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Why Elon Musk hates Starmer’s Britain
The Telegraph ^ | 21 November 2024 | Adam Luck and Ella Nunn

Posted on 11/21/2024 3:27:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

In 2012, the Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took a Boris bike on a tour around London, bathing in the Olympics love-in, declaring to his Twitter followers that “I really like Britain!”

Musk had good reason to be pleased that year, having made his first appearance on the prestigious Forbes Billionaire List – with a modest £1.58 billion fortune.

Twelve years later, Musk’s fortune is valued at $316.5 billion (£250 billion), thanks to Tesla becoming the world’s largest car company and SpaceX becoming the planet’s leading space launch provider. But, jarringly, his valuation of the UK appears to have gone into reverse gear.

The South-African born tycoon has used the social media platform that he bought in 2022 to warn, during the riots earlier this year, that civil war in the UK was “inevitable” and attack “Two-Tier Keir” Starmer and the UK repeatedly.

At the same time, Starmer’s government was accusing social media companies of adding fuel to the fire during the riots. Ofcom, the media regulator, said there was an “increased risk” of such sites being used to “stir up hatred” and “provoke violence”.

On Wednesday, it emerged that MPs on the Commons science and technology committee, chaired by Labour’s Chi Onwurah, intended to summon Musk for questioning over the spread of disinformation on X, formerly Twitter. He retorted: “They will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.”

The skirmishes between Musk and Labour that started in the summer appear to have been unhelpful for Starmer’s relationship with the man who has become one of Donald Trump’s closest lieutenants.

On Tuesday, Lord Mandelson, tipped to become the next UK ambassador to Washington, and one of Labour’s savviest operators, warned: “[Musk] is a sort of technological, industrial, commercial phenomenon."

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1 posted on 11/21/2024 3:27:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I saw a report from Thd Guardian where the Starmer regime was looking at summoning Muk (and some from other platforms) to the UK to discern their roles, if any, concerning the dissemination of :misinformation. “

Given that it was also reported that MP’s and/or gov’t officials from the UK came over to the US to help the Kamala campaign, will Trump or Congress be summoning them to the US?


2 posted on 11/21/2024 3:36:48 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: MinorityRepublican

The homos in England can jump in a loch. Soon they will be converting to Islam anyhow. If God can find 10 good ones…May He grant the good ones escape


3 posted on 11/21/2024 3:37:58 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

*Musk


4 posted on 11/21/2024 3:49:10 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: MinorityRepublican
...Elon Musk hates Starmer’s Britain

Heck anyone with an ounce of brains hates Brits, ... including Brits.

5 posted on 11/21/2024 3:50:48 PM PST by Navy Patriot (I Voted For President Trump, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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Heck anyone with an ounce of brains hates Brits, ... including Brits.

Yup, I was just about to post that no one could possibly hate the British more than the British - look at how they treat their own people, arresting praying women and people who tweet something they don't like. British farming is being driven out of the hands of British farmers, to be bought up by international conglomerates. And, of course, the massive importation of Muslims to replace the natives.

Great Britain is a kingdom bent on suicide, and determined to inflict as much pain on its native people as possible in the process.
6 posted on 11/21/2024 4:20:48 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: MinorityRepublican

Meh! They got Ellen so.........


7 posted on 11/21/2024 4:21:36 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I have a place where the UK can put it’s summonses.


8 posted on 11/21/2024 4:27:00 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer has Obama/Soros leading him around like a new puppet.
It can be lucrative for puppets.


9 posted on 11/21/2024 4:46:18 PM PST by doc maverick
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“..It can be lucrative for puppets....”

Until they’re no longer useful.
Then, it’s into the dumpster..never to be seen or heard from again.
Poof...vanished.


10 posted on 11/21/2024 5:25:34 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: lgjhn23

LOL!


11 posted on 11/21/2024 5:42:43 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: MinorityRepublican

Musk should stay away from the UK. The place is full of commies and competing fascists who have no problem throwing you in prison for some made up bs. They call that “democracy.”


12 posted on 11/21/2024 5:43:34 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Great Britain is a kingdom bent on suicide, and determined to inflict as much pain on its native people as possible in the process.

Yes it is, for reasons I am unable to fathom, ... Thank you for enumerating SOME of the reasons for British decline, ... I would add: She is not alone.

13 posted on 11/22/2024 9:45:15 AM PST by Navy Patriot (I Voted For President Trump, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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