By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-26 05:42:33 | Updated at 2024-11-26 07:31:32
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Musk backs calls for new general election, saying UK is ‘tyrannical police state’
The Telegraph ^ | 25 November 2024 | Jack Maidment
Posted on 11/25/2024 9:32:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Elon Musk has appeared to back a petition calling for a fresh UK general election.
The petition, created at the end of last week, demands a rerun of the July 4 contest because of the Government “going back on its promises”. It has surpassed two million signatures.
Responding to a post marking one million signatures on the petition on Sunday night, Mr Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, wrote:
Asked about the petition during an interview on ITV’s This Morning, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: “Look, I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election.
“I’m not surprised that many of them want a re-run. That isn’t how our system works. There will be plenty of people who didn’t want us in in the first place. So what my focus is on is the decisions that I have to make every day.”
Downing Street sought to avoid a war of words with Mr Musk, with the Prime Minister’s official spokesman saying: “I’m not going to be drawn on individual comments. The Prime Minister is focused on the issues that matter most to the British people.”
Mr Musk has been a vocal critic of Sir Keir and the Government. In August, he attacked the Prime Minister’s response to the summer riots, and also accused him of going “full Stalin” after the Government’s inheritance tax raid on farmers.
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