In yesterday’s Children’s debate in the House of Commons, Nigel Farage treated us to this revealing little outburst:

”What we need, and are calling for, is a rifle-shot inquiry that looks specifically at the question: to what extent were gangs of Pakistani men raping young white girls?”

Nothing could more clearly illustrate the core point of Searchlight’s recent editorial on the issue of grooming gangs.* White gangs? Couldn’t give a shit about them. Black and brown victims? Couldn’t give a shit about them. Whipping up hatred of Pakistani-British men? That’s the ticket.

”The mass rape of young white working-class girls by gangs of Pakistani rapists is a rotting stain on our nation” said Reform’s Rupert Lowe In the same debate.

He asked whether there was an official ”tally for the overall number of rapes” [of white girls by ’Pakistani’ men]. His own estimate? ”Horrifyingly, it may well be in the millions.”

Lowe was in some ways worse than Farage. Though he chose his words sufficiently carefully that he could later say ”Oh no, they are misinterpreting me,” he actually left very little room for doubt that he regarded Pakistani-British citizens as ’foreigners’. He referred to them as ”foreign rape gangs”.

He called for all dual-nationality convicts to be stripped of their British citizenship and deported to Pakistan, and for the government to freeze Pakistani visas and cut off any foreign aid to the country unless they accept these deportees.

Well, we really don’t give a damn how badly these rapists are treated (within the bounds of basic human rights, obviously), but Lowe’s intention is clearly to smear all British-Pakistanis.

Utterly shameful, and transparently racist.

* You can read Searchlight’s editorial here: https://www.searchlightmagazine.com/2025/01/lets-stomp-on-all-child-rapists-not-just-those-whose-ethnicity-irks-tory-reform-swing-voters/