Posted on 01/05/2025 6:39:06 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
"The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn't have what it takes" - Elon Musk
Musk does not seem to understand that Tommy Robinson, whilst certainly a brave man, is still very disliked by Middle England voters that are needed to see Reform over the line. Farage cannot afford to alienate these voters. There are far more of them than there are Tommy Robinson fans and the legacy media in Britain will be overjoyed to see this.
Sorry, yr wrong,...when people find out what has really happened to Tommy Robinson, they will see just how badly he has been treated.....Musk also has seen at first hand what has happened with a bent judiciary and that is what has done for TR......
Farage has been a fool over this....but also Farage can’t stand any competition...that is his real weakness.
Tommy Robinson has been treated terribly. Every time he hiccups they throw him back in jail. It’s all very Stalinist.
But that can’t be the main consideration here. The UK is approaching a point of no return. So the main consideration has to be who has a better chance of bringing Reform to power, Robinson or Farage?
Farage is better placed to understand Middle England than Elon Musk. Tommy Robinson himself certainly does, which is why he himself has tried to stay ‘hands off’ and keep his distance from Reform, only intervening to implore Farage to stop attacking him or mentioning him because he knows that for all his many working class fans, he is regarded as ireedeemably toxic to the type of middle class triple vaxxed boomer normie who gets most of their views from legacy media but is still disgruntled with the Tories.
They view Tommy Robinson as a football hooligan (which he was in the past) and an icon of the far right (which as a former, albeit short-lived member of the BNP he is easily tainted with). If Tommy Robinson understands how toxic this will forever make him look to many people then his supporters need to understand it too.
Reform cannot win if it alienates voters who don’t see TR as ‘respectable’.
Elon is losing support the more he opens his mouth. Showing that money does not equate to intelligence on every subject. No one can deny that Elon is not a smart person, but he is starting to believe he owns all of the intelligence, which is his short-comings. He was after all considered to be an outcast among his peers that knew hm growing up. He was the kid that was repeatedly passed over.
Thought Nigel and Trump were good friends.
Is the reason Musk does not like Nigel is because of Bannon and Raheem who definitely are friends with Nigel do not agree with Musk on H1Bs?????
Reform and the Conservative Party need to work together. For each MP seat contest, the better polling candidate must be the joint choice.
For all Trump’s reputation from shooting from the lip, he hasn’t commented once about Tommy Robinson. Presumably because he has listened to his longstanding friend Nigel Farage about how it is in Britain, and what drives Middle England, and that it isn’t Tommy Robinson.
Elon Musk has known Nigel Farage for all of 5 minutes, and has shown that he doesn’t put much thought into his opinions before he hammers them out on his phone on X. For all the good Musk has done exposing the establishment’s pathetic failures over grooming gangs, he has not put much thought into potentially destroying Reform UK and undermining any chance of the Uniparty being destroyed. They’re going to be rubbing their hands with glee over Musk torpedoing Farage like this.
They tried that in 2019. It didn’t lead to a very good government. The Tories aren’t fit for purpose and they’re ireedeemable at this point.
Elon, you’re pretty close to wearing out your welcome so I suggest you put a sock in it and take a break for awhile
Yes, I think you are correct. Elon needs to concentrate on getting those astronauts down, and getting us to MARS and he will be lauded once again.
Elon Musk is turning into Trump’s biggest liability right now.
I am sure that UKIP and Farage did not think they were running on the sexual abuse and deviancy ticket, but now they are. Robinson and Elon are ahead on this issue and Farage needs to catch up.
Also, the way things are trending on x I'd be surprised if it's worth much over the course of Musk's tenure. The site has gone from a Democrat propaganda outlet under Jack Dorsey to a cesspool of paid clout chasing, grifting,paid hack influencers under under Musk
Now Lord Elon has decreed that the algorithm be changed to some kind of weird social credit scheme that rewards "positivity." Think the heer brilliance of Catturd with a side of kitten gifs.
Anyway, I finally deleted my account there. I feel like my IQ went up and my blood pressure went down within 24 hours after doing so
They are.
I had great hopes for a Trump-Musk alliance to right the ship of state but Musk seems to have his own ideas which are alienating the base.
Sometimes Elon Musk needs to just shut up.
I like the guy but he needs to learn to keep his mouth shut
I had great hopes for a Trump-Musk alliance to right the ship of state but Musk seems to have his own ideas which are alienating the base.
Note I present the problem as one or the other. In reality it is complex and both sides need higher ground. I see more evidence of Trump and Musk doing good leadership and learning.
Evidence for the base learning?
Trump doesn’t really need Musk any more. He is the President-Elect and he won’t be standing for election again, so for him Musk’s support is irrelevant.
Unfortunately, he can still torpedo Nigel Farage and Reform because of his reach.
There are so many people in Britain now hanging on his every word on social media, and he has the potential to influence a lot of people to turn away from Reform by sticking his oar in over Tommy Robinson.
In̈eresting. H1b visas going to blow up a lot of relationships.
Some of Musk’s gazillion kids are Indian. Someone said it looked like shivon was pregnant again.
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