Musk is a nasty dangerous misfit and a liar who will soon fall out with Trump
When Elon Musk was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Pretoria he had to be hospitalised after being thrown down concrete steps and being badly beaten by a classmate. He received no sympathy from his wealthy father Errol, in fact he was made to stand for an hour while Errol berated him.
“What did my kid expect, he had called his attacker stupid because his father had committed suicide. Elon had a habit of calling people stupid.”
It seems nothing has changed.
Here is a man, the richest person in the world at $232 billion, a regular user of doctor-prescribed ketamine and, according to the Wall Street Journal, other hard recreational drugs, a self-confessed bully with Asperger syndrome, a vaccine-denier, father of at least 12 children, married three times (twice to the same woman), serial shagger, and possessor of a smirking face that begs to be smacked.
That, in a nutshell, is the character of the man who thinks Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips should be in jail and serial thug Tommy Robinson be freed from prison because he is a hero for free speech.
In Musk we are clearly dealing with a nasty and dangerous far-Right misfit who thinks now that he owns X he can say anything he likes, spreading lies and misinformation about our current government and particularly Keir Starmer and Ms Phillips. The good news is he has the attention span of a fruit fly who has decided for the moment to turn his attention to politics both here and Europe, particularly Germany where he backs the near-fascist AfD party.
It won’t last; soon he will be on to the next project and hopefully he will take one of his Space-X flights to Mars. One-way.
All the evidence for this is there; one minute he was all over his new-best-friend Nigel Farage and the Reform Party, dangling a donation of £100million to get them salivating, and the next calling for Reform’s spiv of a leader to make way for someone else ‘because he’s not up to the job’.
It will be the same with Trump. As sure as night follows day the pair will fall out over who’s really in charge because there cannot be two presidents in the White House.
What really concerns me is the reaction to Musk’s appalling lies about Starmer’s and Phillips’ roles in the so-called child-sex grooming scandal. He said that Starmer when DPP had prosecuted none of the gang rapists and that Phillips was a ‘witch who has supported genocidal rape abusers’. Both totally untrue and deeply offensive. He called for an immediate judicial inquiry apparently ignorant of Prof Alexis Jay’s review which reported in 2022.
Immediately the Tories’ invisible and lacklustre leader Kemi Badenoch called for that immediate inquiry, not acknowledging that the Conservative government in which she served had failed to implement any of the Jay recommendations. And now the party’s chancer-in-chief Robert Jenrick has jumped on the bandwagon (any will do).
We do not need more inquiries, we just need to put in place the 11 key findings of Prof Jay which now seems to be happening. At long last.
Politics in this country has been in the pan for far too long; five Tory prime ministers in 14 years and now a Labour government that has hardly shone in its first six months. In less than two weeks Donald Trump – and Elon Musk, however temporarily – will be in the Oval Office and even the dark arts of Peter Mandelson will be pushed to keep the so-called special relationship on track.
Not after Musk’s mad tweets and Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s comments that the incoming President is a ‘woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath’. He was right of course but now he is trying to excuse and bury his assessment. However hard he tries, he can’t unsay it. And Trump won’t forgive.
We need a long stretch of stability but I’m not sure we will get it. Starmer is a boring plodder and is no Blair, not even a Gordon Brown; the Tories will soon find out they have elected the wrong leader (again) and Reform, with or without Farage and with or without the Musk millions will see their chance. And the Lib Dems will be a well-meaning third (or soon fourth) party led by a decent man (now called a ‘snivelling cretin’ by Musk) who likes to fall in the water. Ed Davey should wear Musk’s words as a badge of humour.
Welcome to 2025.
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I’ve long questioned the honours system which has been part of our heritage for more than a thousand years. Once it was a way of the monarch rewarding lackies with land and earldoms, now it’s a way of handing baubles to party funders, Establishment fops and Civil Service time-servers. Or in the case of Sue Gray, Starmer’s short-lived chief of staff, a way of paying her off with a seat in the Lords for going quietly.
It’s a thoroughly rotten system and should be scrapped but of course it won’t be. But anyone who has been watching the extraordinary series on BBC2 about the 7/7 bombings of 2005 must realise that all of those who took part in the terrible aftermath of that horror are the people who truly deserve recognition by the state. The emergency workers, the forensic teams and the police who went without sleep for a week to try to piece together what happened and by whom.
Interviewed 20 years on they are still traumatised by what they saw. Not dead bodies but tiny pieces of human beings which had to be literally scraped off the splintered carriages of a Tube train deep down in a tunnel in scorching July temperatures while wearing full forensic gear. So hot that their shoes filled with their own sweat.
Everyone deserved an honour but few got one. They were just doing their jobs which weren’t particularly well paid. These days of our mangled language every tin pot sports or film ‘star’ is called a hero. The men and women who cleared up after 7/7 really were and are heroes.
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Regarding Badenoch, you know she really is in trouble when the great sage that is Nadine Dorries gives her advice in her piss-poor Mail column under the heading ‘It’s not been going well for Kemi. But she CAN still put things right – and here’s how’.
ALAN FRAME
8 January 2025
