Mark 🐈‍⬛ 🇬🇧

The wall to wall coverage of David Walliams and Russell Brand mustn't mean stories like this are overlooked. Maggie Oliver is in the High Court today taking the government to court for failing to protect victims of child sexual abuse. Taxpayers funded a 7 year long public inquiry into child sexual abuse that cost over £200 million. Survivors were forced to relive their trauma, a staggering multitude of institutional failures were revealed and 20 recommendations were made to protect children. The government's defence is that it's not legally obliged to implement those recommendations. So the public pays for inquiries, victims suffer all over again and the government can simply choose not to act? What even is the point of an inquiry if its findings can just be ignored? This comes against the backdrop of the grooming gangs scandal. We'll never truly know the full scale of just how many children were plied with alcohol, drugged, raped, abused and trafficked. Sure, there have been some convictions, but only after lengthy investigations and years of delay. But how many of those complicit in covering up the institutional abuse have been arrested and jailed? Senior police officers, MPs, local councils and social workers were all involved. And still are. The fact that no one is in prison for covering up and allowing the rape and abuse of possibly hundreds of thousands of girls in towns and cities across the UK is a disgrace and a stain on this country. Every person in authority who enabled this must be held to account. And it isn't racist to speak about this and I'm tired of the insinuation that it is, whenever there's posts about it. That attitude is exactly what's helped the abuse of these vulnerable girls to be covered up for so long. These rape gangs are our nation's shame and it must never be forgotten. Here are two videos. One from this morning and one from six years ago. It seems nothing has changed.