Musk says U.K. civil war 'inevitable.' The British beg to differ.
Elon Musk has doubled down on comments that the U.K. in on the verge of "civil war" after more than a week of right-wing riots.
LONDON — The world’s richest man, tech billionaire Elon Musk, has doubled down on comments that the U.K. in on the verge of "civil war" after more than a week of right-wing riots.
It is virtually impossible to find anyone in Great Britain who agrees with him.
Musk, who owns X and is known for picking fights online and retweeting far-right posts, was responding on his platform to a video allegedly showing rioters clashing with British police after days of far-right violence in several towns and cities across the country.
Tim Bale, a politics professor at England’s Queen Mary University of London, described such talk as “completely and utterly ridiculous,” in an email to NBC News on Tuesday.
“No one who has even a passing familiarity with the country would embarrass themselves by making such an absurd prediction,” he said.
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