Episode 127: The Collapse of the Grooming Gang Enquiry

Last week saw the collapse of the Labour government's enquiry into the grooming gangs as both candidates for chair resigned and several survivors walked away demanding Jess Phillips' resignation. We discuss how the grooming gangs pose an irreconcilable intersectional car crash for Labour and the wider Left, which has produced a complex edifice of denial around the topic and unwillingness to address the issue as it truly exists. Plus, the Left’s conception of the Subject, how you can’t mark your own homework, why the lumpen are considered unreliable narrators and therefore politicians view them as ripe for own purposes, and how the politics of the Me Too era has been used to dilute the specificity of the grooming gang enquiry towards men in general.