To think that Musk is now overstepping himself and the UK gvt should threaten action

[Bogginsthe3rd]

Musk has just posted this on twitter (among other unhinged tweets). To me this reads as a thinly veiled threat to democratically elected UK MPs and actually the UK government should consider sanctions to the US if he continues this attack when he enters the White House?

Oh dear Clav. Did you not notice the signatories are alphabetical?

Actually I you read the article I just linked, it says that Starmer signed a letter to Boris Johnson, so that is probably the letter the Times referred to

In fact it was you who first mentioned the letter in your reply to me - for some reason you found the article amusing. I only posted the Times headline; Keir Starmer ‘opposed’ expulsion of rapist Fabian Henry.

I see that Fabian Henry was mentioned in parliament in last year;

The right hon. and learned Gentleman [Starmer] also opposed the deportation of Fabian Henry, a foreign rapist who attacked a girl of 17 and abducted and sexually [assaulted] a 15-year-old. That is his record: when it came to putting people allegedly behind bars, he was busy working in the interests of those who very much undermine the safety of the young women and children of our country.

Bit of a non sequitur, Clav. What’s the relevance of who first raised The Letter - which was part of the article you linked to?

Is Henry in prison?

Elon is now supporting British farmers on Twitter. I’m now in a quandary 🤣🤣🤣

He's got so many of you frothing at the mouth - how many threads do we need about this?

If you don't like what he says, maybe ignore it and don't look at his posts on X?

It annoys many of you, but because of him the Grooming scandal is now getting the media attention it deserves. Why on earth anyone wouldn't want justice for these women and children is beyond me. This doesn't need to be political

He was sentenced to 12 years in 2013 so probably not for those crimes.

I totally agree.

Ok - yes, I've read both of your links. The letter to Boris Johnson and signed by Keir Starmer was sent in February 2020 (before he was elected Labour leader) - and the letter in your first link is dated November 2020 - after he was elected Labour leader. That makes sense.

I don't suppose he gives a flying fuck about farmers either.

He probably cares more than you do. Most people are totally disconnected from the source of their food.

I'm not poking my nose into the issues of another country on X so the comparison is irrelevant.

The report that was published in October 2022?
Nadine Dorries resigned from Cabinet in early September 2022.

@derxa

"It annoys many of you, but because of him the Grooming scandal is now getting the media attention it deserves. Why on earth anyone wouldn't want justice for these women and children is beyond me. This doesn't need to be political"

Because just as it was not in the interests of certain groups to investigate these horrific sexual abuse cases at the time, it is equally not in the interests of certain groups for the matter to get further publicity now (including obtaining justice for these women and girls).

Or in short the same people that wanted to brush it under the carpet at the time now want to keep it under the carpet. I don't particularly like Musk but he has brought much publicity to the matter that has pushed it up the political agenda.

Someone has just reminded LBC listeners of that annoying Guy Verhofstadt who was always poking his nose in, e.g.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/guy-verhofstadt-criticises-boris-met-police/
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrari/rees-mogg-welcomes-verhofstadt-brexit-campaign/

We have had many unpopular governments in my lifetime. However, this idea that we should redo the election whenever a government does anything unpopular has just appeared this year, and seems very dangerous. How many times do we have to redo the election until we get a result that everybody is happy with? Or is the idea that we dispense with elections and let Musk pick our leader? Somebody on one of the Musk threads referred to the Tories as "limping on for four more years", as if they too should have been thrown out after 6 months. You would almost think that some people are trying to destabilise our democracy.
And yes, people in the UK have criticised Trump, but that us not the same as suggesting that we should overturn the US election.

Not the same thing at all.

No thanks, it sounds dry as dust.

Worse, he is a Holocaust denier

Definitely not going there then.