Stuff his new best friend won't much like, we have to guess - based on his attachment to EVs and immigration and the like, not to mention rogue outbursts in public whenever the mood takes.
Where and when do we see this all coming to grief? Overweening "superstar advisers" (Rasputin, Cummings, Gray, etc) rarely work out, even for a short while.
We can add this to the list of New Year prediction questions. Coming soon.
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'merican billionaires have no place or role in British politics (2TKeir)
see also
Billy (friend of Epstein) Gates
Maybe it will work out just fine. Elon is already very rich.
I’m sure, he doesn’t want any special favours , access or privilege. And he is just helping out his old chum.
Like Lord Ali does, over here.
Trump, much like Boris, has something of a performative outrage over immigration. And, much like Boris, his venting will be redder meat than his actions to his core support.
If they have a falling out, it'll be down to Musk's almost limitless capacity for being obnoxious when he doesn't get his way.
Musk is completely aligned with the MIGA agenda - Make India Great Again
It must be said it's customary to wait until an administration is actually in office before offering to fight its doubters to the death - especially when those doubters voted Trump in only the month before.
Doesn't bode well. Maybe Trump/Musk will be America's Boris and Rishi, opening the borders to top Kurdish barbers and kebab technicians, but keeping rents and house prices stratospheric.
On that subject, the Guardian has finally woken up to 32 year olds with advanced degrees sharing houses as if they were 19.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/death-of-middle-class-professional-spells-danger-for-labour
" There is a growing pool of young graduates who faithfully did everything they were told would help them get on in life – working hard at school, getting the grades, slogging through their degrees and sucking up the prospect of years of debt repayments to pay for it – only to realise that they may never be rewarded in the way they were promised. In his 2023 book End Times, the US academic Peter Turchin identifies “elite overproduction” – essentially an economy creating far more educated, ambitious potential elite members than it has prestigious jobs to offer them – as a key trigger for revolutions and civil wars, especially when combined with deep economic inequality and high public debt."
Unlikely that those snowflakes with degrees in queer studies will be provoking revolutions. The idea of some "special" class of Citizen Smith types waiting with a strategy has been touted on here before. Not any evidence if it happening...
People keep saying this: 'the US academic Peter Turchin identifies “elite overproduction'. But Adam Smith discussed the phenomenon in the Wealth of Nations.
It only goes to show that all economics is either footnotes to Smith or wrong.
Did somebody say Soros? (Interfering in UK politics since the time of Blair).
And yes, "elite over production" is an old theme. With some validity to it. But nothing will make a damn bit of difference in the unfolding disaster that is NetZero, and the increasingly reviled Starmer - it seems that those who voted for this excuse for a human being are starting to understand what they have done.
Business persons and politicians use the same sounding words but they don't mean the same kind of thing. This is why business persons seldom do well in politics. Different incentives.
If Musk has any brains he will dump Trump and return to taking handouts. Never wrestle a pig, the pig will enjoy it and you will both get covered in s&*t.
Since discovering that Americans pronounce his name "Eelon" I have waited impatiently for Elongate.
Excellent! We all read it here first!
Copyright it fast
Oh sorry, wait a bit ...
https://www.ndtv.com/feature/elon-musk-says-if-there-is-a-scandal-about-him-his-only-request-is-4458745
off piste but suggest reading Starkey on u tube. Hatchet job on 'our Rachael from accounts'. Wow!!!
Starkey always worth the time. He's gone pretty full Network Peter Finch, bless him
Starkey's quite an entertainer, n'est-il pas? Creates many minutes of talk out of a very short, if probably accurate thesis ("it's just Keynes, without any cash").
On which, let's see. The one area of Lab policy I really focus on - energy - has been little but Keynsianism** under successive governments, and Miliband is one of the very few (only?) ministers to have conned serious amounts of Treasury cash out of Reeves, even if a lot less than he thought he'd secured before she ditched the "£28bn" promise 6 months before the GE.
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e.g. http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2017/01/keynes-always-waiting-in-wings.html
and
http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2022/07/uk-nukes-part-3-ffs-why.html
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