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.
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”.
Too much money, like Michael Jackson and so many others.
Boatloads of drugs and yesmen too.
You can’t blame the drugs lots of high people not interfering with another countries government calling for fascism.
Well do the usual drug enjoyer have the possibility to interfere in foreign politics?
I’m pretty sure you’d be surprised about the “adults” you wouldn’t think who are out there enjoying drugs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You act like th US cares about what the US constitution says.
He’d take the knighthood then have the rules changed to suit himself
It’s called an Honorary Knighthood - for non UK citizens.
I seem to recall doing such things to be unwise for kings named Charles
It’s a mixed bag actually. Charles 2 did it successfully but only because he essentially had a popular mandate to do so. (Parliament kept trying to do an Inquisition of Catholics, and people were unamused.)
James 2 tried to follow that act and was deposed in 3 years. So mileage may vary.
Can he please stop sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong. Being a US president isn’t enough. He wants to be the German chancellor and British PB now, too?
I think you meant British PM. Although I’ll take PB if it was for Prime Bastard.
Autocorrection but let’s say it was deliberate.
I mean, if the king really wants to become beloved of the people he should indeed make a visit to parliament, and request they dissolve Musk’s UK holdings.
There is a 23 billion blackhole in the budget so we’re told. I think a one off tax of just 10% on Musk based on his total global net worth could be in order.
Bold of you to assume the royals care about the economy
Royals don’t set taxes.
How about dissolve musk?
What can the King do?
Ignore it entirely?
Here’s something kinda cool about the Monarchy. The king can just decide that Musk’s interference is illegal and shut down Xitter in the UK would be kinda funny.
I’m not a fan of that approach, but at the same time you don’t ask cancer to leave your body, you cut that shit out!
The king has no real power. Real power lies with the prime minister since previous kings with the same name and the Glorious Revolution. He’s a figurehead.
Here’s an interesting (although old) video
The word “theoretically” is doing a lot of lifting in that video. He said that the Queen is in important political figure, but that’s incorrect. The monarchy in the UK survives by being apolitical and they all know that the day they start meddling in politics is the day when the royal family loses its one remaining role in the UK - ceremony. Their long standing popularity comes from the pomp and circumstance, and if they get mixed up in politics, they’ll become deeply unpopular, just like everyone else who tells the British people what to do does in the end.
All the real power went in the civil war and the glorious revolution. Parliament decides who is the monarch. If the king went rogue, he’d be gone before you can say “that’s not what we were looking for in the role of ceremonial figurehead.”
“The Crown” actually includes, quite as a matter of law, the government and specifically the prime minister.
So all the stuff about signing laws isn’t real power. It’s not about whether it becomes law, it’s about when it becomes law.
The King is The Sovereign, but he is not sovereign, Parliament is sovereign.
He embodies British power, but he doesn’t wield it.
Fascinating. I learned something new today! Thank you for taking the time to share :)
Obligatory Jay Foreman video that explains exactly what would happen if the Monarch would use their power.
I hope he suggests musk seeks professional medical mental health.
Musk is not in a healthy position. Someone needs to reach out to him, so he gets helpI wouldn’t be surprised if he had long Covid clouding his brain, he started going loony not long after the first big covid wave in the US…
Used to be-
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An introvert
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Kept his opinions largely to himself outside some occasional jabs (ie. ‘The trampoline is working!’)
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Intelligent
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Supported universal health, free university and UBI
Post 2021 -
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Very opinionated, but mostly not his opinions- those of other people.
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Extroverted to a high level, constantly talking.
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Dumb
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No longer supports any of the left ideals he used to, now it’s all full extreme-right.
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I was going to make a joke about how King Charles should dissolve Elon in a vat of acid, but I’m not sure if that’s comes off as promoting violence in our current climate of oligarchicide.
Since this is advice given to a monarch by a person who otherwise has no impact on the rich and powerful, I’d argue you could call this a case of Jester’s Privilege
We should bring that back. If nothing I do matters, then nothing I say matters, right?
It would definitely be skirting the line of what we would moderate, but I think we’d probably let it go just because it’s a comic book villain ending rather than saying “shoot him in the head” or whatever.
Plus, it would obviously be a joke.
Edit: all I can picture is this, but with Elon’s face on it.
You see … I think of this
I guess it helps that I was not a fan of that show.
I think Luig[MESSAGE CONTENTS CORRUPTED]usk.
I think King Charles should instead order Elon Musk dissolved.
He can put him on ignore?
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”
It is my hope that the UK adds a second parliament, just to give Musk the middle finger.
well I mean theres the House of Lords, and the Royal Family,
We have the Houses (plural) of Parliament. The fully elected House of Commons and then the, uh, not really elected House of Lords.
This guy is everywhere
No, he just bought the loudest bullhorn is all.
Time for some right wing infighting.
Musk should fuck off back to South Africa.
As a Brit I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.
I also think that King Charles should dissolve the monarchy as it’s sickening to have such a thing in 2025.
People often say but tourism. The fact is France gets many more visitors a year than Britain and they got rid of their monarchy. We could make more turning Buckingham Palace into a bougie hotel for instance.
Can you tour bukingham palace?
Small sections.
I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.
He illegally immigrated into the US, it’s quite literally his MO
As an American (and ashamed of it), can we give Elongated Muskrat back to South Africa?
I don’t think that’d be very fair to South Africans.
