REVEALED @GBNEWS: Keir Starmer ignored a Rotherham whistleblower's bullying complaint after she exposed child abuse and Labour corruption
@GBNEWS GB News has seen correspondence between a whistleblower and Sir Keir's office in 2020, when he was the leader of the opposition.
He was told about Jayne Senior being bullied and facing a witch hunt after she helped to expose the Rotherham atrocity.
@GBNEWS Starmer was told that Senior "consistently faced hostility" by Labour politicians over her efforts.
But we can also reveal that Starmer's office replied: "Unfortunately, we will be unable to facilitate a meeting with Keir Starmer" and directed her to an online complaints form.
@GBNEWS Jayne told me: "I felt sidelined by Labour. I wasn't even worthy of a call, a letter or a meeting. Nothing.
"Starmer has never taken notice of my concerns. It's so telling that he didn't even bother to respond to my concerns and experience at the time."
This revelation comes as the Labour Party is under severe scrutiny after GB News exposed how safeguarding minister Jess Phillips rejected calls for an independent inquiry into grooming gangs in Oldham.
The row exploded when Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that a national inquiry into the grooming gangs atrocity was necessary.
The GB News exclusive was shared by the owner of X, Elon Musk, who has continued to post regularly about the scandal.
A Labour Party spokesman said: “All complaints are treated seriously and thoroughly assessed in line with our rules and procedures.
“Complaints are assessed via a specific process, independent of the Leader’s Office, and this was clearly signposted in response to this correspondence at the time.”
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This conversation sparked by the abuse gangs scandal is spiralling into political gossip.
Let's bring it back to what matters: the survivors and getting the action they need.
So far, the government’s response to the demand for a national public inquiry has been to point to the IICSA report.
Bashing Elon Musk's amplification of calls for a public inquiry, Wes Streeting said that we’ve already had a report into grooming gangs so we don’t need another.
But what did the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse actually find out about grooming gangs?
In this thread I'll go through why many victims and campaigners think the report didn't do enough on the gangs.
Published in 2022 after seven years, IICSA had a broad brief, which included all forms of exploitation.
Grooming gangs were lumped in with other abuse networks, while other subjects like online abuse, the Catholic Church, and care homes got their own investigation.
The final report mentions Rotherham just once in 400 pages.
It only refers to Rochdale in relation to Cyril Smith, the Lib Dem MP who sexually abused young boys in the town.
Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is attracting attention. It’s happened before, but now it seems different.
I’ve dedicated most of my career in journalism to covering it. Because it’s the most appalling atrocity in modern British history.
In this thread, I’ll tell you what I know about the crisis, what I’ve uncovered, and what is yet to be revealed…
When did it start?
Reports of gangs of men abusing children via on-street grooming go back as far as the 1970s.
But it first came to major prominence after Labour MP Ann Cryer raised concerns about the targeting of young girls by “Asian men” outside school gates.
It was 2003. She was accused of racism by many in her own party and had to install a panic alarm. Cryer was vilified for trying to support girls facing appalling abuse by predominantly Pakistani men. She was the first to endure this treatment, but by no means the last.
Then a year later in 2004 came 'Edge of the City,' a Channel 4 documentary about social workers in Bradford.
Hours before transmission it was yanked from the schedules.
Unite Against Fascism, The 1990 Trust, and the National Assembly Against Racism lobbied Channel 4 to drop it, as did the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.
The local elections were coming up. And the film captured grooming gangs for the first time. South Asian men abusing teenage white girls. They were worried that the BNP, who were making a lot of noise about the abuse gangs, would profit.
So it was canned. Another opportunity to discuss children as young as 11 being gang raped was missed.
I understand that Oldham Council will now attempt to launch a Telford-style inquiry and that its officers are contact with the people who carried out the town’s inquiry.
But a survivor from the town told me that a government inquiry is the only way to secure proper justice.