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From BBC Stoke & Staffordshire yesterday, the above and:
Council leaders have given their backing to their county’s first ever community safety strategy. The document sets out how Staffordshire County Council aims to work with other organisations to protect residents and cut crime over the next three years. Priorities included protecting vulnerable people, with “zero tolerance for grooming gangs, county lines and child exploitation”, a report stated.1
When I saw the reference to ‘grooming gangs’, I have to admit realising that I may have been taken in by something I should know all about, the media gaze turning away. Clearly, I have begun to think that the massive outbreak of child sex grooming gang activity in England is historical.
It has not gone away, in England.
In February 2026, BBC London revealed ‘Teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London, BBC finds.’2
In 2023, police data held by the UK Government refers to 700 groups and 115 000 victims in that one year.3
In January 2025, BBC Oxfordshire reported:
Simon Morton, former senior investigating officer for Thames Valley Police, told the BBC that perpetrators in the area are operating in plain sight and are “influencing and arranging others to do the same thing”. He added that it is “obvious” grooming is “happening in every city around the country [sic]” – a claim supported by another police source.4
And in Scotland?
Media in Scotland is so saturated by claims that Scotland too has the same problem that an AI search inevitably comes up with notions that it does, so you have to be very precise with it, such as this:
With regard to your ‘Police Scotland is actively reviewing historical cases (from 2013 onward) involving one or more victims under 18 and two or more suspects’ [from previous response], are there any specific (town) reported cases actively being actively investigated not just ‘reviewing’ by Police Scotland in Scotland involving under 16s and in 2026 or 2025
The answer:
Based on available reports and official updates as of early 2026, there are no publicly detailed specific cases in particular towns that are reported as being under active investigation (distinct from the broader review and audit processes) by Police Scotland for group-based child sexual exploitation involving victims under 16 in 2025 or 2026.
Sources:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy8wwn8879o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd9xnjyy8po
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-accessible
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2050kkpzypo
- https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/meeting-of-parliament-03-12-2025?iob=142847&meeting=16723
- https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-child-sexual-abuse-and-exploitation-strategic-group-minutes-january-2026/
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“There are currently NO publicly detailed specific cases of child rape ‘grooming’ gangs being actively investigated by Police Scotland”
However politically , via the opponents of the SNP (opponents that includes the media) there were accusations .
As the BBC gave a platform in December 2025 to Labour MP Joani Reid , who they stated said that “she tells us why she wants Scotland to follow England and Wales with a review of group-based child sexual exploitation”.
(Apparently that’s her job as an MP elected in Scotland, where she only tells Scots that we, as a nation, should only always follow mainly England’s lead (be it good or bad) but never ever should the, England, be seen to follow or be promoted as having followed our lead in any of our positive initiatives and good decisions made by our Scottish government.
(if they, England do follow our lead, then they just take ownership of these positive initiatives and good decisions , as in they and their media will claim it was instigated by and so generated by them, the UK government, in England).
She , Reid, was also a guest on the new propaganda programme of BBC Scotland called “Scotcast” , where they asked “Do we need a grooming gangs inquiry too” ?
(Also on that episode of Scotcast was this “And your reaction to our interview with Sandie Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham”………so a full house (Bingo) of BBC Scotland’s contrived #SNPBAD topics being discussed…..yet again).
Then also given a platform on this , again via the BBC in December 2025 , was Anas Sarwar when the BBC wrote that he had said “”We know there are grooming gangs in Scotland,” and also “We know there are victims of grooming gangs in Scotland”.
Sarwar added that “We’ve got to do absolutely everything to make sure we have robust systems in place to make sure those historic cases have been dealt with appropriately and that any existing or future cases will be dealt with appropriately.”.
(Note the use of plural by Sarwar , as in “Cases” , all to make it seem as if , as a so called major ‘problem’ within Scotland, it is supposedly to be assumed as being rife and so then needs intense focus upon it throughout Scotland, yet Sarwar gave no extensive list of examples to back up his claims).
Then in what is now an all too familiar action via Sarwar , as in the real crux of his attacks, it was reported that “In December 2025, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar lodged a motion of no confidence in Scotland’s Justice Secretary, Angela Constance, over allegations that she misrepresented an expert regarding grooming gangs in Scotland”.
See that is where all of Labour’s attacks (and other opposition parties at Holyrood also) all end up , in them asking, or rather demanding, for the resignation or sacking of a Scottish government Minister.
Knowing, of course, full well that this demand will end up on the Pages of the BBC website and also as the main story on BBC Scotland’s various TV and Radio news programmes.
The idea that their, the opposition’s, only concern is for potential victims and so then their main focus is only for these ‘victims’ , is soon dispelled when it always , as per, ends up that they , the opposition parties, then demand the scalp of a specific government minster, then it becomes obvious it was always only a party political attack.
(Soon then to be a coordinated attack with the media in Scotland, who, as a so called media, are always only too happy to oblige any pro UK political party’s attacks against the SNP , in them promoting these attacks and so then presenting them as the supposed “news where we are”).
The Epstein files revelations on Labour’s Peter Mandelson has shown that there was someone within the Labour party who had very dirty hands , but he was someone who had political status, political power and so then gained money derived via politics thanks to the Labour party , rewards as awarded to him by those higher up the food chain within the Labour party, past and present.
There may indeed be grooming gangs within the UK, not limited to non white ones, but let’s not forget that the Epstein files reveal what a lot of wealthy and powerful white men were able to get away with in preying upon young vulnerable females……..who were also groomed……..(but also , as a huge grooming scandal ,it is one that is not being extensively highlighted and so promoted by the likes of Rupert Lowe and Nigel Farage).
Labour, via Sarwar and Reid (and others within Labour) , promote their faux indignation against the SNP, however that same indignation seems somewhat hollow when they somehow fail to also give the same indignation to all of those too many scandals connected to and so associated with pro UK political parties..…….the same ones that BBC Scotland’s political news team prefers not to promote here in Scotland.
BBC Scotland news team prefer that any politically disengaged voters within Scotland remain unaware, so oblivious to. the fact that Scotland is also subject to the UK government’s reserved policies and also their (too many bad) decisions as well…..and so they , the BBC, only reserve all of their #BAD political news stories to those that they say all stems only from the SNP.
#wheeshtForProUKPartyPolitics
Liz S
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Talking of Labour……….well that is , I was, (yet again)……..
SKY News had Labour Peer Lord McCabe on , he was awarded a peerage by Starmer in December 2024.
Saul Staniforth X account posted this below about that interview:
“The (now) vice chair of Labour Friends of Israel (McCabe) accuses people who oppose genocide of interfering in local elections (England’s). Since when is campaigning on issues people care about interfering? As opposed to a parliamentary group lobbying on behalf of a foreign state that’s committing genocide”
However prior to him being elevated as yet another appointed Labour peer, that is when he was once just plain old Steve McCabe a Labour MP, he said this below in a HOC ‘s debate that was held on January 2024 , on the (Urgent Question): To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office if he will make a statement on the situation in Israel and Palestine.
“The Israeli Defence Minister has set out proposals for the post-war governance of Gaza involving a multinational taskforce working with Palestinians to restore peace, order and normality. What is the British Government’s assessment of those proposals”?
So then , was that not him, McCabe, when he was a mere Labour MP, “interfering” politically on behalf of the Israeli government ?
Also……….he is another one of those Labour politicians who was born in Scotland but preferred to make his political career (fortune) in England.
Wikipedia states that:
“Due to his (McCabe when a Labour MP) statements in Parliament and his (former) role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel, Palestine Solidarity campaign (PSC) and the local group Palestine Solidarity Selly Oak have organised protests outside his surgeries, calling on him to engage with constituents’ views effectively or resign (in November 2023)”
So then what followed was him, McCabe, announcing in 28 May 2024, that “he was not standing for re-election (as a MP) in the 2024 UK GE”.
No worries though as he , McCabe, like some other former Labour MP’s were then parachuted into the HOL’s by the same Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, who was formerly reported in 2022 as having “pledged to abolish House of Lords in his first term as prime minister”.
(As in 2022, in speaking to Sky News, Starmer , the Labour leader , confirmed that his party “do want to abolish the House of Lords”, adding that he does not think anybody could “defend” the institution).
Also Wikipedia stated “McCabe (when an MP) was appointed Parliamentary Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel in February 2020 . He (McCabe) is a long-standing supporter and visited Israel as part of a delegation in 2019″
Rogues……..Labour ones…………it seems to be that the list of rogue activities , sometimes also known as scandals via the Labour party , just goes on and on.
See as other examples both the ongoing Labour Together scandal and also the scandal of the reported worrying “deepening ties” between Palantir and the Labour UK government ……….that BTW also has a Peter Mandelson connection as well !
The kind of Labour scandals that the BBC Scotland news teams (and also Scotscast) do not want to promote , question , as in never want to scrutinise or challenge , or even, dare I say, mention at all as news.
As in the BBC in Scotland not wanting to make all of us within Scotland aware of all of these UK political scandals, via their, BBC Scotland’s, so called ‘news reports’.
Scandals that are happening in ‘the news elsewhere within the UK , where we too, Scotland, are a part of their UK , so then surely we too are also impacted by their #BAD UK politics”.
Again a BBC within Scotland that prefers a widespread #Wheesht when it comes to UK political scandals …..so then they , the BBC, are even more UK supporting rogues surely.
Liz S
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Probe launched into Scottish Government’s ScotWind project
I suppose this will be another SNP bad story from Audit Scotland.
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