The UK media has always couched its coverage of Elon Musk with reminders that he is supposedly particularly unpopular in the UK. Not true when the full figures are borne out…
New polling from Freshwater Strategy, which interviewed 1,207 UK voters between 4-6 of this month, shows that the world’s richest man is more popular among Brits than their own Prime Minister. 25% of voters view Musk favourably versus 47% unfavourably, compared to Starmer’s 22% favourable and whopping 58% unfavourable. Pitting a -22 point approval rating against -38…
Reeves is also low at -30 points. All political figures polled for have a net negative rating. Hilariously, Musk is more popular than Starmer even among those Labour voters who now say they won’t vote for the party again. Starmer has the lowest rating of all at -44…
That even beats Donald Trump in unfavourability. There’s a reason people say Starmer’s start has been the worst of any Labour PM in history…
In the last few hours Elon has turned the spotlight on former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s record in office on the rape gangs scandal. In a salvo of tweets the X owner has let rip:
Gordon Brown sold those little girls for votes https://t.co/PNfoaNnCrP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 6, 2025
What!!?? Explain yourself, Gordon Brown. https://t.co/zeBkYFKWlQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 6, 2025
Gordon Brown sold those little girls for votes https://t.co/PNfoaNnCrP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 6, 2025
This could go further…
Nigel Farage and Nick Candy met with Elon Musk at Mar-A-Lago yesterday. Nigel and Nick say:
“We had a great meeting with Elon Musk for an hour yesterday. We learned a great deal about the Trump ground game and will have ongoing discussions on other areas. We only have one more chance left to save the West and we can do great things together. Our thanks also to President Trump for allowing us to use Mar-A-Lago for this historic meeting. The special relationship is alive and well.”
The three wise men…
The Guardian reported last night that “caps on political donations are being considered by ministers as part of sweeping reforms.” Funnily timed after reports concerning Elon Musk and Reform…
The paper claims “officials have sought more detail on” proposals to be set out by left-wing think tank IPPR to limit “individual and corporate donations to political parties to £100,000 a year.” IPPR personnel are firmly ensconced in No 10…
MHCLG told the Guardian that Labour is “working to strengthen the rules around donations to political parties to ensure we maintain trust in our electoral system. We will set out more details on this in due course.” Downing Street, on the other hand, stressed at the Lobby briefing this morning that there are “no plans to impose donation limits on political parties.” A £100,000 cap would wipe out £5 million in donations which Labour got in the first half of 2024 alone…
- Ecotricity – £1,500,000
- Martin Taylor – £700,000
- Unite – £362,625
- GMB – £290,125
- Transilluminate – £250,000
- Danny Luhde-Thompson – £250,000
- Derek Webb – £250,000
- Gary Lubner – £239,000
- USDAW – £213,574
- Laura Bailey – £200,000
- Grayson Perry – £180,000
- Labour Together – £166,567
- UNISON – £158,175.00
- West Midlands Breakfast Club – £130,530
- Gary Lubner – £112,500
Privately Labour officials are worried about Musk handing a cool $100 million to Reform. One tells Guido the insurgent party would be “sorted for years.” Starmer might be tempted to reverse his position as the next election get closer…
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is already making moves to Make America Efficient Again. He’s told U.S. federal employees that those refusing to return to the office five days a week will be axed as part of his plan to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget. Musk declared, “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for their Covid-era privilege of staying home.” Sound…
Meanwhile, the UK’s blob is hardly setting an example. Civil service office attendance remains a pitiful 63%, with many workers still resisting to grace their desks for even just three days a week. Productivity is in free fall, with the Office for National Statistics reporting a 1.2% drop in public sector productivity for the three months to June – all while Reeves doles out a massive £10 billion in pay rises. Starmer should be taking notes…
The Labour-led Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee said yesterday it will summon Elon Musk to testify about X‘s role during the Summer riots – with the first hearings in its inquiry set for the new year. Chairman Chi Onwurah said she “would certainly like the opportunity to cross-examine him to see … how he reconciles his promotion of freedom of expression with his promotion of pure disinformation.” Even Emily Maitlis had to point out to her that Musk wouldn’t exactly be “quaking in his boots”…
Musk’s response was no less forthright than usual: “They will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.” There goes Mandelson’s attempt to convince Labour to keep things civil – which incidentally its MPs immediately attacked…
Elon is tweeting this morning that “the establishment political parties are going to get utterly crushed in the next UK election” and for him to be more popular than Starmer is a low bar. Meanwhile Eric Trump told GB News last night that politicians attacking the President for “a couple of additional clicks on Twitter or Facebook” are “counterproductive to their own societies and trade relations.” More on Labour’s skilfull diplomacy as Guido gets it…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”
