The Calderdale Cover-Up Exposes Yet More Cracks

Calderdale Arrests Exposes Burnham and his Pakistani Rape Gang Protecting Labour Party Lies

This week's events shattered the comfortable lie that has protected careers, reputations, and political ambitions for over two decades. Sixteen people arrested for child sexual exploitation between 2000 and 2004 in Calderdale. Their tentacles reached into Oldham, Manchester, Rossendale, and Dewsbury.

Not an isolated incident. Not a "historic" anomaly. But the inevitable consequence of a cover-up so vast, so coordinated, that it makes Watergate look like a parking ticket.

• They told us these networks were dismantled. They lied.
• They told us the abuse was localised. They lied.
• They told us there was no cover-up. They lied.

And on Wednesday, in the cold bureaucratic language of arrest logs, the truth finally broke through their wall of deceit.

Built to Betray

For at least twenty-five years, little White girls were being trafficked, raped, and tortured by predatory gangs of predominantly Pakistani men while the very institutions paid to protect them were running a protection racket. They were not interested in protecting children, they were more concerned for the reputations of politicians, police chiefs, and council leaders and everyone else in a position of power who knew exactly what was happening and chose to look the other way. Some Labour Party politicians even worked out how they could gain from the gang rape of children.

This wasn't incompetence. This was design.

Every localised inquiry was a firewall. Every narrow scope was a get-out-of-jail-free card. Every redacted report was another brick in the wall of institutional silence. They carved up the horror into bite-sized pieces so no one would ever have to swallow the whole truth: that this was a national scandal requiring national accountability.

But yesterday's arrests, where men from Oldham involved in the abuse of girls in Calderdale, blow their carefully constructed lie to pieces. The networks didn't stop at council boundaries. The abuse wasn't contained within convenient postcodes. The cover-up wasn't a series of isolated failures but a coordinated conspiracy to protect the system at the expense of the children it was meant to serve.

The Oldham Lie Exposed

Remember Andy Burnham's so called "Assurance Review" in Oldham? That masterpiece of institutional gaslighting that deliberately excluded evidence outside their jurisdiction? That exercise in moral cowardice that actively ignored reports of children trafficked between towns?

We were told it was thorough. We were told it was independent. We were told it found "no evidence" of a cover up.

Every single word was a lie.

And yesterday's arrests prove it. When men from Oldham are being arrested for abusing girls in Calderdale, what does that say about the integrity of an inquiry that refused to look beyond its own borders? It tells us what survivors have been screaming for years: the whole thing was a whitewash, designed not to find the truth but to bury it.

The National Scandal They're Still Hiding

Twenty-five years. A quarter of a century of systematic child abuse enabled by systematic institutional failure. Not in one town. Not by one gang. But across regions, across decades, across every level of government, policing, and child protection that claimed to give a damn about vulnerable children.

They shredded documents. They "lost" minutes. They arrested whistleblowers. They smeared survivors. They promoted failure and protected cowardice while children's lives were being destroyed in real time.

This isn't just about grooming gangs. This is about the utter moral bankruptcy of a system that chose political expediency over child protection, reputation management over justice, and career preservation over the lives of the most vulnerable in our society.

The Gaslighting Continues

Even now, as the arrests mount and the evidence piles up, they're still running the same playbook. "Historic offences." "Isolated incidents." "Lessons learned." "Moving forward."

Bullshit.

These aren't historic offences. They are ongoing failures finally seeing the light of day. Men in their 70s being arrested in 2025 for crimes committed in 2000 is not justice. It is a 25-year cover-up finally cracking under the weight of its own lies.

And while they spin their comfortable narratives about "learning lessons," more children are being failed, more evidence is being "lost," and more careers are being protected at the expense of truth.

What This Really Means

Yesterday's arrests aren't just about sixteen individuals. They're about the hundreds of officials who knew and said nothing. The thousands of documents that were shredded or hidden. The countless opportunities for intervention that were deliberately ignored.

Every council leader who signed off on a cover-up. Every police chief who buried evidence. Every politician who chose silence over justice. Every social worker who looked the other way. Every journalist who refused to ask the hard questions.

They are all complicit.

And yesterday's arrests are just the beginning of what we're going to uncover when this whole rotten edifice finally comes crashing down.

The Truth They Cannot Stop

The system thought it could contain the damage. Localise the inquiries. Fragmentise the accountability. Gaslight the public into believing this was ancient history, isolated incidents, lessons learned.

But truth has a way of breaking through even the most carefully constructed lies. And yesterday, sixteen arrests cracked their wall of silence just a little bit wider.

Every arrest reveals more connections. Every connection exposes more cover-ups. Every cover-up implicates more officials. And every revelation brings us closer to the moment when the whole truth finally comes out.

What Must Happen Next

1. We stop playing their game.

No more localised inquiries designed to protect reputations. No more hand-picked panels stuffed with establishment insiders. No more "independent" reviews that exclude the very evidence that would damn them all.

We demand a single, national, fully independent investigation with the power to drag every complicit official before the public, under oath, and under pain of perjury. We want subpoena powers that can reach into every council chamber, every police station, every government department that participated in this betrayal.

2. We demand prison sentences.

Not just for the rapists but also for every official who enabled them. The council leaders who signed off on cover-ups. The police chiefs who buried evidence. The social workers who ignored reports. The politicians who chose silence over justice.

If you shredded documents, you're going to prison. If you "lost" files, you're going to prison. If you attacked whistleblowers, you're going to prison. If you promoted failure, you're going to prison.

3. We reject their timeline.

They want to drag this out for years while more evidence disappears and more officials retire with their pensions intact. We want arrests now. We want charges now. We want trials now. The National Crime Agency MUST expand their investigations to include public officials, police officers and politicians involved in the cover up. They MUST arrest government ministers and metropolitan mayors.

4. We tell the truth they tried to bury.

Every name. Every meeting. Every decision. Every cover-up. We drag it all into the light where it can't hide anymore.

The media won't do it. They're too comfortable with the establishment they're supposed to be holding accountable. The political class won't do it. They're too busy protecting each other.

It's up to us to tear this whole rotten system down.

And we will. Because the only reason these arrests are happening at all is because survivors refused to stay silent and ordinary people refused to accept their lies.

This is how we win. This is the only way we can win.

To Every Survivor

Your story matters. Your pain was real. Your abusers weren't just the men who hurt you. They were also the ones in suits who looked the other way while it happened.

This week's arrests in Calderdale aren't justice. They're just another reminder that the system that failed you is still failing others. But they're also proof that the truth can't be buried forever.

We will not stop until every perpetrator is in prison and every enabler is held accountable. We will not stop until the whole rotten system is torn down and rebuilt in a way that actually protects children instead of protecting careers.

We owe that to every child betrayed. And we will not stop until it's done.

The cover-up is cracking. The truth is coming out. And there is nowhere left for them to hide.

We uncovered the evidence. We proved these were racially motivated crimes. We showed how Labour Party politicians sold children for votes. We exposed every layer of the cover-up. And we forced the national inquiry into the Pakistani Rape Gangs. We got this far because we refused to stay silent. No matter what they did to us.

❌ First, they called us racists and far-right

❌ Then they encouraged Pakistani gangsters and Islamists to attack us

❌ When this failed, they launched Operation Hexagon and sent the police after us

❌ My home was repeatedly dawn-raided by gangs of police officers

❌ Both local and national newspapers published lies about me to try and smear me

❌ Senior prosecutors in the CPS even fabricated charges desperate to silence our demands for justice

I spent 3 years on bail as case after case 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.

I am Raja Miah. For six years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs.

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 could fall and politicians will 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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