Hmm 10 years of being in power and much of the msm in this country is owned by the right.Cover up started under Blaire and Brown, Labour sacked Sarah Champion for trying to talk about it and suspended Trevor Phillips this week for the same type of thing, Corbyn was told about it happening in his constituency by social workers years ago and he did nothing about it (like pretty much every MP in the country) - so let's not make out that only one side of the isle is at fault - it's been a cross party, cross government cover up for decades. Hardly anyone has clean hands on this, they all turned a blind eye.
Plenty of left wing media just as guilty of ignoring the stories too, it's not a right wing media issue - they are all afraid to touch the issue.
Apparently part of the issue between Priti Patel and the civil service is she wants the report published and they are going to lengths trying to block it. Regardless of what anyone thinks of her lets hope this is true and she get's her way and we see someone finally try and address this issue properly.
Also if you want to talk about cuts you have to talk about why the cuts were made - a dangerously unsustainable defecit inherited from the previous government to the tune of 150b.
I'm not looking to get into a political debate just pointing out that there is another side to the story and neither side are very good. We've been failed by Labour and Conservatives, left and right continually - neither side should be given a pass.
Will agree that not enough was done by Blair but if this government really wanted to crack down on it they would have had ample time to make at least some steps to improve it right?
worth noting the national deficit was 6.9% of GDP in 2010 in response to the 2008 GLOBAL economic crisis. It was substantially less leading up to that event. Also worth noting that borrowing and the national debt have increased over the last 10 years.
So if we have lowered the deficit and have more debt surely there will be more money for public services which help stop atrocities like this?