Brutal. Brutalising Britain.

Rapes and Refusal

Hail and welcome!

This has been a hard few weeks. A hard start to January and 2025.

For after having spent a delightful Christmas and New Year with my Beloved Jean and her Family in Philippines. With all that means regarding companionship, love, sharing, caring, enjoyment of life.

Well then, coming back to the World of politics and the news has been quite frankly disturbing. Particularly in regards Britain. Over the past few weeks I have been trying to think through my ideas, thoughts and responses. I did not want to respond in the heat of the moment as it were. Instead I wanted to take my time. I still have thoughts to think through if I am honest.

Yet there seemed to be in my mind so far three strands within the mists of my ideas and thoughts. Three areas and responses to help me shape my own ideas. It is regarding what can now only be described as a national disgrace. The Rape Gangs Scandal.

I am personally not invested nor particularly interested in the bru ha ha surrounding Elon Musk and his challenges to the British Establishment and Government via X. I am invested, interested and intrigued by the current British Government and Parliamentary responses. Which themselves have left me appalled and morally outraged.

I have known about but never understood the magnitude of these crimes for years. Perhaps the last 15 years or so in fact, regarding the Pakistani Rape Gangs in English towns like Rotherham, Oxford and Rochdale and apparently if reports in media are to be believed (I am naturally skeptical of the media, not of the facts once ascertained) in up to 50 Cities. When I lived in Oxford in 2012: it was a topic-mentioned in the local news I recall for I read it at the time. A perfunctory report on the trial.

There have been voices like the MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion and journalists Charlie Peters committed to bringing this heinous crime to the public attention. Interestingly, the Main Stream Media ( our unofficial branch of national consciousness) strangely never seems to have gone all in for the kind of national investigative journalism you would have expected. This from the people so ready to say they work and are for the public interest. Like some fourth unofficial but crucial part of our Governmental process. Precisely designed to shine a light on the workings of the Established Government.

Verdict? They have failed. Locally. Nationally.

It looks like this systematic group rape activity, even murder, of mainly white girls but also Sikh girls and also some boys has been known about for up to 50 years. Shocking.

Mostly children, underage girls raped many times over. Suddenly the ethnicity of the girls is secondary in my thinking. They were vulnerable children. The men who coaxed and then abused them: serial rapists and paedophile’s.

Brutal treatment of our young people. Inhumane treatment. Brutalising our young people.

The second strand of my thinking was actually stimulated by a Frank Furedi Article I read a few weeks ago here on SubStack and on Spiked I recall. For I had never, I confess, made the connection to racism with these crimes. Why would I? Up to now that issue has been avoided. Only white people are racist we have been taught for the last generation. Indeed the authorities are still saying that white supremacy and the ‘far right’ is the reason this issue is even being discussed in Britain. Unbelievable how quickly this narrative has so overtaken our society.

The young children were abused because of their racial profile. Then, as if to compound the terror, the authorities including local law enforcement, social services and local politicians refused to acknowledge and deal with that racism for fear of exacerbating racial tensions in their area.

That is what disgusts me. That is what shocks me. They all in their areas of so called service and protection: gave into fear.

Just think on that for a moment. A nation that prides itself on the rule of law has now for decades, on the ground across real cities in real concrete examples: put that tradition aside for fear.

Fear of being called racists. Fear of stoking local tensions. Fear of being held to account. Fear that their ideology would have to be ditched, or amended if this were to come out into the sunlight in its entirety. Fear perhaps that the reputation of their own community and their religion would be sullied.

Easier to bludgeon those girls bodies as a sacrifice on those in authority’s high altar of multiculturalism. Easier to label, classify, dismiss the girls as whores, white trash, ‘asking for it’ and then call the girls racist for complaining and seeking redress. It seems those in authority took a far more easier but wicked course than to ever deal with the issues as a Nation of Laws would have demanded. Yes, demanded.

The obfuscation, the prevarication will not wash. Sooner or later it will out.

There is a scene in one of the harry Potter Movies where the wise, but flawed Professor Lupin says to Harry in a conversation about fear that Harry is ‘very wise for it suggests you fear only fear itself’.

A nation of laws that exacts correct behaviour in relief to the laws, has no fear. Only those who transgress those laws would be fearful of being punished. Laws set the rest of us free to enjoy freedom and speech and disagreements and religions and family and work and education and culture and music and art etc et alia.

Racism left unaddressed and unchallenged is a moral rot in any society. If those in positions of responsibility truly believed in equality of treatment before the law for all, then they would have behaved differently. Their actions would have been speaking the words our society needed to hear and live by. The rapists would have been held to account immediately. Those politicians, civil servants, social workers, teachers who turned a blind eye would also have been held to account.

This failure was a profoundly moral one. It has undermined society. It has undercut the idea of immigrants fitting in, getting on, joining in.

Instead we now live under the rule of fear. Brutal societies are like that. One’s that brutalise there citizens. You could probably name one or two for yourself. That yellow brick road Britain is also now travelling. It’s politicians singing a hollow tune.

The third strand of my thoughts were about Parliament itself. Now as is known I have loved our Parliamentary system for my whole life. Yet now it is becoming unrecognisable. For the past 30 years or so laws have been made that focus on feelings instead of actions and facts. Subjective ideas of a persons standing with laws. Identitarian protections which seem so liberal and good but have led to fracturing of native customs.

Parliament has dissipated its power, by design, to quangos and unelected bodies. It seems to have become a rubber stamp instead of the chamber of our Nations ideals and the clash of ideas. This is at the feet of both Labour and the Conservatives who have been in power all my life.

Presently Parliament is dominated by a party that had just 32% of the electorate who voted for it. The lowest in history. Yet that Labour Party is a radical one. Intent on destroying what we have been, it seems to me, favour of a utopian future. Girls being raped by Pakistani men is just so inconvenient to the project and shows that there is in fact a clash of cultures of ideals and of a future. The project seems to have failed.

It was better to ignore it and see those girls as an unfortunate by -product of the new grasped for Utopia that sweeps away Empires and Colonialism and the old racism? Was that the narrative and that the idea? Replaced with rape and terror in a new age of colonisation.

So in a vote on the Rape Gangs and the need for a National Enquiry into these systemic failures: it was sadly predictable that such a Government rejected that call with cold, hard, whipped votes. The people who called for one are racists, far right bigots (and some are it seems to me as well).

I have no faith in a party that refuses for unknown and unknowable reasons at the moment to engage in this mighty blot on our nations conscience. It seems Labour have gone directly down a Marcuse and Gramsci path of withering Britain and Englands culture in particular, into oblivion. Socialist Utopia, Marxist future, awaits. Yippee. They always work so well…..

I oppose this.

Normally I am not really a political activist. I have in the past argued for English Devolution to match that which already exists in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That is about it. It was not based on ethnicity or race or such ideas. Just a political call for the UK to develop down a Federal path.

Yet now if Britain is to remain free with roots in its common law traditions and Parliamentary System we need a Revolution of thoughts and ideas far greater than the Brexit vote. Without it there will be a kind of different revolution I predict.

We need to know the truth. To then build our nation into the future with clear principles that our past can give us. Reform of our systems, our laws, our civil service and indeed in our peoples minds. Principles, not values. Actions speaking more profoundly than mere words. Build a shared community. Not the fractured society we now see with many refusing to engage outside of their own tribe.

Rape Gangs have brought everything in January into stark relief for me. I was not expecting that at all as the hammer struck Big Ben just a month ago and the joy and fireworks lit the sky.

Blessings for you and yours this coming week.

I hope I can talk to you next week now that is off my chest!

Syre Byrd.