Saw part of a programme about Childline last night. I didn't want to listen but felt compelled to hear a young man's account of how all the adults he had known as a child abused him. How the justice system had failed him, how he could not trust any adult because he had never been given anything except in return for sex. And the anguish of realising that getting justice meant reinforcing the total absence of love from his family.
This isn't in the past. This is now.
Instead of de-stabilising the world by launching imperialist crusades our government should be making things better here. Not talking about longer sentences to keep the gutter press happy; sentences punish individual offenders, they don't stop any other children getting abused. We need to find out what causes people to become so de-humanised that they use their own children as sex slaves and work out how to prevent it so that children stop suffering.
Isn't that what we elect a Labour government for ?