Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, and the Gruesome Twosome of the British Tory Party
On the western and eastern sides of the Atlantic Ocean a ferocious viper war has erupted.
US President-elect Donald Trump’s favourite attack-dog Elon Musk is trying to remote-control British politics.
Reform leader Nigel Farage’s typically British stiff upper-lip response is described below : it is like the Fawlty Towers episode when Basil Fawlty failed to produce a Waldorf Salad for a tyrannical American diner who had paid the bungling guest-house owner a generous bribe :
Before long Trump will dispose of Musk, just as Russian strongman Putin bumped off Mr Prigozhin.
Musk might, at some point, jangle some of his loose change in the direction of far-right Irish political operators. The nearest Irish equivalent to Musk’s suggested Nigel Farage – Tommy Robinson marriage is a direct link between the beggar-gombeens of the Dublin Dáil and the convicted kick boxer/rapist Conor McGregor. The Independent Ireland (II) party had to dump a McGregor associate, Phil Sutcliffe, from its candidate list after Nikita Hand won a court victory over the kick-boxing rapist.
During the election campaign a woman called Nikita Hand took a legal civil action, alleging rape, against an international celebrity, the kick-boxing superstar Conor McGregor. McGregor is closely associated with a number of mini-Hitler racists, some of whom were elected to Dublin council seats in June 2024. These included Philip Sutcliffe (Dublin South-Central) and Paddy Holohan (Dublin South-West). Most rape trials in Ireland are held behind closed doors, and the details are not widely broadcast.
This civil action was different : every day horrific evidence was headline news. Nikita Hand won her case.
This case damaged the mini-Hitler racist candidates
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A very British sociologist writes about civil war on the British far-right :
The Tory party’s Gruesome Twosome
About the author, Phil Burton-Cartledge :
Did Labour Party things. Likes trade unions. Reads litfic and SF and has a book out about the Tories. Can be found at Bluesky these days
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Timing in politics is everything. Nigel Farage has seriously disappointed Elon Musk because he doesn’t share his enthusiasm for Tommy Robinson. It’s a good job that there are others who are willing to step into the breach between the two, such as Robert Jenrick.
On Saturday evening, the shadow justice minister penned a tweet that is the most extreme statement issued by a Tory politician in recent years. In it, he begins with the ritualistic attack on multiculturalism but quickly departs from political politesse with this:
The scandal started with the onset of mass migration. Importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women, brought us here. And after 30 years of this disastrous experiment, we now have entrenched sectarian voting blocs that make it electoral suicide for some MPs to confront this. This scandal shows why we must end it.
20 years ago this was the sort of stuff Nick Griffin and the British National Party (BNP) would have been attacked for by the Conservative front bench. Farage has never gone as far as this, nor did Suella Braverman in her most extreme moments. You might say this is a direct challenge to the authority of Kemi Badenoch, but a day later he’s still in post and there’s nary a ripple of concern among Tory social media and chatterers on Conservative Home. The Tory leader herself is somewhat compromised seeing as she’s jumped on the grooming gang inquiry calls, and has already used the “not all cultures are valid” line. Sacking Jenrick – and he should be sacked and stripped of the whip for this – would leave her in an awkward position.
This tawdry episode says everything about the position the Tories are in. With Reform soaking up the media attention and eating into Tory support, they’ve got nothing left. The MPs determined they wanted right wing leader to see Reform off and consolidate the shaky foundations of the party, and a right wing turn they indeed got. The problem for the Tories is Jenrick’s an obvious opportunist who believes nothing apart from his self-advancement, and there’s no sewer he won’t wallow in if reeking of effluent gets him the top job. Doubly unconvincing is Badenoch whose leadership is proving spectacularly unspectacular. There are the gaffes that aren’t gaffes, because she thinks about everything very seriously. And because she and the people around her are clueless, she’s hitched the Tory wagon to the Trump train with all the negative consequences that means for her and the Tory party. Keir Starmer must be thanking his lucky stars to face an opposition marked by a rivalry between such a gruesome twosome.
This lurch to the far right might catch Musk’s eye, especially as Badenoch and Jenrick were somewhat equivocal over the summer riots. But with the Commons resuming on Monday, the more centre right elements of the parliamentary party are going to be chuntering in their dismay. For instance, on Laura Kuenssberg former Boris Johnson advisor Samuel Kasumu accused Jenrick of inciting racial hatred. He is unlikely to be alone. It’s true that Badenoch is seemingly unaware about how precarious her position is, but with this direction of travel it’s probably not going to be long before she gets a rude reminder.
Thanks to Simon Pearson who drew attention to the above article :
Tomás Ó Flatharta 
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