Everything Mr Straw said is unfortunately true.
It needs to be confronted, no matter how uncomfortable, and it needs to be addressed.
Unless you consider vulnerable young women as acceptable collateral damage in a politically correct war.
This has been going on for years, the security services knew about it as early as the 1990s and it is accepted as part of life for working girls in cities such as Derby, Bradford, Leicester, Blackburn, they know to protect themselves as best they can and work with cops to minimise risks.
There ARE groups of Pakistani men who consider troubled white British teenage girls, and boys, as fair game for abuse, at pre-organised sex parties where alcohol and cocaine are pretty much forced upon the victims, some as young as 13.
Rather than shooting the messenger, no matter how obnoxious and how his track record has blood all over it, might it not be prudent to at least look at the evidence?
Street grooming is happening. It's bold of Mr Straw to go public with his comments in this way, but it's about time something was said.