on January 8, 2025, 5:47 am
Excellent commentary on Kemi Badenoch's flirting with Trumpism, far right conspiracy theory and Musk's verbal assault on the UK's parliament and the PM.
Are there problems with Starmer, Labour, Tories, the whole UK, obviously yes, and they are serious. But it ill behoves a US billionaire to stir the pot, when his own country is such a mess, perhaps even more so. . I'd think more of Musk if he used his billions rather more charitably for his own citizens, instead he's promoting spoiling as an ideology. .
This is a particularly worthwhile paragraph
It was a peculiar decision (to go along with Musk) for the leader of a party that boasts of its organic connection to the institutions and habits of British democracy; the party of Churchill. But that isn’t Badenoch’s party. It just shares the name. Hers is a newer, shorter lineage. She hails from the House of Brexit, the natural successor to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak in a tradition defined by incoherent bombast, culture war performance, policy as gimmick, intellectual vacuity clad in libertarian verbiage.
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