THE story of the grooming gangs that prey on young white girls shocked the country.

In cities and towns up and down the country, bunches of mainly Asian men were suddenly hauled before the courts. And handed lengthy sentences. Their crimes were beyond vile.

10 Sammy Woodhouse, who fell pregnant when she was raped by Arshid Hussain Credit: PA:Press Association

Our shock was at the failure of our authorities to have acted earlier. Local people had reported the widespread sexual abuse of children by men of largely Pakistani descent for more than a decade. But the police and social services failed to act.

And the reason they failed to act was political correctness. They didn’t wish to antagonise the Muslim communities in each town. They didn’t want to be thought of as racist.

They may have thought the local whites were themselves guilty of racism. But they weren’t. They were telling the truth. And they should have been listened to.

You would have reckoned that since then, things might have changed. The social workers might have started to get their priorities in the right order.

10 Principal gang member Arshid Hussain, serving 35 years in prison Credit: Handout

Piers Morgan explodes on-air as he refuses to read statement by Rotherham council after it offered rapist access to son he conceived during attacks

Doesn’t look that way. Doesn’t look that way at all.

Not, for example, in Rotherham, where the whole scandal began. The council and social services there had behaved abominably. An investigation discovered that more than 1,000 girls had been raped or sexually abused.

Now we find that the council offered the principal rapist, a piece of filth called Arshid Hussain, the chance to see his child.

The one conceived when he raped Sammy Woodhouse when she was just 15 years old. The only reason we know about this is because The Times newspaper found out about it.

10 Sammy says she feels angry and scared for her son, if Hussain is allowed to see him Credit: Matthew Pover - The Sun

You can imagine how appalled the mother of that child would be. This is what Sammy Woodhouse had to say about it: “I was gobsmacked. The council knew what he did to me and to other vulnerable girls.

“They knew he was behind bars and a risk to my son, who wanted nothing to do with him, but they bent over backwards to include him in the case. I felt angry and scared for my son.”

Yes, I bet.

Have you ever heard anything more perverse or sickening?

Rotherham grooming gang victim Sammy Woodhouse says her rapist wants child visiting rights

Hussain is now serving 35 years in prison.

But the point here is that the council has not really changed its priorities at all. It still looks upon those evil Muslim men as being in some way victims. And so deserving of their kind consideration.

Never mind who the real victims are in all this — Sammy Woodhouse and her son. The council is still in the same state of denial as they were while this horrific level of abuse was taking place.

My guess is that Rotherham Social Services is not alone in its delusion.

As an industry, social services is led by social justice warriors who follow a deeply politically correct agenda.

It’s time for a bit of a shake-up, I think. In the universities, where these people train. In the mentality of the staff at local council headquarters.

Then we might begin to see some real justice for the likes of Sammy Woodhouse — and the thousand upon thousand of others who have suffered just like her.

Haven’t a Chlo

10 Celebrity Big Brother, er, star? Chloe Ayling Credit: PA:Press Association

I SEE that pouting moppet Chloe Ayling has just been given the boot by her management agency.

This is because she signed up to do live video chats on an adult TV network.

I don’t know what work they expected her to do, or what they had fixed up for her.

Presenting Question Time? Mending a roof somewhere? Girl’s a glamour model, for gawd’s sake.

10 Chloe apparently does sexy one-on-one webchats for £3 a minute Credit: Refer to Caption

Thanks, your honour

MORE uplifting news from our courts.

Joshua Gardner was the berserk cyclist caught on dash cam trying to smash his way through a car window and threatening the driver with a foot-long “zombie knife”.

10 Knife-wielding lunatic? No, your honour, I was just minding my own business...with this zombie blade

Judge Anuja Dhir decided to hand out a SUSPENDED SENTENCE. That is, no punishment whatsoever.

Gardner told the gullible fool about some kidnap ordeal he’d suffered at the hands of drug dealers.

So was his behaviour that day out of character?

Nope, he already has a conviction for attempting to rob someone at knifepoint.

Clearly Judge Dhir thought this lowlife was no threat to the public.

So he’s back on the streets. But I’m sure he’s learned his lesson.

Leaving a big clue

Did you see the story about the family who were stockpiling food in case of a no deal Brexit.

They had four months of nosh stacked up.

10 The Mann family take precautions, just in case Brexit turns into World War Three Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

You just KNOW they voted Remain in the referendum.

How? First, they believe all the scare stories about what will happen if we crash out of the EU without a deal.

Plagues of locusts, aeroplanes dropping out of the sky, giant mutant zombie crabs marching across the country eating your children etc.

And second, among their stash of goodies was . . . quinoa. That’s the real giveaway, isn’t it?

Governor of the Bank of England​ Mark ​Carney​ warns ​of financial implications of 'no deal' Brexit

Nobody who voted Leave eats quinoa.

Pot noodles, Heinz tomato soup and chocolate-covered Malted Milks – yes.

Quinoa, not a chance.



Vegans hard to stomach

Anyone else getting ever so slightly sick to the back teeth of radical vegans?

There are good reasons to eat less meat. Not least to minimise the suffering caused to animals. But that’s not enough for some vegans.

10 Bloody marvellous, unless you don't like that sort of thing Credit: Photolibrary - Getty

They’ve got a bad dose of “Cyclists Syndrome” – they think they’re saving the world.

A group of them, swathed in self- righteousness, were haranguing people eating in a steak restaurant.

Arrogant, middle-class tossers trying to force their dietary habits on the rest of us.

We don’t berate them about the damage done to the environment flying their god-awful pulses thousands of miles.

Maybe they could leave the rest of us alone.

Humour failure to the Maxx

The list of stuff you’re allowed to laugh about shortens by the day.

Latest to appear in the dock charged with Making A Mild Joke About Something is the discount retail outfit TK Maxx.

It promoted its Christmas season with the phrase “Obsessive Christmas Disorder”.

10 This political correctness is getting a bit potty

One moaning woman complained. She said they were ruining her life because she suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Oh get a grip, love. Needless to say, TK Maxx has given in and stopped using the phrase.



Dog tired

Women get the best night’s sleep when they’re next to a dog, new research shows.

I suppose it makes them feel secure.

10 Women sleep better with their dogs - unless they're asthmatic, of course Credit: Alamy

I don’t think it would work with my dog. She sleeps in the bedroom and emits a vast cloud of mustard gas every five minutes. You wake up with your eyes watering.

Then, at five past three, she starts barking like a lunatic because she’s heard a badger.

Eventually she goes to sleep and starts making weird dream barks. Like she was chasing Jacob Rees-Mogg across a cornfield.