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Musk has for the previous few days been posting steadily about British politics, typically referring to the kid sexual abuse scandal wherein a gang of principally British Asian males perpetrated a long time of abuse in opposition to principally poor, white ladies whereas the authorities didn’t intervene.
The tensions across the scandal contributed to race riots that happened in August, throughout which Musk additionally clashed with the United Kingdom’s authorities.
Against this backdrop, Musk’s strident criticism of centrist and center-left politicians like Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips, a Home Office minister, isn’t surprising — the Tesla entrepreneur’s politics have veered additional and additional proper on immigration lately, and he typically picks fights on-line with left-wing leaders.
His schism with Farage, a darling of the anti-immigration motion, is extra stunning. Earlier on Sunday, when requested in a tv interview about insults and semi-truths Musk had thrown at Labour politicians, Farage defended Musk’s proper to freedom of speech.
But Farage disagreed with Musk’s endorsement of fascist figurehead Tommy Robinson, who’s at present serving a jail sentence for contempt of courtroom.
Musk “has a entire vary of opinions, a few of which I agree with very strongly, and others of which I’m extra reticent about,” Farage mentioned on Friday.
