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Abbyk1980 · 03/01/2025 09:12

Moonwalkies · 03/01/2025 09:11

We are all entitled to our own opinions, yours aren't superior.

Big difference between an opinion and trying to influence a democratic government i.e. Elon Musk telling people we need another election fuck right off

SugarPlumpFairyCakes · 03/01/2025 09:13

@DancingNotDrowning I should be ashamed of myself?

Don't be so utterly ridiculous. Listen to yourself.

Christ.

ThejoyofNC · 03/01/2025 09:13

BallerinaRadio · 03/01/2025 09:12

This is why I wonder sometimes whether people should be allowed to vote

I think the same about the fools who put starmer in.

Figgygal · 03/01/2025 09:13

Where was the pressure on the tories?
Where is it now given it was them that didn't progress this in the first place?
Musk is an anti establishment rabble rouser he knows nothing about UK politics and should stick to propping up old man trump with his shitty dog whistle politics

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 09:14

SpryCat · 03/01/2025 09:12

I don’t care who shines a light on this horrific rape of children and embarrass the government, I don’t care of his motives. I care that he is highlighting it

Absolutely!! I can't imagine the horrors those children went through at the hands of those evil men. How dare they govt & media try to sweep it away.
Elon has every right to get involved .

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Abbyk1980 · 03/01/2025 09:14

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 09:12

Well it's front & centre now globally thanks to Elon. It will no longer be swept under the carpet..

I think you find that the perpetrator is many of them are in jail and more grooming gangs have been found to end up in jail. I live in Dewsbury so I know that’s happened. It’s got fuck all to do with Musk and it’s got fuck all to do with Tommy Robinson, but I know your type and this is what you live for Telling lies go back to your far right shitty friends

Moonwalkies · 03/01/2025 09:14

Abbyk1980 · 03/01/2025 09:12

Big difference between an opinion and trying to influence a democratic government i.e. Elon Musk telling people we need another election fuck right off

Ah yes they're going to call an election based on his social media posts 🤡

AspirationalTallskinnylatte · 03/01/2025 09:15

There are a lot of allegedlys in that article. Of course it should be investigated and presumably a police investigation is ongoing?
I think musk is a politically dangerous man who should be barred from interfering in British politics.

YellowDiamondsInTheSky · 03/01/2025 09:15

DancingNotDrowning · 03/01/2025 09:12

And if the perpetrators weren't brown, I wonder how many others would really give a shit either.

@SugarPlumpFairyCakes you should be ashamed of yourself. A quarter of a million young girls raped and tortured and then systematically ignored and the offended against them covered up primarily because the perpetrators were brown.

I think you’ll find there were more white grooming gangs than Asian. But obviously that doesn’t make a good headline or get support from people like Elon Musk.

Anyone who thinks Elon Musk actually cares needs to have a rethink. This isn’t about the girls, this is about Elon Musk shit stirring.

Moonwalkies · 03/01/2025 09:15

Abbyk1980 · 03/01/2025 09:14

I think you find that the perpetrator is many of them are in jail and more grooming gangs have been found to end up in jail. I live in Dewsbury so I know that’s happened. It’s got fuck all to do with Musk and it’s got fuck all to do with Tommy Robinson, but I know your type and this is what you live for Telling lies go back to your far right shitty friends

Ah yes here comes the far right claims, yawn.

Annabella92 · 03/01/2025 09:15

Globusmedia · 03/01/2025 09:03

Elon Musk is a eugenecist. That's who you are supporting in trying to interfere with our government.

Most people are eugenecists in the UK today.

TreeSquirrel · 03/01/2025 09:16

Ime when a story is only being reported by GB News and amplified by far-right agitators, there is more to it. This is of course a distressing event for the girls involved, but the government have to look at wider considerations.

These are historic events dating back decades, which have already been investigated. What we don’t want is far-right activists jumping on these for their own racist and xenophobic ends and leading to community and national tensions.

These offences took place decades ago and have been impartially investigated away from the political arena. It’s not surprising that the far right are reluctant to move on, but it is now time to do so. Let’s not give the thugs any further ammunition.

BallerinaRadio · 03/01/2025 09:16

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 09:12

Well it's front & centre now globally thanks to Elon. It will no longer be swept under the carpet..

God this is embarrassing

ChannelFiveDrama · 03/01/2025 09:16

Who did you vote for in the last election OP? Just out of interest.

CamelByCamel · 03/01/2025 09:16

GreenTeaLikesMe · 03/01/2025 09:09

OK, but what happens when Musk decides in six months' time to start pressuring the UK government about something that you don't happen to agree with? There is the risk of a precedent being set here.

The grooming gangs stuff is appalling and I'm furious about it and about Labour cancelling the inquiry. But we should be conducting an inquiry and punishing the people concerned off our own bat and because it's the right thing to do, not because an unelected millionnaire who has never been a British citizen is trying to force us to.

This.

We know it can't actually be about bringing rapists to justice, as he's working alongside one in the White House. There is another agenda, which I agree with a pp is most likely to be about UK funding rules. And he's not going to stop with this. That's a big fuckoff problem.

BubblePerm · 03/01/2025 09:17

BananaNirvana · 03/01/2025 08:57

Of course, because Musk really cares and isn’t just using this as another way to promote his far right policies and get Farage elected.

This horror absolutely needs to be fully investigated but Musk should not be allowed to interfere in UK politics in the way he is doing - he is an incredibly dangerous man.

Agree.

YellowDiamondsInTheSky · 03/01/2025 09:17

genesis92 · 03/01/2025 09:10

Um the reason this has been essentially ignored and not covered by the media for years is BECAUSE they are brown/muslim

Absolute scandal

It has been covered by the media. And it is only the Asian gangs that have been covered. The white gangs have never got no where near as much exposure and coverage.

DancingNotDrowning · 03/01/2025 09:17

SugarPlumpFairyCakes · 03/01/2025 09:13

@DancingNotDrowning I should be ashamed of myself?

Don't be so utterly ridiculous. Listen to yourself.

Christ.

What is utterly ridiculous and frankly abhorrent on the back of so much brutality and suffering is you claiming - on a parenting site full of mothers no less - that most people only object to the rape and torture of a quarter of a million girls because they are racists.

you’re a decade too late to be aligning yourself with those who tried to brush this under the carpet to ease racial tensions, so yes absolutely you should be ashamed of yourself.

Abbyk1980 · 03/01/2025 09:17

Moonwalkies · 03/01/2025 09:14

Ah yes they're going to call an election based on his social media posts 🤡

I assume you were trying to take the piss out of what I have said the point is he has a position in the American government now this isn’t just somebody with an opinion. This is somebody with big influence so if you don’t think it’s gonna happen why do you support Elon Musk because he’s a fucking knobhead And anybody that supports them is a traitor to our country

Blarn · 03/01/2025 09:17

Strange that he didn't say anything about Matt Gaetz.

PandoraSox · 03/01/2025 09:17

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 09:14

Absolutely!! I can't imagine the horrors those children went through at the hands of those evil men. How dare they govt & media try to sweep it away.
Elon has every right to get involved .

I have just realised you are a brand new poster. Welcome to Mumsnet 🙂

RitaFromThePitCanteen · 03/01/2025 09:18

Yes, I absolutely adore foreign billionaires interfering in our politics.

I see what you're doing, by the way, linking Starmer's name to the grooming gangs. You think you're being subtle but it's the same old Tory propaganda script. Wish you lot would get a life and leave Mumsnet alone.

Globusmedia · 03/01/2025 09:18

It's also well known that bots on Twitter, which Musk owns, have been used to influence elections.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/01/2025 09:18

tinydynamine · 03/01/2025 08:54

It's the job of the opposition parties to hold the government to account NOT eccentric foreign tycoons.

This!

The decision itself may well be open to criticism- but not from someone like Musk - from our own opposition parties and people in the UK.

Musk should keep his nose out!

Abbyk1980 · 03/01/2025 09:18

Moonwalkies · 03/01/2025 09:15

Ah yes here comes the far right claims, yawn.

Oh yawn strangely though that’s who he supporting he supporting the AFD in Germany which is the far out party over there you come up dispute the facts if you don’t like the fact I suppose with your type you’ll just change because idiots don’t seem to understand facts

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