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UK Labour Forced to Deny It Was Pushed to Act on Grooming Gangs by Elon Musk, Social Media Outrage
Breitbart ^ | 01/17/2025 | Oliver JJ Lane

Posted on 01/17/2025 8:04:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

“We’re not a government that governs by social media”, insists spokesman for UK’s left-wing government as new announcements on tackling child rape grooming gangs comes after weeks of intense scrutiny and anger on social media.

Widespread anger and scrutiny of Britain’s now decades-long scandal of “Pakistani-heritage” organised child rape gangs in regional towns and cities organically emerged on social media over Christmas and the New Year, and was latterly boosted by X-owner Elon Musk. On Thursday this week, the UK’s left-wing government went further than it ever has before in announcing new action on the scourge, but quickly moved to deny today its announcements were in any way related to what had been so widely discussed online.

UK Culture minister Lisa Nandy told UK broadcasters on Friday that “We’re not a government that governs by social media. We govern for the real world”, asserting “I don’t agree for a moment that this government is being driven by what happens on social media””.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: act; deny; forced; gangs; grooming; groominggangs; labour; musk; pushed; socialmedia; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

“We’re not a government that governs by social media”

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if you drill down on that statement

they are saying

we’re not a government that governs by the voice of the people


21 posted on 01/17/2025 11:38:11 AM PST by joshua c
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“UK Culture minister Lisa Nandy ... asserting “I don’t agree for a moment that this government is being driven by what happens on social media”””

IOW, “We don’t listen to what listen to what the people want, but just do what WE want”

[btw, wasn’t it just a couple of days ago, Labor said rape grooming gangs and didn’t exist, and that their security apparatus was monitoring Musk for potentially violating what folks are allowed to say?”


22 posted on 01/17/2025 1:21:01 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: hanamizu

If its the one I’m thinking of he WAS arrested. If it had been me they would not only have had to arrest me but use extreme and excessive physical force to do so if my daughter was still in there.


23 posted on 01/21/2025 11:24:25 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Update...

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEra

ADMIN POST.

At last night’s council meeting in Wigan, Independent Councillor Maureen O’Bern publicly called for a national inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs.

Labour walked out en masse.

This morning the council voted for a full inquiry, against Starmers position on it.
9:07 AM · Jan 24, 2025 769.5K Views

https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1882792228382539952


24 posted on 01/25/2025 4:07:34 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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