Rape betrayal
LABOUR fully deserves its nationwide condemnation over the betrayal of the child victims of rape gangs.
A full public inquiry would finally get to the root of this monstrous and probably ongoing scandal involving paedophile predators mostly of Pakistani origin in scores of towns and cities.
The has opted instead for a derisory series of anaemic talking-shops in just five towns.
It is an appalling copout, cynically announced to a near-empty Commons just minutes before MPs disappeared for Easter.
Presumably the Government hoped no one would notice. It was wrong.
Furious Sir Trevor Phillips, ex-head of the Equality and Commission, branded it “utterly, utterly shameful”;. He’s not wrong.
Nor is he alone in accusing the Government of an “obviously political”; move to pander to Muslim voters in Labour constituencies before local elections . . . and even a 2029 at which it fears losing more seats to pro-Gaza independents.
The party appears terrified too of a statutory nationwide probe exposing its councillors and officials as incompetent, paralysed by wokery over multiculturalism . . . and perhaps far worse.
If these organised were white, you can bet Labour would give this decades-long horror the forensic scrutiny it merits, with funding to match.
Its response is reprehensible.
Money walks
WHY must the Left relearn with every new generation that over-taxing the rich is an act of self-harm?
Britain is now one of the most hostile advanced nations for . But these days they can work anywhere, more easily than ever.
The result? They are fleeing Labour’s in greater numbers than from any city bar war-torn .
Our capital is no longer among the world’s five wealthiest cities.
The Left brainlessly says “good riddance”;. But one millionaire pays about the same as 49 average earners combined.
In one year we have lost the equivalent of 529,200 ordinary taxpayers . . . a disaster for public services.
High taxes not only crush growth. They will drive us to ruin.
No new taxis
BEAN counters cocooned at the Treasury doubtless imagine cabs to be a limo service for the wealthy.
So they’re pondering a 20 per cent levy on rides with the likes of .
What a kick in the teeth for disabled people whose are being cut and who have no other option.
Likewise for women merely needing safe transport home from a night out.
Millions have no alternative to a taxi. The Government must not punish them for it.
