a terrifying weapon: your potential rivals and enemies are unable to guess where the next blow will come from and what the extent of the damage caused will be. It is difficult to imagine that any government would accept with little response the scandalous accusations that the technology magnate has made in recent months. In an uncontrolled string of messages on the social network he owns, “the civil war”, and has demanded
It is difficult to determine the reasons behind Musk’s special obsession with the United Kingdom. —the first ceremony at Dornoch Cathedral, in the Highlands Scottish women—whom he met in a pub Londoner, the tycoon has publicly professed his love for the country, and for historical figures such as Margaret Thatcher.
But at the same time, Musk has decided that it symbolizes everything he hates: increased immigration and progressive identity politics; what in Anglo-Saxon jargon is called wokethe pejorative term to refer to statements in favor of the trans movement or feminism or against xenophobic discourse or climate denialism.
Sexual crimes from a decade ago
In recent days, Musk has become obsessed with a scandal that shocked the United Kingdom more than a decade ago. A 2022 independent report commissioned by the Government noted that, over almost four years (2010-2014), more than 1,400 girls in charge of social protection services were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of organized groups (grooming gangsor pedophile gangs, they were called), mostly men of Pakistani origin. The crimes took place in the regions and towns of Rotherham, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Rochdale and Bristol.
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 conspiracy theories. (similar to the Attorney General’s Office of Spain).
“Starmer was complicit in the rape of the United Kingdom (sic) when he headed the Crown Prosecution Service for six years,” the American businessman has written. “Starmer must resign and face prosecution for his complicity in the worst mass crime in British history,” he added.
The current British Prime Minister held that position from 2008 to 2013, and it was precisely he who ordered the start of the prosecution against the Rochdale defendants. Starmer also launched a general review of the way the prosecution had acted in all these cases, to ensure that there were more convictions, as reported by Downing Street.
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)
The matter had caught the attention of the American businessman during the first hours of 2025, after reading a tweet suggesting a cover-up of the scandal by the British authorities. He then decided to agitate his more than two hundred million followers on X with dozens of inflammatory messages. He was not only attacking Starmer, but also against his Minister for the Safeguarding of Minors and Against Violence against Women and Girls, Jess Philips. The minister had suggested to the Oldahm town council, which requested an independent investigation into the abuses committed in that town, that it use the mechanism used by towns such as Rotherham or Telford, which launched their own official investigation.
Musk assured in X that Phillips “deserved to be in prison.” He was thus responding to the tweet in which he accused the minister of having “excused hooded Islamist thugs.”
The applause of the opposition
Starmer has decided, for the moment, not to respond to Musk’s provocations. He is aware of the power that the businessman will accumulate in the new US Trump Administration. The responses of some Labor ministers to his attacks have been rather lukewarm. Wes Streeting, Minister of Health, has suggested that Musk’s accusations of sexual abuse cases “involve an error in judgment and a lack of information”, and then added that the Government “is willing to work with Musk, who can play “Play an important role in this matter with your social network, to help us deal with such a serious matter.”
has given its implicit support to the American businessman, by demanding a new independent investigation into the sexual abuse of minors. The same investigation that the previous conservative governments of which Badenoch was part refused to promote.
And , anxious about the billionaire’s promise to inject massive funding into his party, Reform UK.
Both Badenoch and Farage are aware that they are playing with fire, and yet they cannot resist. At the same time that he viciously attacked the Labor Government for the pedophile scandal, Musk began a campaign to demand the release of the far-right British politician Tommy Robinson. Currently in prison for defaming a minor refugee with false information, the American businessman has decided to present him to the world as the champion of freedom of expression. At the time, Robinson also joined those who saw hidden conspiracies in the scandal, supposedly to protect a Muslim minority.
But Badenoch and Farage know that even the most right-leaning voters are disgusted by a figure guilty of introducing a fascist discourse in the United Kingdom, and in recent years they have tried to distance themselves from him.
Musk, who already accused Starmer last summer of using a double standard with immigrants and far-right protesters, has stirred up xenophobic hatred on British soil. The businessman went so far as to write in X that “the civil war was already inevitable” in the United Kingdom. Since then, he seems determined to make his prophecy come true, while the Starmer Government performs diplomatic juggling to avoid falling into the trap.
