November 18, 2005

Local news

Filed under: Politics — and written by Bertie @ 11:02 am

As many of you know, I spent most of the election lambasting Ann Cryer, one of my local MPs, for encouraging racism. And likewise the BNP, and some of their ludicrous arguments. The story of ‘asians grooming white girls’ in Keighley has raised its head again recently with a BNP march planned for 5th November (though it was eventually cancelled).

Over on Pickled Politics, Sunny takes the blame for the march, as his article was quoted approvingly by the BNP. Something they’re always keen to do with supposed supporters from minority ethnic commmunities (’look, even the *****s agree with us, we must be right’). However, it’s been a continuing story all year in Keighley and on local community boards.

Sunny joins in with the BNP in wondering why the story has been ’swept under the carpet’. But I’m still wondering whether it has. Cryer’s and the BNP’s use of the story put it in the headlines. But is there anything surprising about it?

In Keighley, as in Bradford, where large Asian populations live, those ethnic groups control much of the crime. Which means, mostly, drugs and prostitution. So asian pimps look for girls to turn out. And find asian ones (not a story) and white ones (story).

And elsewhere in the country we have an epidemic of child prostitution. And, while many of these girls and boys are turning themselves out, the majority must be being pimped. Given the people involved in crime in this country, the large majority of these underage-girl pimps must be white.

But that’s not a story. That’s just crime. Fear of the outsider continues to rule?

4 Comments »

  1. You’re right actually. I had initially assumed that something was being swept underneath the carpet. But I spoke to some friends at ITN and Guardian, who said the situation was totally blown out of control. Everyone focused on the Asian guys doing this (who were arrested following the C4 doc last year), while there was no sense of perspective.

    Even Ann Cryer, who I spoke to a few weeks back, said there was no real abnormal issue anymore. So it seems the guilty party here is 5 Live for making a story when there wasn’t one.

    Comment by Sunny — November 19, 2005 @ 2:48 am

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