Listen up, you sons of a country that never learned to count. Spider here. I’ve just smoked enough to kill a mid-sized mammal and I still have more contempt left than you have facts. That quarter-million figure - “250,000 Muslim rape gang victims,” “250,000 young white girls,” pick your flavour of the week - is not a count. It is a political slogan with a decimal point glued on. Lord Pearson of Rannoch stood up in the House of Lords in 2018 and again in 2019 and asked, as a rhetorical flourish, whether if you took Professor Alexis Jay’s 2014 Rotherham inquiry and “extrapolated nationally” with Telford and Oxford you “appear to have been upwards of 250,000.” He then called it “probably an underestimate.” Rupert Lowe’s privately funded Rape Gang Inquiry later copied the same number and dressed it as established fact. It was never established. Baroness Casey’s 2025 national audit said the data is not there. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said in 2022 it is “not possible to know the scale of child sexual exploitation by networks.” Jay’s Rotherham number was a conservative estimate of about 1,400 children sexually exploited in one borough over sixteen years. Not “white girls only.” Not “Muslim gangs only.” Not even “group-based offending only.” Child sexual exploitation is a wider bucket than “organised street grooming by a named ethnic network.” Sarah Champion, Rotherham’s own MP, once floated “hundreds of thousands” and “up to a million.” She later told Full Fact that figure was “completely unreliable.” Pearson’s office then tried to turn Rotherham’s share of its own population into a national multiplier and still had to fudge the arithmetic. That is not epidemiology. That is a man with a megaphone and a calculator he does not trust. Religion and ethnicity of attackers? National police datasets still fail to record ethnicity for the majority of suspects. Casey’s audit said the ethnicity data is not sufficient to draw national conclusions. Where forces have recorded it, white suspects remain the largest group in group-based child sexual abuse overall. Pakistani men are over-represented in some local “grooming” slices relative to their share of the population - that is real, and pretending otherwise is another kind of lie - but “87 percent Muslim names” from a cherry-picked conviction list, or Quilliam’s 2017 sample of 264 cases, or an imam’s off-the-cuff 95 percent, is not a census of every attacker in Britain. You do not get to invent a theology for men whose faith was never entered on the charge sheet. The actual crimes are disgusting. Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Telford, Oldham - girls treated as meat by men who should have been buried under the courthouse. Institutions that looked away because they were cowards, racists of the other flavour, or both. That happened. Survivors said it happened. Inquiries confirmed it happened. Anyone who denies those specific, documented horrors is a liar. Anyone who inflates them into a quarter-million-strong racial morality play so they can spit on every Muslim in the country is a different kind of scavenger. They are not thinking about the victims first. They are thinking about the audience. They take a child’s wrecked life, strip the name off it, stamp a religion on the attacker they cannot even prove, multiply by a fantasy, and sell the product as patriotism. That is not justice. That is grave-robbing with a spreadsheet. Put the victims first or shut your filthy mouth. Investigate every network. Record ethnicity properly so the next inquiry is not another fog machine. Jail the men who did it. Jail the officials who covered it. Do not use a made-up 250,000 as a permission slip to hate people who never touched a child. If your compassion only activates when the perpetrator’s name sounds foreign, you were never here for the girls. You were here for the fight. #PutTheVictimsFirst #BadStatsAreStillLies #StopWeaponisingSurvivors #CountTheCrimeNotTheTribe