Tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link

Elon Musk has called for a “dissolution of parliament” and a “change of government” in the UK while addressing the crowd attending the “unite the kingdom” rally, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.

The X owner, who dialled in via a video link and spoke to Robinson while thousands of attenders watched along, also railed against the “woke mind virus” and told the crowd that “violence is coming” and that “you either fight back or you die”.

Speaking at the rally, he said: “I really think that there’s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can’t – we don’t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it’s too long. Something’s got to be done. There’s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.”

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    We should make a rule that billionaires are only allowed to destabilize one democratic nation state at a time.

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    Tommy Robinson

    That’s the name he took on to come across more blue collar. His real name is:

    Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon

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    Is he English? Why is he trying to influence another country’s politics?

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      He did the same thing in Germany. There’s many articles from a while back when he had a super awkward interview with some AfD politician where they discussed how Hitler was actually a communist. Yeah, not kidding. This here however seems a bit more dramatic, maybe Muski has learned something from that first experience.

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    Blind disabled granny with a free Palestine sign: jailed
    Foreign billionaire destroying democracy: aww you staaapth 🤭

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    How long until someone calls for the dissolution of Elon Musk?
    That would be inappropriate, but people get desperate.

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    Cool. Charge him with treason and throw him in jail if he ever decides to pay the U.K a visit again, then.

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        An interesting point - I checked, and as far as I can tell, non-citizens can be charged with treason in the U.K, so long as they are considered under the jurisdiction of the U.K - “alien residents” for example are covered, and probably temporary visitors to the country as well. It would likely be up to judicial interpretation whether attempting the coup virtually would qualify, but I’d assume it might.

        The serious take would be that this comment is too mild to qualify for treason, but one could always hope.

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          Too mild when said by Musk. Now imagine if a queer colored disabled Muslim immigrant said the same thing. They could definitely make these very words count as treason but fear repercussions and bad international press when Musk is the target. You know even his ex, Trump, would come back running to save him from the evil colonialists.

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    Somebody needs to arrest that fuckhead and stick him in the deepest hole they have, take all his money, and properties to teach him to keep his grubby paws out of politics

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    Firstly, what is this “we?” Did he move to the UK? No? Then why the fuck is he acting like he has a say?

    Secondly, he sounds actually deranged based on the quotes. I feel more and more like conservatism should be classified as a mental illness.

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      Calling for the government to resign and elections isn’t exactly treason. Dissolution of the government is a perfectly ordinary part of democracy in the UK

      Just the way he’s put it makes him a total cunt

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    The Napoleon complex on Musk is reaching epic proportions.

    And just like Napoleon, he wants you to revolt to be crowned emperor afterwards.