If you listened to the recent edition of Any Questions on Radio Four you’ll have got a flavour of just how contemptible the British public find Elon Musk. Any attack on him was greeted with uproarious cheers from the audience.

While the South African man-child has tens of thousands of online British fanboys – and they really are mostly boys – in the real world he’s pretty much despised.

His interference in UK politics isn’t the winner Musk imagines. Keir Starmer may be a useless dingbat, but he’s our useless dingbat – that appears to be the general consensus.

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Nevertheless, as long as this billionaire brat lasts as MAGA’s doctrinal spokesman – Donald Trump’s Metatron – British politics risks destabilisation.

Musk will eventually fall from favour, though. All Trump’s minions do. In an administration housing two such egos, only one can survive, and the power of patronage rests in Trump’s hands Post-Musk, the MAGA movement will, however, remain a destabilising force for Britain. Who knows what madness will spew out of Trump’s mouth, directed at Starmer or Britain in general?

So our little nation must learn to pull together. The likes of Kemi Badenoch will find that amplifying Musk – not that he needs amplification, so perhaps ‘parroting' is more apposite – becomes a net negative, guaranteeing likes online, but not voter approval.

There’s a whiff of treachery about siding with some super-rich foreigner. The average punter doesn’t like it. Nor does it pay, as Nigel Farage discovered when Musk roundly humiliated him, despite the Reform leader behaving like Trump’s running dog in Britain.

Chaos is coming, globally. When........

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