❓WHAT HAPPENED: Reports suggest that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s office approved of comments linking Reform Party leader Nigel Farage to notorious pedophile Jimmy Savile due to his opposition to the censorship-enabling Online Safety Act.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Nigel Farage, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, British Science Secretary Peter Kyle.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Science Secretary Kyle made the initial comments on July 29.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Make no mistake about it, if people like Jimmy Savile were alive today, he would be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying that he is on their side, not the side of children.” – Peter Kyle
🎯IMPACT: The reports reveal the desperation of the Labour government, which is becoming increasingly unpopular, to smear Farage—whose party is eight points ahead of Labour—and defend its censorship apparatus.
The office of the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, reportedly approved comments made by Science Secretary Peter Kyle linking Reform Party leader Nigel Farage to child predators over Farage’s opposition to the Online Safety Act. Multiple government sources report that Kyle consulted No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s official residence, before an appearance on Sky News on July 29, where he sparked controversy by claiming Mr Farage was “on the side” of pedophiles and extreme pornographers.
“Make no mistake about it, if people like Jimmy Savile were alive today, he would be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying that he is on their side, not the side of children,” Kyle said in reference to Farage’s pledge to repeal the Online Safety Act, which contains some child protection provisions but has a broader purpose as a tool of mass censorship, already being used to suppress even content showing parliamentary debates on Muslim grooming gangs.
X (formerly Twitter) users in Britain have seen their posts censored for including footage of anti-mass migration protests—content that has nothing to do with the exploitation of children.
Jimmy Savile, a former BBC radio and television personality, was one of the United Kingdom’s most prolific and notorious pedophiles, with it being widely accepted that his abuse was an open secret ignored by the national broadcaster, National Health Service (NHS) hospitals where he abused patients under the guise of performing charity work, and other establishment institutions.
Attempting to link Farage to Savile could backfire on Prime Minister Starmer, however, as he was Director of Public Prosecutions when the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge him.
On Wednesday, Starmer’s Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, echoed Kyle’s smears in another Sky News interview, saying, “Nigel Farage is, in effect, saying that he is [on pedophiles’] side, because he’s saying he’s wanting to repeal the Online Safety Act. In effect, what Nigel Farage is saying is that he’s totally happy for there to be a free-for-all on the Internet.”
“That’s not the position of the Labour Government. It’s not the position of me. It’s not the position of Keir Starmer or Peter Kyle, and that is the point that the Technology Secretary was rightly making yesterday,” she stressed.
Farage has called for an apology, branding the remarks “disgusting” and accusing Mr Kyle of becoming the “Minister for Political Slander.”
Notably, Reform is currently polling eight points ahead of Labour and has launched a summer campaign on crime that challenges Starmer’s record on law and order.
Labour is clearly rattled by its collapse in support alongside Reform’s rise, and has begun targeting Farage personally, with campaign materials featuring messages such as “Don’t gamble on Farage.”
Image via No 10 Downing Street.
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