Terminal Chimp

@PlanetOfMemes @elonmusk Fuck off you prick.

@elonmusk The UK has been conquered and overtaken by tyrants

What has happened to the UK?

@HazelAppleyard_ @elonmusk Not a real person

@elonmusk It’s terrifying. My daughter is almost 10… she’s still a baby! And they’re arresting 11 year olds! And then illegals are r&ping kids in gangs and the police ignore it for fear of being rac!st!!

@elonmusk Thick cunt being a thick cunt again.

@Nigel_Farage Keir Starmer isn’t the CPS or the judiciary you throbbing phallus. You think so little of your supporters that you think they will buy this and repeat it, only to sound as stupid as you do right now.

Throw cement at me, walk free.

@elonmusk I’m breaking my self imposed Twitter ban to invite you over to the UK, I would be happy to spend some time with you to show you and educate you about our country. Nobody is being arrested for posting memes.

Dangerous times

@s8mb Cull them all. I’m terrified of dogs around my child, and anyone willing to look into the frequency of dog attacks on children and has children would be too.

Which is statistically more likely to kill you or your family - owning a Bully XL or keeping a loaded gun in your house? Just cull them, they shouldn’t exist as a breed.

@AimenDean He actually sounds coherent here, which is unusual.

Forget about politics for a moment, but that’s exactly why I never had a sip of alcohol or smoked anything in my life! Some people can handle drinking and smoking moderately, but personalities like mine, and Trump, will get hooked and addicted! Honest Self Awareness🙌🏻

@michael_merrick I disagree with parents taking children out of school for holidays. We know that higher attendance reaps better outcomes. There is plenty enough school holidays to take children away on holiday, is fining parents the right thing though? I don’t know.

I think this is really misguided

@montie @EJ_McGuinness The Labour Party are funded by trade unions shocker! Clown. 🤡

Show me corruption please Twitter (h/t @EJ_McGuinness)

Some quick rebuttals/responses: America has had organised hostility to immigrants for most of the past century, sufficiently intense to keep millions of long term residents shut out of access to basic rights and services. Britain does indeed have a huge planning problem and weak industry but it also has lower inequality and a stronger safety net than the US. Britain responded to its most recent gun massacre - 30 years ago - by banning guns. America has gun massacres so often they no longer even make the news and its politicians can’t even criticise guns in public Britain never had an opioid epidemic because it has central purchasing strong regulation of pharma - the US has the Sackler family and a drugs epidemic triggered by corrupt prescribing so severe it has knocked literal years off US life expectancy. The NHS is dysfunctional but at least it is there. There is nowhere in the developed world worse to get sick while poor than the US. Antisemitism on the radical left was/is a problem but our current PM was elected as leader promising - and delivering - a zero tolerance approach. He threw Corbyn out of the Labour Party. By contrast you have a white nationalist former president promising autocracy and mobilising people promoting race war - and he’s still favourite to return to office. Might be nice if @Noahpinion considered some of the above and some of the other replies from British followers. A post comparing US and UK problems would be great to see.

@elonmusk You have lost your mind.

@elonmusk @CommunityNotes You know nothing about my country.

Chef’s kiss 🤌 @CommunityNotes

@elonmusk Can you fuck off and leave us alone?

🇬🇧 Top source of news in the UK 🇬🇧

@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Yes we have laws in this country about inciting violence. Speak freely but accept the consequences of your words.

Arrested for making comments on Facebook! Is this Britain or the Soviet Union? Is this accurate @CommunityNotes?

As you care so much about free speech you will respect my right to tell you go fuck yourself you massive bellend.

@montie Blimey I’m finding myself agreeing with you a lot in the last few days. It shows how far away the centre left and centre right are. We’re the mainstream of British politics and need to remember how much we have in common.

Well said Sam. Can we also acknowledge that Britain now has a significant underclass (there may be a better word to describe it)? 10% to 15% of the population who are/feel completely cut off from the rest of the population. They are poorly educated. They are intergenerationally welfare dependent. They live in communities where anti-social behaviour is normal. Where family structure and virtue has collapsed. We all pay them money. We police them. But we don’t really care about them. We have no grand desire - let alone plan - to change this. We can afford this underclass - even though it means huge misery and lost human potential.

@montie What a fair minded tweet, this place is a cesspit so I welcome this sort of thinking, leaving tribalism aside the PM works in all out interests so it’s best if he isn’t knackered.

It’s right that the PM has delayed the start of his holiday but I honestly hope it’s not for long. Once the parameters of the response of police, courts and prisons to recent disorder have been set he should take a rest. He can keep in touch and in control from anywhere and it’s in noone’s interests for him or/and other leading ministers to be exhausted. This macho demand for ever present leaders isn’t healthy.

Luke’s focus group of working class voters in Leigh found that their number one priority was enforcing the law on rioters. It’s not ‘woke’ to decry rioters, racism, and violence. If you think it is, you’ve lost your way and have become unstuck from the British working class.

You get the sense that a few grifter commentators are starting to panic that they've swum out too far, and they're not going to be able to make it back to land where all the vaguely respectable paydays are.

This whole story is microcosm of much of our politics. Debate dominated by eccentric political figures with eccentric and sometime extreme views who believe themselves to be mainstream, claim they’re speaking on behalf of all working class (white) people. Actual mainstream/liberal political voices over time too afraid to take those views on, and/or talk to voters directly about their concerns. That vacuum filled by more extreme voices. Throw in online misinformation aided by this website and used by far right (and legitimised by people with big followings who should know better) and we are where we are.