploitation because it was going to it was going to jeopardize a case and she could potentially be
00:40:49.020 held in contempt of court and that she was at fault for tweeting about it publicly and sharing
00:40:54.560 publicly available information that had been reported on the BBC and national news they target
00:41:00.000 survivors they target whistleblowers they target anyone who dares to go against the established
00:41:05.240 narrative and so that's why people aren't taking to the streets i believe because the rule of the
00:41:11.480 law that's supposed to protect vulnerable uh children is instead going to punish them and
00:41:16.920 penalize them and throw them in prison for two years for speaking about it on x that's so crazy
00:41:22.360 that that's where like that's the state of yeah that's the state of things right now it's so crazy
00:41:29.480 so i get that so what would happen do you think in the uk if there was something like the trucker
00:41:33.960 convoy which was largely a peaceful like show up with trucks there are people there everyone was
00:41:39.340 pretty chill like there wasn't a lot going on they were just like hey we're here you have to
00:41:44.260 change things you know is this what the rallies uh looked like on your side of the pond many of
00:41:51.200 them were some of them weren't so there were a lot of arrests and i i absolutely don't condone
00:41:55.700 the violent protests that occurred after the south port um attacks but again it was painted
00:42:02.660 by Kirstama and by the Labour regime as far-right agitators
00:42:07.560 and far-right extremists and bigots
00:42:09.780 who were taking into the streets and looting
00:42:11.600 and burning down buildings and committing Islamophobic attacks
00:42:16.300 when the majority of those that spoke out
00:42:19.000 and that protested were entirely peaceful and did nothing wrong
00:42:22.420 and were simply voicing their concerns,
00:42:25.320 their very legitimate concerns,
00:42:26.540 about the state of illegal migration in Britain.
00:42:31.020 That was the case in the Southport riots. And even now, free speech, I don't believe exists in Britain. You can't speak freely about anything that goes against the mainstream quota, because you will be targeted.
00:42:46.960 I went on national TV, spoke about it in an entirely peaceful way. I think we can agree that that is a perfectly acceptable forum to speak about this, especially in my role as a journalist. And I was targeted. I was contacted by police and they tried to intimidate me into silence.
00:43:04.560 so no matter what you do no matter how legitimate your concerns are no matter how
00:43:08.940 properly you follow the processes those in power don't care about the processes they all they care
00:43:14.360 about is covering up their own failings and continuing to silence those who could expose
00:43:19.460 them so then what do you do in a situation like that do people ask for like elon was like we need
00:43:25.440 international pressure basically at this point because you can't get help if you're on the inside
00:43:30.280 which I understand like I said before when do people take to the streets but if you're getting
00:43:36.360 arrested for social media posts it's just such a crazy position to be in and I think part of the
00:43:42.580 reason other than the fact that it's so evil that it needs to be exposed so that's why I wanted to
00:43:47.960 talk about it and because it's really upsetting that that can that can happen you know just in
00:43:52.960 general but canada and the uk are you know kind of close right it is like definitely half combined
00:44:00.720 with america and the uk or something is where canada is there's a lot of crossover and a lot
00:44:05.120 of the canadian laws are based off english common law as well so it's a very similar
00:44:10.320 governmental structure and and and way of operating especially under trudeau i think trudeau's
00:44:15.760 yeah um leadership if you can call it that and kissed armor uh there's many many parallels in
00:44:22.660 in a very bad way yeah so part part of the reason to talk about it other than the uk needs help
00:44:27.840 terribly terribly needs help is how do we make sure this stops like i know bill c63 which is
00:44:34.620 on pause right now because of this whole trudeau's going to resign thing that's happening in canada
00:44:40.160 that was similar to what happened in the uk which it was going to allow people to be arrested for
00:44:46.280 social media posts which sounds so crazy to the average americans like how could that even happen
00:44:51.820 but there's no there really isn't like freedom of speech built in the country like there is in
00:44:57.520 the u.s i was like this could spread like this isn't something unfortunately the uk is an example
00:45:03.080 right now but it's not special you know it could spread so people need to know what to look for
00:45:09.820 and make sure it doesn't happen and to not be naive and to say absolutely not absolutely this
00:45:15.600 is a a left-wing agenda for sure and it you know it might sound like i have my tinfoil hat on but
00:45:23.260 i've seen this in action in britain for years one of the big one of the big issues on free speech
00:45:29.280 at the moment that's being debated is whether there should be a an updated version of islamophobia
00:45:35.140 in the equality act and whether islamophobia should be uh specifically defined in law as
00:45:45.100 anyone essentially who speaks out or criticizes islam in any way that they can be subject to hate
00:45:53.260 speech crimes and and that they could be prosecuted under english law that is being
00:45:58.040 debated at the moment and kirstama is has stated previously that he would be in favor of updating
00:46:03.340 the the definition to essentially introduce blasphemy laws on islam no other religion
00:46:10.060 just Islam so it is it is accelerated in Britain it is happening quicker than it's happening in
00:46:17.140 Canada or in the US or in Australia and New Zealand but it's happening across the globe
00:46:23.440 it's just that that Britain is is I suppose the cautionary tale for other governments and other
00:46:29.600 countries of what can happen when this sort of legislation is allowed to to pass uncontested and
00:46:38.480 when those in power don't have the courage or conviction to stand up for the rights of their
00:46:46.160 people i think it's extremely naive as well for a number of reasons but if you look at places like
00:46:53.160 the uae for example they've identified a lot of extremist groups and all right and and don't stand
00:47:01.560 for it right they're like absolutely not not here you know and that's a muslim area too and their
00:47:08.020 picky with who's allowed like don't allow the extremist horrible evil people to be around our
00:47:15.160 citizens and so instead they all come to britain and europe they exactly they leave they're like
00:47:20.640 you can't be here kick them out and then they all go to western places where they're just like
00:47:25.320 you're all welcome you can acclimate into society when they've literally been kicked out
00:47:30.720 There was a case in that was in the news recently in Britain of an asylum seeker from the Middle East who came who came across to Greece first and successfully applied for asylum in Greece as his first port of call.
00:47:48.460 He was granted asylum in Greece and obviously indefinite leave to remain.
00:47:52.060 And then he decided to leave Greece and cross the channel illegally and come to Britain because he knew that he would get a better deal.
00:47:59.020 he knew and i quote that the taxes that the benefits would be better and that the quality
00:48:04.540 of life was better in england and that the government would give him more if he came to
00:48:09.140 britain illegally and so he left a safe country where he had claimed asylum and being granted it
00:48:15.420 to come to britain because he knew that it was easier and that he would he would get more he
00:48:20.520 would be able to leech off of the state more and that is a case that's repeated in the tens of
00:48:24.720 thousands i i believe it was over it was hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that came into
00:48:31.880 britain last year alone um and it it's happening year on year the numbers are growing its population
00:48:39.140 displacement at its at its core bradford for example there's a postcode in bradford i can't
00:48:44.280 remember the exact the exact area but there is an area in bradford where 72 i think is the exact
00:48:51.460 figure of citizens living there arrived in britain after 2011 that is not british born they are they
00:49:02.760 are not um british citizens by birth these are people who have come into the country and are
00:49:08.020 creating uh microcosms of their own of their own home countries in our nation and are being allowed
00:49:14.740 to establish these epicenters where there is very little english communication the level of of
00:49:20.540 integration with the rest of society is minimal they don't like to associate with with british
00:49:27.420 people and with with white people they resent them in fact um and and are establishing their own
00:49:33.840 microcosms of of of the muslim ideal and again i will probably be branded a right-wing extremist
00:49:42.980 and a bigot for saying this but the numbers don't lie the figures don't lie the figures that we do
00:49:47.760 have are very clear on this issue and there are many places in the uk where this just is is is
00:49:54.840 rife and it's continuing to grow so one thing i've been thinking about i guess in the last couple
00:50:00.840 weeks after learning about all this is how much of this is legal immigration how much of this is
00:50:07.260 because we've never really had societies where we've incorporated really different parts of the
00:50:13.860 world together and just been like oh everything's going to be hunky-dory what can we do to make sure
00:50:19.340 we're not repeating this in canada and america and australia um obviously illegal immigration
00:50:25.440 is a problem but i was thinking this is my perspective so i want to know what yours is
00:50:30.560 is these areas that are more prone to extremism which seems to be occurring especially in specific
00:50:37.440 areas in the middle east where certain aspects of islam uh can be just go really awry right for
00:50:47.200 lack of a better explanation is wouldn't it be simple for the government just to say hey
00:50:52.320 people who are coming from this area let's do a little bit more research like when i know when
00:50:57.640 people are immigrating to uae they look at your social media they kind of like look and see who
00:51:02.580 you are and i don't think people who are and maybe i'm being naive but i don't think people
00:51:08.040 who are extremists are not really outward with that perspective like you can go on people's x
00:51:14.940 accounts and they tell you what they think they're not hiding it and pretending to be like you because
00:51:19.960 they full-on disagree with how you live what your society looks like and they'll tell you it's wrong
00:51:24.960 and that they want it to change and maybe don't let those people in yeah and this is why so many
00:51:31.940 of them come illegally and cross the channel in britain because if you're coming if you're coming
00:51:35.820 via plane and you're crossing the border legally they you you have to give them your name you have
00:51:42.260 to give them your passport you have to tell them who you are whereas if you come over on a dinghy
00:51:46.520 and cross the channel you don't have to give any of that you can give any name any age there have
00:51:52.000 been countless cases where adult men have have um claimed that they were teenagers with a completely
00:51:58.580 different date of birth and country of origin to hide the fact that they had criminal records in
00:52:04.120 their home countries and that they under no circumstances would be allowed in the country
00:52:08.600 otherwise and we do have terrorism prevention organizations and schemes we have the prevent
00:52:14.960 scheme in Britain where those who are seen as being at risk of radicalization and extremism
00:52:21.960 in britain are reported and monitored by national authorities but again it doesn't work
00:52:30.400 it doesn't operate because they are hiding in plain sight the southport killer who's currently
00:52:35.800 on trial he was known to prevent before he committed his crimes he was already on national
00:52:42.200 radars for radicalization and extremism and yet he was he was able to carry out his crimes
00:52:47.680 without any efforts to prevent them it is completely naive to assume that the government
00:52:57.580 in any country whether it's canada or the uk or even the us has any real understanding of who is
00:53:03.780 crossing their borders in britain we have no idea who the hundreds of thousands of
00:53:08.340 predominantly adult men are crossing into our country every day it was found that
00:53:13.200 10 percent of the male adult population of albania currently lives in the uk and albania had to
00:53:21.460 declare itself a safe albania had to be declared a safe country by the uk government because so
00:53:27.320 many albanian men of working age of fighting age were coming into britain illegally and then
00:53:32.720 claiming asylum because they were saying that albania was an unsafe country and so the previous
00:53:36.660 conservative government with much opposition from labor declared albania a safe country so that they
00:53:43.100 were no longer able to do that but 10 of the current adult male population of albania is
00:53:48.260 residing in britain that's insane okay so then what's the solution here is the solution just
00:53:55.820 i mean stronger borders obviously is that the main solution and stronger borders and deporting
00:54:01.640 all foreign criminals again yeah the labor government dismantled the previous conservative
00:54:07.440 government's plan and and tried to block it at every time when the conservatives were in government
00:54:12.480 to deport foreign criminals to Rwanda it's a scheme it's not something that is unique to Britain
00:54:18.040 other other foreign nations had deported criminals to different countries before or had
00:54:24.160 stored them on floating container ships there was a a barge that was used by the British government
00:54:30.680 that had previously been used by Germany by I believe a couple of Scandinavian countries
00:54:35.460 to house illegal migrants while they were being processed through the system and and while it was
00:54:40.420 figured out exactly who they were and what to do with them and the labor regime said that it was
00:54:45.300 racist and inhumane and and tried to block it they blocked all of the flights to rwanda that the
00:54:49.400 previous uh home secretaries tried to to to set off um and then eventually when they got into
00:54:56.360 government dismantled the scheme altogether and said that they would instead process uh asylum
00:55:02.060 claims quicker so that they could sort out the backlog but in reality all that means is letting
00:55:07.740 more people that stay in this country for longer and in fact the illegal migration figures have
00:55:12.600 risen since labor came into power because now there's no there's absolutely no disincentive
00:55:18.640 to not come illegal illegally to britain um yeah it's it's unconscionable that that members of
00:55:28.240 pakistani muslim grooming gangs in britain who are foreign nationals pakistani citizens are still
00:55:33.920 living in britain after being convicted of sex crimes i don't i believe from my knowledge there's
00:55:39.220 not a single criminal who has been convicted of being a pakistani muslim grooming gang member
00:55:43.900 convicted of raping exploiting murdering little girls in britain on british soil not a single
00:55:49.640 one of them has been deported and in fact many of them have been released and are currently living
00:55:53.940 in the same communities that they abused little girls in just a few short years ago so do you know
00:55:58.000 what the labor party's argument for like what's their argument against deporting people who've
00:56:04.060 been convicted of crimes like illegal immigrants that have been convicted of crimes like what's
00:56:09.500 the downside of deporting those people they have to have some excuse right like we can't violates
00:56:14.100 their human rights oh my gosh can you imagine saying that it would violate the rights of a
00:56:22.100 person who violated little girls for years who exploited murdered trafficked sodomized raped
00:56:30.820 little girls on british soil who took away their human rights to say that they are more deserving
00:56:38.400 of protection and support than those little girls were that they abused that's what that's what the
00:56:43.100 labor party says that's what the home office says that's what politicians say that it's that it's
00:56:48.100 illegal because it breaches their human rights there was a case again a couple of months ago
00:56:52.700 where a foreign national who was convicted of raping i believe it was a 13 year old girl
00:56:58.800 was told that he would be allowed to stay in britain because it would violate his
00:57:02.680 his uh right to a family his family rights there was another case of a foreign national who raped
00:57:08.500 his own stepdaughter and was told that it would violate his right to a family life his human right
00:57:14.040 to a family life to be deported to his home country bear in mind he had raped the stepdaughter
00:57:20.260 to whom he supposedly had an inalienable human right to a life with the very same the very same
00:57:28.420 child that he abused was the reason that he was able to stay in this country i just can't like
00:57:34.680 i can't even wrap my head it it i can't understand it at all it's so like it's so evil but it's also
00:57:42.800 so naive and so stupid it's like can people actually be that that naive that level like i
00:57:50.140 can understand being i can understand from a liberal perspective being like multiculturalism
00:57:54.880 is only a benefit like everybody wants the good of the world you know everyone's innately good
00:58:01.140 and they'll all group together and it'll be this beautiful thing like i can understand that that
00:58:05.760 was the vision but once you hear about things can't you be like okay maybe not everyone thinks
00:58:12.920 like me i just it's so shocking that isn't the case and it is an insult to suggest that the
00:58:19.620 issue of pakistani muslim growing gangs and in general legal migration and the level the level
00:58:24.240 of illegal migrant crime in the uk as a result of anything other than failed multiculturalism
00:58:29.080 failed integration i'm the daughter of first generation immigrant myself i'm biracial my
00:58:33.960 mother came here in the early 2000s legally as an economic migrant and has paid taxes in the
00:58:40.180 country for 20 odd years, has contributed to society as a British citizen, is proud to be
00:58:45.320 British and wants the good of society. It is an insult to equate her and her right to be in the
00:58:51.420 country to illegal migrants and malicious foreign actors who come to our country, establish their
00:59:02.460 own way of life refuse to integrate refuse to learn english refuse to be a part of our society
00:59:07.780 and seek nothing but to dismantle it at its very core who resent it and criticize it and and label
00:59:14.780 british society and british people evil and racist and and uh bigoted while reaping the benefits
00:59:21.940 of the country that they hate and despise so much a hundred percent a hundred percent so how on a
00:59:29.160 government level do places avoid that do you think it's almost all illegal immigrants or is this also
00:59:36.460 a legal immigration problem it is also i'm not opposed like i know there are a lot of conservatives
00:59:42.540 that are especially with all the illegal immigration problems that we're having there are a lot of
00:59:47.120 conservatives that are like no more immigration period and that's always been an aspect of
00:59:53.120 conservatism and i would that i was never on board with that because i can see the benefits of
00:59:57.600 immigration as long as people are want to come to your country and migration yeah become part of
01:00:03.640 the country they don't want to bring their country here like you want to go to britain because britain
01:00:07.820 is beautiful the people are wonderful and you want to be british right so it's just controlled
01:00:12.860 you think just a lower rate of legal immigration what do you mean by controlled absolutely and
01:00:17.780 this is the thing british conservatism i would say has always been more center of right than
01:00:24.940 for example american republicanism it is the british political system is far more left-leaning
01:00:30.220 as a whole than for sure most other most other western nations i think that britain traditionally
01:00:37.440 has been has always been a very moderate country even british conservatives i mean british
01:00:41.720 conservatives the conservative party was the party that legalized gay marriage in 2013
01:00:47.200 they uh you know are broadly aligned in a lot of social issues for example but it is it is
01:00:55.900 definitely a migration problem in general legal and illegal migration and britain was always a
01:01:00.740 case study of the ideal migration model up until about 2008 because up until about 2008 we had a
01:01:07.000 net migration figure of between 60 to 80 000 per year last year i'm pretty sure it was around 450
01:01:13.840 thousand net migration into the country much of this being illegal but a lot of it also being
01:01:19.840 legal the previous conservative government tried to tighten a lot of the the rules on low skilled
01:01:24.620 workers and temporary workers as i i know is happening in canada right now with the um tightening
01:01:30.500 up of the student visa and permanent residency requirements because of the the influx of indian
01:01:36.300 migrants into canada in the last decade but in britain we always had a very very tightly controlled
01:01:43.000 and very functional migration system up until about 2008 and since then migration figures have
01:01:48.880 just built and built and built and are now at an untenable level and it's due to the ignorance and
01:01:56.380 i think the willful uh optimism of left-wing parties and even the conservatives fell victim
01:02:04.940 to this in not wanting to come across as racist as we see in the pakistani muslim grooming gang
01:02:09.740 scandal not wanting to be seen as racist not wanting to be divisive not wanting to go against
01:02:15.360 the the idea of well migration is good in in general as a whole because i do believe that
01:02:21.220 migration is good when it's controlled controlled migration is good and economic migration in general
01:02:26.960 is not a bad thing it's when it's uncontrolled and when it's out of out of control that it that
01:02:33.920 it becomes an issue as we're seeing in britain and so now we're at this point where the figures
01:02:38.380 are so high and the system is so broken that governments have no idea how to roll it back
01:02:43.980 and how and how to call back control and when you have a government like laboring in part in power
01:02:49.180 who are inclined to say that anyone who opposes migration is racist how how exactly are you
01:02:55.820 supposed to challenge that narrative okay that makes sense to me i guess to to play the devil's
01:03:03.260 advocate so if this grooming gang situation has been going on since the 70s that was when
01:03:08.660 immigration was still more controlled right so there's still some sort of problem even with
01:03:14.920 well what do you think i think the social issues have been compounding for decades
01:03:18.560 it isn't it didn't happen overnight it feels as though it happened a little bit overnight because
01:03:23.680 we're only just seeing the issue come into mainstream global consciousness but the issue
01:03:29.560 in britain has been building for decades and particularly when it comes to the british
01:03:32.520 Pakistani community these aren't illegal migrants for the most part these are legal migrants into
01:03:38.460 the country there is a very large Pakistani community in Britain many of them are perfectly
01:03:43.840 respectable perfectly um legal and contributing members of society who are also proud to be
01:03:50.760 British but there is a very significant population who are not and who do not follow the rule of
01:03:59.520 british law who believe that they are exempt who believe that their way of life is fundamentally
01:04:06.780 opposed to british society and that their way of life is correct and so they've established as i
01:04:11.140 said micro communities in areas in britain and operate under their their own rules and regulations
01:04:17.220 and those in power are too scared to call it out because they don't want to be called racist
01:04:20.640 and so in in britain the issue with the british pakistani community in particular is one of
01:04:27.000 fear and a lack of
01:04:29.240 controlled opposition
01:04:31.660 or any opposition really
01:04:33.020 because Britain again
01:04:35.460 is a very tolerant country, has always been
01:04:37.600 a
01:04:38.520 very open
01:04:41.780 society and there is
01:04:43.560 I mean it's talked about
01:04:45.600 that Britain is very racist
01:04:47.260 and that people don't like
01:04:48.920 the people that don't look like them but
01:04:50.780 I believe it was the ONS and
01:04:52.800 in YouGov after the most recent census
01:04:54.920 ran a nationwide poll of about 200,000 respondents
01:05:01.180 asking about their opinions on various social issues,
01:05:04.720 one of them being of race and ethnicity.
01:05:06.620 And it was actually found that Britain was one of the least racist countries
01:05:11.200 when compared to global statistics on migration and on multiculturalism
01:05:19.080 and on all of these social issues that we are being told daily
01:05:22.620 we are wrong and extremist and bigoted regarding and so the social issues in britain have been
01:05:29.000 compounded due to a a false narrative that that any opposition to multiculturalism is racist and so
01:05:38.900 i think that the british pakistani community in in particular has always established a double
01:05:47.880 standard when it comes to their their treatment in british society you know we don't hear about
01:05:52.320 christianophobia or sikhophobia or hinduophobia it's always islamophobia in britain it's always
01:06:01.120 that people are bigoted or or discriminating against muslims when that isn't the case it's
01:06:10.300 just that that community in particular expects to be treated differently and expects a an enhanced
01:06:15.760 level of immunity to the issues that would otherwise in britain land you in prison or
01:06:22.500 or would be called out by the great and the good and because of fears of being racist as again was
01:06:28.480 seen in in the telford report the rother report the rochdale report was reported as
01:06:34.440 absolutely the cause of child sexual exploitation not being called out by those in power
01:06:41.980 quote in telford it was said that it was due to nervousness about race it has been allowed to
01:06:47.860 happen for so long and compound and build because those in power were too scared of being called
01:06:52.280 racist to call out those communities who were failing to to uphold their british values and
01:06:58.540 duties wild okay well samantha if people want to keep up with you where should they go online
01:07:06.560 is there anywhere you recommend to read more about this or at least we should know your social media
01:07:11.320 handles i'll also link them in the description for anybody listening yes i am on twitter on x
01:07:16.760 sorry it's still in my brain that it's twitter but um i'm on x under at samantha tag hoy and i
01:07:23.380 also write as i said for the daily mail telegraph the spectator and i do political analysis and and
01:07:29.540 and commentary on various national news channels so if you search samantha smith on youtube i'll
01:07:34.980 come up i might be the third or fourth result but you'll find my interviews and my stuff pretty
01:07:39.920 pretty easily um on there okay well thank you very much for coming on and talking about this
01:07:46.860 um sorry that you went through everything you went through that's terrible i'm really glad
01:07:52.900 you're still talking about it and trying to i don't know warn people and implement change
01:07:57.700 it's really important so hopefully something good comes of it uh yeah so thanks again for coming on
01:08:04.480 Thank you so much for having me and thank you for bringing this to attention when you had no duty to. It's funny how it seems like North Americans are the ones who are fighting for us more than our government and our politicians ever did. So thank you very much.
01:08:22.680 yeah well i mean it should make anybody sane unbelievably angry i feel like if that's not
01:08:30.420 your response then there's something wrong you can't you can't look at the i might actually
01:08:34.900 link some of the some of the x posts um so people can see what i mean by transcripts so people know
01:08:40.620 how so people get a better idea of how awful this is so i'll put those in the description
01:08:45.180 because anyone who reads those and isn't like appalled morally to a soul level there's something
01:08:51.820 wrong absolutely and you know obviously only you can only say certain things on youtube without
01:08:57.240 getting demonetized and flagged but if you read the transcripts if you thought of the age of the
01:09:03.820 the victims and the girls who were abused again think of your daughter your granddaughter your
01:09:08.000 sister at that at that age and if you think of the level of of torture and the atrocities that
01:09:16.200 were committed against little girls in britain and this the stories that those in power were
01:09:21.860 turning a blind eye to it would churn any sane person's stomach agreed well hopefully this was
01:09:27.960 useful to people thank you samantha again for coming on that was very informative