Musk now takes aim at Nigel Farage

[Emrys]

Most of you'll be aware that Musk's been sticking his beak into matters outside America he knows nothing about yet again, recently going apeshit with demands for Keir Starmer and others in the UK Labour government to resign or be unseated, preferably even thrown in jail for supposedly covering up the activities of "Muslim rape gangs" in the UK over the years (in reality, Starmer in his time as Director of Public Prosecutions was instrumental in making sure the issue was addressed more effectively, the shortcomings generally lying at the level of local police and local government - I have plenty of gripes with Starmer, but this isn't one of them).

The UK's insurgent Reform Party (which Musk has heavily hinted he intends financing to the tune of millions of dollars) and its owner/leader Nigel Farage (it's a limited company literally owned by Farage, not a political party in the normal sense of the term) have been whooping it up at these attacks on Labour and burblings of support for Reform.

However, Farage had some problems with Musk's call for long-time con man, liar, major grifter, hooligan, domestic abuser and incorrigible criminal "Tommy Robinson" (alias Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) to be released from jail where he's languishing for flagrant contempt of court. (Musk's ignorance extends to the fact that Robinson has done nothing to address numerous allegations and cases of sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation among his own raggle-taggle team over the years, but that's no surprise.)

In his quest for electoral acceptability, Farage has been trying to distance himself from Robinson and the activities of the often violent far-right thugs he gathers around him for quite some time, and did so again a couple of days ago when challenged about Musk's call for Robinson's release from prison, saying that he was glad of Musk's support but couldn't be expected to agree with Musk about everything.

Predictably, it seems Musk disagrees:



(That's a screencap, I've checked and the tweet's genuine, but won't post it because the reaction'll no doubt just distract from the issues.)

Since Musk seems to be peppering the intertubes with multiple inane tweets per hour at the moment, seemingly having nothing better to do with his time, we'll have to wait and see whether he pursues an extended vendetta against Farage, or hares after the next squirrel that manages to penetrate his ketamine-addled consciousness instead. Meanwhile, I suspect Farage may hunker down and play possum till the coast's clear.

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