Musk is on a drive to bring down UK Prime Minister

Top tech bro Elon Musk has become fixated with ousting Britain’s Prime Minister just six months after the UK general elections swept his party to victory, according to a report in The Financial Times.

Using his social media platform X for his campaign against Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, he recently posted, “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.”

Musk has allegedly had private conversations with key allies to explore how he might remove Starmer before the end of his term beyond his vitriolic attacks on X.

Musk is pedaling the view that while Starmer remains in power in the UK, “western civilization is threatened,” according to one individual privy to the conversations.

Musk waded onto the British political scene during the right-wing riots last summer which were stoked by misinformation online.

At that time, he called out Starmer for mishandling the situation and expressed the view that civil war in the country was “inevitable”.

More recently, has called Starmer “complicit” in a grooming scandal that took place between 1997 and 2013, despite the fact Starmer was not in power at the time.

Musk’s allegations rest on the fact that Starmer was head of Public Prosecutions during some of that period, but they also rest on inaccuracies, as Starmer has pointed out.

Starmer is not the only UK politician in Musk’s firing line. The current leader of the far-right Reform UK party Nigel Farage has also incurred the Tesla tycoon’s wrath.

Musk has said that Farage “doesn’t have what it takes” to lead Reform, a party he is rumored to be trying to push into power with donations of $100 million.

Farage will, however, attend Donald Trump’s inauguration while Sir Keir has not received an invitation. This, according to Musk on X, is because Starmer “sent operatives to America to undermine the US election.”

Despite Musk’s attacks, Sir Keir has said he would be happy to involve Musk in the UK’s ambition to become an AI hub. “We will work with anybody in this sector, whether it’s Elon Musk or anybody else,” he is reported saying in The Independent.

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