Keir Starmer has launched himself into a ruthless battle with the intention of not getting his hands dirty. The British Prime Minister has finally decided to respond to the continuous attacks he has received in recent days from Elon Musk over the scandal of sexual abuse of minors in the United Kingdom that occurred more than a decade ago. Starmer has avoided directly accusing the billionaire, aware of the important role he will play in the imminent US Administration of Donald Trump, but has placed him, along with the Conservative Party, among those who “spread lies and misinformation” on the networks and “amplify the discourse of the extreme right.”
The prime minister wanted his first speech of the year to focus on the much-needed reform of a National Health Service on the verge of collapse, and his team had scheduled a public event this Monday at a medical center in the town of Epsom. But in the hours before the intervention, Downing Street had already told the media that Starmer would respond to Musk – without entering into a direct confrontation – and defend his record at the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
“I enjoy debates as much as anyone, no matter how tough they are, in politics, but they must be based on facts and truth, not on lies, not on the rules of those so desperate to demand attention that they are willing to degrade themselves to themselves and their country,” the British Prime Minister has accused.
The technology magnate has rescued a scandal that shocked British society more than a decade ago, and that still drags countless suspicions and conspiracy theories among the population. The calls grooming gangs (something like pedophile mafias), criminal organizations that sexually exploited and abused minors, spread terror throughout several British regions and towns due to the negligence and lack of response of the police and political authorities.
An independent report, prepared in 2014 by Alexis Jay, an academic and former social worker who today chairs the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, revealed that “approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited from 1997 to 2013” in the city of Rotherham. . Those responsible for the plot were British men of Pakistani origin. Over the years, new independent investigations revealed a network of child abuse by gangs organized by regions and towns throughout England, such as Cornwall, Derbyshire, Rochdale, Bristol and Rotherham.
Aware, in any case, that facts are a weak weapon against massive attacks on social networks, Starmer wanted to respond to Musk without making the billionaire the protagonist of the dispute. For the Prime Minister, a red line has been crossed from the moment the Conservative Party, which he has accused of ignoring the recommendations of Professor Jay’s report for 14 years, “has jumped on the far-right bandwagon.”
“All those who spread lies and misinformation as widely as they can [una parte del discurso en el que el líder laborista incluía, sin citarlo, a Musk] They are not interested in the victims. “They are only interested in themselves,” Starmer accused.
The slowness with which the authorities responded, due to bureaucracy, fear of stirring up racial tension or being accused of being Islamophobic, or lack of interest in the problems of marginal minority communities, unleashed all kinds of theories, including the accusation that the entire plot was been covered up to preserve a supposedly positive vision of UK multiculturalism. For part of those years, Starmer headed the Crown Prosecution Service (similar to the Attorney General’s Office in Spain).
Starmer was complicit in the RAPE OF BRITAIN when he was head of Crown Prosecution for 6 years.
Starmer must go and he must face charges for his complicity in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2025
“Starmer was complicit in the rape of the United Kingdom [sic] “Starmer must resign and face prosecution for his complicity in the worst mass crime in British history,” he added. .
in self defense
Starmer has chosen to defend his record as head of the Prosecutor’s Office to try to respond to Musk’s accusations. “Sexual abuse of minors is something absolutely nauseating. For many years the victims were abandoned, based on a perverse idea regarding the relationship between communities and a determination to defend institutions before people,” the Labor politician began by admitting. He supported the accusations made at the time by some social workers, who pointed out their superiors’ fear of fueling racial tension with the matter.
But the prime minister wanted to remember his efforts to move forward many of the stalled judicial investigations, as well as the change he gave to the way in which the Prosecutor’s Office approached these scandals. “That is why I reopened cases that were already closed, and promoted the first judicial investigation against a gang of Asian origin [en referencia a su origen paquistaní] in Rochdale”, he defended. “I changed things, because I wanted to challenge all the myths and stereotypes that prevented victims from being heard (…). When I left office, we had established a record in the number of cases investigated and prosecuted for sexual abuse of minors,” he added.
Musk has defended in his messages on expression and has demanded his release. “Those who defend Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice. They support a man who ended up in prison for obstructing an investigation into sex abuse gangs. “They are people who seek some kind of satisfaction through the street violence that Robinson promotes,” the British Prime Minister responded this Monday.
The tycoon, committed to a vendettaagainst Starmer for almost half a year, has publicly and rhetorically asked himself in recent hours whether “the United States should free the people of the United Kingdom from their tyrannical government,” and has asked King Charles III to dissolve Parliament to call new elections.
Musk has called the Minister for the Safeguarding of Minors and Against Violence against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips, who has been dedicated to combating this type of aggression for years, an “apologist for the genocide of rape”, for the mere fact of suggesting to the municipal authorities of Oldham, who demanded a nationwide investigation into sexual abuse of minors, which was more effective than the mechanism used by towns such as Rotherham or Telford, which launched their own official investigation.
“When far-right venom leads to serious threats being made against Jess Phillips or others, I take that to be a line that has been crossed,” Starmer said.
