This is a must listen and a must share.
Seriously. The BBC at its very worst.
And this isn’t even @DouglasKMurray at his very best, yet he’s utterly brilliant.
The Pakistani Rape Gangs were documented in Birmingham in 1991. A council steering group ordered the removal of the ethnic dimension and copies of the report were then destroyed.
It was not until twenty years later that Rotherham become a national scandal. Just how many little White girls would have been saved if the same pattern documented in Birmingham had not been covered up?
Are you beginning to see why the National Inquiry is trying to avoid to investigate the rape gang scandal in Birmingham?
Wait until you read what I share next.
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I’m Raja Miah MBE. You won’t see me on the BBC or read my work in the legacy press. That’s not an accident.
For seven years I led a campaign exposing how senior Labour politicians helped protect Pakistani rape gangs. The people of my town helped force the national inquiry.
Everything I publish is free. No paywalls. Because the truth shouldn’t belong only to those who can afford it. But I’ll be honest, despite tens of thousands of people taking value from my work each week, only a small number support me financially. And this number is reducing each week.
The reality is the national inquiry we forced will almost certainly be a cover-up. The next phase is exposing that and shaping what comes next. That fight could take another five years.
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I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is.
They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state.
Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you.
Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there...
It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it.
Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it.
They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket.
There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust.
And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector.
GET A REAL JOB.
If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that.
They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more.
Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it.
Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision.
Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it.
Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.
This is the fairest assessment of the Unite the Kingdom rally.
Sir Trevor Phillips went and saw normal, decent folk, a diverse crowd and hymns being sung. Those tarring it as “far-right” are projecting their own bigotry.
@BBCBreaking actually embarrassed that so many people turned up in London and your story was aimed at a small
Minority and issue. Used to be the most respected media outlet in the world. Sad. Just tell the news please not push agendas either way
Israel just released October 7 footage.
Upon hearing this I thought it wouldn’t have an impact.
I believed that they hate us and we will not change opinions.
But after watching this I realize I was wrong.
Many are still not aware what transpired.
@IKEAUKSupport I’m so upset at the service you are providing. Third weekend running your team has let my wife and I down. Wait in for a collection and four times let down #horrendouscustomerservice