By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-02 16:00:26 | Updated at 2025-01-05 03:07:18
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Elon Musk faces UK backlash after boosting far-right activist Tommy Robinson
Politico.eu ^ | Jan 2 | By Noah Keate
Posted on 01/02/2025 7:42:28 AM PST by RandFan
LONDON — Elon Musk is facing fierce criticism from British parliamentarians after he called for far-right ringleader Tommy Robinson to be released from prison.
The X owner and key ally of Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning that authorities should “free Tommy Robinson.”
Robinson, the controversial English Defense League founder whose anti-immigration rallies in the U.K. attract thousands, was jailed for 18 months last October after breaching a court order.
Musk's comments come amid an ongoing feud with the U.K.'s governing Labour Party — and just days after the tech billionaire spoke out in support of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
"Musk's support not just for Tommy Robinson, but also the AfD in Germany, shows just how big a problem he is for democracy as well as the reputation of those who cosy up to him like Nigel Farage and Liz Truss," Labour MP Stella Creasy — whose constituency saw a major counter-demonstration against the far right amid riots last summer — told POLITICO.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; labour; tommyrobinson; uk
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We have been discussing this in General not sure if you've seen the thread .
Tommy Robinson is being held in solitary confinement ("in the hole") for 9 months apparently for his own protection insists the prison governor due to Muslim inmates
1 posted on 01/02/2025 7:42:28 AM PST by RandFan
To: RandFan
So what. They’re jailing people in the UK for speaking. This is not the UK that fought against the Nazis. This is the UK that would have joined their side.
To: RandFan
Are not the people he is backing running for office?
That isn’t a “threat to democracy.”
3 posted on 01/02/2025 7:44:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: RandFan
British parliamentarians
Idiots with good diction.
To: RandFan
From the bunch that gave the EU the Digital Services Act...
5 posted on 01/02/2025 7:46:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: Telepathic Intruder
turns out the brits were not against fascism
they just didnt want to learn german
6 posted on 01/02/2025 7:46:46 AM PST by joshua c
To: RandFan
btw the uk does not have a first amendment
7 posted on 01/02/2025 7:47:30 AM PST by joshua c
To: Telepathic Intruder
We’re paying for electing Trump and wanting MAGA.
The UK is paying for attempting to Brexit.
Same ****, different Deep States.
8 posted on 01/02/2025 7:47:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: joshua c
The US is the only country on the planet with a formal constitution that protects the citizenry from its government.
Which us why our Deep State hates and subverts our Constitution.
9 posted on 01/02/2025 7:49:10 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: RandFan
Musk should simply set up foundations, perhaps the X Foundation, the US Foundation for Western Civilization and the European Cultural Preservation Foundation.
Musk does not need more money. Tesla shareholders need to be able to sleep well.
To: RandFan
Musk is 100% right about this. I will beat him up about invasion visas but in most areas Musk is a patriot.
To: RandFan
LOL. The Labour dogs were guaranteed to bark about this.
12 posted on 01/02/2025 7:51:06 AM PST by PGR88
To: Telepathic Intruder
In general, the Brits along with supporters of the corrupt Ukraine regime, F!@#$$ y’all.
For decades the Brits sat on their butts while conservatives and now Labor turned Britain into a commie trash dump. Now, like with Venezuela, they see the logical results.
13 posted on 01/02/2025 7:52:44 AM PST by bobbo666
To: Brian Griffin
Really? He’s pretty silent about Communist China.
14 posted on 01/02/2025 7:54:47 AM PST by Theoria
To: bobbo666
Great BRITIAN is now Mediocre Britain
15 posted on 01/02/2025 7:54:55 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
To: RandFan
Musk is on the right side of this one.
Tommy Robinson does not belong in jail.
16 posted on 01/02/2025 7:56:05 AM PST by SamAdams76
To: RandFan
The UK has clearly designed their gulag for political prisoners after the disgraceful Pelosi Gulag in America.
17 posted on 01/02/2025 7:56:39 AM PST by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
To: bert
And you remind me at every opportunity .
Maybe I should get out but im a bit of a home bird.
18 posted on 01/02/2025 7:56:40 AM PST by RandFan
To: RandFan
Not just right but far-right.
19 posted on 01/02/2025 7:59:08 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: Telepathic Intruder
I highly suspect that he is not facing backlash from the British people, just the establishment. The British people are most likely largely behind Tommy, but cannot say it without risking being jailed.
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