Elon Musk: Hunting Hound
How Musk is weakening Starmer to benefit Trump and undermine the liberal establishment.
Commercial Summary: Elon Musk is using his X platform to attack Sir Keir Starmer and Olaf Scholtz in a bid to teach NATO countries a lesson, weaken Starmer and Scholtz ahead of negotiations over trade and Ukraine with Trump, and force both governments to abandon at least elements of the liberal progressive project.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s record as Britain’s top prosecutor between 2008 and 2013 is being re-examined. The Pakistani Muslim rape gangs issue has returned to the limelight, due to Starmer’s feminist Safeguarding Minister Jess Philips rejecting a local council’s request for a Public Inquiry.
This triggered a campaign on Elon Musk’s X social media platform, backed by Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, elements of the Conservative Party (whose own role in this scandal is shameful), right wing TV broadcaster GB News, and Elon Musk himself.
Musk is sparing no one, going as far as to call for the removal of Reform leader Nigel Farage, MP, even after calling for an early election which he said he wants Reform to win.
The rape gangs issue summarised
Given that Britain is in Europe, the majority of the population is white, and so are the majority of the criminals. However, it is evident that in various types of crime, non-whites are overrepresented relative to the size of their population.
According to the data from a string of police investigations into grooming gangs, which is by no means comprehensive, 96.4% of the rapists involved were Asian. By contrast, 79.1% of their victims were white, and only 2.3% were Pakistani. Some rapists’ statements and victims’ testimonies confirm that religion and race drove the perpetrators to target white girls.
The rape gangs consisted of tightly knit networks of friends and family acting in concert over several decades to target white underage girls. There were ring leaders, and then there were individuals who would go to certain flats and locations where girls were abused, partake in the abuse, and get on with their lives. In one community, one in every eight Muslim men were involved in the rapes. There is simply nothing at this scale in the white community.
Pakistani Muslim police officers and council officials sometimes protected their rapist relatives, by passing information about victims coming forward, and by providing political cover. Given how tightly knit these communities are, at least some of the rapists’ family and friends must have had an idea about what was happening. They never reported the issue to the authorities. Rather, they mostly stood by their kin even after they were convicted of the most horrendous rape and abuse.
Some of the rapists have already been released into the communities that they had terrorised. It was mostly ring leaders who were prosecuted, rather than the individual perpetrators. Meaning that most perpetrators were never held to account.
The police, Home Office, judiciary, media, and local councils deserve eternal shame for mostly covering up the abuse, minimising its extent, disregarding the victims, denying that there was a structural, communal problem, treating the victims like they were the ones at fault, and placing “communal relations” above justice, as though the gangs themselves were not evidence of broken communal relations.
In at least two cases, the police arrested fathers who had gone to try and save their daughters. In another, the police let a rapist to go free if he handed over the girl he was abusing. In another, a social worker attended an Islamic wedding - not recognised by the British state - between a girl and her abuser.
There are many truly harrowing details, which are beyond the scope of this piece.
Attacking the liberal consensus
Musk should be understood as both rightly outraged by the rape gangs and the atrocious record of the British establishment, and also as acting for President-elect Donald Trump. Critically, by pushing the rape gang story back to the forefront, Musk and Trump are forcing Starmer into an impossible bind:
Acknowledging the role that race, community and religion played in the rape gangs affair would dismantle the multicultural, post-nationalist, liberal narrative. It would prove what we have long argued: that diverse communities are naturally in conflict; that different religions imply different values and identities; that diversity and democracy are not compatible; that Western values are a global exception that rests on Christianity, and are not shared by Muslims, Hindus or others; and that the role of the nation state is to safeguard its own nation, not strangers.
Recognising any of these points would create a legitimacy crisis for Labour and for the mostly left-wing Civil Service. It would force the question: what should Britain do with migrants, some of whom have gained British citizenship, who come from cultures that are demonstrably incompatible with Western culture.
Abandoning the multicultural narrative would delegitimise Labour among its progressive, white, middle class, metropolitan supporters, within the Civil Service and among ethnic minorities. It would be electoral suicide.
Not acknowledging these points would place Starmer in an indefensible position in seats that are targeted by Reform or the Conservatives. Recall that, in 142 seats, Reform and the Conservatives had a higher combined vote than Labour, and that Starmer received a smaller percentage of the vote than any prime minister in modern history. Starmer’s mandate is very weak, despite his massive parliamentary majority. Indeed, the combination of weak mandate and large majority goes to the heart of the crisis facing British politics.
Remarkably, no one from the Starmer camp came out to defend the multicultural experiment, or immigration, or the success of integration. Rather, to sidestep this dilemma, Starmer’s surrogates are attacking Musk personally, focusing on how dangerous Musk is and how he is a threat to British democracy.
Additionally, Musk is attacking Germany’s Olaf Scholtz, highlighting cases where German courts have allowed foreign rapists to go free, or punished individuals for speaking about the migrant crime wave, or other miscarriages of justice. Musk is vocally supporting the AfD, presenting it as the only party that can address Germany’s polycrisis.
Germany's polycrisis
If Starmer or Sholz were to try to regulate Twitter (X) or silence Musk, Trump would use that as a pretext to impose tariffs. They therefore have no choice but to take Musk’s abuse and allow him to dominate the news cycle.
This is a win-win for Trump. Starmer’s and Sholz’ ideology on multiculturalism, green energy, and wokeness is untenable, but they cannot easily abandon it. If Musk weakens them, Trump gains. If they switch tracks and adopt policies Trump approves of, Trump gains. If either leader is replaced, Trump gains. All the while, Trump gets to claim that Musk is a private citizen over whom he has no control.
Trump’s objectives
We have argued that Trump wants competent imperialism, not isolationism: the man is trying to force Denmark to sell him Greenland. He is calling Canada the 51st American state. And his cabinet is full of Israel, Russia and China hawks.
Our view is that Trump is using Elon Musk, or that Elon Musk is allowing himself to be used by Trump, to soften allied countries’ political leaders before Trump’s inauguration. Essentially, Musk is acting like a hunting hound, putting Trump’s prey to flight so Trump can shoot them down. After the inauguration, there will be negotiations over a range of issues including trade, industrial policy, culture, and security. What Trump wants is to: