Elon Musk should keep his beak out of British politics (Image: Getty/PA)
If there’s anything that can endear a prime minister to the British public, it’s a gobby voice doing him down from America.
There’s something that Brits don’t like about the world’s greatest superpower in history talking down to even our lowliest of politicians — and it probably irks our collective psyche that we used to govern this wayward child.
Sir isn’t an easy man to defend and it’s not my intention to do so here. But it is irritating in the extreme to see the world’s richest man, , choosing the Labour Prime Minister as his target and managing to screw it up.
I’ve usually no time for people whinging about Musk. His innovations could well represent the next great leap for mankind and I find it dull that instead of celebrating that people focus on his affiliation with or try to convince me that his zeal for free speech is far-right.
However, if he will debase himself on that silly social media platform he bought then he’s fair game for criticism. How has he managed to come off like a di** while airing the most righteous of causes? I’m talking of course about his online tirades against and the evil scum who raped our children and the cover-ups that took place over crimes perpetrated predominantly by British groomers of Pakistani heritage.
The standout moment for me was when Musk called on King Charles to dissolve Parliament and force a General Election for the sake of UK security. Does he know how stupid that looks? Evidently not. I’ll spell it out for him.
Mr Musk, you have recently been confirmed as an adviser to ‘s incoming administration. That administration governs a nation that spent a lot of blood throwing off the British monarchy and gaining its independence. Since that day it has always been a republic. Its representatives don’t get to claim the US is the revolutionary leading light of democratic will and simultaneously demand that an elected prime minister not to their liking be removed by the King.
I would love few things more than to wake up and discover that Sir Keir had stepped down over his smearing of concerned citizens as far-right, over his refusal to hold a national inquiry into grooming gangs and over every other stupid, bad-faith scandal he’s heaped onto the ever-growing dung pile that could have been his legacy.
But it’s a bit rich to have a man who isn’t even from the United Kingdom call for its Head of State to remove a PM that we, in a fit of apathy and stupidity, elected.
That muppet in No10, with his strained voice and his patronising, gaslighting edicts, is our muppet. We can slate him all on our own. We’ll be better at it too, because we’re not playing catch-up from America on the rape gangs scandal. That scandal happened in our country, a country whose air we breathe in every day, with all of its modern idiocy and politically correct fears.
We don’t need a foreign billionaire whose political camp accused the Labour Party of campaigning against interfering in our politics.
We don’t need Musk — as he did on January 6 — posting a poll asking whether “America should liberate the people of Britain from tyrannical government”.
I didn’t like it when Barack Obama weighed in on by warning that Britain would be “at the back the queue” if it left the EU and I don’t like this latest interference just because it’s coming from the other side.
It’s our job to bash our PM, not Musk’s and we definitely don’t need any help because Drear Starmer makes it all too easy.
I welcome Musk, who I genuinely believe to be one of the most impressive and important people on the planet, drawing further attention to the sickending scandal of child rape across the UK. But there’s a way to do this.
And Musk has form for making a tit of himself when weighing in on the matters of other nations on social media. Remember when he called a British cave explorer who helped rescue trapped Thai schoolboys a “pedo guy”?
David Cameron, a politician not of my flavour, once said something uncharacteristically prescient, to the outrage of breakfast radio listeners.
The then-Tory leader and future PM was asked about his views on Twitter, since rebranded as X. Cameron said: “The trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it — too many tweets might make a tw**.”
Musk would do well to heed this lesson.