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Nile Gardiner: ‘Thank God for Elon Musk Taking on the Labor Government'

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk is standing up for free speech in the U.K. following last month’s elections that resulted in huge wins for the far-left Labor Party.  Since its rise to power in July, Labor Party leaders have begun cracking down on social media, even arresting individuals for posts they claim incite violence. Now, Musk is using his X account to defend users and raise concerns over the crackdown in the U.K.  “It’s 2030 in the U.K., & you’re being executed for posting a meme,” Must wrote on X Saturday.  “The Brits gave up their guns, and now their government puts them in jail for Facebook posts,” a meme that Musk shared reads.   Musk is combating a “tyrannical-style policing of social media in the U.K.,” says Nile Gardiner, a former adviser to Lady Margaret Thatcher and the current director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.  “Thank God for Elon Musk taking on the Labor Government,” Gardiner declared during an interview on The Daily Signal Podcast. Recent violent riots in the U.K. were spurred on after rumors spread online about the identity of a man who killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed event in July in the English town of Southport, 50 miles west of Manchester. The suspect was rumored to be an illegal immigrant and Islamic. Both claims were proved false. The man now charged with the murder of the girls was born in Britain to Rwandan immigrant parents. Two men have been arrested and sentenced to a combined nearly five years in prison for reportedly using social media to encourage rioters to target hotels housing migrants in the U.K.  During a recent interview with Sky News, London's Metropolitan Police commissioner warned that law enforcement will “throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you.” Gardiner condemned the violent demonstrations while calling the crackdown on social media “very dangerous.”  “We need free speech champions fighting against Orwellian tactics and policies,” Gardiner said, adding that “Elon Musk is doing this, and full credit to him.”  Gardiner joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what we know about the violent riots in the U.K. and the Labor Party's social media speech policies. Enjoy the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, August 13th. I'm Virginia Allen.

0:10.5

There's a battle for free speech being waged in the UK. That's according to

0:16.0

Nyle Gardner, the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage

0:20.6

Foundation. Nyle recently returned from the UK

0:24.1

where they've just had major elections

0:26.8

in which the far left Labor Party won in a landslide.

0:30.8

Well now that same party is cracking down on free speech within the UK amid

0:36.4

rising protests, major concerns over illegal immigration into the UK and

0:41.0

other critical issues.

0:43.0

Nyle joins us on the show today to explain what exactly the situation is and how the election

0:48.4

of the Labour Party could affect America's relationship with the UK in the days, months, and years to come.

0:55.7

Stay tuned for my conversation with Nyle after this.

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This is Rob Lewy from The Daily Signal.

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I'm so pleased to welcome back to the show today, our good friend from the Heritage Foundation,

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Nile Gardner. He formerly served as an advisor to Lady

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