This week Stephen Ireland, the founder of Pride In Surrey, was sentenced to a total of 30 years in jail for multiple child sexual abuse offences, including the rape of a 12-year-old boy. The boy, who was reported missing at the time, was drugged with crystal meth before the assault. Ireland then sent him photos of another Pride in Surrey organiser, David Sutton, and suggested they have a threesome. Sutton, who was also convicted of several child sexual abuse offences, was sentenced to four and a half years.
The role of councils, at least one MP, schools, the police, the media and, above all, Pride in Surrey itself, needs to be investigated to find out to what extent institutional failings enabled paedophiles to abuse. Was protecting an image of inclusivity prioritised over protecting children?
We wrote a detailed report about Stephen Ireland in March, and in particular how he used his LGBT activism to gain access to children. He was, for example, patron of the disgraced children’s charity Educate & Celebrate, he volunteered at a school radio station in which he had children in bondage gear as guests and was even writing children’s books at the time of his arrest.
However, new information has come to light. It wasn’t reported in March that Ireland had smoked a bong with the boy which was later found to have contained crystal meth. During the trial, Ireland said he was in a polycule in 2020 with Charlie Watts and teenage ‘pup play’ fetishist, Samuel Powell, and they smoked crystal meth together. Incredibly, Watts is now the CEO of Pride in Surrey and Powell, still only 22, has been named its safeguarding lead.
Additionally, we now know that multiple child safeguarding complaints were made about Pride in Surrey, and particularly Stephen Ireland, for at least five years before his arrest last year.
He set up a ‘helpline’ for struggling LGBT children, in which they would text him and he would call them back. A whistleblower has said Ireland refused to let anyone else speak to the children who messaged him.
Ireland was a high-profile figure who’d appeared dozens of times on BBC Radio Surrey, including at least once as a presenter, and on national BBC programmes such as BBC Breakfast. You might have thought that anyone getting a 30-year prison sentence for child rape might be a top story, let alone someone well-known who was embedded in various institutions.
But no. BBC News had correspondents in court ready to broadcast on LGBT issues at the time of his sentencing, but none of them attended his trial. One was there for the inquest into why a drag queen had died. It’s worth noting that BBC News has now covered the death of The Vivienne nearly 30 times since January, and when Ireland was convicted in March, BBC South East Today ignored the story and instead ran a piece about … a different drag queen who’d died.
Source: Nutmeg’s week: We need an inquiry into Pride in Surrey
A UN expert has backed Ash Regan’s Bill to criminalise the buying of sex in Scotland while decriminalising people selling sexual services.
The parents of Britain have had enough. Enough gender propaganda. Enough school awareness days à la this week’s Rainbow Friday, promoted by the charity Just Like Us, which has been accused of a pro-trans agenda. Enough hours explaining to our tweenagers that JK Rowling isn’t, in fact, a wicked hater and that it’s Harry and Hermione who have lost the plot.
If you thought the whole trans nonsense had been settled in the Supreme Court, after a panel of Appeal judges ruled that no matter how long their false eyelashes or how shrill and strident their opinions, trans women are not women – think again.
Now pre-schoolers are under siege from a slew of sparkly picture books in which daddies turn into mommies (sic) by dint of growing their hair and painting their nails. Because we all know that’s all it takes to be a woman, folks.
Titles include She’s My Dad!, Julián is a Mermaid and Call Me Tree. No. I’m not making this up.
N]ew research into the publishing industry carried out by UK pressure group Sex Matters and its US equivalent, SEEN in Publishing, has revealed that a “shiny, sparkly world of trans identities” is being promoted to young readers, with “many aimed at toddlers”.
This new audit of the publishing industry found that of 21 publishers surveyed, a fifth of their output on transgender-related products was targeted at children, leading the report to raise concerns that the message in the early-reader books was often that becoming transgender will “resolve bodily hatred and create enduring joy in the form of ‘trans euphoria’”.
However, I think we can take solace in the fact that common sense is in the ascendant. Or it would be if we can stop a tsunami of gender-fluid evangelism sweeping through our nurseries and recruiting a generation of innocents into what remains of the discredited, delusional gender war.