‘Sickening’: Elon Musk continues his attack on UK government

Elon Musk is continuing his barrage of attacks on the UK government over a historical sex abuse scandal.

Elon Musk’s sudden crusade against the UK government over a historical sex abuse scandal is showing no signs of slowing down, with the tech billionaire declaring the British public need answers “not cover-ups”.

The Tesla owner has used his X platform to launch a barrage of online attacks against Britain’s Prime Minister in recent days, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of being “complicit” in the grooming gangs scandal, which first emerged over a decade ago.

The scandal, which was subject to a years-long national probe, involved the widespread sexual abuse of British girls by men of mostly South Asian origin in various northern English towns.

Official reports into how police, prosecutors and social workers failed to halt the rapes and other abuse, found that in some cases officials wanted to avoid appearing racist.

None of the probes into the scandal singled Mr Starmer – previously head of the country’s prosecution service – out for blame or found that he tried to block prosecutions due to concerns over alleged Islamophobia.

Elon Musk has used his X platform to launch a barrage of online attacks against Britain’s Prime Minister in recent days. Picture: Allison Robert/Pool/AFP

However Mr Musk has claimed the Labour Prime Minister was part of a cover up and “deeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes”.

He has also alleged “a quarter-million little girls were – still are – being systematically raped by migrant gangs in Britain”.

A 2014 report made a conservative estimate that more than 1,400 girls were sexually exploited in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013.

In his latest take-down, South African-born billionaire took to X on Tuesday to highlight calls for a new national inquiry, by a Reform UK MP who noted: “More Labour MPs backing calls for a national inquiry, I count three now. The pressure on Starmer to do the right thing is building.”

Responding to Rupert Lowe, Mr Musk wrote: “The pressure will keep building. The British public deserve answers, not cover-ups!”

Mr Musk has accused has accused Mr Starmer of being complicit in the grooming gangs scandal. Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA Pool/Getty

Hours later, the Tesla boss commented on a post by ‘anti-grooming gang campaigner’ Raja Miah on this issue.

Mr Miah shared an article by The Telegraph detailing claims by former Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk that he was told by two Labour MPs not to draw attention to the ethnicity of the grooming gangs.

“The former @UKLabour MP @SimonDanczuk has now spoken out and confirmed what we in Oldham have been saying for the last six years. The sickening reasons Labour wanted to cover up the rape gang scandal was to protect the Muslim block vote,” Mr Miah wrote. 

“As can be seen, this scandal goes to the highest level of the Labour Party.”

Expressing alarm, Mr Musk simply commented: “!!”

It comes days after Mr Musk called our Mr Starmer and former prime minister Gordon Brown over the scandal last week, writing in one post that Brown “sold those little girls for votes”.

“Prison for Starmer,” he said in another post.

Mr Musk followed up with an online poll asking 210 million followers if “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”.

Mr Musk has called for “prison for Starmer”. Picture: Frederic J. Brown/AFP

The barrage of attacks prompted a response by Mr Starmer last week, who criticised “those who are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims”.

“They’re interested in themselves,” the Labour Prime Minister said.

The opposition Conservative Party had sought to use the debate to force the establishment of a new national inquiry into sex offences dating back decades against children in northern England.

Mr Starmer has rejected calls for a new inquiry, arguing it is time for “action” to implement the almost two dozen recommendations made in an earlier seven-year-long inquiry with a broader focus.

Musk slammed by leading media figure 

Addressing Mr Musk’s recent attacks, ditor of satirical magazine Private Eye Ian Hislop derided the billionaire as “a classic social media adolescent who hasn’t grown up”.

Speaking on the issue on UK talkback station LBC, Hislop said it was an “amazing feat of deception” for the South African-born billionaire to convince followers the mainstream media had not covered big stories like the grooming scandal – which came to light a decade ago and was subject to a national public probe.

“We should have got on to him early on when he quite gratuitously called someone who was trying to help those boys in Thailand (who were stuck in a cave) a pedophile,” he said of Mr Musk’s comments about one of the Thai cave rescuers in 2018.

British media figure Ian Hislop has admonished Musk. Picture: LBC

He called Mr Musk “a classic social media adolescent who hasn’t grown up”. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty/AFP

“An American court let him off and I think he thought from then on ‘I can say anything I like, it doesn’t have to be true – it’s better if it’s not true – and no one will stop me’.

“And that’s what’s happened.”

Hislop also said Mr Musk and other tech bosses who were “sucking up” to incoming US president Donald Trump “purely on the grounds that this is to their commercial advantage” showed they “have no morality at all”.

“You get Musk pretending to be a champion of women and young girls, and then he calls Jess Phillips an ‘evil witch’,” he said.

“I mean how is that on a scale of medieval misogyny?

“He is riddled with contradictions and at some point, I am hoping, even his followers will begin to notice that from sentence to sentence – he makes no sense.”

He said the “best idea” would be for the public to “refuse to take him seriously”.

Mr Musk also appeared to fall out last week with right wing UK MP Nigel Farage, who met at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, over opinions about the jailed British anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson.

“The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes,” he wrote on January 5, after Mr Farage said he did not want Robinson in his party.

Mr Farage has since claimed in an interview with Sky News UK that he remains “on good terms” with the tycoon despite the public comments.

“Look, he said lots of supportive things. He said one thing that wasn’t supportive. I mean, that’s just the way it is,” Mr Farage said.

– With AFP

Originally published as ‘Sickening’: Elon Musk continues his attack on UK government