Elon Musk Is Trying to Oust the British Prime Minister ⇥ youtube.com

Anna Gross and Joe Miller, Financial Times:

Elon Musk has privately discussed with allies how Sir Keir Starmer could be removed as UK prime minister before the next general election, according to people briefed on the matter.

Musk, the world’s richest man and key confidant of US president-elect Donald Trump, is probing how he and his rightwing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop appeared on Andrew Marr’s LBC show to discuss Musk’s absurd claims:

I mean, it is almost impossible to avoid him, and he has enormous power, because of a) his money, and b) his reach to people who have been persuaded over the last five years or so that the mainstream media hasn’t covered any stories.

Hislop says the award-winning story Musk is using to cause this frenzy was broken on the front page of the Times and has been covered for a decade or more. As Hank Green said, everything is a conspiracy theory when you do not trust anything and, as Mike Masnick said, when you do not bother to educate yourself.

I shudder to think what nonsense is coming for the Canadian election likely happening this year. It is going to be a nightmare.