UK: Labour MP Says “Floppy Left” Afraid Of Speaking Out Against Pakistani Grooming Gangs 

Britain’s Labour Member of Parliament(MP) Sarah Champion, in an interview with the Times remarked that the “floppy left” is afraid of speaking out on issues such as sex grooming gangs for fear of being branded racist, reports The Guardian.

Champion, a MP for Rotherham, who resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet after a backlash for saying “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”, is quoted as saying, “If I’m on the floppy left, to be accused of racism is probably the worst thing you can call me. That fear will motivate me to step away from a lot of topics I’d maybe tackle head on if I didn’t have that phobia.”

Champions’s constituency was one of the areas that saw men of Pakistani origin being convicted for multiple sex crimes between 1999 and 2001 with a report that revealed that at least 1,400 children had been sexually exploited in the town.

Champion said many Labour members and politicians based in London had “never been challenged by a reality that’s different” from their largely “tolerant, multicultural world”.

“It’s not that Yorkshire’s racist, it’s that Yorkshire is very blunt and doesn’t sugar-coat anything,” she added. “In Rotherham, people’s frustration is that if they all knew what was going on, why didn’t the people who were meant to protect them do anything about it?”