Rick Stringer claims (Voice, June 18) that a major political party condones sexual abuse of underage girls so long as the perpetrators are from certain ethnic minorities.
This may not be a disinterested suggestion; were he to persuade people actually to believe this, it might raise his next half-baked political candidacy over the deposit-losing threshold.
Alternatively perhaps he has gleaned this notion from the comic publications which masquerade as daily newspapers in this country. If so, he might find closer attention to their misdemeanours edifying.
The Sun offensively referred to incidents to which he alludes in the north of England as ‘the Muslim problem’, an impression in which Stringer colludes by describing abuse of this nature as ‘rampant’.
But to suggest sexual abuse in this country is a ‘Muslim problem’ ignores a lot of evidence, including much closer to home, in the constituency Stringer claims he should represent in parliament.
Look at the ethnicity of those exposed in The Voice nearly every other week.
In any case, you’d have to be very gullible to place your faith in exposing abuse in a publication like the Sun, with a pornographic and racist past which has encouraged sexual crime, and which is hardly getting any better.
If Stringer really wants to fight racism, and sexism, these are the sorts of enemies he should engage with.
G Kent
Pinchbeck
