Summary
Elon Musk labeled Britain a “tyrannical police state” on X, criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership, and questioned the imprisonment of far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
Musk’s comments coincide with his role as a key adviser to Trump, raising concerns in the U.K. about its relationship with the incoming administration.
Musk also criticized Starmer’s policies, including increased farm inheritance taxes, and boosted far-right content on X.
This follows similar clashes with other U.S. allies, including Germany and Australia, over their domestic policies.
Could somebody just grind this man into a fine paste already?
Now that’s the news is wanna see in the morning
Got any extra fiberglass submarines? ;)
Just give him some amphetamine and put an idea go his head that genius would be able dive to the Titanic with a plastic barrel full of stones to collect all that gold and shit.
Fiberglass submarine is too much work and resources for that little shit.
We could just send him to Mars. No one says that his Mars rocket has to be able to make a return trip.
I mean, I’m pretty sure he’s said that the first people on Mars will probably die there.
torgo’s executive powder?
He must be mad! How could this place be a tyrannical police state?
I don’t even know where to begin with this picture, so many questions lol.
And it was a Tuesday too! It’s like if Arizona State was a country.
It was a Thursday.
My understanding from the comments on this picture is it was on a day that ended with the word day.
Haha, it’s famously new year’s eve 2015 in Manchester.
What about this says police state?
There’s literally a drunk person lying in the street and no-one gives a shit.
He is going straight back to the bottle too.
It doesn’t, that’s my point.
Gotcha, think it’s kinda coming off the other way.
As a brit, I can say this is pretty accurate.
We do like a tipple at the weekend
Someone just bitchslap that cunt, please.
Nothing to see here folks, just another projection of a facsist tyrant (wannabe).
It’s really annoying how this guy never complains about what actual autocracies are doing; never a peep complaining about the times they ask for things to be removed from Twitter. Just hand wringing about needing to follow the law to operate in those places. Hypocrite
Welcome to politics, there’s all sorts going on that we know nothing about that will influence who says what about whom, when and why. Hypocrisy is irrelevant to these people. He’s just influencing.
Musk is a whiny little bitch. Also a con man.
He’s got such a hate boner for Kier Starmer that I’m kind of intrigued. Starmer is the most boring, beaurocratic politician you can find. I can’t understand what’s triggered this latest Musk mania.
He’s a prosecutor who apparently can’t be bought.
That’s far more dangerous to a billionaire than a firebrand.
If Starner only delivers a non-corrupt legal system it’ll be an incredible win for the Country. But I do think he needs 10 years in office so he should focus on actually winning the next election.
Saying he can’t be bought when he had to explain a metric fuck-ton of gifts he received from donors, from Arsenal season tickets to an insane amount on glasses, and multiple tickets to Taylor Swift, indicates a man that can very easily be bought.
In theory, a Sir that is known for being a chief prosecutor should be the hardest person to buy…but that’s the joy of politics I guess.
IMO Kier is a bit of a bellend, but a vast improvement on the shower of cunts in the Tory party. What I would love to see him implement is a true UK constitution to ensure that any wrongdoing in office results in criminal proceedings. Those in politics should be held to the highest standard, and if you’re caught taking bribes, selling access to friends, or abusing lower workers while in office you should be banned from holding office AND see jail time.
It remains to be seen what he’s actually done to benefit anyone who gave him anything.
And he stopped accepting them once he entered the office. We found out because he told us about it all and the mistake of accepting some gifts a bit too late.
With the only arguable benefits being publicity for the brand it’s not nothing but it really is daft the perspective tricks that have been played with that particular molehill. It’s the press that actually gave the gifters the benefits, not any actions by Starner himself.
Being given something isn’t proof of being bought. Acting for the person who gave you something is.
I predict that as the COVID era corruption comes to light his previous job will result in him prosecuting and recovering quite a lot of public money. Sadly I don’t think he will get a result of jail time for anyone. The laws just aren’t in place for that and he can’t get them made retrospectively.
A UK constitution would be very interesting. But I’d just settle for some actual laws specifically against corruption rather than relying on MPs following conventions and being honourable.
The shocking thing is that hundreds of millions of pounds worth of corruption through the “fast lane” wasn’t illegal to do. We’ll only be able to recoup from the companies who actually didn’t deliver their contracts.
Yes, truth is terrifying to a liar. Justice is terrifying to a fraud.
White, rich guy from apartheid South Africa accuses country of tyranny after it locks up a person white supremacists look up to.
Hmm. Hmmmm.
I’m so tired of this guy.
I wish he’d just OD on ketamine already.
Did he think that was a compliment?
He is doing Russian dirty work
Musk here is using the Tucker Carlson technique of “just asking questions”. An answer is easily found. “Robinson” (not his real name) is in jail for 18 months because he committed crimes, admitted to them in court, and was found guilty of them in a court of law. Hardly tyranny. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/28/tommy-robinson-admits-contempt-of-court-over-false-claims-about-refugee
He’s also been to prison twice for violent crime including assaulting a police officer.
Wait, someone guilty of a crime can get jailed for the crime?
That certainly explains why people like Musk or Trump don’t get it, since that does not apply to them.
Kim Jong-Musk beating the drum, undermining democracy wherever he can
Elon Twitler.
Helen Mosque
He’s a Russian asset that holds U.S. military contracts. yay
Just wait until he uses DOGE to gut NASA and gets more contracts for SpaceX.
That department doesn’t even exist tho. Yet at least
I think he’d be more likely to fund more NASA projects since they contract it out to SpaceX anyway.
NASA does a lot. He wants all their funding.
The only thing Elon wants that NASA does is Mars.
It’s likely going to be a bit of both.
It would be extremely convenient for Muskrat if NASA no longer had the engineering budget to design their own rockets while simultaneously having a higher budget for private contractors.
It would be extremely easy to sell the idea to people who don’t look past the raw numbers, too. Frame it as though NASA is spending $400 million on projects that have already been done by the private sector and propose half of it gets reallocated to contracting and the other half gets cut to lower expenses. Musk sycophants will praise him for being a genius, MAGA morons will congratulate him on being “efficient” and fixing the economy, and he’ll have his nice little oligarchy just like he wanted.
Definitely. He’ll try to get SLS cancelled because he owns its competitor.
He’s not a Russian asset, he simply feels that if the whole world is run by tyrants like him and Putin, then he would somehow he could do whatever he wanted, because it would just be as simple as cutting a deal/buying the privilege (same with the Trump mentality). Musk is the embodiment of why becoming a billionaire needs to be outlawed.
Russia has been using Starlink satellites since 2022
“then he would somehow he could do whatever he wanted”
How did you manage to write that and not realise how much you fucked it up?
This is news to me, what’s he linked to with Russia?
Thank you
Starlink?
No, no. Skynet
He’s right though.
I’ve never lived in a police state, but I’ve read enough about them to know the difference between a state with a corrupt and heavy-handed police force (i.e. almost every country) and East Germany under the Stasi.
Incidentally, if you think Britain now is a tyrannical police state, what exactly do you think it would be like if the Tommy Robinsons of the world got their way?
