Very similar dynamic here to when women tried to raise concerns with councils & police about the Rotherham/Rochdale grooming gangs. https://t.co/c36yLHzXnj
— Janice Turner (@VictoriaPeckham) July 1, 2025
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Jill Foster's Telegraph article here:
Surrey County Council has, according to a Freedom of Information request, funded Pride in Surrey to the tune of more than £140,000 for various events and projects since 2020, including £24,275 for the year 2024-2025. Earlier this month, weeks after Ireland’s conviction, Guildford Borough Council announced that “Surrey Pride will be returning to Guildford” for a parade in September – the sixth annual Pride event in Surrey, and the second time it has taken place in Guildford. It included a hyperlink to the website of Pride in Surrey.
The decision astonished those who had been trying to raise the alarm.
“I contacted Guildford Borough Council after the news about him being arrested and about the level of charges, and they didn’t want to listen,” says Harding.
“I emailed Zöe Franklin [Lib Dem MP for Guildford] and Julia McShane [Lib Dem leader of the council] asking how they could let this event go ahead. Again, I got a very bland reply from Zöe that what was happening in court had nothing to do with the current Pride in Surrey.
“It was like they were rubbing salt in the wound, allowing them to have a Pride in Guildford again this year. There’s an awful lot of bad feeling within the community in Guildford and those of us who are Guildford Borough Council taxpayers are thinking: ‘What are you doing?’”
Franklin and McShane say they were not aware of any concerns about Ireland before his arrest.
This should be a national scandal https://t.co/DekuhCnvVZ
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) July 1, 2025
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Very similar dynamic to Jimmy Savile, strikes me.
Mick Hartley 
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