Former academic turned hard right provocateur Matt Goodwin is delighted by Keir Starmer’s decision to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, after months of stalling. While generously noting that this decision “wasn’t all down to us”, Goodwin – who started writing about the issue in the last few years, when it became a right wing talking point – was happy to take much of the credit.
“Personally… I’m proud of the work we undertook, as a community, to keep
this at the forefront of the national conversation,” he wrote, before listing eight pieces of his own work, including bemoaning “the failure of legacy media to investigate it.”
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Where lesser men might wait for the inquiry to publish its findings, or even
begin its work, before saying what it at all means, Goodwin is confident it will mean “nobody, after this, will be able to say multiculturalism is working well in Britain” and “nobody will be able to say mass immigration and its downstream effects have been an unalloyed good.”
Sadly, in his victory lap, Goodwin found no room to credit people who had been writing on the issue for far longer than he – such as the Times’s legendary reporter Andrew Norfolk, whose dogged reporting (in the mainstream media) brought the scandal to national attention in 2011. Norfolk died five weeks ago, aged 60.
