Musk's interest was sparked by reports earlier this week that Security Minister Jess Phillips had rejected a city council request for a government-led investigation into child sexual abuse in Oldham, a town near Manchester in the north of England. Was rejected. Areas where allegations of abuse by grooming gangs were made.
While Musk and his allies claim this is part of a larger government cover-up, Phillips actually wrote in a letter that it was “a matter for Oldham Council alone to investigate child sexual abuse at a local level, rather than through government intervention”. Had to decide to do it.” , The previous Conservative-led government had similarly rejected Oldham's call for a government-led inquiry in 2022.
Musk has called for Phillips to be jailed and called him a “rape-genocide sympathizer.” Both Musk and Philips did not respond to WIRED's requests for comment.
Musk is also using the report to once again remove Starmer from the post of Prime Minister.
“When Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution for 6 years, he was complicit in the rape of the UK,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Friday morning. Which is now pinned to the top of their timeline. “Starmer must go and face charges for his involvement in the worst mass crime in British history.”
Starmer, in his role as Director of Public Prosecutions a decade ago, actually initiated the prosecution of a grooming gang in Rochdale and introduced new rules aimed at allowing sexual abuse cases to be prosecuted.
Starmer and the UK government press office did not respond for comment, but the Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the BBC Musk's comments were “misunderstood and certainly misinformed.”
Musk has also included a number of right-wing American figures in the conversation, including accounts like Chaya Raichick, who runs the radical LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok, anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines, right-wing commentator Ian Miles Cheong, and disgraced former US national security Consultant Michael Flynn.
US Senator Mike Lee also wrote on X, “Does Britain need to be independent?”
“Yes,” Musk replied.
Hedge fund manager and Trump supporter Bill Ackman repeated Musk's story almost verbatim in a post on X. He then asked whether the President-elect would “consider appropriate sanctions against the UK until these concerns are addressed.”
In a post on Friday morning, Musk called on King Charles to dissolve Britain's Parliament and order a general election. While in the UK the King dissolves Parliament before a general election, this is done only at the request of the Prime Minister, and the King's power is, in effect, nothing more than a rubber stamp.