Elon Musk’s dramatic recent intervention in British politics has raised a number of important issues relating to the pervasive influence of social media on politics in the West.

Last week Musk launched an unprecedented attack on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Minister for Safeguarding Women and Girls (a typical woke exercise in virtue signalling) Jessica Phillips, over their involvement in the infamous “grooming gangs scandal”.

This scandal involved hundreds of men (for the most part of Pakistani origin) grooming a large number of young girls (for the most part white) for illicit sexual purposes – that took place in some 40 migrant-dominated British towns (most famously Rotherdam) between 1997 and 2013.

Subsequent inquiries disclosed that widespread grooming took place, and that the immediate response by police, local councils and the director of public prosecutions DPP was tardy and unenthusiastic, to say the least.

Complaints by parents of the young girls were initially ignored by police, and the mainstream British media failed to comprehensively report on what was happening at the time.

Conservative commentators and some Tory politicians have for the past decade sought to politicise the “grooming gangs” issue, claiming that these failures were caused by institutionalised woke reluctance to expose the criminal activities of members of an ethnic community, and rigorously prosecute wrongdoers.

Starmer was the DPP between 2008 and 2013, and this is the basis for Musk’s attack on him. He accused Starmer of being “evil”, failing to prosecute offenders because of his ideological commitment to diversity politics and of being complicit “in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain”.

Musk also intemperately called Jessica Phillips a “rape genocide apologist” – an absurd term – and a “witch”. Such crudities appear to be the norm for Musk.

The “grooming gangs scandal” became a political issue again in October last year, when Phillips rejected calls for a further national inquiry into the matter. Musk has now called for a wide-ranging inquiry into the scandal and Starmer’s personal involvement in it. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, has also called for a government inquiry.

Starmer has firmly rejected Musk’s allegations – he claims, in fact, to have prosecuted some offenders –........

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