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.
The Labour Party sent a team to the US to campaign for the Democrats in November's Presidential election. What we're seeing from Musk and Team Trump is Not The End Of Democracy In Our Time but payback for an error of judgement. Labour had no business seeking to interfere in the US's election.
It's quite wrong to claim, as this journalist does, that claiming there was a cover-up of the grooming gangs scandal is a far-right conspiracy theory. Every institution in this country from the Home Office downwards failed the white, working class victims effectively protecting the predators allowing them to operate, unchecked, for decades.
on January 8, 2025, 5:47 am