Summary
UK right-wing politicians, including allies of Nigel Farage, have privately urged Donald Trump’s team to avoid endorsing far-right activist Tommy Robinson, following Elon Musk’s calls for Robinson’s release from prison.
Musk, a close Trump adviser, has faced backlash for supporting Robinson, who is jailed for contempt of court and has a history of criminal convictions.
Farage and other mainstream UK conservatives have distanced themselves from Robinson, warning that such endorsements could harm their political credibility.
Musk’s controversial posts continue to stir tensions within UK and US political circles.
Musk making the typical American mistake of thinking politics here is as polarised in the US.
No, the British right doesn’t automatically support the jailed Yaxley-Lennon. Some think he’s just a gobby twat.
Ha! Even Farage wants him to fuck off! I love it!
“Don’t you get it? If we associate with Elon, people might think we’re the baddies!”
I think at this point it must be argued that Musk is an inside agent seeking to accelerate the downfall of capitalism by making it clear how dangerous it is to concentrate wealth to this degree.
Well, that, or he is planning on taking USA full Russia. Extremism and misinformation from the top down.
Or, like drugs or something?
He just doesn’t seem smart enough to engineer the first two options unless someone else is doing all the thinking for him (which seems entirely possible).
I think Musk overestimates his popularity among the European supporters of far right parties. Recently came back from the holidays in rural east Germany, where lots of people vote that way, and people abhor him over there.
It’s interesting to see the hierarchy of embarrassment that conservatives have found themselves stuck in. Average Tory voter < Tory party < Nigel Farage < Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson.
Farage should have stayed quiet about Musk and Robinson. Now everyone knows how vulnerable he feels about being the next Nick Griffin.
The whole of the right is allowing itself to get completely tainted by it’s lowest denominator at the moment.
