His Polling Must Really Stink: Two-Tier Keir U-Turns on Grooming Gang Investigations
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I’ve done story after story (as have my peeps here) on the myriad attempts by Keir Starmer and his Labour toadies to bury the disgusting, enraging, and well-documented actions of predominantly Pakistani ‘rape gangs’ preying on young, working-class British girls.
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The government was desperate to bury the issue and mollify their Islamic voting base, even going so far as to propose that using the phrase ‘Asian grooming gangs’ be eligible for prosecution under hate crime laws as ‘Islamophobic.’
Jess Phillips, the so-called ‘Safeguarding Minister/Violence and Women and Girls,’ had the United Kingdom exploding in rage in January when she rebuffed united calls for a national investigation of the scandals with what many saw as supreme indifference. Her suggestion was that if local councils thought they had a problem, let them investigate it. It wasn’t, she insisted, the government’s place to get involved.
After Elon Musk dove into it, Minister Phillips made a bold attempt to ensure she became the victim du jour thanks to the #MeanTweets she received.
There also emerged the ugly reality of complicit cops in the cities worst-hit by the gangs.
Starmer demonized every last British citizen demanding answers and justice for jumping on ‘the far-right bandwagon.’
“Calling for inquiries because they want to jump on the bandwagon of the far-right” – Keir Starmer
That’s right everyone, if you want an inquiry to the rape gangs you’re far-right pic.twitter.com/e8E6yAfdfX
— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) January 6, 2025
And then Starmer and his Labour leaderss ordered their members to vote against authorizing the national inquiry that the country was demanding.
BREAKING: Keir Starmer’s far-left Labour Party votes against opening up an investigation into child rape gangs
The vote was 364-111. pic.twitter.com/S89e67bqLA
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 8, 2025
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And that’s where the issue lay for months, angrily bubbling and simmering below the surface, as the Labour party and its pathetically inept prime minister continued to lurch from one crisis to the next.
In the meantime, small boats of migrants are coming across the English Channel, packed to the gills with freeloaders, every single day, and no end in sight. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moved from a crank fringe party into a solid 8% lead over number two, Starmer’s Labour…
Recent voting intention polling from YouGov (May 27) shows Reform UK in first place, 8% ahead of Labour and 10% ahead of the Conservatives, who are now in third place.
The rising popularity of Nigel Farage’s party is an unprecedented threat to the major parties. This was driven home in recent local elections in England, where Reform won 677 seats and took control of 10 local authorities. But where does this support come from?
…If we look at Conservative voters, 27% of them have switched to Reform in their voting intentions while 66% remain loyal. Alarmingly for Labour, only 60% of their 2024 voters have remained loyal and 15% intend to vote for Reform, while 12% switched to the Liberal Democrats and 9% to the Greens.
Labour has been squeezed from both sides of the political spectrum, but the loss to the left is significantly larger than the loss to the right.
…and Starmer’s personal polling is circling the drain. He is the least popular prime minister out of the last NINE the country has had.
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Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a major political setback after a fresh analysis suggested his personal ratings are among the worst of any modern Prime Minister – prompting Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to claim there is “no way back” for him. Mr Farage’s remarks, made after Sir Keir announced a national grooming gang inquiry in an apparent U-turn, followed an update from Britain Elects, whose rolling tracker compares the popularity of serving Prime Ministers over their first 300 days in office.
Posting on X, the Reform UK leader declared: “It doesn’t matter how many U-turns Starmer does. He is unpopular because he is insincere. There is no way back for him.” The analysis found: “Compared to past Prime Ministers, Starmer’s start is a poor one. As of day 300, Starmer ranked the worst performing Prime Minister of the last nine (once you exclude, of course, Liz Truss).”
In a classic woke CYA move, Starmer’s pulled a complete 180° out of thin air and decided that rape gangs are terrible.
A national calamity
And, by George, someone needs to investigate them?
Why, Sir Keir’s the very man with the stones to do it!
WE ARE SAVED
Starmer’s problem is going to be that not a soul has been fooled by the inquiry in the tailpipe trick.
Keir Starmer makes U-turn mid-air over grooming gangs inquiry
The news emerged in a notably low-key way: a speculative question to Keir Starmer during his Q&A with reporters on the way to the G7 summit in Canada. Yes, he said, speaking carefully while wedged in the aisle of the cramped jet, there would be a full statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.
This was, it should be remembered, not just one of the most toxic debates in British politics during 2025, but one where Starmer and his ministers had continually pushed back against demands for such an action.
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Talk about a backfire. All it’s done is piss people off spectacularly.
The Telegraph UK was torqued, especially after watching the PM gaslight outraged citizens as ‘far-right’ for just wanting the government to do its job, and is now trying to claim he was only referring to ‘Tory ministers.‘ That paper went to town listing every single time Starmer had said, ‘No’ while pushing back on the British people for insisting on an investigation into the abominations.
The Telegraph called Starmer a liar using his own words and flat-out brought the receipts.
…Asked to justify his criticism after the about-turn, Sir Keir’s spokesman said: “The Prime Minister’s comments about bandwagons were specifically about ministers from the previous government who sat in office for years and did nothing to tackle this scandal.
“And as the Prime Minister said: ‘We will not make the same mistake.’ The point the Prime Minister has made [is] that those spreading lies and misinformation were not doing so in the interest of victims.
…“The Prime Minister also told Parliament in January that, again, ‘reasonable people can agree or disagree on whether a fear of the inquiry is necessary’ but he has always been focused on getting on with getting justice for the victims of child sexual abuse.”
Here are all the instances when Sir Keir rejected calls for a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
People who were smeared by Starmer and Labour are demanding apologies.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris @CPhilpOfficial demands Keir Starmer to apologise for his Pakistani rape gang U-turn & chastises him for gaslighting protesters.
“Keir Starmer should apologise for smearing campaigners like me as far-right for calling for this inquiry.”
The i/v’er… pic.twitter.com/rcDQbCmcfg
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 16, 2025
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And Labour ministers’ heads to roll.
Never forget: Jess Phillips blocked a national inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs because she was worried about losing votes.
She has got to go. pic.twitter.com/7ycc9ux0kw
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) June 15, 2025
And while the very ‘review’ by Baroness Casey that Starmer uses to justify his volte-face on the national inquiry is expecting to find upwards of 1000 documented cases of predominantly Pakistani Muslim origins for ‘rape gang’ behavior…
🚨Baroness Casey Review🚨
There were over 800 rape gang cases were uncovered in her “damning” review.
Yvette Cooper said the number go above 1,000, adding:
“Children as young as 10 plied with drugs and alcohol, brutally raped by gangs of men [had been] disgracefully let down… pic.twitter.com/Kc79lBWj9Z
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 16, 2025
…Labour cannot speak the words even as they finally break down to announce action.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, announcing the national inquiry into grooming gangs, uses her address to yet again minimise the overrepresentation of Pakistani Muslim men in the rape gangs.
She mentions there are “all ethnicities and communities are involved in appalling child… pic.twitter.com/VxUFX7SpGQ
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) June 16, 2025
Starmer owes the country an abject apology, and should be on his knees to those girls his party blithely discarded for Muslim votes.
From corrupt local councils right to Islamabad, all must be held to account for the Pakistani rape gangs scandal.
The weak illywhacker of a Labour prime minister owes Britain an apology for smearing people calling for a national inquiry as “jumping on the ‘far-right’ bandwagon. pic.twitter.com/PB185LyF8y
— Aman Bhogal 🇬🇧🇮🇳 (@AmandeepBhogal) June 16, 2025
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But he won’t, nor will his cohorts, because they were white, working-class throwaways.
This sudden, cynical rush to inquiry isn’t going to save him.
In fact, it might well be what finally sinks him.