Musk turns on UK's Farage and says he should quit as Reform party leader

Musk should quit his support of unsavory politicians.

Musk has previously sought to influence British politics and has criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer repeatedly since anti-immigration riots last summer.

Musk is deluded that he is an agent of Special Circumstances with vast resources meddling in foreign cultures.

Like in the books of his inspiration, Scottish Socialist Party member Iain Banks.

https://scottishsocialistparty.org/iain-banks-the-ssp-gets-my-vote-and-i-buy-the-scottish-socialist-voice/

Tommy Robinson was calling out the gangs exploiting young women in the UK and politicians and police were hiding the fact.

Tommy Robinson was calling out the gangs exploiting young women in the UK whilst UK politicians and police were hiding and ignoring the facts.

Tommy Robinson also used Twitter to publish the truth and Elon Musk is well aware of the comments that have appeared on the forum.

Nigel Farage should reassess his stance.

Sorry, but who does this unelected tech overlord think he is, meddling in the affairs of sovereign nations and grassroots movements? Musk's obsession with brain chips and transhumanism is eerily reminiscent of biblical warnings about the mark of the beast. Is this just another step in his globalist agenda to control humanity under the guise of "innovation’"? A man who wants to implant chips in our brains should be the last person advising anyone on leadership or morality.

To anyone who believes Elon Musk is on our side: WAKE UP. Sure, he throws a few bones to free speech and anti-woke rhetoric, but don't let that blind you to the bigger picture. Again, this is a man who's pushing brain chips, cozying up to globalists, and playing both sides to consolidate power. Musk isn't a savior - he's a tech oligarch with ambitions that should make any freedom-loving person uneasy. Don't trade one form of control for another. Stay vigilant, don't let the shiny Tesla fool you, and beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.

Though I stand by my assessment of Musk, a lot of people who felt Farage was standing up to the EU and fighting for sovereignty must feel massively let down by his dismissal of Tommy Robinson. Smells like capitulation to the globalist elites he once opposed, if you ask me.

Tommy has been on the front lines exposing the issues the establishment wants buried - grooming gangs, free speech erosion, and the BETRAYAL of British values. By rejecting him, Farage is playing into the hands of the woke mob and their Globalist censors.

Principles are only as strong as the battles you're willing to fight. Hopefully we eventually get a leader who doesn't let fear of the globalist overlords make them abandon those who dare to speak the truth.

Musk is just a man with too much money and too much free time, along with a deluded idea that his wealth allows him carte blanche to do and say anything without repercussion.

As for Farage, he's a product of the upper class who presents himself as a hero of the ordinary and disaffected. Unfortunately, those "ordinary and disaffected" are basically the UK version of MAGA: not very bright, and carrying around a lot of anger which people like our Nige and the "I'm so posh that I had to change my name to appeal to the proles" Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon can seize on for their own nefarious ends.

Strikes me that the Reform people are actually more popular with American conspiracy theorists ("they stick it to The Man and The Corporate Overlord Illuminati, yeah, whoo!") than they are in the UK.

Musk should quit his support of unsavory politicians.

I think we could leave it at the third word. He should just quit. Everything. Slink off and try to enjoy his money; he clearly has more than he knows what to do with. Heck, he could be forced to pay a million dollars child support a week for the rest of the life of his countless kids, and it would barely dent his resources.

But it seems like there's actually a stronger motivator than money when it comes to Musk, and that's attention. He seems to need attention like most people need oxygen. I reckon he'd rather lose his fortune than lose people's attention.

Nigel Farage is shell-shocked and was expecting money from Musk. Musk said King Charles should call a general election, which isn't how it works. Musk is seriously interfering in British and German politics

Strikes me that the Reform people are actually more popular with American conspiracy theorists ("they stick it to The Man and The Corporate Overlord Illuminati, yeah, whoo!") than they are in the UK.

Yeah dood, anyone who criticizes government overreach or corporate collusion must be a "conspiracy theorist." Here are the facts. Reform UK has gained traction because they address real issues ignored by the political elite - mass immigration straining public services, out-of-control taxation, and the erosion of British sovereignty.

That's a ton of voters who are fed up with and Labour and the Conservative-In-Name-Only Tories SELLING OUT British values. Those two entities are far too busy pandering to globalist agendas and woke nonsense.

The fact that Reform resonates with people worldwide is a testament to the universality of these concerns, not some tinfoil-hat nonsense.

And maybe if the UK establishment actually listened to their regular, hardworking Brits (instead of the voices of, say, quasi academics who fled to Japan to perpetually delay adulthood), you'd understand why Reform is growing. NEWSFLASH: it's not because of imaginary Illuminati, but because of very real failures in governance.

Yaxley-Lennon has been funded by Yanqui Zionist billionaires for years. He's a Mossad agent. Musk seems to have lost the run of himself entirely. Iain Banks would be appalled.

Anyone that knows Tommy Robinsons ordeal and legacy will know that he will go down in history as a true British hero, one that has put his life on the line for his cause. Those that want to read the legacy media’s low resolution drivel about him, ‘In prison , anti-Muslim , anti-immigration, far right’ or any of the other usual character defamation drivel, then think that they deserve an opinion on him are also part the problem.

Musk is right on this one again, which will just send the usual sheeple into automatic distain and disagreement.

Tommy’s a legend. Just go and listen to him tell his story before you write him off. Too real for Farage though by the looks.

That's a ton of voters who are fed up with and Labour 

Clearly, as Labour won the last election with a significant majority.

All my fellow Brits despise Reform, Farage, Yaxley-Lennon (who fled to, guess where, Spain, when things got too hot, and then had the nerve to complain about being hounded by the press when his entire shtick was to direct attention to people he deemed unworthy and set his proletarian hordes on them), and what they stand for. Now, I will admit that may be because most of my fellow Brits are educated, many are in international marriages, live abroad, and have experienced the benefits of a cosmopolitan lifestyle.

Farage is Tommy Robinson in a cravat and a pair of yellow trousers.

He doesn’t need or even want a jailbird to add to his gang of clowns like 30p Lee. Farage likes being the centre of attention.

Musk likes to signal boost dregs like trash spammers and sock puppets on his platform to get attention.

Anyone that knows Tommy Robinsons ordeal and legacy will know that he will go down in history as a true British hero, 

I wish this site had emojis. I couldn't put up enough ROFL ones in response to that.

If he is remembered at all, it will be alongside people like Oswald Mosley.

He changed his name in order to sound more "regular". He ran away to a very expensive villa in Spain when things got too hot in the UK,

I know your whole shtick is the "yay for the common man, down with the elites" thing, but when it comes to UK politics, you're a fish out of water.

Anyone that knows Tommy Robinsons ordeal and legacy will know that he will go down in history as a true British hero, one that has put his life on the line for his cause

You mean the coke-addled football hooligan nicked for assault, fraud…

A true hero. Yeah, after his passing we’ll se him on the back of banknotes with the likes of Darwin, Newton, Nightingale, Maxwell and Turing.

The only question is which of his aliases should be printed.

Anyone that knows Tommy Robinsons ordeal and legacy will know that he will go down in history as a true British hero, one that has put his life on the line for his cause. 

A sick vile man who uses other people to do his dirty work.

Whether that elitist atheistic snobbery

The UK is one of the least religious countries in the world. Runs through all levels of society.

Here's a reality check to remind you: millions of Brits, many of whom you arrogantly write off as uneducated, voted for Brexit and support movements like Reform because they're SICK of being lectured to by globe-trotting elitists

Sounds like Farage. Part of the ruling class and spends most of his time globe trotting. Sneered at the constituency he’s now a representative of and hardly spends any time there.

I doubt he’ll run again in Clacton and could lose that seat if he did.

Pure opportunist. Good at it though.

American right wing ‘Christians’ desperate to make the UK the sordid, intolerant mess they have turned America into.

Love God, but loathe people.

The government's definition of British values includes: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs.

The UK is one of the least religious countries in the world. Runs through all levels of society. 

That's true, and boy is it paying the price for it now.

Hard to blame the people when the Church of England itself has abandoned its foundational Christian principles in favor of pandering to the woke agenda, trading biblical truth for Uber Liberal cultural trends. What are Britons supposed to think when society's glue now preaches virtue-signaling platitudes that alienate traditional believers and dilutes its spiritual responsibility.

The extreme right-wing use of "woke" is just so yesterday.

What are Britons supposed to think

Whatever they want to. Not what you want them to. Religion is a tool.

‘Biblical truth’ lol. What a joke.

The UK is one of the least religious countries in the world. Runs through all levels of society. 

That's true, and boy is it paying the price for it now

Some have argued there has been a collapse of morality.

Robinson, a very dishonest man with a history of various offences is championed by certain types.

If Tommy ten-names was on here, he’d be probably spamming the threads with multiple handles.

Bottom of the barrel crap.

The British and German governments need to toughen up. Foreign regime members interfering in national politics and supporting extremism online or with financial donations should be banned, and deported on arrival if they still turn up.

Musk's comments have gone down very badly in the UK. It doesn't take much for anti-American sentiment to kick off in Europe. This stuff tends to snowball. Americans on holiday in Europe, Apple centres and Teslas may not be as popular as they used to be this year.

Jay

The UK is one of the least religious countries in the world. Runs through all levels of society. 

That's true, and boy is it paying the price for it now.

No, they aren't.

Hard to blame the people when the Church of England itself has abandoned its foundational Christian principles in favor of pandering to the woke agenda, trading biblical truth for Uber Liberal cultural trends.

"Biblical truth" is an oxymoron.

What are Britons supposed to think when society's glue now preaches virtue-signaling platitudes that alienate traditional believers and dilutes its spiritual responsibility.

Sure being accepting and kind to transgender

is what Jesus would have done.

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Nigel Farage literally owns the Reform "party". It is a private company, and he is the majority shareholder. It is not a democratic organization where Farage has been elected leader.

The Conservative party won the election in 2019 because Reform stood most of its candidates down. It enabled what proved to be a very unpopular government which ended in historic defeat. What did Reform get for doing this? You cannot help elect someone and then distance yourself from them. It is naive to think the support was given unconditionally.

Generally, religion in the UK is basically for old people who can't let go of the "good old days where you could leave your door unlocked", and other such sentimental (and inaccurate) nonsense.

People are deserting the COE in droves, and it's not hard to see why given the recent scandals involving Justin Welby and others.

The worst possible thing the UK could do now is to reverse that momentum and let fundamentalist bigotry get a foothold anywhere, least of all in government. I mean the USA has all but admitted that the concept of separation of church and state is now a big joke; prayer in schools and the decalogue on the walls, and so on. We don't want to be following in those footsteps. If anything, given the re-election of Trump, the best attitude towards the USA would be a sort of distant politeness: we'll deal with you because we have to, but frankly right now we're embarrassed to be seen having anything to do with you.

Funniest thing for me is that the man who Londoners have overwhelmingly chosen to lead them for a third consecutive term is a Muslim, and he shows far greater depth character than what's been going on in the COE recently.

The Church of England should have no part in government politics and should give up its seats in the House of Lords. There are about 60 Bishops.

The British and German governments need to toughen up. Foreign regime members interfering in national politics and supporting extremism online or with financial donations should be banned, and deported on arrival if they still turn up.

I agree with this but it would mean taking on the Israel lobby. It is not going to happen.

A huge influence on the current UK government is Tony Blair's lobbying organization, who also have foreign funding.

fwiw, I fully understand the anger felt by supporters of Reform. However, Farage is a chancer and not the solution to their grievances. Someone who supports millionare buyers of farmland to avoid the same taxes as everyone else is not going to solve any of Britain's many problems.

Why are Musk's tweets considered news?

fwiw, I fully understand the anger felt by supporters of Reform. However, Farage is a chancer and not the solution to their grievances. Someone who supports millionare buyers of farmland to avoid the same taxes as everyone else is not going to solve any of Britain's many problems

Farage is basically a heckler.

He’s been all over the shop over the years when asked for concrete policies.Jumps on what he thinks will be popular and backtracks when he thinks he’s gone too far.

I remember him being quite vocal about allowing smoking in pubs again. Not sure if he still wants to improve the UK with that.

Why is it any time conservatives don't have the exact same opinion, the media goes into a frenzy about them "falling out" and "rifts" as if their relationship is now over?

The extreme right-wing use of "woke" is just so yesterday.

Claiming "woke" is an "extreme right-wing" term is laughably uninformed, given not only that it has well and truly entered the common lexicon, but also given that it originated as an Uber Leftist rallying cry for "social awareness"... before being hijacked by its own absurd excesses. If anything, it's a testament to how quickly the Uber Leftists abandon their own language when they become a parody of themselves.

He changed his name in order to sound more "regular"

Regular? Like "English", rather than "Oirish"?

He changed his name in order to sound more "regular"

Regular? Like "English", rather than "Oirish"?

It's a class thing. If you're from the UK or are familiar with its general culture, you'll know that it's very hard to escape the concept of class consciousness.

Tommy's real name is, as mentioned above, Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon. Now, a double-barrelled surname is usually traced back to the marriage of people between two important families, neither of which wanted to "give up" their name, so they used both. Accordingly, even now, in the UK, having a double-barrelled surname is associated with being "posh" and by extension upper-class, elite, etc.

Tommy knows this very well, and he knows that "Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon" is not going to get a lot of traction with Reform voters, so he changed it to the far more normal sounding "Tommy Robinson". He's essentially the same as Farage: trying to create an identity which he can use to appeal to the thugs and dregs which constitute the Reform party. (I mean, just look at Lee Anderson).

It's a performance, and given that he's currently in prison where he belongs, it wasn't a very good performance.

Elon Musk is a appointed advisor to President elect Donald Trump.

Whether one finds, Leader of Reform , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer, Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch politically repulsive is irrelevant.

All have a mandate from the people, have been democratically elected as UK Members of Parliament.

I find it terrifying that Elon Musk see fit to meddle and interfere with Great Britain's election process to the House of Commons.

Elon Musk is able to call who should and who should not be fit to lead political parts in UK parliament.  

Or which Labour party minsters should be locked up or not.

Whether Nigel Farage should endorse Tommy Robinson or not.

If not then Nigel Farage is unsuitable to lead Reform?

Does anyone commenting here find that acceptable?

President Musk should shut-up about politic.

To be fair, Farage was right about a foreigner trying to take his job.

I find it remarkable, Elon Musk can, is able to "threaten" the foundations of Great Britain democracy, in financially supporting a UK political party, action that could have a potential influence over UK next government and UK Prime Minster has not marched the US ambassador into his Number 10, and not verbally drilled him a new backside.

It is an outrageous flipping liberty.

Elon Musk is able to call who should and who should not be fit to lead political parts in UK parliament. 

Or which Labour party minsters should be locked up or not.

Whether Nigel Farage should endorse Tommy Robinson or not.

If not then Nigel Farage is unsuitable to lead Reform?

Does anyone commenting here find that acceptable?

He's not able to "call" anything. He can shoot off his big mouth all he wants, but nobody with any importance in the UK government is going to act on his capricious outbursts.

If there's a risk of anything, it will be that some Musk fanboy in the UK decides to go vigilante and tries to physically assault (or worse) someone who Musk has name-checked in his ketamine-addled posting flurries. I'd be more concerned about that than about him actually being able to change anything.

The US is a different matter; Trump is so vain and transactional, and so motivated by spite and revenge, that I could see Musk being able to goad him into changing official US government policy. Fortunately, Keir Starmer is cut from a different cloth.

Once Musk realises that all he can do with regard to the UK is post provocative things, he'll get bored and move onto something else.

Claiming "woke" is an "extreme right-wing" term is laughably uninformed, given not only that it has well and truly entered the common lexicon, 

The term is very rarely used in the UK and very much one used by the American right-wingers.

Invented by the right wing and used by them to describe what they don't like. A cop-out word.

I wonder what people who don't like "Brits" voicing their opinions about US politics think about a close ally of the US President-elect saying the King should dissolve Parliament and party leaders should resign.

Personally I think Donald Trump should stand up for his loyal pal Nigel Farage and put Elon Musk in his place. Show everyone who's Da Man.

Musk is about to oversteps his bounds.

Jimizo,

It's the Musk arrogant self belief, his insufferable ego, offering Reform substantial political financing capital, to weaponize his wealth on a wimp, depending on how Musk feels, or what side of the bed Musk emerges from

To engage his social media clout at will, to buy influence against elected mandated UK political leadership.

To call on imprisonment of labour party minsters, Musk happen to disagrees with.

There is the potential here to sway opinion to influence how people vote,

The Germen government has similar concerns as does the EU commission.

Musk is a misguided fool at best, but able through his social media acquisitions to platform peddle his nonsensical political will, gibberish.

Say it loud enough, day in day out and voters foolishly listen.

Musk needs to be challenged, without quarter.

Imagine the fall out if the tables were turned, and the boot was on the other foot,

UK politicians interfering directly with the next US presidential election?

Simon Foston, personally I think Nigel Farage should not have been so prominent, so visibly supporting Trump campaign.

Politics is a shady mucky world of betrayal and subterfuge, inhabited by two faced political power/control-oriented sociopaths, sometime a stage full of spot the personality disorder.

Tommy has been on the front lines exposing the issues the establishment wants buried - grooming gangs, free speech erosion, and the BETRAYAL of British values. By rejecting him, Farage is playing into the hands of the woke mob and their Globalist censors.

Exactly.

Tommy Robinson knows nothing of British values and only has a very small number of thug-like supporters.

Both are British heroes.

Musk richest person. Social network platform with 250 million followers. Will be part of the Trump administration. Should keep his nose out of the political business of foreign countries especially when they are allies.

Some dude

Elon Musk is actively demanding, not only calling on who should and who should not be fit to lead political parties in UK parliament. 

Leveraging his vast wealth to actively embolden, enable his chosen political flavour of this week, the structures to topple government.

To influence the make up of grass roots of how political community opinion is formed.

Under estimate the "Nigel Farage" end of pier brand of populism, be prepared for the inevitable consequences.

Musk actions alone are in danger of being foolishly miscalculated.

Musk deep pockets risks financing the politicians who can, and will change UK political landscape, unforeseen political change.

"Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, used the phrase "stay woke" as part of a spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys", which tells the story of nine black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931."

Elon Musk is the archetypal billionaire without a political clue, on course to be a trillionaire 2027 present projections.

A preverbal serial loose cannon, a political deluded wannabe. A barnacle hanger on. without any notion of a mandate.

Yet able to cause mayhem if able to. To change the course of natural political change to his own blinkered delusion.

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Simon Foston, personally I think Nigel Farage should not have been so prominent, so visibly supporting Trump campaign.

Can't say I disagree. Smarter to stay away from people like that in general.

Simon, I travelled back to visit family before Christmas,

After give or take three decades of incompetence, from a selection of Tory/New Labour governments. The last 14 years of political fakery, of a reckless failure to reform social care, to inspire the next generation etc

Musk is a toxic distraction.

Nothing positive will prevail only inevitable anarchy.