Nigel Farage responds to Elon Musk’s ‘misinformed’ claim that Labour minister is a ‘rape genocide apologist’

Nigel Farage responds to Elon Musk’s ‘misinformed’ claim that Labour minister is a ‘rape genocide apologist’Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

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00:00He said Keir Starmer was complicit in the rape of Britain.

00:03He said that Jess Phillips, who's a government minister who's worked her whole career

00:06helping victims of abuse, he said that she was a rape genocide apologist.

00:13This afternoon he said that she's a wicked witch, that she is pure evil.

00:17Is it acceptable for somebody with Elon Musk's platform to say those kinds of things?

00:22I tell you what, those on the left have thrown these sort of jibes at the right

00:25for many, many decades and will go on doing so.

00:28Do you think it's acceptable for somebody to say that the British Prime Minister

00:31was complicit in the rape of the country?

00:33I believe in free speech, even if what people say is offensive,

00:36if you find it offensive, if most people find it offensive.

00:39Would I rather live in a world where we're free to cause offence

00:43than a world in which free speech and debate get shut down?

00:46I know which of those two I prefer.