Conservative party co-chairman Dominic Johnson said any such donation by Musk would be “basically buying” one of the UK’s political parties.
“People like Elon Musk, like Donald Trump, like Nigel Farage … the sort of the new right, they really hate the old right” which is seen as having become too liberal, said Russell Foster, senior lecturer in British and International politics at King’s College.
This old right “were not killed off by the left or centre. They’re killed off because a more right-wing movement comes along”.
So far, Musk has contented himself with taking aim at the Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, launching a series of searing comments on his social network X.
“The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state,” he stormed in November.
At the height of this summer’s anti-immigrant riots — the UK’s worst unrest in years — Musk wrote in X that “civil war is inevitable” and accused the government of dealing with the rioters too harshly.
It won him support among UK social network users and influencers on the far-right.
Musk also advised people in September not to visit the UK when “they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts”.
“He appears to believe that he is on some sort of a mission against the establishment,” said Foster.
Pragmatism
Some observers believe Musk is also up in arms about UK government plans to toughen legislation regulating social networks.
