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I cannot beleieve that Reform more and more are seeming like the the only materially useful vector through accelerationism becuase Labour have a literal window to the future in Macron BUT WITH NO COALITION MECHANISM OR POLITICAL WILL TO AVOID THEM! And of course all of this self-inflicted.

Definitely too much oxygen.

Gonna have to slow this down. What?

Understatement of the year so far.

This is so naive. EM is not a "bloke", he's the world's richest man, de facto US president, Putin ally, predictor of civil war in Europe (doing his best to fulfil own prophecy) and likely to pour millions of £ into the UK to back Farage/Reform. He's a malign actor and needs to be treated as such.

Bloody well said with you 100%

Would be nice for some cross party condemnation of comments coming from the likes of Musk but I won't hold my breath.

Streeting raises a good point. Is it better to ignore the tedious billionaire man-child?

He is absolutely right. If people want to see every single abusive comment hurled by Musk, they don’t need it from the media. They can just follow him on that other app.

He is correct!

I wish the media in the UK would stop giving Musk such a high level of airtime. He has nothing to do with us.

Dear Journalists, Every year in Parliament, J. Phillips, the UK MP libelled by musk, reads out the names of women killed by men in order to raise awareness of violence against women and to honour the Victims. She is a tireless campaigner against gender-based violence. www.bustle.com/life/jess-ph...

The contentious, arguably libellous, statements made by musk should be aggressively addressed. This unelected billionaire must be held to account for his interference in UK-European democracies. He is not elected by us. He is not elected in the US. He is a malignant voice shouting from the shadows.

A rhetorical question, hardly incisive journalism. But it is LBC, after all!!

Nice one Wes, so often the Labour frontbencher willing to speak first

Well he's not wrong...

Took far too long for her colleagues to defend her, imo.

He's correct

He's right. Musk is another far-right windbag like Farage and as dangerous because of his followers.

There is a point where the media coverage really could just be "that idiot lied again" and move on. His relevance to international politics represents a dramatic failure of society.

Yep, he’s not wrong, but I don’t see or hear the condemnation of those tweets from the Govt officially. You can only try and ignore a maniac for so long. Still, now Mask is over his bromance with Fartage, let’s see what’s next 😬

We certainly don't report the utterances of other prominent foreign nationals in the same way as we do with Mush (sic). The media should look at their own inconsistencies and their inability to call out foreign interference for what it is.

He's not just 'a bloke in the US', though, is he? His app & and his opinions are on phones all over the world.

The answer then needs to be to make firm, definitive statements about the toxicity and insidious intent behind Musk's views. Musk/Trump at their core are deeply unserious but clearly they are taken seriously and not engaging with the substance of what they're saying, being dismissive only helps them

When will these clever broadcasters realise they are part of the problem, not onlookers?

Absolutely right, this could become so dangerous. What right does he have to interfere? If he were a European leader the media would be telling him to butt out. Shouldn't be getting any publicity at all, or his loony dad.

Just seen typo - *they’re incapable!!! 🙄

The we always need an opposite viewpoint thing drives me nuts! Sometimes there are two legitimate sides to a balanced argument and sometimes one side has research, evidence and common decency and the ‘other side’ is made up nonsense that really shouldn’t get airtime

And he’s right. Elon seems to have been elevated into delusion by his own algorithms and bots, he’s spouting bloody nonsense

This "free speech " thing is dangerous, emboldening others, say like Jenrick to make inflammatory statements. Does Musk want to seriously destabilise the West?

.. and you also asked Chris Philp the same - who did not condemn Musk comments - shame on him 👎

He's right. The uncritical repetition of Musk's slander without context as was occurring on news bulletins this morning is unhelpful at best, dangerous at worst.

I thought he was spot on. A definite change in the Labour voice that is over due.

Yes and YOU were giving Musk airtime! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

has Wes seen the reach of twitter?

Can you ask Robert Jenerick the same please?

It’s social media, unless Wes blocks X in the U.K. he can’t stop it. He clearly is pandering to Musk and Trump instead of stepping up for Jess.

True

#true. Cameron launched the referendum to get rid of garage and look what we got - garage gets more airtime than ever. Apeasmemt does not work

They love eachother….. oh😬🤣😂🤣

Perhaps you should be focusing on EM, asking him why his lack of factual knowledge predicates ill-informed and dangerous posts on topics that are none of his business!🤨

*given to NF*

He's right. But there's also way too much "oxygen and airtime" given to Fartrage and his ilk - the disproportionate amt of airtime NF is just as dangerous.

When the majority of the media is desperate to platform him and promote him, Labour deciding to bury their heads under the covers and hope he goes away is an utterly negligent strategy. Just look how well ignoring Fauxrage worked. Unless they are going to force the BBC and the papers to do likewise.

That's more like it @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social.

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It's time the respectable media told twitter users that they are contemptible.

Yeah, so how about NOT platforming the addled cobblers of the Ketamine-raddled goon and professional$hit poster, and not playing into his £uck-democracy tech-facist agenda?

Profoundly depressing programme this morning

It's the same with him and Farage on the latter

And LBC is giving airtime to Richard tice and Nigel farage?

I can see that point - But it is hard to ignore when he is using his platform to send incendiary tweets.

Oh, that's ok then. 🙄 The weakness, inaction and toadying behaviour of this Labour Government is dangerous and destructive. Shut these fascists down before it is too late!