Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs
Elon Musk has continued his criticism of the Government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve Parliament.
The world’s richest man, who purchased the social media site Twitter and renamed it X in 2022, has shared and reacted to tweets critical of the Government and the Prime Minister after Labour rejected a call for an inquiry into child grooming.
In his latest attacks on Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Musk shared a post asking whether Charles “should dissolve parliament and order a General Election… for the sake and security” of Britain.
Mr Musk retweeted the X thread with a one-word comment: “Yes.”
The 53-year-old Starlink boss continued to wade into the debate overnight, hours after he posted that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” after she denied requests for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham on Thursday.
He also suggested the Prime Minister had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.
“Torture rape gangs”
Mr Musk reposted an article in The Daily Telegraph by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick in which he says the “grooming gangs” should be renamed “torture rape gangs”.
He wrote that Mr Musk’s comments had shamed “the establishment by taking more interest in bringing these rape gangs to justice in one evening than most of the British establishment has for decades”.
Mr Musk continued his criticism in a post alongside footage of The Times’ chief investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk as he detailed the scope of the case and police mishandling, calling it “State-sponsored evil.”
Mr Norfolk exposed the Rotherham child sexual exploitation ring in the UK press in 2011.
In another comment on the same post, Mr Musk branded the scandal and the child rapists involved as “utterly shameful”.
The Tesla owner also called a post asking why people were angrier at his comments than they were about “mass rape” of children as the “perfect question”.
Meanwhile, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said a full national inquiry into organised grooming gangs is “long overdue”.
Ms Phillips said she recognised the “strength of feeling” for a Home Office-led inquiry into Oldham, but she told the local council the Government will not “intervene”.
“I believe it is for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the Government to intervene,” she said.
In response, Mr Musk, a key member of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle, said: “She deserves to be in prison.”
He also appeared to place blame at the Prime Minister’s door.
“Long overdue”
Mr Musk said: “In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects.
“Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013.”
In a series of posts on his social media site, Mr Musk described the Prime Minister as “two-tier Keir”, claiming there was “no justice for severe, violent crimes but prison for social media posts”.
Mr Musk also expressed his support for activist Tommy Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – who was jailed for 18 months for contempt of court in October.
Senior Tories also sought to put pressure on the Government over grooming gangs.
Mrs Badenoch said: “The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal.
“Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots.
“2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice.”
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp and shadow safeguarding minister Alicia Kearns pressed for a statutory inquiry in Oldham.
They said that only a public inquiry “can adequately encompass the national nature of these crimes and issues” and consider whether reports were ignored by the police, CPS and local council “or even covered up”.
In 2022, the then-Conservative government also refused a request for a public inquiry into events in Oldham.
An Oldham Council spokesman said: “Survivors sit at the heart of our work to end child sexual exploitation.
“Whatever happens in terms of future inquiries, we have promised them that their wishes will be paramount, and we will not renege on that pledge.”
Responding to Mrs Badenoch’s post, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “Talk is cheap. The Conservatives had 14 years in government to launch an inquiry.
“The establishment has failed the victims of grooming gangs on every level.”
Mr Musk, who is rumoured to be considering a major donation to Mr Farage’s party, responded: “Exactly. Time for Reform.”
Inquiry
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse, which published its final report in 2022, described the sexual abuse of children as an “epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake”.
Led by Professor Alexis Jay, the inquiry looked into abuse by organised groups following multiple convictions of sexual offences against children across the UK between 2010-2014, including in Rotherham, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Rochdale and Bristol.
In November last year, Professor Jay said she felt “frustrated” that none of the probe’s 20 recommendations had been implemented more than two years after its conclusion.
A Labour spokesman said the Government is “working at pace to implement the recommendations” in Professor Jay’s report.
The spokesman added: “We have supported both the national overarching inquiry into child abuse which reported in 2022, and local independent inquiries and reviews including in Telford, Rotherham and Greater Manchester.
“This Government is working urgently to strengthen the law so that these crimes are properly reported and investigated.
“In Oldham the crimes committed by grooming gangs were horrific. Young girls were abused in the most cruel and sadistic way.
“Victims and the community need to know that all steps are taken to deliver justice and protect children properly in the future.
“We will welcome and support an independent investigation commissioned by Oldham Council which puts victims’ voices at its heart, following the examples of Telford and Rotherham.
“We also continue to support wider work commissioned by mayor Andy Burnham into child protection issues across Greater Manchester, following the review into historic safeguarding issues in Oldham which was published in 2022.”
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King Spaniel has no such power lol. Foreign interference, now this is the real version. The far right got us out of a democratic EU to now proclaim our own sovereign parliament is wrong. Based on lies by a junkie ( see musks own admission on what he takes). Musk should know hate speech and lies has its legal issues, that money can’t buy like in the US
President Musk, part time idiot and full time troll is just messing around now, especially when he protects his purchase in the orange oaf that is a convicted sex abuser who happens to be listed as Farage’s friend.
We’ve only got ourselves to blame. This ‘Bond Villain’ is being allowed to acquire so much power because our society are encouraging him. If he was Russian then governments would sanction the use of his business and seize his assets but we’re letting him gain control and have only ourselves to blame when he rules. When I was younger I could never understand how Hitler became so powerful. We really don’t learn from history do we?
For such a purported “genius,” Mr Musk doesn’t half behave like an absolute wombat on a consistent basis.
Mr Musk should know that the King can only prorogue parliament at the request of the PM and since Boris’s adventure the circumstances are more limited as tested in the courts. It is a weakness of our constitution that the PM has to command a majority in the Commons which effectively means that the Commons becomes a rubber stamp in situations like the present where there is a large majority.
Musk is doing us a favour, as is Trump, in showing us the style of politics we’ll have when Farage and Reform get into power; almost certainly in a Ref-Con Coalition. The first Mini-me incarnation of this will be after the 2026 Senedd Election, followed by the full fat version after the next UK General Election. I was at a New Year’s Eve party in Cardiff and heard people coming out with the “only Nigel can save us now” line. That is how far we have sunk, and it shows how remarkably gullible many of our fellow countrymen and women… Read more »
This is worrying because that is only a message with no statement of fact or how from reform owner (“only nige etc. etc. …..”). It is amplified by musk, even as we have previous form of farage as MEP, UKIP, Brexit Party, he is just about breaking things for his handlers (see brexit), we now have a fascist and misogynist enabler backing reform and openly trying to destabilise the UK government, it sPutin but out in the open. All farage has to do is promise the world and some people will swallow it.
Anyone who openly supports farage and waxy lemon need sectioning, or at the very least they need to be kept away from children and vulnerable people.
They won’t necessarily be invariably effective, of course, but I think that it’s a fairly safe bet that the second Trump administration looks set to attempt quite a lot more full-on interventions and attempts to manipulate policies, even purely domestic ones, of the USA’s ‘allies’ in Europe than was the case when he occupied the White House last time around.
If we had a strong government in Westminster they would simply get GCHQ to block X across the UK and put out a statement that foreign interference in UK affairs is inappropriate.
In theory true enough, but I don’t see it happening under any currently conceivable UK government. Since Suez in 1956 Britain has consistently elected governments which, in terms of the relationship with the USA, ‘know our place’.
The boldest was Harold Wilson’s who prudently kept the UK entirely out of the Viet-Nam war. But Wilson did that with consummate tact, never remotely criticizing US policy or tactics. He just made sure that British forces never got sucked into that ultimately hopeless conflict.
The King doesn’t have the power.
I doubt Musk understands the practical implications resulting from the ‘glorious revolution’ of 1688.
Or, for that matter. even knows that it happened!
It’s actually a problem because there’s nothing to stop a rogue autocratic PM except their own populist MPs whose own career likely depends on that PM staying in power.
You have a point there.
Elon Musk get your nose out!
Try stopping people carrying guns in your own country.
i very much dislike this seriously right wing weirdo for his assumed status of self importance; he’s as unhinged as trump & all his extreemist “buddies”. his net worth $$$ is gross & we need to wake up to the fact that he got it by ripping most of the world off…some of whom will be reading this & poo poo’ing it, but he’s a badden’ folks & he hasn’t even started yet. he believes himself to be a superb political brain (again like trump) but whats on show here is a total absense of insight or intelect in the… Read more »
He should mind his own business, keep his mouth shut, look at the mess the last right wing government got us into, with help from Farage !!