Reuters: Musk discussed ways to oust British PM Starmer before next election, FT reports

[Dennis Donovan]

Reuters - Musk discussed ways to oust British PM Starmer before next election, FT reports

By Reuters
January 9, 20251:21 AM EST



Jan 9 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

Musk, the world's richest person and a close ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, last month endorsed a German anti-immigration party ahead of elections slated in February, and has repeatedly commented on British politics, demanding Prime Minister Keir Starmer resign.

Musk has been weighing how he and his allies can destabilise the Labour government and has sought information about building support for alternative British political movements to force a change in government, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Musk didn't immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, outside regular business hours.

"His view is that Western civilisation itself is threatened," one of the people was quoted as telling the FT.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Musk thinks he has to destroy the world to save it.

[2naSalit]

2. Time for...

Him to fall off the planet, even if someone has to push him.

[Mike 03]

3. Musk is doing precisely what Putin has been doing

Attempting to destabilize western democracies. It's disgusting.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Alexander Dugin, Putin's mentor, is spending all his Twitter time praising Musk and the destabilization

I won't link (I did find a summary on a normal site, but I've lost it now), but there is basically no difference at all between Putin's ideological mouthpiece and Musk now.

[Emrys]

9. I haven't checked Dugin's account in the last couple of days, but here he was around the weekend:

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Then he descended into the outright barking:



Speaking of barking, I don't know if you ever seen any of Artem Klyushin's tweets: https://x.com/artem_klyushin

Klyushin's a billionaire businessman currently based in Dubai who's a long-time associate of Trump and seemed to be able to predict (or instruct) Trump's administration picks with some degree of accuracy during the early stages of the transition.

Klyushin's tweets at the moment are short and gnomic, seeming to gloat about what he claims to have set in motion on the international stage.

A Google search for his name should show up plenty of leads.



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[Emrys]

4. Delusions of grandeur.

The motivation's sinister, but when it comes down to it, Musk's a trumped-up and incompetent webmaster.

A pal of mine used to talk about some people having delusions of adequacy. That fits, too.

I'm sure Musk can cause some mischief on Twitter, but so far he's clodhoppingly tried to sabotage Farage, and by extension Reform, and left the UK Tories with egg on their faces after leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch tried to parrot Musk's lines at Prime Minister's Questions. For once, Starmer was on home turf, defending his record (and on that issue, it's pretty good), and was able to point out that Badenoch had never brought up the issue of child sexual exploitation in parliament once while the Tories were in government, despite having been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families by Boris Johnson in 2019, a post she lasted in for less than a year.

I don't know who these supposed "allies" of Musk's are. Maybe catturd2 and Ian Miles Cheong should be approached for comments.

[speak easy]

10. I think he's losing it. He may be on a BiPolar bender.

[kimbutgar]

13. The ketamine is destroying his brain and it's obvious he is losing it!

I bet an overdose is on the horizon because he is becoming more unhinged everyday.

[wcmagumba]

5. Time for Melon Husk to go away...out with the other garbage...imho

🗑️🗑️🗑️

[Hugin]

7. Gee, I wish I had PR flacks capable of inserting "the world's something something person" at every utterance of my...

Name. Without any supporting evidence and completely outside of the topic of the article itself.

True or not.

[lonely bird]

8. Confiscate his assets

Strip him of his citizenship and deport him.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. King of the World

Wannabe fElon Musk can’t buy it straight out. Costs a lot of money to screw democracy. If anybody can do it…

[travelingthrulife]

12. We need to kick this monster out of our country.

He gained his naturalization papers illegally.

[JCMach1]

14. How about UK explore ways to bankrupt Musk?

Active sanctions against all his companies as he is undermining democracy.

EU should also follow through.

[HUAJIAO]

15. WHY must articles keep repeating and repeating-----

"....Musk, the world's richest person !" ????
The same as "X (formerly Twitter)"

[intheflow]

16. If he didn't have a target on his back before,

I bet he does now.