Tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link

Elon Musk has called for a “dissolution of parliament” and a “change of government” in the UK while addressing the crowd attending the “unite the kingdom” rally, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.

The X owner, who dialled in via a video link and spoke to Robinson while thousands of attenders watched along, also railed against the “woke mind virus” and told the crowd that “violence is coming” and that “you either fight back or you die”.

Speaking at the rally, he said: “I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long. Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.”

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    Is he English? Why is he trying to influence another country’s politics?

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    How long until someone calls for the dissolution of Elon Musk?
    That would be inappropriate, but people get desperate.

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    Blind disabled granny with a free Palestine sign: jailed
    Foreign billionaire destroying democracy: aww you staaapth 🤭

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    Somebody needs to arrest that fuckhead and stick him in the deepest hole they have, take all his money, and properties to teach him to keep his grubby paws out of politics

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    3 hours ago

    Cool. Charge him with treason and throw him in jail if he ever decides to pay the U.K a visit again, then.

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        An interesting point - I checked, and as far as I can tell, non-citizens can be charged with treason in the U.K, so long as they are considered under the jurisdiction of the U.K - “alien residents” for example are covered, and probably temporary visitors to the country as well. It would likely be up to judicial interpretation whether attempting the coup virtually would qualify, but I’d assume it might.

        The serious take would be that this comment is too mild to qualify for treason, but one could always hope.

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          Too mild when said by Musk. Now imagine if a queer colored disabled Muslim immigrant said the same thing. They could definitely make these very words count as treason but fear repercussions and bad international press when Musk is the target. You know even his ex, Trump, would come back running to save him from the evil colonialists.

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    Firstly, what is this “we?” Did he move to the UK? No? Then why the fuck is he acting like he has a say?

    Secondly, he sounds actually deranged based on the quotes. I feel more and more like conservatism should be classified as a mental illness.

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      When he says “we” he means the white race. The guy’s a flesh and blood 4chan board who inherited blood wealth from daddy’s emerald mine.

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      He ran out his welcome in the US government and now he’s trying to worm his way in to the UK government.

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    The Napoleon complex on Musk is reaching epic proportions.

    And just like Napoleon, he wants you to revolt to be crowned emperor afterwards.

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    This man needs to have his wealth confiscated for global security. Send him to the nuthouse and throw away the key or maybe we’ll get lucky and he will get kirked by another more extreme Nazi

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    Definitely was not a nAzi salute a developer definitely not a filthy rich white extremist twat. (sarcasm)