Nicolas Watts, Political Editor of BBC Newsnight and hence a rather influential and well-connected guy, has suggested that Elon Musk raising the temperature on the Labour Party about its coverup regarding the so-called child "grooming" scandal could endanger the US-UK security partnership.
He appears to be speaking with some authority, specifically referring to anger at the highest levels about Musk's direct attacks on Keir Starmer and his party.
UK really gonna leave Five Eyes because people are talking shit about them ignoring kids getting raped?
— BKactual (@BravoKiloActual) January 7, 2025
BOLD 😂 https://t.co/2VrgKJkURN
It's all bluster, of course, and based on a bizarre notion that Keir Starmer could directly interfere with the US election by sending 100 Labour Party employees to the United States to campaign for Kamala Harris while being above criticism himself. Starmer, as you may recall, also implied that Donald Trump was a fascist during the campaign. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, although I am not certain that Starmer believes in biological sex, so maybe he doesn't understand the concept.
"I would be personally quite surprised if Elon Musk was the man who managed to fracture the Anglo-American security alliance.”
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 6, 2025
Henry Hill, deputy editor of Conservative Home, disagrees with claims that a tech billionaire could damage the UK-US security partnership. #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/OtO4iSpdDY
Starmer, you may recall from my absolutely brilliant essay in December, appointed as UK Ambassador to the US a man who called Donald Trump "a danger to the world" and "little short of a white supremacist." In other words, Starmer is getting what he deserves, both because he is still trying to cover up the absolute scandal of the Muslim rape gangs and because he is being an ass to Donald Trump.
"If Donald Trump were not fine with it, trust me, he would publicly and vociferously muzzle Elon Musk."
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 7, 2025
Gordon Sondland, Trump's former ambassador to the EU, says the president-elect is "clearly fine" with what Musk has been tweeting about the UK.#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/3BzuzGiFDc
All of this is the background to the real issue: is the "special relationship" in danger, and if so, is that a disaster?
I admit to being something of an Anglophile, although not in the "Royal watcher" sort of sense or, for that matter, pining for Briton's style of food. But I like watching British mysteries, admire the post-Enlightenment political system (mostly), love Winston Churchill (a sort-of American, as he was born here), and idolize Margaret Thatcher.
Britain has been a good partner in what I have often called the Anglo-American empire, and I tend to view the current American hegemony as being the product of a relatively smooth handoff from the British domination of the world's trading regime in the 19th century.
English is the lingua franca of the modern era, and as much of that has to do with Britain as with American military dominance. Somewhere around 1.5 to 2 billion people speak English as a first or second language, and the old British empire has something to do with that. They created the Anglosphere, and we inherited the mantle of leadership post-WWII.
So you would think I would recoil at British threats to cool relations with the United States, and I WOULD regret that it came to that. But if it were to happen, it might be for the best. Because if Britain doesn't change and change soon, it will no longer be the country it once was. Nor is Europe likely to remain European in the most meaningful sense.
"If Donald Trump were not fine with it, trust me, he would publicly and vociferously muzzle Elon Musk."
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) January 7, 2025
Gordon Sondland, Trump's former ambassador to the EU, says the president-elect is "clearly fine" with what Musk has been tweeting about the UK.#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/3BzuzGiFDc
Elon Musk is not a threat to the UK/US special relationship. The decline of Britain into a dystopia with declining living standards, cultural decay, leaders who care only about their political futures, and the complete embrace of the transnational elite and all its decadence is the real threat to it. Britain still thinks it can bully America for some reason when it is a paper tiger militarily, a declining economic force, and completely dependent on the US to protect itself.
Host: “You have to choose now between Davos (WEF) and Westminster?”
— Anti WEF (@ANTlWEF) November 16, 2024
Starmer: “Davos”
You can serve only one master. His is not the UK citizens.
pic.twitter.com/yUuW7r7jNb
Western European leaders, with few exceptions, have no allegiance to their own countries or the culture in which we all grew up. They are transnationalists--the entire EU project was to destroy nationalism, self-admittedly--and their values are incompatible with American ones. Especially those of Trump voters.
We need to play hardball with Europe, including the United Kingdom. Threats to arrest and extradite American citizens for their free speech should be so far beyond the pale that anybody suggesting such offensive policies should be tarred and feathered. Any "horror" expressed by feckless leaders should be met with belligerence, not placation.
Justin Trudeau steps down, Emmanuel Macron downsized his cabinet, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a no-confidence vote against himself... which he lost of course! Are all of Klaus Schwab's "young, globalist leaders" high-tailing it outta here? They just might be!… pic.twitter.com/SGXk2lKfS3
— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) January 8, 2025
Starmer is less popular than Joe Biden, and Justin Trudeau has been sent packing. Olaf Scholz is a joke on his way out the door and taking his own shots at Trump.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pushed back on comments made by US President-elect Donald Trump, including a threat to use economic force to annex Canada and to seize Greenland https://t.co/x8w3e6iS6g pic.twitter.com/7Q8bKUyG3y
— Bloomberg (@business) January 8, 2025
I like the idea of NATO in principle, and I value the "special relationship" and hope it can continue. But we can't want it more than the Europeans and can't bow down to their outrageous demands. If they are not good allies, then they shouldn't be allies at all. We should deal with them transactionally, not as good buddies.
This was the nicest way to put it:
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) January 4, 2025
Elon Musk called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an "incompetent fool." pic.twitter.com/RlqkknqU9g
Nobody likes losing friends, and I hope we don't. But we cannot remain friends if European leaders stick to their WEF-inspired soft-tyrannical policies. They are incompatible with American values, not what we fought for in World War II,
Musk and Trump, by trying to bring down the terrible (and unpopular) governments in Europe, are doing more to save the European-American alliance than anybody across the ocean who is complaining that their bluntness is undiplomatic. Threatening Americans with arrest, demanding censorship, insulting our president, and relying solely on American military power to defend themselves are not the actions of friends.
If they want to be friends, act like it. Otherwise, Keir Starmer and company, leave the Western alliance structure and face the consequences.
