{"id":17215,"date":"2025-01-11T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/majority-of-britons-believe-musk-having-negative-impact-on-uk-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:37:52","slug":"majority-of-britons-believe-musk-having-negative-impact-on-uk-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/majority-of-britons-believe-musk-having-negative-impact-on-uk-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More voters think tech tycoon\u2019s comments on grooming gangs are unhelpful than those who back him<\/p>\n<p>More than half of voters think Elon Musk is having a negative effect on British politics following his criticism of Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage, according to the latest Opinium poll for the <em>Observer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The South African-born billionaire has spent much of the past week using his social media platform X to attack Starmer and the Labour government for their opposition to another national inquiry into grooming gangs. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/07\/jess-phillips-telford-survivors-musk-attack-letter-women-girls\">accused Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, of being a \u201crape genocide apologist<\/a>\u201d and falsely claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/06\/starmer-condemns-lies-and-misinformation-as-he-hits-back-at-musk\">Starmer was \u201cdeeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes<\/a>\u201d. Despite strong suggestions that Musk is preparing to make a large donation to Reform UK, he also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jan\/05\/farage-refuses-to-condemn-free-speech-hero-musks-remarks-on-jess-phillips\">tore into Nigel Farage,<\/a> saying he was not up to the job of leading the party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/11\/majority-of-britons-believe-musk-having-negative-impact-on-uk-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cb683c9d492d7535880df7bb2e88e7cf58482f5c\/0_171_5108_3064\/master\/5108.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ebc9ab7a33ef9b1943b80101a144e4a2\" title=\"Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics\" \/>More voters think tech tycoon\u2019s comments on grooming gangs are unhelpful than those who back him<br \/>\nMore than half of voters think Elon Musk is having a negative effect on British politics following his criticism of Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.<br \/>\nThe South African-born billionaire has spent much of the past week using his social media platform X to attack Starmer and the Labour government for their opposition to another national inquiry into grooming gangs. He accused Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, of being a \u201crape genocide apologist\u201d and falsely claimed Starmer was \u201cdeeply complicit in the mass rapes in exchange for votes\u201d. Despite strong suggestions that Musk is preparing to make a large donation to Reform UK, he also recently tore into Nigel Farage, saying he was not up to the job of leading the party. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More voters think tech tycoon\u2019s comments on grooming gangs are unhelpful than those who back him More than half of voters think Elon Musk is having a negative effect on British politics following his criticism of Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer. The South African-born billionaire has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/majority-of-britons-believe-musk-having-negative-impact-on-uk-politics\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}