Javid accuses Corbyn of stifling debate on Asian child sex gangs
CABINET minister Sajid Javid yesterday backed a Labour MP allegedly sacked from Jeremy Corbyn’s top team for saying Britain had “a problem with British Pakistani men” raping white girls.
Communities Secretary Mr Javid, a Muslim whose parents came to Britain from Pakistan, spoke out after Sarah Champion quit as Labour’s Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary.
Mr Javid accused the Labour leader, who he said had fired Ms Champion, of stifling debate.
She was fiercely criticised after she wrote a newspaper article stating that Britain had “a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.
Her comments appeared after trials in Newcastle convicted 17 Asian men for nearly 100 offences including rape, human trafficking and drug supply involving victims as young as 13.
Ms Champion is MP for Rotherham where a report in 2014 concluded that “at least” 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the area over a 16-year period by mainly British-Asian men.
She wrote that the racial background of the abusers could no more be ignored.
On Wednesday she quit, apologising “for the offence caused by the extremely poor choice of words”.
Mr Javid Tweeted: “Corbyn wrong to sack Sarah Champion. We need an honest open debate on child sexual exploitation, including racial motivation.”
Equality experts also voiced regret that Ms Champion resigned because of what they termed “oversensitivity about language”.
Mr Corbyn yesterday insisted she was not sacked, adding: “She was right to step down. We cannot demonise whole communities or whole groups of people because of the actions of some people.” The protection of those “who can be groomed by all kinds of people into some awful and dangerous situations”, was paramount, he added.
Isla McChesney, seven, put Mr Corbyn on the spot at a museum in Rossendale, Lancashire, yesterday, asking: “Excuse me, when are you going to be Prime Minister?”
He replied: “Well, that depends on when we have an election.
“It’s a good question.”
FOR years the obsession with political correctness allowed rape gangs comprised largely of Muslim men with a Pakistani background to flourish. As those in authority shied away from confronting the problem, young girls – many of them regarded as fair game simply because they happened to be white – were being dragged off the streets, plied with drugs and alcohol, and hellishly abused.
We have seen such sex gangs arrested and convicted in Rochdale, Oxford, Bristol, Peterborough, Aylesbury and Keighley, the list goes on and the pattern is always the same. The most recent set of gang members to be convicted were operating in Newcastle.
It was this case that prompted Labour MP Sarah Champion to write a newspaper article that honestly confronted the realities of these crimes.
Her reward for speaking the truth and for standing up for vulnerable girls was to be hounded out of her position in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.
As Conservative minister Sajid Javid, who himself has Pakistani heritage, said yesterday, this was a mistake that threatens our society’s ability to debate the nature of child sexual exploitation.
The reason these monsters were active for so long was because the people in a position to stop them dared not confront them for fear of being labelled “racist”. The treatment meted out to Ms Champion goes to show there are still people on the Left who are happy for young girls to be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
This attitude is disgraceful and it must be resisted. Those politicians such as Ms Champion and Mr Javid who are brave enough to publicly defy this warped mindset deserve our support.