Elon Musk’s total interventionism in the British national debate is acquiring very embarrassing proportions for Keir Starmer’s government. The richest man in the world appeared in UK affairs over the summer and since then, not a week has passed without him criticizing the British Prime Minister’s actions on his X platform, without nuance or apparent concern for the facts. .
Until now, the Labor leader has pretended to ignore him, but this strategy has become more difficult to maintain since President-elect Donald Trump announced the arrival of the Tesla boss to his future administration, accusing him of his effectiveness, and while the British attribute great importance to its diplomatic relations with the United States. The work should “redouble your efforts” find common ground with Elon Musk, suggested on November 19 Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair’s former minister and former European Trade Commissioner, favorite to become the next UK ambassador in Washington.
Elon Musk first predicted that “civil war” on the streets of the UK was “ inevitable » when, in early August, television broadcast images of far-right activists demonstrating against asylum seekers or threatening mosques across England. The situation was certainly very tense, but not out of control, following the false rumors spread “small boat”. In reality, he was a 17-year-old British boy born in Cardiff, Wales, into a family originally from Rwanda. The head of SpaceX took up the arguments of the British extreme right and denounced an alleged police “two speeds”which would be tough on far-right protesters but lax with minority rights defenders.
The billionaire was also shocked when the Starmer government had to prematurely release prisoners sentenced to light sentences to alleviate prison overcrowding; Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government had been forced to do the same a year earlier. “No one should travel to the UK, where [ils] release pedophiles to jail instead of people arrested for posting messages on social media”Musk warned in X.
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