Ladies, did you really think your conversational skills were what attracted him?

Monday blog

Now that the trial and conviction of a certain well-known comedian, TV presenter and actor are over, I guess it’s ok to make some ignorant and uninformed comments about the case.

Two issues worry me:

• who were the real sexual predators?
• what about the rape gangs?

Who were the real sexual predators?

I guess I was living and working abroad when Mr Brand rose to ‘fame’. So I don’t know much about him. I think I saw reported that he had been named “shagger of the year” three times in the ‘soaraway’ Sun supposed ‘newspaper’. So what did the ladies who so willingly/enthusiastically accepted invitations to Mr Brand’s dressing room, hotel room or home expect? An evening discussing the finer points of Pre-Raphaelite art? Perhaps an exploration of the last 100 years of philosophical thought?

In the early seventies I spent a year on a course in a northern English town when English towns were English. I had a 19-year-old female cousin who lived there. I have memories of how the girls of her age threw themselves on any touring rockstar. Of course, the musicians and roadies and hangers-on took full advantage of their happy position. But the sexual predators were (IMHO) the girls hungry for a boning by someone famous (or even just someone connected with someone famous) and not the men who did the boning.

I imagine that Mr Brand’s approach to the sexual act may have been somewhat unsubtle. But what on earth did the women clamouring to get near him expect? I haven’t been following the case, but something I read made me suspect that the ‘rape’ for which the gentleman was convicted started as consensual sex but went a bit awkward when the convicted man shoved his helmeted warrior of love into the lady’s backdoor. But I’m probably wrong. I usually am.

What about the rape gangs?

In the same week that we hear about Mr Brand’s trial and conviction, we learned that:

A grooming gang survivor who was raped and abused by at least 50 men was handed back to her attackers by police after she mistakenly told officers she was an adult. Fiona Goddard was groomed by a gang of Asian men from the age of 14 after she fled a children’s home in Bradford in 2008. What started with a request for a lighter spiralled into a horrific ordeal during which she was trafficked to Blackburn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Oldham, MailOnline reports.

Despite being recorded on the police database as an under-age victim of child sexual exploitation, the officers returned her to the very property she had just been removed from. As they dropped Ms Goddard back at the address, one officer told her abusers: ‘She says she’s over-age – enjoy your night, lads.

A few men from our favourite religion and favourite country were convicted several years later. But most weren’t. A cynic might be tempted to compare the mainstream media’s and politicians’ and do-gooders’ ‘outraged’ hounding of Mr Brand for his reported sexual aggressiveness. But the same people seem to have been desperate to avoid any discussion or investigation of the gangs who are believed to have raped orally, vaginally and anally tens of thousands of white British girls. Two-tier justice from our cowardly, hypocritical elites?