Simon Jones

In 2001 a man was convicted of indecently assaulting and abducting a 13-year-old girl in his private hire car. He served 18 months in prison. In 2005 Oldham Council handed him a taxi licence. Oldham Council let him drive children for ten years before it eventually evoked his licence in January 2015. No one knows how many children he abused before the council was eventually forced to act. This example is not unique. The same council licensed another man in 2003, two years after he was convicted of indecent assault. In September 2014 the council's head of licensing reported five licensed drivers to the Labour cabinet member responsible. The report set out their previous convictions, including sexual offences. After a screening exercise with Greater Manchester Police and the safeguarding board, one man was sent to a licensing panel and lost his licence. The other four kept driving. The next year one of those four men sexually assaulted a child in his taxi. When he was convicted in 2017, the judge asked why he had ever been given a licence. I'll tell you why he had been given a license. 1. Pakistani taxi drivers are protected by Pakistani politicians that sit on the licensing committees. In many instances, due to the clan based structure of this community, both councillor and child rapists are related. What is distant to you and I by western norms is close kin to them. 2. These Pakistani taxi drivers are organised. In every town and city across the land, they control tens of thousands of votes. Politicians do deals with them just as Labour do a deal with the unions. 3. Intervene unless you have been forced to and you open a can of worms. It is likely tens of thousands of taxi drivers will have their licenses removed. And the ethnic correlation of the drivers who have lost their licenses will be unavoidable. Almost no council in England and Wales will act against the Pakistani Taxi Rape Gang Ring because they are effectively held to ransom by it. Which is why the government must intervene. And for those of you who are asking, no, I am not going to let this go. If we want to stop the rape gangs, and protect our children, we need to take drastic action in both how our children's homes are run and how taxis operate. Now tell me something. Where is Jess Phillips? Were is Shabana Mahmood? Where is our government? _________ You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account. And yet, despite every attempt to stop us, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away. But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers. It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me means when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it. It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down. But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable. 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THREE PAKISTANI TAXI DRIVERS IN ROCHDALE, MOHAMMED SHAHZAD, NAHEEM AKRAM AND NISAR HUSSAIN, RAPED A SCHOOLGIRL BETWEEN 2001 AND 2006. ONE OF THE ATTACKS WAS FILMED IN THE BACK OF HUSSAIN'S TAXI. For decades, social workers and police have known that Pakistani men were using the taxi trade to rape little White girls in towns and cities across the country. Instead of taking action, they protected these men. Successive governments have allowed it to continue. In June 2025 Baroness Casey's national audit into group-based child sexual exploitation found that the taxi licensing system had been exploited by the rape gangs and told the government it needed urgent reform. The government accepted it. Rochdale was one of the towns she was writing about. Rochdale Council had licensed three men who raped a child. The likelihood is that it knew of many more men just like these three. Its own social workers knew taxi drivers were having 'sex' with children. They called one of the girls a 'prostitute'. The child was just ten years old. Greater Manchester Police knew the same. Since 1976 a council has had the power to take a badge off any driver it is not satisfied is fit and proper. There was no need for either a conviction or even a charge. It would be a lie to say the police failed to act. They did act. They closed down investigations and protected the rape gangs. Hundreds of towns and cities like Rochdale had the power to intervene. They had the knowledge. They knew children were being gang raped and trafficked across the country through a network of Pakistani gangs. They all made a political decision to sacrifice little White girls at the altar of multiculturalism and trade them for bloc votes from the Pakistani Muslim communities. Shahzad, Akram and Hussain drove Rochdale’s children for years after the council and the police knew what was being done to her in the back of a taxi. Rochdale Council will not say if or when it ever took their badges off them. No one knows just how many taxi drivers are members of the rape gangs. My estimate is that it is over 10,000. Heidi Alexander has been Transport Secretary since November 2024. Casey warned her in June 2025. She told the Commons the government was “taking this very seriously”, was reviewing whether councils follow existing guidance, and would hold those that do not to account. The councils are the problem she is asking to mark their own homework. In January 2026 Alexander's department proposed moving the badge from district councils to transport authorities. That was their solution. In Greater Manchester that would move Oldham’s licensing from the council that covered it up to the office Andy Burnham held while it was being covered up. In October 2026 the government said it was still deciding which model to use. It has also promised national minimum standards and a power to suspend a driver on the spot. Councils have had the power to suspend a driver on the spot since 1976. Why does a politician get to decide who drives the children at all? Especially when that politician relies on the bloc vote these men control for them to stay in power? AND TODAY. 263 councils in England decide who drives their children. Every one of them has had the power since 1976 to take a badge off a man without a conviction. Rochdale did not use it. Rotherham did not use it. Oldham did not use it. No law makes a council use it. Nothing Heidi Alexander has proposed would make them. A man banned from working with children can be handed a badge this week in any town in England. The councils that licensed the rape gangs are licensing the next ones. Part 2 of my series on what would destroy the rape gangs will be published later today on Red Wall and the Rabble. 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you read part 1, you will see a pattern emerging. I really do not care which politician or political party I upset. I'm not here for any of them. I'm here to protect little girls from gang rape. Raja Miah MBE _________ People ask me one question more than any other. Are children still being groomed, gang raped and sold across the United Kingdom? I take no joy in sharing with you that they are. And there are more men involved than there were before. Little White girls are still being gang raped and sold in this country. The men doing it are not only Pakistani. Other ethnic gangs have moved into our towns and cities, watched how the Pakistani gangs got away with it, and started their own rape gangs. It can be stopped. And over the course of this week I will detail a number of policies that would destroy the child rape trade in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, eight years has taught me that not one political party will do what's necessary unless we force them. Which is why it is up to us to force them. I don't care if you are Labour, Conservative, Reform or Restore. I care that you want the gang rape of children to stop. If you are with me, then you are with me for this reason more than any other. My name is Raja Miah. I led the campaign that forced the national inquiry. Now I will share with you the key policies that any political party could campaign for that will destroy the rape gangs for good. You can decide for yourself why politicians need dragging kicking and screaming to a place that protects little girls from gang rape. Sign up to my newsletter here. 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk There are no paywalls to access any of my work. I share all my content for free. I leave it to you to decide whether I am worth supporting at £3 a month or £30 for the year. Raja Miah MBE

OFSTED HAS WARNED OF ORGANISED CRIMINALS INFILTRATING CHILDREN'S HOMES. WHY HAS LABOUR NOT STOPPED IT? On a single day in September 2025, 669 children were living in illegal children's homes. The state had paid £353 million in a year to put them there. Nearly a third of those children went missing. Ofsted has admitted it has been told that organised criminals are financing the homes. People ask me one question more than any other. Is it over. It is not over. Anyone who tells you the rape gangs are history is lying to you. THE CHILDREN'S HOMES BECAME CHILD BROTHELS In Oldham the children's homes became child brothels. That is what they were. Girls in the care of the state were collected from the front door by men the staff had seen before. The staff wrote "missing" in the log and waited for the taxi to bring them back. Those who tried to do more were punished. The same pattern ran through Rochdale and Rotherham, and the same thing is happening in other towns and cities. Except it is now worse. Private companies run more than 8 out of 10 children's homes in England. They open them wherever houses are cheap, which is why they open them in towns like mine. A girl from a London borough can be dropped in a terraced house in Oldham where nobody knows her and nobody is looking out for her. The only people who take an interest are the men in the car at the end of the street, and they take a great deal of interest. NOBODY KNOWS WHO OWNS THE HOMES Ask who owns that house and you will NOT get an answer. Ofsted checks the manager and one person the company nominates as "responsible". That is the end of the checking. Nobody checks the shareholders, who owns the building or who lent the money. The ownership can run through a chain of shell companies and even end offshore. The prospect of a chain of UK care homes being owned by men in Mirpur is not as far fetched as it first sounds. Underneath this is a second trade in homes that are not registered at all. Running one is a criminal offence. It makes no difference. Councils put children in them anyway. 669 CHILDREN IN ILLEGAL HOMES. £353 MILLION TO PUT THEM THERE. In January 2026 the Children's Commissioner revealed that on a single day in September 2025, 669 children were living in these illegal homes. Councils had spent an estimated £353 million in a year putting children in them, at an average of £10,500 a week for each child. Some were living in caravans, holiday lets and Airbnbs. Nearly a third of those 669 children went missing. The state did not know who was running the house. It did not know who was collecting the child from it. Nobody can say how many illegal homes there are, because councils are not required to report every placement to Ofsted. Ofsted's own figures for 2025 to 2026 identified 710 illegal children's homes. 5 of them faced criminal investigations and only 2 were prosecuted. Most were sent a warning letter. I can find no record of what happened after they received these letters. My guess is they ignored them and carried on as before. Meanwhile, the council officer who knowingly sends a child to an illegal home faces no action. My guess would also be that they receive a kickback from the illegal home. THE CRIMINALS ARE IN THE HOMES In July 2026 Ofsted publicly admitted receiving allegations that organised criminals were setting up illegal children's homes to facilitate criminal operations, with links to drug smuggling, money laundering and county lines. Translated, I take this to mean they were trafficking children. Ofsted raised allegations that criminals were financing registered children's homes. The very people the state is supposed to be protecting children from may be taking money from the state to look after those children. The government did nothing. Here is just one example. A Merseyside outfit called SafeSpace4U took at least £1.3 million from illegal placements over 2 years. It ran at least 19 unregistered homes. Its registered headquarters is in a property owned by a convicted drug dealer with organised crime links. It was under criminal investigation by Ofsted while it was still taking children from councils across the country. The company denied that the owner of the property was involved in running it. It did not deny who he was. People who would know keep telling me that privatised children's homes are owned by the gangs themselves. Nobody in government can tell me that is untrue, because nobody in government dares look. THE STATE HAS TO KNOW WHO OWNS THE HOMES The state runs a fit and proper person test on every director of every old people's home in England. It does not require so much as a DBS check on the directors of a children's home. By law every dog in this country is microchipped to a named owner. The state knows who owns the dog. It does not know who owns the house it puts children in. The law has to change, and this is what it has to say. 1. Every person behind a children's home is named to Ofsted and checked before a child is placed there. That means the owner, the directors, the shareholders, the landlord and whoever lent the money, and each of them goes through the same test the state already runs on the directors of an old people's home. If any of them fails it, or the ownership is hidden offshore, the home does not open. 2. The money is checked as well as the people. Every loan and every investment in a children's home is declared to Ofsted with the name of the person it came from. A home that cannot show where its money came from is refused. 3. Not a penny of public money goes to a home that is not registered. A council officer who pays an unregistered home, or signs a child into one, has committed the same criminal offence as the people running it. He stands in the dock next to them. 4. An illegal home is shut the day it is found. Ofsted gets the power to close it on the spot, the way environmental health closes a kitchen, and a duty to prosecute everyone running it. The warning letters end. 5. Every home writes down every car that collects a child, plate and badge, every time. The homes in Oldham knew the cars. The law makes them write the cars down. 6. No child is sent 100 miles from home unless a judge has signed it. 7. The police force where she is placed is told her name and address on the day she arrives. 8. Staff who report what is being done to her are protected by law. 9. Staff who log her missing and wait for the taxi are barred from working with children. 10. No child is placed in a home where the autorities know the rape gangs are operating. A government could put all of it on the statute book in a single session of Parliament. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 gave Ofsted the power to fine. It did not give Ofsted a single one of these that I have listed. WHY? THEY HAVE ALL BEEN TOLD WHAT WOULD STOP IT Prime Minister Andy Burnham, his Minister Lucy Powell, and the Labour government could do this now. Any politician who is serious about stopping the gang rape of children would be spporting it. They are not doing it because, as with the rape gangs themselves, little White girls from working class families do not matter to the Labour Party. I fear the opposition parties are not doing it because there are more votes in shouting about the rape gangs than there are in doing something specific to stop them. This is where I call out more than Labour. Labour covered it up. The Conservative Party, Reform UK and Restore Britain have made political gain from the gang rape and trafficking of children without putting forward one policy that would help stop it. Here is one policy. They all know about the care home scandal I have just shared with you. Instead of demanding specific legislative change brought in now, all of them are choosing to grandstand. And before anyone complains to me, I don't care if I've said something that criticises your political party. I'm not here to promote any one political party. I'm here to protect children from gang rape. THE NEXT PART IS THE TAXI This is the first part of a series. The home is where the girls are found. The second part is the taxi that takes them from the home to the men, licensed by the council and driven by men the council passed as fit and proper. I will go through all of this next. The full article with all the evidenced links is here. 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk/th… Share this with one person who thinks it is over. Raja Miah MBE _________ People ask me one question more than any other. Are children still being groomed, gang raped and sold across the United Kingdom? I take no joy in sharing with you that they are. And there are more men involved than there were before. Little White girls are still being gang raped and sold in this country. The men doing it are not only Pakistani. Other ethnic gangs have moved into our towns and cities, watched how the Pakistani gangs got away with it, and started their own rape gangs. It can be stopped. And over the course of this week I will detail a number of policies that would destroy the child rape trade in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, eight years has taught me that not one political party will do what's necessary unless we force them. Which is why it is up to us to force them. I don't care if you are Labour, Conservative, Reform or Restore. I care that you want the gang rape of children to stop. If you are with me, then you are with me for this reason more than any other. My name is Raja Miah. I led the campaign that forced the national inquiry. Now I will share with you the key policies that any political party could campaign for that will destroy the rape gangs for good. You can decide for yourself why politicians need dragging kicking and screaming to a place that protects little girls from gang rape. Sign up to my newsletter here. 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk There are no paywalls to access any of my work. I share all my content for free. I leave it to you to decide whether I am worth supporting at £3 a month or £30 for the year. Raja Miah MBE