Elon Musk, a techie of vast wealth and apparent genius, has embarked on a course of political action demonstrating crass ineptitude to an astonishing degree. His idea, it seems, is to dictate the course of nations by purchasing the allegiance of its politicians, with talk of, here a hundred million dollars, there a hundred million dollars. But in the case of Britain's Nigel Farage, Musk has stubbed his toe.
Farage is intent, evidently, on accomplishing what his millions of British supporters want; namely, to see an end to the flood of migrants to Britain's crowded shore; a flood currently flowing at the rate of more than a million a year, which is about 50% higher than the birth rate. Hence Farage's refusal of Musk's demand that he campaign for the release from prison of Tommy Robinson, otherwise known by his classier birth name, Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon. Robinson, who has protested mass migration to Britain, has also earned a string of criminal convictions and is currently serving an 18-month jail term after admitting to contempt of court in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.
So what Musk demanded of Farage, a demand that Farage declined, was to abandon his own campaign against mass immigration, a campaign that has brought the Reform Party, of which Farage is the leader, to a near dead heat opinion poll ranking with the opposition Conservative Party, in order to support a campaign for the release of a convict of dubious character who can only bring Farage and his Reform Party into disrepute.
Adding to the foolishness, if not malice, Musk then swanned over to Germany to give a thumbs up to the Alternative für Deutschland, a polical party widely held to be tainted by Hitlerism. Farage's response to Musk's stupid comments has been remarkably mild, demonstrating thereby that whereas Musk can be an idiot and an intellectual thug, Farage is a seasoned, astute, and rather forgiving politician.
The Spectator: Elon Musk is not a friend worth having
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