Here’s how Musk meddles in the UK

Musk's moves, goals and scenarios for X activism in the UK. Extract from an in-depth study by Stefano Feltri from Appunti

Elon Musk was on excellent terms with the previous prime minister, the conservative Rishi Sunak, while since the July elections he began to attack the Labor party Keir Starmer .

It is not clear why, there are various theories: Musk sees Great Britain as Athens and the United States as Rome, therefore he must bend the intellectual capital of the Anglo-Saxon world to win his personal battle against progressivism and the woke ideologies that he fights in United States; or perhaps Musk wants a more like-minded government to place his Starlink satellite technology in a country that spends heavily on defense.

Or, perhaps Musk is simply testing the limits of his power, he wants to become the linchpin of a "political globalization" that takes the place of the economic one, to use a happy summary by Romano Prodi. Or maybe Elon Musk is crazy, which is always a possibility.

Be that as it may, Musk is trying to undermine Starmer by using

In summary: in 2011 it was discovered that criminal gangs were operating around the city of Rotherham who lured young girls, often minors, abused them and forced them into prostitution. From a series of journalistic, judicial and then parliamentary investigations it emerged that many of the abusers were of Asian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Afghan origin.

The right therefore rode the story with a double polemical argument: the police did not intervene as they should have for fear of being accused of racism and, secondly, history shows that immigrants or non-white British, let's say, are more inclined to abuse minors.

The first accusation, that is, a certain lack of attention on the part of the police who stayed away from areas of the city with high immigration, has some foundation, the second does not, no data demonstrates that foreigners or Muslims abuse minors more than whites.

To this Elon Musk adds a series of false accusations, about the direct involvement of Prime Minister Keir Starmer when he was head of the British equivalent of public prosecutors.

The owner of extremists.

Not only that: Elon Musk, writes the Financial Times, wants to overthrow the British government. For this reason he had thought of giving 100 million dollars to Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, already responsible for Brexit in 2016. He called him, gave him a sort of interview, and decided that he was not suitable.

So now Musk is also looking for an opposition leader he likes, from whom he can buy number 10 Downing Street as he bought the White House for Donald Trump with 250 million dollars in donations.

Who knows, maybe that Tommy Robinson that Musk wants to release from prison, a serial spreader of slander on social media and anti-immigration activist who, at least until now, was too extreme and out of control even by Farage's standards.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/elon-musk-keir-starmer/ on Sat, 11 Jan 2025 05:25:35 +0000.