Wednesday 4 February 2015

Rotherham Is About Class

"I'll see your Thatcher Government 30 years ago, and raise you Rotherham Council today," says Eric Pickles.

But he is missing the real point.

That point is not race. Nor is it Islam. It is class.

The 11 or 12-year-old daughter, indeed the daughter several years older than that, of a Councillor, a social worker or a Police Officer would not be allowed by such figures to stay out all night with older men.

But the attitude of those white stalwarts to these white girls was, "You came from the gutter, anyway."

This was, and throughout the country tonight it still is, an internal white thing.

And that thing is class.

7 comments:

  1. i will raise you my sisters daughter, who 37 years ago at the age of 13 was groomed and left with a child.....still, no one has got around to dealing with the home of this blight, Bradford.........when that day comes i know we are getting somewhere

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    1. Bradford was a white enough city to have Eric Pickles as Council Leader a lot more recently than that.

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  2. i know, i remember shouting at him on the steps of the townhall when he was shutting wards at BRI in the 80`s.....i never voted for him, only shouted at him

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  3. Your last book was in 2012. When is the book of reviews appearing?

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    1. How should I know? It's not my project.

      On topic, please.

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