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Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by tamada » December 18, 2024, 8:49 am

As reported by Sky News (UK) and elsewhere.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... paign=copy


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Re: Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by tamada » December 23, 2024, 7:02 am

Looks like the UK's legislators will demur on stopping foreign interference with political party funding. The claim that immediate action would probably play to Reform UK's benefit doesn't shroud the fact that both Labour and Conservative parties don't want to shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to having billionaires onside and being bought and paid for.
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Re: Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by jackspratt » January 7, 2025, 7:58 am

Musk, having found his useful idiot in the USA, is now trying to get rid of his other one in the UK.
In About-Face, Musk Trashes Farage, U.K.’s Anti-Immigrant Populist

Elon Musk, the billionaire backer of Donald J. Trump, had been promoting Nigel Farage. But on Sunday Mr. Musk said Mr. Farage “doesn’t have what it takes.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/worl ... Position=3

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Re: Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by tamada » January 7, 2025, 10:30 am

Why does it take the likes of Musk to realize that the Reform UK's leader desn't have the bottle and is a political one-trick pony? Ask anyone left holding the baby when Farage walked away from UKIP and then the Brexit Party? His bleating about his 20-odd years as a MEP is all you need to know, sucking at that great European teat that he claims to despise.

As for Musk, who reckons Tommy Robinson is a bloody choir boy...? Farage and Musk are BOTH equally deplorable, but if the latter reckons that Yaxley-Lennon should be a free man, maybe he can do the UK a big, big favor and work with the INS on getting him a visa and a green card so he can join the Proud Boys over there. I'm sure they'll love him like a brother from another mother.
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Re: Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by AlexO » January 7, 2025, 5:56 pm

tamada wrote:
January 7, 2025, 10:30 am

As for Musk, who reckons Tommy Robinson is a bloody choir boy...? Farage and Musk are BOTH equally deplorable, but if the latter reckons that Yaxley-Lennon should be a free man, maybe he can do the UK a big, big favor and work with the INS on getting him a visa and a green card so he can join the Proud Boys over there. I'm sure they'll love him like a brother from another mother.
TR or Laxley-Lennon as some love to call him is not the devil incarnate, white supremist some people would have you believe. Far from it, he is supported in his opposition to Islamist Extremism and the 2 tier application of the laws in the UK by many Sikh, Hindu and African origin people.
He would probably not fit with the USA Proud Boy outfit as there is a totally different ethnic demographic in the Land of the Free and Brave.
The very recent utterances from the UK's disaster of a Prime Minister that anyone commenting on the investigations and cover up of the heinous crimes carried out all over the UK by the mainly Pakistani Muslim rape gangs is Far Right and by his own definition a Racist instead of just extremely concerned citizens, just shows the lily livered, hand wringing, lack of direct action by the disgraceful political class that has taken hold in the UK over the last 25 years.

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Re: Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by tamada » January 8, 2025, 4:39 pm

And there you have it. How Jordan Peterson interview with Tommy Robinson led to Musk’s bust-up with Reform

Reform insiders are convinced the billionaire’s support for Robinson stems from his conversations with the Canadian academic

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... ge-reform/
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Re: Musk to buy Reform UK

Post by AlexO » January 10, 2025, 1:56 pm

Mr Musk does seem to become seriously offended if normal folks ignore his proclamations of personal greatness.
Remember the cave diving expert who suddenly became a peodophile due to him telling Elon his rigid coffin was not suitable for getting the kids out of the cave.

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