Joshua Neicho

No to racism + violence 🚮! Comms and journalism in Brum + wider West Mids/London. Workspace charity trustee @PopHubUK. Member @ACORNunion. #BuyAPaper

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@PaulNHarper That’s very kind of you Paul. There are serious-minded comments here as well as abusive ones

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“Dozens of towns that bear the scars of Pakistani grooming gangs” writes Sam Bidwell in this long post

There may indeed be “dozens”. Can Bidwell name 24+ British towns where grooming gangs operated and in every case justify it is accurate to label them as “Pakistani” gangs?

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@mrrjwilson @IvorGCampbell @AtticumFloreat @yuanyi_z You flatter me too much, @AtticumFloreat

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@LegereTacite @daveatherton @CDP1882 @lizziedearden Yes - I think clarity is important

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@sam_bidwell @daveatherton @CDP1882 @lizziedearden I do not intend to downplay the scale and significance of these shocking crimes, and apologise unreservedly for giving this impression in my eagerness to correct a point of language

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@sam_bidwell @daveatherton @CDP1882 @lizziedearden Dave Atherton has referred to “mainly Pakistani grooming gangs” which is a more accurate description of the make-up of these gangs in individual towns and across the UK than your original of “Pakistani grooming gangs”. I would accept Dave’s characterisation as broadly fair

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@daveatherton @CDP1882 @lizziedearden Thank you for letting me know, David. I would like it on the record that the nub of my query is about Bidwell referring to “Pakistani grooming gangs” rather than eg predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs

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@daveatherton @CDP1882 @lizziedearden *bear the scars of, apologies

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@daveatherton @CDP1882 @lizziedearden You’re misquoting my query of Sam Bidwell who wrote of “dozens of towns scarred by Pakistani grooming gangs” not “mainly Pakistani grooming gangs”. Please retract

https://t.co/F7p7KHtDI4

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“Dozens of towns that bear the scars of Pakistani grooming gangs” writes Sam Bidwell in this long post

There may indeed be “dozens”. Can Bidwell name 24+ British towns where grooming gangs operated and in every case justify it is accurate to label them as “Pakistani” gangs?

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@sam_bidwell What evidence do you have for your accusation that I am trying to minimise the extent of these crimes?

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Thank you - 4 more please to justify “dozens”

What about the breakdown of the national origins of men convicted of sex offences in these gangs to justify “Pakistani” - you wrote this, not for example “predominantly Pakistani”

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@CDP1882 Thank you

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@CDP1882 Are you called Sam Bidwell?

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@guy_herbert I mean to be fair to Barry, he’s absolutely right that grooming gangs were scandalously overlooked by national media and not addressed in public discourse for far too long

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“Barry Blazzer” (joined X in December 2024) thinks journalism is about writing any bombastic nonsense you like, and how dare anyone challenge you to justify it

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@Lara_Flyingminx @sam_bidwell @sundersays @HJS_Org @JewishNewsUK The exact question asked in the poll on pictures of the Prophet Mohammed was whether British Muslims would find it “desirable” or “undesirable” if this was banned in the next 20 years. I think that’s a subtly different Q to whether they support a ban or not

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@Lara_Flyingminx @sam_bidwell What is that you are suggesting does not stand up to scrutiny? The queries that @sundersays has about the framing of the @HJS_Org poll questions + their motivations? The way @JewishNewsUK has presented these critiques in a news story? Could you be specific?