In the UK, Elon Musk’s backing of King Charles III’s plan to abolish Parliament has caused political controversy.
Following his support for King Charles III to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections, Elon Musk has become a political lightning rod in the United Kingdom.
The CEO of Tesla supported a social media post that criticized the way the government handled Manchester’s criminal gang investigations. In the UK, police cannot charge suspects in major crimes like rape without the Crown Prosecution Service’s consent. When rape gangs were permitted to take advantage of young girls without suffering consequences, who was in charge of the CPS? On New Year’s Day, Musk wrote on X (previously Twitter): “Keir Starmer, 2008 – 2013.”
“Who is Jess Phillips’ current boss? Stamer, Keir. He posted a follow-up post, saying, “The real reason she’s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer [head of the CPS at the time].”
“The King has to intervene. He said in the thread, “We can’t have Keir leading the nation when he was in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] during all of this.”
The Labour Party has criticized Musk’s engagement.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, responded to his remarks by calling them “misjudged and certainly misinformed.”
In an interview with LBC radio, Labour Minister Andrew Gwynne repeated the thought, saying, “Elon Musk is an American citizen and perhaps ought to focus on issues on the other side of the Atlantic.”
“The grooming problem is a major one. Gwynne clarified, “We’ve already had probes into Telford, Rotherham, and a local inquiry into the situation here in Greater Manchester, which includes Oldham, commissioned by Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester.
“There comes a point where we don’t need more inquiries, and had Elon Musk really paid attention to what’s going on in this country, he might have recognized that there have already been inquiries. What we need is justice for the victims, and we need to make sure that the criminal justice system follows up and makes sure that these atrocious things are never able to happen again.”
The debate intensified when Musk suggested that Minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” for her stance on launching a new public inquiry into grooming in Oldham. Phillips had argued that a local council-led inquiry, similar to those in Rotherham and Telford, would be more effective, per BBC report.
Musk added gasoline to the fire by sharing a Daily Telegraph story about the probes written by Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary. Musk’s comments “shamed the establishment by taking more interest in bringing these rape gangs to justice in one evening than most of the British establishment has had for decades,” Jenrick said.
