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Growing up as I did, in post–UDI Rhodesia, I was exposed early to the deceptive habits of wily British politicians. My adolescent naivete notwithstanding, I was puzzled and distressed by the fact that none of them seemed to have any interest in knowing the true situation on the ground, let alone allowing the facts to influence their judgment.

For them it was quite simple, and it suited their audience and their constituents; Ian Smith was an unrepentant racist obsessed with power to maintain white privilege, and Robert Mugabe was a fearless freedom fighter risking his all for the sake of the horribly oppressed black majority. By their implacable aversion to the truth they were well placed to signal their virtuousness to the loud applause of the international community. Sadly their message was well received by the global community, and amidst universal jubilation Robert Mugabe won power and the rest is a sad story.

Unfortunately for the many good people of the United Kingdom, they are on the receiving end of similar behavior, with their politicians and public officials exhibiting the same penchant for peddling falsehoods, dodging the truth, and “virtue-signaling” that has now brought the country to the brink of catastrophe. I refer to the rape rings of Pakistani immigrants that have flourished in more than fifty towns and cities in the U.K.

Thanks to the intervention of Elon Musk, who, with a few short, sharp, but very pertinent public interventions on X, has blown the lid off the can of worms that have been bottled up by the British media and successive governments over a period of more than twenty years, what is now revealed has all the hallmarks of a self-inflicted cultural and generational national tragedy that resonates with what happened in Rwanda and Bosnia.

Recent figures indicate as many as 250,000-plus, almost exclusively, white Christian underage girls from mostly poor or “working-class” homes have, over the past two decades, been victims of almost unimaginable sexually related horrors at the hands of well-organized Pakistani “grooming gangs.” The perpetrators were cunning and ruthless, paying special attention to girls in poorly supervised foster care whose absence would not be missed. Some of these homes were actually managed and supervised by men in cahoots with the rapists, or assisted by rogue Pakistani police officers. To the police and political establishment these children were simply dismissed as “white slags” getting what they deserved. In many instances the police declined to intervene, arguing that there was consent to the activity, ignoring the fact that it is legally impossible for a girl under the age of 16 to give “consent” to sexual intercourse. In several instances underage girls themselves were arrested in rape dens, drugged and drunk, in the presence of Pakistani males. Some of these girls have testified that they were raped more than 1,000 times.

Staggering cruelty is being revealed in the city of Oxford, that elite academic center; one perpetrator prepared his victim “for gang anal rape by using a pump…. You subjected her to a gang rape by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet.”

Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when the man abusing her burned the family home down. She had given birth to one child and was pregnant at the time of her death.

Another girl, aged 14, after making repeated reports of rape and brutal abuse, was then “married” off to her abuser with the sanction of the social worker tasked with caring for her.

Virtually none of the survivors have emerged from this living hell of an experience sans permanent physical or mental damage.

What is now beyond question is these monsters were able to operate with almost total impunity because officials at every level, from politicians to prosecutors to policemen, despite knowing exactly what was transpiring, agreed to look the other way and do nothing.

In fact, that is not entirely true; on occasions, the police and prosecution service, then headed by Sir Keir Starmer, did spring into action and arrest the parents of abused children when their pleas for someone to save their daughters became too rancorous and risked offending the sensibilities of the offenders. And the law-enforcement authorities, under political instruction, were also very energetic in silencing, and in some cases imprisoning, people who had the temerity to register a dissenting voice on social media platforms.

As head of the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) and the country’s most senior law enforcement officer at the time when these thousands of girls were being raped, there is little doubt Starmer was aware of the outrages; not only did he ignore their calls for help, but he probably failed to give the crucial instructions to law enforcement throughout the country to investigate or prosecute. This is the same Keir Starmer who called President Trump a “racist” and an “affront to humanity” in the course of the riots that wrecked American cities following the death of George Floyd. He is also head of the government that is refusing to open a proper public inquiry into what can only be described as a crime against humanity.

The fact that virtually the entire British police force and council social services officers could find nobody with the courage and compassion to do his or her duty and help these poor girls is beyond belief, and speaks to an entrenched soullessness at the heart of a nation once known as free, fair, and “Great.”

Why is it that this greatest-ever community atrocity in the history of the U.K., perpetrated for decades and continuing to this day, has not resulted in a single prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of these officials for gross dereliction of duty in public office?