Nigel Farage and Elon Musk are plotting to take over Britain. This saga exposes the nonsense poison of right-wing populism - claiming to stand for the 'little guy' against the elite, while going cap in hand to plutocrats. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/nigel-fara... - ThreadSky

owenjones.bsky.social • 71 days ago

Nigel Farage and Elon Musk are plotting to take over Britain.

This saga exposes the nonsense poison of right-wing populism - claiming to stand for the 'little guy' against the elite, while going cap in hand to plutocrats.

New post 👇

https://www.owenjones.news/p/nigel-farage-and-elon-musk-plot-to

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avultink.bsky.social•71 days ago

It's so pathetic it's almost funny.

wallypaulnuts.bsky.social•71 days ago

Excellent article Owen. I think Musk is angling himself as a disaster capitalist, he's not stupid.He recognises England as the divided, cut-adrift basket case it has become and his free-speech crusade is a cover for his thirst for power and influence, with the useful idiots at Reform as his puppets

christinalattimer.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yet I know sensible people who are about to be as taken in by this duo as they were by Brexit - labour must get its act together

rustyoldmike.bsky.social•71 days ago

It's like Labour are f**king it up on purpose to let him in

kd-smith.bsky.social•71 days ago

Starmer's Labour Party will roll out the red carpet for them.

misscelestine.bsky.social•71 days ago

Britain:
"that'll never happen here"ing it's way to fascism and irrelevance on the world stage.

jujudude.bsky.social•70 days ago

I want my country back 😩 the irony.

robinwhitlock66.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yes, but how do we stop this Owen?

sammibunny.bsky.social•54 days ago

And Starmer will do absolutely nothing of any kind to even try to stop it

darnsmall.bsky.social•71 days ago

Another job for The Adjuster?

alicerbw.bsky.social•71 days ago

God I am actually very scared.

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•71 days ago

The experience of trans people demonstrates that three parties are now known to be owned by religious right affiliated billionaires:

Conservative
Labour
Reform

Yet we are supposed to be worried by yet another religious right billionaire buying his way into a UK political party?

kph100.bsky.social•71 days ago

America hasn't been a democracy for many years since citizens United, it's been an oligarchy which is accelerating. You can argue UK is the same, but thankfully not as close, but this would accelerate it.

melindamosheim.bsky.social•71 days ago

yes...true

rogue90824758.bsky.social•71 days ago

Labour being a one term government and bringing Farage to power will probably be blamed on the left somehow rather than being a failure of Starmer and Labour.

sammibunny.bsky.social•54 days ago

I’ve already been told multiple times it will somehow be our fault, not Starmer’s or Labour’s

Yeah, sure. 🙄

mia-djolik.bsky.social•71 days ago

What, the OG Imperialists getting imperialised by a former colony??!

How does it feel? 🎤

smigger1.bsky.social•71 days ago

Toad face would have get voted in to take over Britain which has got zero chance of happening.

edpoole1975.bsky.social•70 days ago

His fans don't care. They see this as a good thing. They believe billionaires are rich because of their ability and applying that ability to UK politics is good for us.

They want strong leadership not equality.

We need a different approach.

edpoole1975.bsky.social•70 days ago

Also you call for a strategy Owen, but you aren't no one in this conversation. To paraphrase what you said to Faiza Shaheen, like it or not you are a leader. Take a position. Lets get things moving.

politicalgardener.bsky.social•70 days ago

Well said Ed

thetransgiant.bsky.social•70 days ago

What's the alternative? Queer Harmer, Bad Enoch? We are screwed, it is inevitable.

maco2000.bsky.social•71 days ago

We need to keep the rightwing in
Israel and America out of British politics. They are a Cancer.

timewarpjf.bsky.social•71 days ago

I honestly don't know how we stop this from happening, I thought we could stop Brexit but we clearly couldn't. It feels like the more we try to convince people not to fall for this kind of stuff the more we just push them into the arms of extremism.

sammibunny.bsky.social•54 days ago

They aren’t listening and they aren’t open to persuasion

That’s the problem indeed

And no-one knows what the answer is or even if there is one

I would leave this country, if I could

laylaspellwind.bsky.social•70 days ago

Much as labour are trash, Nigel Farage would be worse.
Much worse.
I worry for the future.

dizliz.bsky.social•70 days ago

I’m sorry Mr Jones but I don’t take kindly from your continued sniping at #Starmers government. You’re a rampant #Corbyn supporter who imo is partly responsible for the dire mess of the last 14 yrs and the subsequent hell that this new Gov.had to deal with.As for #Farage you just empower him !

caelen.bsky.social•71 days ago

It worries me that the government are just going to sleep on this and not perceive it as a genuine threat until its too late and we end up with our own 2016 shock election result. This has to be taken seriously.

wililearn.bsky.social•71 days ago

They won't, and it will. The only thing our political leaders have is an abundance of arrogance and a misplaced faith in our institutions.

melindamosheim.bsky.social•71 days ago

True...& super true in USA...and the faith in institutions is merely a cover for them to absolve themselves from doing any kind of proper fight for democracy....they are completely incompetent to uphold the fight for democracy and the laws as per.

fronsacrouge.bsky.social•71 days ago

Hopefully it will be England they take over as Scotland will have quit the union before the chuckle bros fool the jolly English yeomen.

grassrootswork.bsky.social•71 days ago

Well, yes, just like Elon & Trump. That nonsense already known before 1.0Trump but never exposed to his cult following. Good to see you here.

kumrubaser.bsky.social•71 days ago

end also the end of the claim of "we brits against all"

iansunbear.bsky.social•71 days ago

Like I keep saying to my children. ‘We will have to fight them in the end, they won’t just go away’. We are getting close.

ristox.bsky.social•71 days ago

Another populist campaign starts at UK I see. Magical simple solutions for complicated issues. The usual fear mongering and hate. I hope you are ready, this happens all over the world atm.

maddietlr.bsky.social•68 days ago

Tbh I’m a disabled trans person. Starmer and Streeting are gonna make sure I’m dead and buried long before Farage and Musk get a chance.

ericleitzen.bsky.social•71 days ago

Capitalism is doing everything they threatened communism would do

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•71 days ago

I thought about that during Covid, staring at the empty shelves in supermarkets, and remembered that this was what they showed was happening in Russia during the Cold War.

rohkal.bsky.social•71 days ago

We used to laugh at their pokey little, poorly made apartments & now we live in them.

Their workers wore the same drab uniforms & our workers wear drab corporate uniforms.

They existed on nothing, we exist on debt.

teflonslinky.bsky.social•71 days ago

We already have a right wing government bought and paid for by billionaires so this is more of the same.

socialistnan123.bsky.social•71 days ago

This scares me.

sloanefragment.bsky.social•71 days ago

at this point i don’t care. i just want labour gone.

atheoparker.bsky.social•68 days ago

Bit of a frying pan/fire situation there I think. Farage used to be an actual neo-Nazi and has never done anything to convince me he totally saw the error of his ways there.

sloanefragment.bsky.social•68 days ago

the only difference i see between starmer and farage is rhetoric.

sloanefragment.bsky.social•68 days ago

even there starmer is catching up.

mcduff.bsky.social•68 days ago

If you think Starmer isn't aching to sell off the entire country for a pat on the head from Musk, you haven't been paying attention.

sloanefragment.bsky.social•68 days ago

he’s selling the country to blackrock and that’s straight-up crazy.

creamwiper.bsky.social•71 days ago

They have no chance in Scotland, but England well they voted for Brexit.

rojoguitarster.bsky.social•71 days ago

Ooh look, a picture of fucking cunts.

racatiwood.bsky.social•71 days ago

can commiserate

synonymunion.bsky.social•70 days ago

Who introduced these slack laws! Labour. So that political parties could a void Election Commission oversite!

It’s now bite you in the backside!

All political parties should be taxpayer funded!

archbishcranmer.bsky.social•71 days ago

What illiterate rubbish have I just read?

doctorjimmy.bsky.social•71 days ago

“This saga exposes the nonsense poison of right-wing populism - claiming to stand for the 'little guy' against the elite, while going cap in hand to plutocrats.” Nailed it. Exactly where the US is - and the MAGAs have been expertly programmed to be BLIND to it.

canadian-bear.bsky.social•70 days ago

Let’s hope Starmer puts rules in place over foreign donations.

thetransgiant.bsky.social•70 days ago

He won't, he has his own donors to think of.

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