00:00We need a national reckoning on this, and I would say that we should be seriously thinking about whether a national inquiry is required.
00:09Let's have a look at what Louise Casey has to say.
00:11I accept that. If the scale is what Charlie Peters has found, our report on this issue, 50 towns affecting, and there's read across between,
00:19it looks like, because it's so sensitive with who the perpetrators, that a blind eye has been turned by authorities,
00:27and that's what's so offensive to so many people, isn't it?
00:30Yeah, absolutely. It is that idea that things have been covered up because of cultural sensitivities.
00:35We cannot have that.
00:37We want to have trust in law at all.
00:38Absolutely. And it undermines the kind of cohesive communities that we want.
00:44So we need to ensure that those who are responsible are held to account,
00:49and really encourage that the police are making really good progress in terms of the arrests and prosecutions.
00:53That is really good. But in terms of the system, in terms of the councils and police officers as well,
00:59And I would say it goes beyond, it's not a labour issue, it's a cultural issue in this country.
01:04It goes back 30 years, this problem, which no one has gripped it in authority, I think.
01:09Yeah.
01:10And to take the politics away from it, it's just doing right by the victims.
01:14They're often on GB News, and it breaks your heart, you know.
01:17Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I would say, I don't know whether going through inquiry after inquiry
01:22is necessarily what the victims have learned, maybe.
01:26But if we don't feel like we have had that cultural shift to call out these things,
01:31no matter the race, no matter the religion, etc., then we should be considering that.
01:36I just...
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