Summary
Elon Musk has called on King Charles III to dissolve the UK Parliament, citing past controversies involving Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Rotherham Scandal.
Musk accused Starmer of inaction during his tenure as head of the Crown Prosecution Service and urged a new general election, drawing backlash for spreading misinformation.
Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.
Musk’s growing political involvement globally, including support for right-wing parties, has sparked calls for regulation against foreign interference.
I think King Charles should do it. That way no more King Charles.
Can we get this man some help. Not saying he’s not an absolute wanker - that’s a given - but isn’t anyone close to him concerned about his mental health?
He’s fallen out with the leader of the far-right Reform UK now, because, apparently that frog-faced fuck Farage does have a line in the sand (at least for appearances’ sake), and isn’t comfortable with Musk’s support for fascist thug “Tommy Robinson”.
Hopefully this means no donation (bribe) to Reform UK, but I’m sure that piece of shit will continue to try and fuck with our democracy.
The definition of “mental health” involves a determination about whether a person is capable of carrying on normal day to day functioning, which is very much up to the person in question to define.
Someone like Musk is rich enough that virtually no amount of inconvenience could stop him from carrying on as he wished.
So basically, people who have more money have less mental health problems by definition, and the notion of mental health has been used to imprison inconvenient poor people without trial since its inception.
Billionaires? Forget about it. They can surround themselves with sycophants and remove anyone they don’t like from their presence. They can have people killed if they feel like it, and there’s not a police body in the world who’s going to touch them.
You need to forget the notion that they face any kind of accountability, from “friends” or otherwise.
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The yanks are pissed about this guy too. The problem is his boy won the election so nothing’s going to happen on the official side for 4 years unless he falls out of favor.
I’m not sure anyone is really in control of Elon and many Americans would be happy if he just went away.
The problem is that level of wealth should not be in anyone’s hand. Elon is demonstrating why, but Elon shouldn’t have been allowed to get into this position.
Nah. Just quietly file a secret indictment and arrest warrant against Musk. Inevitably he’ll forget about it and move on. Then a few years later, gallivanting about the world like billionaires do, he’ll step foot in Britain on some random business. That’s when you grab him. Arrest him then and put him on trial for violating various espionage and foreign interference laws.
Just another Englishman with illusions of grandeur about the British economy and what it would mean for international commerce to avoid his tiny islands.
I’m not british, idiot. The US using europe as an output market is just the natural result of neocolonialism. You guys have an airbase in Ramstein, the CIA is doing commercial spying to favor your shitty Boeing instead of Airbus. They spy on Merkel’s iphone. Shove your “international commerce” into your butthole.
Remember when you guys forced “international commerce” on japan? this neolib shit always was an excuse for straight up disregarding national sovereignty of non-americans. Mind your own fucking business. Literally
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Lots of discounted high tech military equipment that the UK gets from the nature of the “special relationship” between the two countries. For example
KS-1 Rifle, Barrett M82, M2 Browning, Remington Model 870, Claymore mines, FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank system. The MRAP Cougar, M270 launch rocket system, M1070 transport system, various different MTVRs, Apache attack helicopters, Desert Hawk III UAV, Switchblades, and much much more
The UK would also lose their top export market (accounting for more than 2x the exports they send to the next runner up, Germany) and their 2nd largest import market (65B pounds to Germany’s 75B pounds)
Reality is the UK made their choice. They want to be in the bed with the US. Whatever Washington says, they’ll do. And that means more economic integration and more military integration.
Ah, so useless war equipment that actively makes the world a worse place.
Great job US.
i agree with you but the UK definitely doesn’t
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Sorry i called you an idiot. It’s not nice.
I mean they did threaten to invade the haag. If you need anymore proof we’re nothing but vassals state, there it is. If the dutch were not pussies they would bomb new york.
The US could wipe Holland off the map in a couple days without even leveraging it’s entire military.
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Yeah, because they were trying to nationbuild. if they had just decided to glass afghanistan (which is within their power to do) then they wouldnt have lost
Whereas every Dutch person I’ve ever met knows the difference between “its” and “it’s”.
Despite English not being their first (and often not even their second or third) language.
Still, you carry on flexing about wiping bits of countries off the map, petal. It makes you look manly and cool.
People don’t care. The context lets you know which it is.
Carry on being wrong and looking like an ill-educated dullard then!
You have misunderstood my comment.
My point was that ANT_EEY_ANKS was essentially calling the Dutch pussies for not suicideing themselves.
The Dutch bombing New York would be suicide
I am not American, I have nothing to flex about here.
But please, keep pointing out errant apostrophes rather than actually dealing with the subject in question. it definitely doesn’t make you look like a pedant bore
I am a pedant bore!
Can King Charles dissolve Musk, instead?
I can smell Musk’s royal envy all the way from Helsinki.
I urge anyone with a bathtub full of acid to dissolve Elon Musk. It can also be an oil drum instead of a bathtub, or something else. I’m not too picky for that matter.
He does seem to want to spread his genetics far and wide, what better way than explosives? (/s)
I’m good with anything, really. As long as the end result is the same.
Musk should fuck off back to South Africa.
Even amongst Britain’s right leaning folk this is a pretty stupid take…
We need to strap musk to the top of his next test rocket
Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?
“err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the, ,uhh, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress… burp”
This guy is everywhere
No, he just bought the loudest bullhorn is all.
If I was Charles, I’d offer Elon Musk a knighthood to piss him off.
Musk would have to choose between stoking his gigantic ego with the title at the cost of giving up any post in the federal government as per article I, section 9, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution or humiliate himself and refuse the title to keep running the orange utan he’s invested billions in.
You act like th US cares about what the US constitution says.
It’s called an Honorary Knighthood - for non UK citizens.
without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
He’d just buy enough congress people to get it passed.
He’d take the knighthood then have the rules changed to suit himself
I doubt that would work.
All Trump would do would be to make his post an unpaid advisory one and then he’d get to insist people call him Sir Elon.
It’s not like he needs the paycheck or the benefits and he would love the ego boost.
Or he’d just do exactly the same as he was going to do anyway, it’s not like anyone stopped him hiring his own family members in blatant disregard for the law, why would this be any different?
Very true. I keep saying the same thing about other things and I should have realized this applies as well.
Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.
Is that what “critics” argue about?
How about the massive South African white elephant in the room:Why the fuck should Charles even acknowledge Musk’s noises?
They’re manufacturing consent for the plutocracy — that has always owned politics — instead of doing what one would expect in a democracy… bringing in a psychiatrist to explain the mental illness indicators Musk is very obviously displaying.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a brain tumor. He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one, and none of them are “normal”.
He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one
Aren’t all leaders?
For politicians, it takes a particular mindset to think you’re the solution to other people’s problems and run for any election. I instantly distrust people who thrust themselves in the limelight and propose to rule others for their own good.
As for CEO’s, it’s very well known that a disturbing percentage of them display psychopathic traits.
Too much money, like Michael Jackson and so many others.
Boatloads of drugs and yesmen too.
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Well do the usual drug enjoyer have the possibility to interfere in foreign politics?
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Ol’ stinky should just shut up
So, technically, the monarchy signed over the majority of executive power to Parliament with the Parliament Act 1911 which gives authority over taxation and budgets to Parliament.
But bills do also technically still require Royal Assent, which has not been withheld since 1708.
So… the Crown COULD try to force an impasse where nothing can pass without their approval, but then Parliament COULD make the Crown live off canned beans.
