Musk suggests Americans should ‘liberate’ the British from their ‘tyrannical government’
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His post on X marked a surreal new step in the billionaire tycoon’s escalating feud with Britain’s ruling Labour Party and its leader Keir Starmer. Elon Musk has suggested in a post on X that Americans “should liberate" the British from their "tyrannical government" as he attempts to insert himself deeper into British politics and continues to feud with the country’s ruling Labour Party over its handling of child abuse cases.
In perhaps his strangest intervention in foreign politics yet, the Tesla and Space X multi-billionaire asked for a show of hands in a poll on his social network Monday on his statement: "America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.” It had 39 million views by Monday evening.
Whether he was referring to harsh criticism, covert support for domestic guerrillas, or military action in the “liberation” was unclear, but he also added that it was "not a bad idea" for Britain to become a U.S. state, as Donald Trump has suggested for Canada.
Musk's latest post is part of an escalating battle between the richest person on Earth and the British Labour Party, which was elected in a landslide last July, but has since suffered a sharp drop in popularity. As part of that battle, Musk – a dues-paying major ally of the openly authoritarian Donald Trump – has repeatedly voiced support for far-right activists and causes in the UK, just as he did in Germany last month.
At the center of the dispute is Labour's record, and that of British prime minister Keir Starmer, over a series of high-profile child abuse scandals in which authorities reportedly failed to investigate gangs of largely British Pakistani men who trafficked and raped thousands of young girls.
