Crocodile Tears and Yet More Deflection
Why Is Anna Dixon MP Unable To Say Pakistani Rape Gangs?
For decades, children were groomed, raped, and abandoned by the very institutions meant to protect them. Councils looked away. Police buried evidence. Politicians exchanged statutory safeguarding duties for nibbling samosas and maintaining community relations.
When survivors fought to be heard, they were dismissed and smeared. Campaigners were labelled far right and whistleblowers that dared speak out were punished.Now the political class is finally forced to face this scandal. Who do we hear crying victim? Not the survivors. Not the shattered families. Not the campaigners that were falsely imprisoned or whistleblowers that will never work again.
You guessed it. Labour MPs.
Anna Dixon is the latest. Labour's new MP for Shipley. Faced with criticism of her record on grooming gang inquiries that have terrorised West Yorkshire towns and cities, instead of leading the campaign for justice, she runs to The Guardian. She presents herself as the real victim. Not a victim of gang rape and trafficking but a victim of "misinformation" and online abuse. Apparently she has received death threats.
Of course, threats against anyone, including MPs, is wrong. But the real obscenity here is how the Guardian uses Dixon's tears to deflect from the real injustice. Faced with scrutiny, Labour MPs and their bedfellows at the Guardian don't centre survivors. They centre themselves.Dr Anna Dixon claims she has "always been transparent" about her position and paints herself as victim of Robbie Moore's "misinformation."
But Moore's letter, signed by 98 MPs from six parties, highlighted the truth. Dixon has never campaigned for a Bradford-focused inquiry. Despite survivors and lawyers calling for one. Dixon didn't sign that letter. Why?
Instead of explaining her record, Dixon shifts the story. It's about her abuse. Her danger. Her feelings. The victims of grooming gangs fade into the background.Jess Phillips deployed the same tactic. Challenged on her refusal to back a national inquiry, Phillips turned the spotlight on threats she'd received. The headlines became about her safety, not the safety of exploited children.
The pattern is cynical. When confronted with their obstruction, Labour MPs redirect to their own victimhood. It changes the subject. It stops scrutiny staying fixed on what matters.
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The people of Oldham, Bradford, Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford know the truth. They've lived through the failures. They've been gaslit, ignored, and traduced many times.
The survivors deserve honesty. They deserve urgency. They deserve politicians who fight for justice, not grudgingly accept it when their position becomes untenable. Instead, they get delay, denial, and distraction. They get crocodile tears from MPs who claim to be the real victims.
Only When Cornered
Let’s be honest about the timeline. On 8 January 2025, when Conservatives pushed an amendment tied to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to mandate a national inquiry, Labour whipped against it. The government side defeated it 364–111. The official line was that the amendment was a “wrecking tactic” that would sink the wider bill. Maybe. But the effect was the same: keep a national inquiry off the table.
A week later, ministers touted a localised approach, signalling up to five pilot local inquiries, with Oldham explicitly named first. Tom Crowther KC was appointed by the Council (not the government) to chair a toothless non statutory inquiry in Oldham. That’s where the facts rest: as of spring, Oldham was the only area formally named. Crowther later gave a damning testimony to the Home Affairs Select Committee regarding his engagement with the Home Office.
Then came the moment that changed everything. In June 2025, Baroness Louise Casey published the government-commissioned National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. It was devastating: decades of institutional blindness, poor data, and a failure to confront uncomfortable truths, including ethnicity patterns in several hotspots, had let abusers operate with impunity. Casey’s top-line fix included a statutory, time-limited national inquiry, alongside an NCA-led criminal operation and concrete legal reforms.
The Home Secretary accepted all 12 recommendations. Prime minister Keir Starmer, who had previously resisted a national inquiry, publicly U-turned and said the government would commission one.
In other words: Labour didn’t lead to this destination. It was pushed.
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Two months on, ministers promise a statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act and say they will “work at pace” to appoint a chair and publish terms of reference.
Yet no chair has been named publicly and no Terms of Reference have been published. Survivors remain in limbo waiting for timelines and first sites of investigation. Meanwhile, Oldham’s local inquiry has been attacked by survivors whilst other “pilot” areas have still not been set out in public with the same clarity.
Momentum might exist in speeches. Unfortunately, urgency is missing in practice.
The Deflection Pattern
Into this vacuum steps a familiar media choreography: Labour MPs cast themselves as targets, and the policy record slips out of focus.
Take Anna Dixon, the new Labour MP for Shipley. When Conservative Robbie Moore posted a video accusing her of long-standing opposition to a Bradford-focused strand within the national inquiry, Dixon went to the Guardian stressing death threats and misogynistic abuse she’d received.
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Threats against MPs are vile and must be investigated — full stop. But it’s also true that Dixon didn’t sign Moore’s cross-party letter (backed by 98 MPs from six parties) urging the PM to ensure Bradford is a priority focus.
Dixon says she supports a Bradford-specific inquiry if the national inquiry decides one is needed — a far cry from campaigning for it. The row became a story about her victimhood instead of victims’ overdue justice.
She claims Moore misrepresented her by omitting part of her email. But notice what she’s actually saying: she doesn’t back an immediate Bradford inquiry — only if the national inquiry itself “deems” it necessary. That’s not the same as calling for or supporting one now.
The truth is, Dixon never supported a National Inquiry into the Pakistani Rape Gangs. Even in her most recent statement, she is unable to use the term.
And if there was ever any doubt on her position, here is Dixon in an interview from last year.
Dixon is not the first Labour MP to attempt this tactic. When the government was still resisting a national inquiry earlier in 2025, Jess Phillips became a lightning rod in an online brawl, amplified by Elon Musk, and publicly focused on the threats and abuse she faced.
Again: condemnation of threats is non-negotiable. But the media oxygen went on the danger to Phillips, not the danger that girls faced for years.
This isn’t to single out two people as uniquely culpable. The full list is much longer. My purpose is to note a pattern. For years, calls for a national inquiry were caricatured by opponents as a “far-right dog whistle” or built on “bare faced lies” about ethnicity. A framing you can see echoed throughout in contemporaneous coverage in the mainstream media. When that framing collapsed under Casey’s audit, the conversation pivoted to the abuse MPs receive, which is real but beside the point of accountability.
What Accountability Looks Like
Accountability starts with precision:
- Admit the record. Labour fought a mandatory national inquiry in January; it then backed local pilots; after Casey (June), it accepted the case for a statutory national inquiry. That’s a U-turn, not “continuity.”
- Publish the machinery. Name the chair, publish terms of reference, set a timetable, and confirm the first localities — including Bradford, where victims, lawyers and a cross-party group of MPs have demanded focus.
- Be candid about ethnicity and institutional failure. Casey’s audit calls for better ethnicity data.
- Keep the spotlight on survivors. Threats to MPs are a policing matter. The inquiry is about the children who were failed and are still being failed.
No More Delays. No More Distractions
Every week without a chair, Terms of Reference, and no named first sites tells survivors the system still doesn’t move for them. Every TV hit that centres an MP’s tears over an MP’s record shifts attention away from what matters.
The nation knows the truth of how we got here. Of how Labour resisted, then relented; that their attempts at local reviews desperately attempting damage limitation would never be enough now the world knew what had happend; that Casey naming the ethnic correlation would mean calling us racist would no longer work.
The nation also knows that we’re still waiting for the national inquiry to properly start.
It’s past time for action measured in appointments, deadlines and hearings. Not in self-pitying press clips. Enough crocodile tears. Name the chair. Publish the mandate. Get on with the work.
I am Raja Miah. For six years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs.
During this time, Labour politicians tried everything possible to stop me. I spent 3 years on bail as case after case they fabricated against me collapsed in court. My mother died before I was able to clear my name.
Now the truth is out. In detail. The Pakistani Rape Gangs are real. And their victims, little White girls, number in the hundreds of thousands. So now the question is: will you stand with me and help make sure the National Inquiry we have all fought for is not a whitewash?
This isn’t just about justice for the past. It’s about stopping it from ever happening again. If we act together, we can hold every complicit official to account. We can tear down the system that protected them. And yes, if we push far enough, this government will fall and politicians go to prison.
If there’s even a one-in-a-million chance of achieving that, wouldn’t you take ten seconds to back the campaign that forced this inquiry into existence?
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- Raja Miah MBE