Richard Burgon, an independent member of the British Parliament, reacted to the posts of American billionaire Ilon Mask concerning Great Britain.
In an interview with an anadol correspondent, the deputy of the British parliament sharply criticized the owner of the X platform for posts whose targets became the UK.
The burgon noted that super-rich people got out of control and believe that they can control political processes.
rich people are not elected popular voting to participate in politics, and in this regard should be kept away from politics, ”he said.
“I do not think that we need to extract any lessons from the experience of the richest person in the world who spreads the extreme right nonsense in his social networks,” the deputy said.
At the same time, the burgon spoke in support of the opinion that Elon Musk is an “opponent of democracy.”
“as the richest person in the world, he cannot think that our democratic system is his toy. I believe that he is bad news for the United States. At the same time, he is also bad news for us (Great Britain). If this is incurred by hatred in our societies, we must resist these problems.
In particular, Elon Musk recently spoke unflattering to the Prime Minister of Great Britain Kira Starmer and the ruling Labor Party.
“Would the United States free the people of Great Britain from the tyrannical government,” the American billionaire wrote on his social network X, attaching a survey to the post regard to this issue.
Starkmer, in turn, accused the mask of “spreading lies and disinformation.”
Meanwhile, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Great Britain, Ed Davi, called on the government to call the US ambassador to explain after the provocative statements of Ilon Mask. Davi also demanded that the American billionaire does not intervene in the democracy of the country when “he clearly knows nothing about it.”
In one of his posts, the American billionaire also expressed the praise of the extreme right -right party “Alternative for Germany” (ADG).
“Only ADG can save Germany,” he wrote on the social network.
In addition, the flurry of a stormy reaction was caused by an article by Ilon Mask, written for the German edition of Welt Am Sonntag, in which he called the ADG “Last Spark of Hope” for Germany.
This kind of statements of the American billionaire caused a great resonance in Europe, and mainly in Germany.
German Chancellor Olaf Sholts criticized the mask, saying that German citizens themselves will determine the future of their country. He emphasized that “this does not apply to the owners of social networks.”
In turn, French President Emmanuel Macron accused the mask of interfering in the elections in the country.