Another day, another UK volley from the one-man media universe that is Elon Musk. At 07.51 this morning, Musk posted a yes/no poll on his X feed: ‘America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.’ At the time of writing, 70 per cent of 170,000 X users replied in the affirmative.
Musk seems determined to drive our national conversation, in the way that newspapers and then TV/radio networks still claim to do, and the British political and media class seem strangely content to enable him.
In a speech this morning, the Prime Minister Keir Starmer just turned another of his big ‘reset’ moments into an angry diatribe in response to the Musk-led assault on his and Labour’s record over the grooming (raping) gangs scandal.
‘Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves,’ said the PM.
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