Now, Elon Musk Is Trying to Upend British Politics

Elon Musk appears to have invaded the UK – if only through a tweet. The right-wing US billionaire sparked chaos this week when he launched a Twitter firestorm against Labor leader and now British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Musk has been vocal about his dissatisfaction with Starmer since his election, and he took things up a notch this week when he used his platform “X” to urge King Charles to dissolve the UK Parliament and depose the new prime minister.

Overall, Musk has sought to paint the Starmer government as a corrupt, incompetent regime that is damaging the UK. To accomplish this messaging job, Musk retweeted a message This week, one commenter wrote: “Who still thinks the king should dissolve parliament and order a general election for the sake of the country and security? The king must act before it’s too late! Musk responded to the user’s post, saying only :”Yes. “

That’s not all Musk does. The American billionaire also seized on scandals involving Street Gang Child Grooming and used the episode to accuse Starmer of failing to hold child rapists in his country to account, claims Starmer is “Conspirators in the rape of Britain.” The scandal involves the phenomenon of “grooming gangs” in northern England, whose perpetrators are said to be mainly South Asian or British Pakistani ancestry. Then Musk Accused of ‘politicizing’ rape of young girl as a means to further his own right-wing agenda.

At the same time, Musk announced his support for Tommy Robinson, a far-right political activist and fraudster with a violent criminal record who is currently serving time in prison. Robinson’s name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Called an “anti-Islamic” activist and was accused of Islamophobia. “Free Tommy Robinson!” Musk tweeted. Robinson/Lennon was a founder of the British Defense League, a now-defunct lobbying organization against islamic extremism. Musk reportedly caused so much trouble that Trump’s conservative political allies had to distance themselves from the comments. indeed, Bloomberg reports “Senior British right-wing politicians” have reached out to “Donald Trump’s allies”, urging the US president-elect’s team not to support British far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Why does Musk treat Starmer so badly? No one really knows for sure, though it’s hard not to see this as a broader effort to make the incoming liberal administration look bad so that a different (presumably conservative) administration might soon Instead. That said, Musk is not the first wealthy American to disrupt British politics. Indeed, the connection between US Billionaires and the Effort to Reshape Britain Enter a right-wing dystopia that has been established for quite some time.

US-led push for Britain to become more right-wing

One reason Musk and his ilk are so fearful of Starmer is that he is the first British prime minister in years without political ties to the American right. Boris Johnson serves as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022, specifically chat People who support Trump call themselves liberals and his policies are Approximate shape Proposed by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a think tank that is part of a global liberal network called Atlas. Although Atlas Network was founded by British citizens, it is based in the United States and has ties to several American organizations, including the Heritage Foundation and ALEC (the pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council). before she became queen of england Prime Minister with the shortest termmeeting the infamous Liz Truss Some right-wing people in the United States Think tanks, including Heritage, Competitive Enterprise Institute and ALEC. Later, when she became prime minister, much of Truss’s economic policy agenda has also been greatly developed By the International Energy Agency. As Truss attempts to solve Britain’s woes Massive tax cuts for billionaires (especially a Trump-style solution)she is very fast ridicule the government and suddenly resigned. Truss hasn’t done much since resigning as prime minister, except donald trump fans. Meanwhile, interim chancellor Rishi Sunak, who serves between Truss and Starmer, also enjoys Close relations with the United States and tried Deploying “free market” and liberal policiesmost of which are deeply unpopular.

Musk’s propaganda role

Efforts to transform Western countries into conservative strongholds are supported by propaganda efforts aimed at shaking confidence in liberal governments. It’s worth noting that while Musk has sought to publicly attack Starmer’s liberal government, he has also increasingly aligned himself with a number of organizations and forces that support a shift to the right in Britain’s culture and economy.

I Recently written Musk is basically the new Steve Bannon, which means Musk—like Bannon before him—helped get Trump elected by acting as a master messager who could exploit the culture of voters and economic discontent to foment political support. So did Bannon, who helped Trump get elected in 2016 credit Helped bring American nativism into British political culture. Bannon expressed support for Musk long before he started tweeting about Tommy Robinson. As early as 2018, Bannon publicly praised the right-wing firebrand. In the leaked message, Bannon snarled: “Tommy Robinson was the backbone of this country. You lose people like Tommy Robinson and you don’t have a country,” he apparently said of Britain. Last February, Bannon attended (alongside Liz Truss) the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland and Called Robinson a “hero.”

Yet what Bannon does in relative silence, Musk does in broad daylight. Through his X platform, Musk has successfully promoted a series of right-wing conspiracy theories and misinformation that appear designed to undermine public confidence in Starmer’s government. Before tweeting support for Robinson and commenting on the dissolution of Parliament and street rape, Musk also used his platform to comment stabbing incident This led to riots across Britain. Musk’s remarks were even considered aggravate unrest. Musk also recently Call for new elections This would allow Starmer to be voted out.

So while this may be happening on a different continent, Musk’s advocacy efforts in the UK appear to be the same as those he does in the US. and economic discontent as a means to radicalize lower- and middle-class populations and steer them towards an economic agenda designed by and for the rich. That said, the program is likely to work much better in the US than in the UK, where the average IQ is probably slightly higher.