Peter Walker – The Guardian Jan 5, 2025
Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader hours after Farage described the billionaire businessman as “a hero”, in what is likely to be a preview of how a chaotic Donald Trump presidency could affect British politics.
Farage, who is also the de facto owner of Reform, “doesn’t have what it takes”, Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns, less than three weeks after the pair held seemingly warm talks at Trump’s Florida home. “The Reform party needs a new leader,” he wrote.
Musk, 53, who has sent a mass of largely misleading posts in recent days about a series of aspects of UK politics, appeared to endorse Rupert Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, as a possible replacement, saying statements he had read from Lowe “make a lot of sense”.
Later, Lowe backed Farage, posting on X: “Nigel is leader of Reform. He made Brexit happen, and for that I will always be grateful.
“I look forward to working with Nigel and the entire team to continue to hold this incompetent Labour party to account, democratise our own party, win the next election and form a Reform government.”
The sudden change of heart from Musk is highly embarrassing for Farage, who had just spent much of a TV interview earlier on Sunday refusing to condemn the businessman for inflammatory comments about Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips, including calling the latter a “rape genocide apologist”.
Farage, 60, indicated Musk’s statement could be connected to a disagreement about Tommy Robinson, the jailed far-right anti-Islam agitator whom Musk has characterised as a political prisoner, but whom Farage condemns.
“Well, this is a surprise!” Farage wrote on X after Musk’s tweet. “Elon is a remarkable individual but on this I am afraid I disagree. My view remains that Tommy Robinson is not right for Reform and I never sell out my principles.”
While the apparent split does relieve Farage of having to defend Musk’s increasingly prolific, freewheeling and far-right views, there had been significant speculation that the world’s richest man could donate as much as $100m (£80m) to Reform, which now appears less likely.
More widely, the incident is a reminder to Farage and other UK politicians that trying to win favour with either Trump or his ever-changing coterie of advisers and hangers-on, particularly Musk – a capricious figure who seems to understand little about British politics – is a risky affair.
Musk’s embrace of Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has coincided with his interest in cases of grooming gangs in some UK towns and cities, and the decision by Phillips to tell Oldham council, one of the areas affected, that she did not think a second national inquiry into lessons from the scandal was needed.
As well as his comment about Phillips, the safeguarding minister, Musk said Starmer was “complicit in the rape of Britain”. In another flurry of tweets on Sunday, Musk again praised Robinson, and promoted discredited conspiracy theories that Starmer failed to act against the prolific sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.
Musk has also endorsed far-right figures in other countries recently, expressing support for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland in next month’s federal elections.
Asked about this in an interview with the German weekly Stern, Olaf Scholz, the country’s chancellor, said: “Don’t feed the troll,” adding: “You have to stay cool.”
Speaking before Musk disowned him, Farage declined to condemn the comments about Starmer and Phillips. “I don’t agree with everything he stands for,” Farage told BBC One’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg. “But I do believe in free speech. I think he’s a hero.”
He added: “Free speech is back. Well, you may find it offensive, but it’s a good thing, not a bad thing.”
Farage described Musk’s language as “very, very tough terms”, but indicated it would only be seen as unacceptable if it was deemed to be inciting violence. “You know, in public life, tough things get said,” he said. “Those on the left have thrown these sort of jabs at the right for many, many decades and will go on doing so.”
Farage also said he believed Musk had justification in calling Starmer complicit in the failures to swiftly prosecute gangs who targeted vulnerable young girls in a series of UK towns and cities.
“What he’s referring to, specifically, is that in 2008 Keir Starmer had just been appointed as director of public prosecutions, and there was a case brought before them of alleged mass rape of young girls that did not lead to a prosecution,” Farage said.
“I don’t know the rights and wrongs of that any more than you do, but if you believe in free speech, people are allowed to have an opinion.”
Speaking later to the BBC, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, condemned Musk’s comments about Phillips.
“It is a disgraceful smear of a great woman who has spent her life supporting victims of the kind of violence that Elon Musk and others say that they’re against,” he said.
Streeting condemned what he called “armchair critics on social media”, contrasting them with people such as Starmer and Phillips, who “have done the hard yards of actually locking up wife-beaters, rapists, paedophiles”.
I had to stop reading. The “guardian” of the rich scum that control britain. “british politics” = keeping vermin like the “lords” and “king” in power, foreigners controlling the lives of british citizens and nothing ever, ever changing. “britain” today is no different to dickens time. Then you have “farage” saying robinson, a man who the british regime have in solitary confinement for 18 months, just as they did to assange for 10 years, and do to countless others, for telling the truth about britain. Well, it’s obvious that the only change “farage” wants in britain is replacing the current vermin with himself.
Musk is a member of the Establishment……
Sir Keir Starmer hits back at Elon Musk and ‘poison of the far-right’
Story by Christopher McKeon, PA Political Correspondent
Sir Keir Starmer sounds like a real little racist shit
He said the online debate about child sexual exploitation was based on lies, with politicians “jumping on the bandwagon”. and it was only just over 1000 kids molested not more than that
He said threats made against MPs such as safeguarding minister Jess Phillips meant “in my book, a line has been crossed”.
He accused the Tories of “amplifying what the far-right is saying” on child sexual abuse after they also failed to act “for 14 long years”.
Starmer hid up abuse by John Smyth Jimmy saville and all the muslims up north
“We’re only making plans for Nigel
Ooo-woo-ooo-woo-ooo
We only want wants best for him.”
Forgive me for that.
The only kind of reform needed these days is moral reform with people in power and places of influence knowing the difference between right and wrong and only doing what is right. Lowe has at least said that the UK is a “Christian country” and likely would be a better resistor to the Muslim invasion. Musk, however, as an outside funder one would think should be more discrete about his preferences or he may destroy the unity in the party which many of us outside of the UK understood had populist roots, leaving it to the members who they want to lead it.
as more british jets bomb arab villages
supporting israeli terrorism again killing many
Kier Starmer named as a collaborator
Its all kabuki theater for the morons.
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, the ‘democracy’ game ended when Hitler & the Nazis won via ‘democracy’ in 1932/33. Its been rigged ever since to prevent whites from winning again.” –Nico X
80 years since the defeat of fascism/nazism in Waste Whitey II, & still no new fascist/nazi government has obtained power via ‘democracy’. Figure it out, if you can.
I see the morons still have trouble figuring out conman Musk. Musk is a Rothschild front/techno-Commie pretending to be some ‘anti-establishment libertarian’ or ‘nationalist’, the easier to institute the techno-Commie program of EVs & total digital control over society.. Remember some mischling Jew enveloping the planet with thousands of Orwellian satellites is ‘anti-establishment’. Farage is a crypto-Jew. 10 to 1 Rupert Lowe is a Yid too.
I don’t like all these jews muslims and christians in England. they turned my nation into and island of scum
be suspicious of anyone supporting commie robinson
https://t.me/RealWorldNewsChannel/33804
Independent Member of UK Parliament Andrew Bridgen on Nigel Farage:
“Nigel Farage…I told him everything about the C19 vaccines 22 months ago and he, very disappointingly, said he didn’t want to talk about it and I shouldn’t be talking about it,” Bridgen says. “And, I’m afraid, that tells you all you need to know about Nigel Farage.”
Independent Member of UK Parliament Andrew Bridgen describes for Liz Gunn, how Nigel Farage, a British politician and broadcaster who has been the leader of Reform U.K. since June 2024, is a “character” playing a part in order to hold up the “uniparty system”.
Too bad ‘Reform’ is simply another MarxistI5 managed party, just like Labour/Tory. The morons still can’t figure out the ‘democracy’ game is over. The only viable method to Anglo-Saxon power is outlined in Nico X’s ‘The 4 Stages to Power’. Everything else is an exercise in futility.
Though Musk’s comments might’ve caused ‘The Retardian’ to get its knickers (crotchless) in a twist…
anyone who nails ShIthead Starmer and that silly skank Phillips as “complicit in the rape of Britain” speaks The Truth…. and gets MY vote!!
👏👏👏
This is an easy one. Bad guys support Israel, good guys don’t. Musk, Farage, Robinson and Starmer ALL support Israel. Having said that, Reform are the best of a terrible bunch. The people of the UK desperately need a government that represents THEM, and I can’t see that happening any time soon.
none of those 3 pictured above look like Anglo-Saxons to me. Musk looks like some weird Eurasian, the two standing next to him look like Jews or greaseballs.
Trust no 1, especially politicians!
Lying, cheating and theft are their tools.
Labour is Commie & Tory is crypto-Commie. ‘Reform’ won’t reform anything, the wogs will remain in England & continue arriving. The white man will simply be duped again, befuddled & wondering when voting or democracy will ever work for him…
The not a real persona “Mask” is tasked with shifting the public opinion to the right in Europe like he did in the US. The year started with overdoses of cgi fakery in the US and more ridiculing of the capo di tutti capi, Keir Starmer, protector of all UK pedophiles. “Mask” is a mil. operative and Executive Orders have global authority ..
Just keep in mind that according to jewish scripture jews are allowed to rape kids and animals ( not pigs) as long as they are non jews
Starmer is a jew and as such he is allowed to nob little kids
this is why he could not speak out about savile Gambacinni etc
he had no choice
@ Nico/Crowley
“enveloping the planet with thousands of Orwellian satellites is ‘anti-establishment’.
Plenty of Orwellian tech, but satellites and ‘outer space’ don’t exist. High altitude aircraft and balloons[satelloons] are used for weather imagery – cloud video, pics etc. GPS, satellite TV and radio operate using ground based systems. Frequently GPS is unavailable in wilderness areas. If it was satellite driven that wouldn’t be the case.
Satelloons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_kWN0BsKs
faragedick
the assange & commie robinson confinement/jail story was/is a hoax/psyop skit to make people think they’re ‘real enemies of the State’
‘now you know’ as nico says
Musk is Deep State. Just as Boris Johnson (a Deep State sellout if there ever was one), was parachuted in to push farage out of UKIP and to slow down Brexit, now another schill is being pushed to push Farage out again. Johnson himself has been hinting that he should be leading Reform. History repeats. Unfortunately Johnson may still have enough deluded supporters to pull this off.
Yet MORE taken out of proportion FAR LEFT NAZI GARBAGE from the Guardian that HATES the UK!! The perpetrators were Pakistani’s FACT!!
start calling this guy Nigel FARTage
I don’t believe in Elon Musk…
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Dave Williams:
too bad all these political parties & entire political system is managed by MarxistI5.
Musk’s everywhere lately! One might wonder why or not.
Looks like Poms don’t pay too much respect to “Queen” Charles and the authority that “organizes” the subjects of the kosher kingdom. And there HE is! The knight in shining armor to liberate the empire from the rot that it soooo much cherishes. Another “orange” man born on foreign shores that becomes the man in the empire that has become its own colony. History is a bitch – simply because when influenced by “Hi$torians” of the kosher clan it can be regurgitated anytime. Patriotism rules and LFC will win the CL!
Musk was put in his place after recent trip to Alex Soros and has completely flipped on everything. Him and Trump are jew controlled on pain of death. See the Jim stone photo of musk on a leash.
You would have to be very gullible to believe what weird Musk says.
And make no mistake he IS weird.
Musk is without doubt a crypto jew and initially probably detached from the tribe.His recent visit to Israel was probably to remind him of his loyalties to the tribe.
Bullshitter Trump is very definitely a crypto jew….hence the embassy shift and the Golan thing…..snuck in under the radar.If these Arab countries haven’t figured it out yet they’ve got more hard lessons ahead.
Probable are the leaders of Saudi AND Morroco.The Jews have been in Morocco for so long it would be surprising if they haven’t infiltrated the place long ago.(Hence the greasy three showing up there during ww2).
QATAR….seem to be new Donmehs on the block….they seem to get access to Western aviation and of course things like that world cup.
WORSE is their special favoritism for the dullard David Beckheim and his family of untermenschers….Beckheim is too thick to have set this up….so it will be an Elders of Zyklon gig.
Farage wont have commie robinson
because he knows he is mossad
Musk does not know this
We are entering the Chaos Phase. These controlled and contrived mainstream releases of government corruption are designed to get the people to eventually dismantle their own corrupt governments.
Throw in WW3…
Soon after, this is when global communism comes in.
Hook, line and sinker, Goy.
Tommy is a Commie BUT Musk is right that Fromage is WEAK.
We need a Strong Pro Brit and Anti Zionist Leader
Crypto jews in Texas……there are a ton of them.
The American South West is well known for the number of jews living there.
The Bush Family for example…..and LBJ who was “bussed in to replace Kennedy”.(the jews slowly eliminated the Kennedys who were super rich and not Marrano’s…..surprisingly).It looks like Kennedys wife MAY have been a crypto jew and was possibly the killer of Kennedy.
Anyway there are a lot of them in Texas including Jerry Hall the former wife of the maggot Rolling Stein Mick Jagger (crypto jew)
THen there is “Gas Monkeys” a body shop for hotrods owned by “wanker jews” who strut around the workshop talking shit.(there is a TV show featuring the pricks.Most of the employees may be Europeans etc…..doing all the groundwork….