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Elon Musk has an unhealthy interest in Britain.
In recent weeks he’s made several high-profile interventions in British politics – taking aim at everyone from Keir Starmer to, somewhat surprisingly, his former buddy Nigel Farage.
And they’ve been fairly uniformly nonsense – some even bordering on defamatory.
For those who still have no idea who or what an Elon Musk is, he’s an erratic, 53-year-old billionaire tech entrepreneur, who owns the SpaceX rocket company, Tesla cars, and most recently snapped up Twitter.
After buying Twitter – reportedly at the suggestion of ex-wife Talulah Riley – and laying off a huge number of its staff, he changed it’s name to X.
But most people still call it Twitter.
His vocal interventions in British politics began shortly after the general election in July – most notably sliding into the right wing narrative that violent thugs who set fire to hotels were somehow being treated unfairly, due to “two tier policing”.
There are many theories about the origin of Mr Musk’s beef with Keir Starmer – but most believe it has something to do with the billionaire’s earlier beef with a -adjacent campaign group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
Mr Musk accused CCDH of violating laws against foreign interference in US elections – and tried unsuccessfully to sue them.
Since then he’s made repeated false claims about the UK releasing “convicted paedophiles to imprison people for social media posts”. Sex offenders were excluded from the early release scheme.
And if anything, his morbid fascination with the UK has ramped up since Christmas – with unhinged late-night tweets waiting to greet us almost every morning.
Here’s just a few of the false and baffling claims Elon Musk has made about Britain recently – and why they’re absolute hogwash.
1. Keir Starmer called Donald Trump a racist
Hitting back at remarks made about him by French President Emmanuel Macron, Musk tweeted yesterday: “Oh like that time Starmer called Donald Trump a racist and said the British government should do everything to stop him?
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