Musk donating £80m to Reform

X doesn’t supply IT. The government is not just a small business and for it to refuse to a use it a social media platform used by millions of voters because it didn’t like what the owner said is of course about free speech. But also about media’s role in holding the government to account. It would be sinister indeed if voters were only able to obtain news from the government on platforms that only said things the government approved of. And for the government to only listen to feedback they agreed with.

The song is popular on Tik Tok and an idiot in the Labour social media department didn’t think to translate the lyrics from Portuguese before using it in a clip.

Hopefully that idiot no longer has a job.

How would it be undemocratic and anti free speech for the government to choose an IT supplier whose boss isn’t calling for their overthrow by a foreign power?

If the boss of one of our company’s suppliers was badmouthing us in public they wouldn’t be getting any more business from us.

Maybe you should RTFT

Seriously what the feck has the Panama Canal got to do with Nigel Farage.

Talk about going off topic...

You think putting out those lyric in a TikTok, using a song that includes “just punch in a young girl’s pussy” in their comms alongside turning down a call for a further inquiry, shows that the Labour Party has learnt what is needed from that Inquiry? That there is not more to be learnt about how the establishment should respond to these crimes?

There's. Already. Been. An. Inquiry.

Understand the rest of your post.

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Don't forget Trump/Musk also want the Panama Canal.

As an autistic person, he hyper-fixates and his current fixation is (far-right) politics. He cannot see anything from another's perspective, and his mindset is anyone less than a millionaire is scum. As a white, South African, gold-mine empire owner, he is implicitly extremely racist. As a meglomaniac, he is not content with being the world's richest man, he wants to the world's most powerful man. He will meddle away until he is bored.

In the meantime, on the same day as refusing a call for an inquiry into the systematic rape and torture of thousands of girls often drugged to gain compliance, abetted by the state, the Labour Party is using the Chinese-owned TikTok to put out a Tiktok with backing lyrics:

”You’re on the move and holding marijuana, you’re going to be naughty young girl relaunching
Go on the dick, naughty, shameless, sit on the dick, crazy about marijauna
Pay attention, the thing is crazy, I stop this bitch from getting naughty”

That would be rather undemocratic and anti-free speech. Considering the removal of the government (calling a general election) was the very topic of a parliamentary debate today!

What is it going to take for the UK government to pull its official Twitter accounts? He's literally calling for the US to overthrow the UK government.

This in spades. Vance also has a support base who don't gaf about Silicon Valley and whether Elon can get enough tech 🎓 bros from India or wherever. Then there's Zuckerberg , Bezos and many others besides. Trump has options. He will turn on Musk if the Maga nutjobs start to think he's sold them out.

Musk might want a civil war in England but its surely more likely to erupt in the 🇺🇸

In the meantime Musk seems to have gone far field. Which is great because it shows he is just a man with a range of thoughts and whilst some may be right you need to weigh them for yourself. It shows both the dangers and benefits to having a large platform on which he can broadcast his thoughts and people hear them unfiltered. As opposed to the backroom deals of other wealthy men interfering in politics.

Reform is a protest party. As well as getting several seats, it also helped hand many more to Labour helping them to such an overwhelming majority despite so little popular support. But what it isn’t is a mature party with properly formed policies, and its current set up doesn’t support the sort of internal discussions needed to mature. Hence it is unclear what anyone voting Reform gets for their vote.

I did not realise that. Interesting

Absolute lunatic. Who the hell does he think he is? I was reading Daily Mail comments yesterday on Elon Musk and was pleased to see that even DM readers have had enough of him.

I see that Musk has gone full nutjob now. So people still think he's a force for good.

Jesus.

There is no mechanism for Reform to dump Farage. Reform is a limited company in which Farage has a controlling share. A party formation which I’m sure the other party leaders are secretly envious of.

I wonder if Reform will dump Farage in order to get the money.

I thought that was Canada, with Mexico and Greenland taking 52nd and 53rd.
Leaving the UK with 54th or so, I may have missed some.

He is hardly the first rich foreigner donating millions to a uk political party. Or the first to seek to influence UK government. There have been numerous dodgy deals between both the conservatives and Labour and the Murdoch press, not least in the run up to the elections to get the endorsement of his papers - no doubt because the parties feel doing so will directly influence the election results.