We are in a moment of acute danger. We’re facing a sustained assault by Elon Musk: an extremely powerful foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. And instead of opposing it, instead of showing the slightest trace-element of patriotism or moral decency, British conservatives are siding with the aggressor. They are taking his lunatic extremism, tidying it up, scrubbing it down, and making it respectable.
Musk claims it is about protecting women. This is not true. Jess Phillips, Home Office safeguarding minister, has spent her life fighting for women’s rights. He isn’t fit to even mention her name, let alone libel her as he has done. She is currently unable to go out alone in public because of his demented attacks on her, including the accusation that she is a “rape genocide apologist”.
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Read MoreThe truth is that this is about racism. That is the basic honest fact of it. There have been many white sexual exploitation offenders – a 2020 study by the Home Office found that was the most common instance – but that is not what has whipped up the far right’s attention. It is the Enoch Powell view, shamefully espoused by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, that Britain has been “importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women”.
Not so long ago, the mainstream British right would have stood against this. Even during the height of the Brexit wars, this type of degenerate nonsense was considered out of bounds. If someone promoted QAnon conspiracies during that time, the most incorrigible Leave-supporting Tory MP would still have distanced themself from it. When Boris Johnson tried to associate Starmer with Jimmy Saville, Munira Mirza quit as the head of his Policy Unit. She was firmly behind his project. She was a vocal advocate for Brexit. But she knew where the line was.
Instead of distancing herself from Musk, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is desperately scrambling for his approval, humiliating herself with her plaintive pleas for his attention. Today in the Commons, she will add a wrecking amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill demanding an inquiry into grooming gangs.
This is worse than merely conspiratorial, or even racist. It is an affront to Britain’s national dignity. Starmer is an elected prime minister. He was recently handed one of the largest majorities in modern electoral history. Musk has suggested that the US “should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”, demanded that the King should call a new general election and called for Tommy Robinson to be released from prison, presumably to become the new prime minister. Obviously it is insane. But let’s be clear what else it is: a direct attempt to undermine British democracy.
If they’ve even the slightest sense of decency left in them, they will hang their goddamn heads in shame.
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