Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said that the United Kingdom needs “revolutionary government change,” speaking virtually at a far-right anti-immigration protest in London.
The comments from the world’s richest man, a former adviser to Donald Trump, came days before the US president’s upcoming state visit to Britain, which is four years away from the next scheduled general election.
“There needs to be massive government reform in Britain and the people need to be in charge, not some bureaucracy that doesn’t care,” Musk said in a Q&A with far-right political activist Tommy Robinson, the organizer of the rally, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
“We must have revolutionary government change… This really requires everyone to sort of marshal the people, to take charge, reform the government, and make sure that you actually have a government that is for the people, by the people,” the billionaire said.
Musk has been wading into UK politics for some time now. Last summer, during a wave of violent anti-immigration riots in Britain, the Tesla chief executive and owner of X said that “civil war is inevitable.”
In January, he said that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer should be in prison when dredging up a years-long scandal over historic child sex abuse in parts of England.
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