A very buried lede

Almost incomprehensible. This is the type of brazen immorality which shocks citizens and to which the Mandarin Class and the mainstream media appear entirely deaf.

A reminder of the shocking Rotherham Rape Gang outrage. Basically human trafficking sanctioned by the local government because it was being conducted by immigrants from Pakistan. And Rotherham is only one of many such instances which have been revealed over the past decade.

Now we have this incomprehensible report from England, Shamed politician’s daughter has job looking after Rotherham abuse victims by Andrew Norfolk.

The politician's shameful actions?

Her father, Jahangir Akhtar, resigned as the Labour-run council’s deputy leader in 2013 after his role was revealed in brokering a deal under which one of his relatives agreed to hand a missing 14-year-old girl to police at a petrol station after receiving an assurance that he would not be prosecuted.

The exposure of multiple council failings linked to the girl’s care triggered an independent inquiry which found that over 16 years more than 1,400 Rotherham girls were targeted for abuse by organised gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani origin.

Mr Akhtar, 58, was later stripped of his taxi-driver licence after the local authority introduced a “fit and proper person” test. This took into account CSE intelligence that would “give rise to significant and serious concerns for risks to public safety if the licence remains in place”.

I almost didn't click through anticipating that this might be click-bait. The daughter is not responsible for the sins of the father. She is her own person. If she had no involvement in her father's moral failings, then there should be no opprobrium attached to her. Bad optics but we don't condemn others by association. Bad optics perhaps, but good principle.

But that is not the case. They buried the lede. She lives with her father. Still. At 32 she is no naive naif, she must have been at least aware of her father's actions. But most shockingly,

His daughter, 32, who still lives with her father, joined the Rotherham charity after his resignation as deputy council leader. She is a member of its senior management team and has responsibility for its counselling service for survivors of child exploitation.

Ms Akhtar also has full access to confidential information on the Rotherham Rise database, including the names and addresses of the exploitation victims with whom the charity has worked.

The Akhtars are related to four brothers — Arshid, Basharat, Bannaras and Sageer Hussain — who were jailed for between 19 and 35 years in 2016 after they were convicted of 53 child sex offences between them against 16 Rotherham girls.

So let's get this straight.

Her father provided cover to members of a rape gang.

She was living with him as an adult while that was occurring.

She is related to four of the principals of the rape gang.

OK. All that stuff I assumed about being an individual not accountable for her father's action? Looks like that was a false assumption.

And now they have put her in charge of women like the victims of her extended family; might even have been victims of her extended family. That stinks to high heaven. In fact

A CSE victim who gave evidence against the Hussain brothers said she was stunned to discover the family connection.

“I received support from Rotherham Rise and so did my sister,” she said. “I’m staggered that the charity and council didn’t recognise that putting Jahangir Akhtar’s daughter in that role would create a potential conflict of interest.”

The woman said that Ms Akhtar’s work for the charity would potentially have given her access to information about girls and women who were groomed and sexually exploited by one or more of her relatives or their associates.

“What sort of a signal does that send out to CSE survivors? How are we supposed to have any confidence that the authorities in Rotherham have learnt from the past?”

Of course the wagons are being circled. All the Mandarin Class participants are making the right noises. And exactly the same turning of the blind eye is still happening as happened before.

Disgusting. No wonder the normals are revolting against the self-dealing Mandarins.