Elon Musk’s Useful British Idiots

The far-right billionaire continues to be protected by British politicians and commentators, even as his X platform pumps indecent images of children into our news feeds

You don’t require any inside knowledge to understand what Elon Musk’s plans for Britain are.

Far from concocting a secret plot behind closed doors, the billionaire X owner has in fact been admirably open about what he is doing and why.

“Civil war [in the UK] is inevitable,” he posted on his platform in 2024, before telling a far-right rally in London the following year that there needs to be a “revolutionary” overthrow of the British Government.

“Violence is coming to you,” he told the assembled far-right activists.

“You either fight back or you die.”

This planned revolution would primarily be a racial one, with the X owner just this week retweeting a post stating that “white solidarity is the only way to survive”.

Now of course Musk is free to believe that Britain needs a violent race war, and he is even free to express such views on his own platform.

But when Musk is also using that platform to actively incite such violence on Britain’s streets, while spreading AI-generated sexual deep fakes of women and children, then our own Government has a responsibility to take whatever action is required to stop him.

So will ministers take such action, or will Musk’s British political and media supporters once again step in to protect their man?

After a week of speaking to senior figures in Parliament and Downing Street, here’s what I think is going to happen next.