Keir Starmer Should Be Held Accountable

There is much commotion over the stand that tech billionaire Elon Musk has taken on the Keir Starmer government in Britain.

- J OYEETA BASU

He is vocal in his criticism of the Labour government for the refusal to act against the sexual abuse of vulnerable and underage white girls by groups of Pakistani Muslim men, and wants the Starmer government to resign and Britain to have fresh elections. He is going after Starmer and Co with as much firepower as possible, leading to screams of electoral interference coming not just from Britain, but also other countries that are in the crosshairs of Musk, who wields worldwide influence courtesy his social media platform X and now has the backing of incoming US President Donald Trump. There is reason for Musk to be outraged. The scale of the crimes committed in Britain is horrendous. There are claims of anything between 250,000 to half a million girls falling prey to horrific torture and abuse by these Pakistani gangs over the decades. Even if there is no confirmation of these numbers, even one case is one too many. A 2014 report estimates that at least 1,400 girls were sexually abused in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2013 by the Pakistani grooming gangs. In fact, "grooming gangs" is actually a misnomer, because these are actually rape gangs. Another 1,000 girls were found to have been abused in Telford. Amid this, the behaviour of the British political class and the m