The most awful thing is that this is what our entire political establishment thinks and has always thought about the rape gangs, but they’ve learnt not to say it. Rory is so convinced of his intellectual superiority he felt he could say it. They all think it’s noisy, inconvenient and irrelevant. But to ordinary voters it is totemic of the casual, shocking disregard in the treatment of society’s most vulnerable to pursue sacred goals. He’ll regret having said this.