Elon Musk encourages the head of Reform UK to resign. 'Farage doesn't have that something'

Musk wrote that the right-wing Reform UK party needs a new leader because “Farage doesn't have it.” Reuters points out that the billionaire published the entry even though a few hours earlier he had described the British politician as his friend and praised the Reform UK party, and in December he remained for photos with Farage, which was interpreted as an expression of support for the British politician.

Upcoming responsibilities of an influential businessman (he is to be an advisor Donald Trump and cut costs in the huge US administration)

Even before Sunday's entry calling on one of the main Brexit advocates to leave his position, Farage emphasized that he was in talks with Musk about the billionaire making a donation to Reform UK. As Reuters reminds, this was intended to help Farage's party challenge the dominant parties in Great Britain – Labor and Conservative.

What could be the reason for Elon Musk's turning away from the British politician? Reuters recalls that Farage distanced himself from Musk's comments supporting British anti-immigration and anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known under the pseudonym Tommy Robinson. This man is serving a prison sentence for contempt of court.

Farage responded to Musk's post on Sunday, less than an hour later.

“Well, that's a surprise! Elon is an extraordinary person, but I'm afraid I disagree on this point. I still think Tommy Robinson is unfit for Reform UK and I will never renounce my principles.”

Elon Musk He had previously tried several times to influence British politics and Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who heads the left-wing Labor Party.

Recently, the Tesla founder supported calls for a British inquiry into the handling of rapes of underage girls by Pakistani men by the government prosecutor's office, which was previously headed by Starmer. A 2014 investigation found that at least 1,400 children had been victims of sexual violence in the northern England Rotherham. The crimes allegedly occurred between 1997 and 2013.

Britain's The Times reported that the head of the British government addressed the criticism during a press conference last week. Starmer said that in 2013 he reformed the way prosecutors analyzed child molestation cases, making it easier to prosecute pedophilia and hold perpetrators accountable. However, the newspaper noted that the Prime Minister did not directly criticize Musk. According to British journalists, the British Prime Minister does not want to do this because of the billionaire's very good relations with Donald Trump.

Last month, Musk endorsed Alternative For German (AfD), a party whose members have racist and anti-Semitic views and which the German security services describe as right-wing extremist.

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“Germany is at a critical juncture – its future teeters on the brink of economic and cultural collapse. As someone who has made significant investments in the German industrial and technological landscape, I believe I have the right to speak openly about its political direction,” Musk wrote on Saturday on in the pages of “Welt am Sonntag”.

This position caused a wave of criticism from our western neighbors. In a statement on Monday, a spokeswoman for the German government said that “Musk is trying to influence the elections in Germany.” – Indeed, Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal elections with posts on – After all, freedom of opinion also covers the biggest nonsense – she emphasized.

The leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Democrat candidate for German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, also commented on the matter. – I do not recall a comparable case of interference in the election campaign of a friendly country in the history of Western democracies – said Merz in a conversation with journalists from the Funke media group. In his opinion, Musk's comment was “intrusive and pretentious”.