I can't be sure I recall the exact moment, if there was one, in which I ruled out ever voting for what the Labour Party has become, but I do know why I made the decision. And I strongly suspect the precise moment was when Jeremy Corbyn sacked (sorry, accepted the resignation of) frontbencher Sarah Champion for an article she'd written in The Sun. The Labour MP for Rotherham and Shadow Secretary of State for Women had written about child rape, a decision that was seen as controversial for reasons that escaped me.

The Sun's headline ran: British Pakistani men ARE raping and exploiting white girls… and it’s time we faced up to it. Admitting as such was too much for Comrade Corbyn, defender of the working class, unless its children happen to be raped and tortured by inconvenient perpetrators. Sir Keir Starmer then conned his way to succeeding Tragic Glasto Grandpa by promising the Hard-Left he'd be Continuity Corbyn. And in one respect our Prime Minister has stuck to his word.

Minutes before Parliament ceased operations for an undeserved recess this week, Starmer's ironically named Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips dealt a deadly blow to accountability.

Four of the five promised local inquiries into the grooming gangs scandal will no longer happen. Just one, in Oldham, will go ahead.

Other councils have the option of engaging with a more "flexible" approach in the dwindling quest for answers to the rape of working class girls.

This is depressing but not surprising. I believed long ago that a Labour Party not willing to stick up for the most vulnerable of Britain's labouring classes isn't worth its name, let alone my vote.

We might have moved on from the days in which Labour MP Ann Cryer was broadly branded a racist for raising the alarm on rape gangs, but the betrayal of working class girls continues.

This latest betrayal — just like the cries of "racist" that now look a bit old-hat — shows what the Labour Party thinks of the electorate. They think you're stupid.

So stupid that you won't notice Jess Phillips extracting any teeth inquiries had left because she did it and then ran away from Parliament for a holiday.

She's the political equivalent of a thug who suckerpunches a pedestrian then legs it before the victim can strike back.

It's worth remembering that these five local inquires were the crumbs left on the Commons floor after Keir Starmer squirmed over the logistics of a national inquiry.

While we're reminiscing, does anyone else have Jess Phillips's expression during the PMQ's debate on this matter burned into their retinas?

The indignance. The incredulity. The pain. The 'I-just-can't-believe-this' expression of a skint mother whose child is screaming for the most expensive toy in a busy shop for the tenth time that day.

The fact that she has a well-earned reputation of fighting for violently abused women and girls, far from being a trump card with which to beat critics such as Elon Musk, made the spectacle all the weirder.

That display and this latest decision are what you can now safely expect from a Labour Party that has forgotten its post-industrial voters.

So if you're a Labour voter and you're reading this, I have one question: How many times does this party have to betray Britain's working classes before you cease your support?