Zoë Grünewald

Hello. Happy New Year.

Hello. Happy New Year.

Feeling hopeful? No. No. Are you? Are you feeling hopeful?

Feeling hopeful? No. No. Are you? Are you feeling hopeful?

We've certainly got our work cut for us.

We've certainly got our work cut for us.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think Musk has developed an unhealthy obsession with UK politics and he's really focused a lot of his attacks on Keir Starmer. Keir Starmer is a lightning rod for this because I think he has a legal background. You know, he was director of the CPS in the 2010s. So there are lots of things that conspiracy theory accounts can link to Keir Starmer.

So I think Musk has developed an unhealthy obsession with UK politics and he's really focused a lot of his attacks on Keir Starmer. Keir Starmer is a lightning rod for this because I think he has a legal background. You know, he was director of the CPS in the 2010s. So there are lots of things that conspiracy theory accounts can link to Keir Starmer.

We've seen that most recently with the grooming gangs. I saw an interesting statistic earlier, I think from Tortoise Media, that said that over the past week, Elon Musk has posted more than 200 times on grooming gang scandal in less than two weeks. So that just shows you, you know, considering this man owns Tesla, he's the richest man in the world.

We've seen that most recently with the grooming gangs. I saw an interesting statistic earlier, I think from Tortoise Media, that said that over the past week, Elon Musk has posted more than 200 times on grooming gang scandal in less than two weeks. So that just shows you, you know, considering this man owns Tesla, he's the richest man in the world.

That is a lot of tweeting about a, you know, a instant in British politics that doesn't concern him. Yeah.

That is a lot of tweeting about a, you know, a instant in British politics that doesn't concern him. Yeah.

So I think thus far, Labour's response has been actually quite right, which has been to mainly ignore him. And that's because, you know, you might say these are the rantings of a madman, in which case it probably makes sense to ignore him. But I think there's also now increasingly a sense of actually, even though he is in Donald Trump's administration, how long is that going to last?

So I think thus far, Labour's response has been actually quite right, which has been to mainly ignore him. And that's because, you know, you might say these are the rantings of a madman, in which case it probably makes sense to ignore him. But I think there's also now increasingly a sense of actually, even though he is in Donald Trump's administration, how long is that going to last?

Because already people around Donald Trump are saying to him... this man can't be trusted. You know, the way he turned on Nigel Farage after previously throwing around this idea of $100 million donation, supporting reform, turned on him very, very quickly, you know, just over comments that Nigel Farage had made. So I think... What Labour wants to do is, as far as possible, ignore Musk.

Because already people around Donald Trump are saying to him... this man can't be trusted. You know, the way he turned on Nigel Farage after previously throwing around this idea of $100 million donation, supporting reform, turned on him very, very quickly, you know, just over comments that Nigel Farage had made. So I think... What Labour wants to do is, as far as possible, ignore Musk.