Just done a cursory reading of it. Having read their mass deportations paper, I instantly recognised the style of conjecture as that of Harrison Pitt. What they've done is collect a small volume of testimonies (which makes up half the document), from which no real qualitative conclusions can be drawn - beyond that which we know already (that these girls went through horrific ordeals). The rest of it merely summarises and regurgitates everything we already know, while making major omissions such as the extent to which it folds into wider organised crime.
There's more to be said on how their recommendations fall short, given that nobody involved shows any intimate understanding of of the enforcement landscape. I hesitate to use the word slop because it's a word I have a tendency to overuse, but it does fit the bill here. It's not much to show for the better part of a million quid and a year's work. They phone it in. It would fail any basic test of academic rigour - and the conditions in which the evidence was gathered would make it inadmissible for any academic study.
This whole enterprise is just a means for Lowe's party to take ownership of the issue. On that basis, it's hard to escape the feeling that it's a wholly exploitative political stunt. But then that's what it was when it was first mooted by Farage.
Genuinely can’t get over this post by Restore’s Head of Policy.
Three of Restore’s senior staffers are smiling and looking smug ahead of the publication of a report on mass rape.
Also how do you go from a first draft to final version in less than a day?
It’s amateur hour.
