Starmer’s chronicles - Page 36

**Maggy** · 05-01-2025, 16:14

With any luck Musk has peed off the electorate as much as he seems to have Farage.

1andrew1 · 05-01-2025, 17:47

Bare-faced cheek of Musk. No way he can judge who's best to lead Reform UK from where he sits. I'm looking forward to Trump booting him into touch when they have their inevitable fall-out!

papa smurf · 05-01-2025, 17:50

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Bare-faced cheek of Musk. No way he can judge who's best to lead Reform UK from where he sits. I'm looking forward to Trump booting him into touch when they have their inevitable fall-out!

i think it's a given that they will fall out, you can't have 2 apex predators in the same house

**Hugh** · 05-01-2025, 17:57

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i think it's a given that they will fall out, you can't have 2 apex predators in the same house

Especially when they are hoovering Adderall and Ketamine in industrial quantities…

ianch99 · 05-01-2025, 18:24

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Especially when they are hoovering Adderall and Ketamine in industrial quantities…

Allegedly ...

TheDaddy · 05-01-2025, 19:06

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i think it's a given that they will fall out, you can't have 2 apex predators in the same house

Think you've misspelled sex, there's no ap in it....

papa smurf · 05-01-2025, 19:10

it's ok normal service has resumed

'Starmer must go' - Elon Musk launches new attack on PM amid feud with Nigel Farage

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...tarmer-must-go

**Chris** · 05-01-2025, 19:36

I mean … does anybody care? It’s only media types who think Xitter is important. I guarantee you if Elmo’s dribbling wasn’t getting so many column inches in our Sunday papers, hardly anybody would even be aware of it.

1andrew1 · 05-01-2025, 21:38

Well, Musk has done one thing which few have achieved- he's united Cable Forum's posters, albeit against him! (And yes, I get that he's done a few more noteworthy things as well!)

**Chris** · 05-01-2025, 22:03

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Well, Musk has done one thing which few have achieved- he's united Cable Forum's posters, albeit against him! (And yes, I get that he's done a few more noteworthy things as well!)

To the extent that it matters at all … “Space Karen” is now trending on Xitter

**Damien** · 05-01-2025, 22:18

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I mean … does anybody care? It’s only media types who think Xitter is important. I guarantee you if Elmo’s dribbling wasn’t getting so many column inches in our Sunday papers, hardly anybody would even be aware of it.

Well, he is one of the richest men in the world who seems to have the ear of the incoming US President so it is newsworthy he is backing Tommy Robinson over Farage and calling for the UK government to be collapsed.

**Chris** · 05-01-2025, 22:35

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Well, he is one of the richest men in the world who seems to have the ear of the incoming US President so it is newsworthy he is backing Tommy Robinson over Farage and calling for the UK government to be collapsed.

Neither of those attributes gives him either the power or the influence to bring any of his apparent desires about, tempting though be to believe it so. If he wants political influence in the UK the only viable way for him to do it even in 2025 would be for him to buy one of the major newspaper groups. For all his fulminating, the ‘legacy media’ still has enormously more sway in British public life than any social media platform, or the lunatic president-elect of any foreign country, up to and including the USA.

1andrew1 · 05-01-2025, 23:11

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Neither of those attributes gives him either the power or the influence to bring any of his apparent desires about, tempting though be to believe it so. If he wants political influence in the UK the only viable way for him to do it even in 2025 would be for him to buy one of the major newspaper groups. For all his fulminating, the ‘legacy media’ still has enormously more sway in British public life than any social media platform, or the lunatic president-elect of any foreign country, up to and including the USA.

The Telegraph's still up for grabs but he might fail the fit and proper owner test.

**Chris** · 05-01-2025, 23:25

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The Telegraph's still up for grabs but he might fail the fit and proper owner test.

Well if he didn’t last week, he certainly does now.

Regardless, Elon is utterly naive about how politics works. He’s a quick study when the issue is maths and science - if you listen to him talk rocket science, it’s obvious he genuinely understands what the engineers at SpaceX are doing with his money. But politics is an art that requires relational skills he simply doesn’t have. At all. He doesn’t understand the British constitutional levers he’s fulminating over. Someone’s told him Charles can dissolve parliament so he’s demanding that like it’s 1629.

He genuinely seems to believe in political influence via meme and that Xitter has influence the waning ‘legacy media’ no longer has - so buying a newspaper group will be the last thing on his mind. As long as he persists in that belief he’ll be a nuisance but he won’t seriously affect anything, unless our ‘legacy media’ loses its collective schitt over him and gives him column inches, which will make it a live issue that actually might cause el gov a little bother.

1andrew1 · 06-01-2025, 02:06

Rumours that Musk's attacks on Starmer are because he dislikes the Online Safety Bill.