Why is Elon Musk getting involved in British politics?

From later this week this guy is gonna be in Trumps government' i think the worlds gonna be a very dangerous place with the amount of lunatic world governments we have. On him donating to reform' all political parties are pretty much run on donations but when you have foriegn people not even based here donating you have to wonder what their agenda is.

 

Depressing isn't it. Something very sinister about all of these and Musk is more or less the same I imagine

 

And to answer your percentage poser, without spending time that I don't really have on it, it's not easy to find out exactly. I'm also horrific at maths!

I have found stats for sexual offences between 2012 and 2018. See image at the bottom.

If there are (according to official figures) 74% white Brits in this country, and 10% Asian (sorry, it's not broken down into Asian nations), and the figures below show there were 22,637 offences by white Brits, and 2,853 offences by Asians, that shows there were eight times as many offences by white Brits. And there are apparently nearly eight times as many white Brits in the country. So my s*** maths suggests there's a similar percentage of dirty b******s regardless of ethnicity.

Crimes involving sexual abuse are evil. I don't understand why some need to try and blame a select portion of those evil people. Well, I do, but yeah.

 

Cheers for that! But agreed, for me it’s the most despicable crime - even more so than murder. Someone who’s been murdered has no pain to feel (of course their family do) but someone who’s been sexually abused has to live with that forever and those harbouring/intruding thoughts forever.

Someone can murder someone on a split second bad decision, to rape someone takes much more than a bad decision. Slightly off topic, apologies!

 

Source: https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/02/Trends-in-Offical-Data-2022-23-FINAL.pdf

 

Musk is a nasty piece of work. Simple as that. Reasons have been stated by various folks on here. He should be taken on and rejected by anyone who has any semblance of concern for our country's sense of independence - that includes people on the right as well as on the left.
As an aside......does Musk smell nice?

 

Has he put in a bid for Citeh yet?

 

Of course, the new online safety bill comes in in a few months, with maximum fines available of £18m or 10% of qualifying revenue - whichever is greater. So Twitter can either sort out its protection of children or Musk can see it hit with significant fines - potentially into the £100m+ range. I'm sure that has nothing to do with his recent tirades against the UK government. Ironically, it was the Conservative Party that passed it into law.

 

The state of global politics is depressing.

The rich with vested interests have been sowing misinformation for decades and with social media, clarion calls to the ignorant can happen in seconds.

I'd like to say that the rantings of Musk will only hit him in the pocket and dilute populist sentiment as it shows to be more and more unhinged, but recent history probably doesn't back that up given the weakening of what should be seen as reasonable governments in many western countries. And just today Trudeau has stepped down. Germany and France have problems and we've far right leaders in the Netherlands, Italy and even in Sweden.

Elon Musk is a lunatic. Sowing chaos for his own ends. He's not alone. But sadly there are too many people who fail to see that supporting such people will hurt them and help him.

 

People need to start suing him for libel or slander (I forget which). He may be rich but he isn't above the law and the claims he is making are absolutely cut and dried the easiest defamation cases the courts will ever hear.

 

Hungary, Slovakia , and today Austria can be added to the list.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...-fpo-tasked-with-forming-coalition-government

 

I wasn't going exhaustive, but you're right. Then you've had the lunatics in Brazil and currently in Argentina. Then you've the meddling from Russia to destabilise Georgia and Moldova, and no doubt others in future.

It's not good. And at a time when the planet needs to work progressively together to solve the biggest crisis we've had.

 

As I read elsewhere earlier, Musk has gone mask-off and doing this in public. How long have his peers been doing this in private...

 

When people are rich enough to have their own space programmes they're going to start to see themselves as above the law. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, they basically believe they are one-person nation states and act like it. They have enough wealth and influence to try to shape the world to their view. The Murdoch press is small beer compared to a world where internet output is increasingly dominated by a few individuals.

 

We don't have a rapidly growing population of young, qualified working people. We have an aging population, that is largely dependent on the state & their pension provisions / savings.

All parties want to control immigration, as far as I see, but it is inevitable, if the workforce is going to support the older generation we need to both take in qualified immigrants & make sure school leavers & people making career changes can get the necessary skills. Non of that sadly is discussed in the Daily Mail / Express / X, or whatever. I work in the entertainment / hospitality sector, but my father is 88 & in a care home & using hospitial services all the time. I'd be interested to know of your experiences. I speak to loads of "immigrants" every day, who run some of the most successful businesses in Leeds, or work their knackers off to make a living in employment. On top of that we have a very small percentage of refugees.

 

He's also a foreigner in the USA but that didn't stop him.

 

you are 7 months late with this post.

 

Actual lol.

 

Not sure he could run the country from a Romanian prison cell. I also find it highly ironic that he has donated €30,000 to Tommy 2 names as he supports him calling out the child groomers and rapists, you couldn’t make this $hit up