Backlash Grows After UK Minister Dismisses Grooming Gangs as ‘Dog Whistle’
6th May 2025
Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell looks set to keep her job after dismissing Britain’s overwhelmingly Pakistani-heritage rape gangs as a ‘dog whistle’ issue being used to create division in British society.
Powell’s place in the cabinet looks safe, for now, and rising Labour star, health secretary Wes Streeting, took to the news studios on Sunday, May 4th, saying the right honourable member’s apology is sincere and, basically, ‘we’ve all made mistakes.’
To err is human, but the actions of these gangs are inhuman. One notorious case can be seen in a court transcript from 2013, in which the judge presiding read out the specific harms inflicted on the same girl by her controlling ‘groomer’ (so-called when an adult male initially approaches a 12-year-old with a view to becoming her ‘boyfriend’).
Remember: If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog.