FINALLY, KIER STARMER HAS LOOKED AT THE RIOTS IN ENGLAND AND IS FIGHTING BACK — Against Elon Musk, for some reason: Could Elon Musk Face Legal Action For UK ‘Civil War’ Post?

After Elon Musk said “civil war is inevitable” following days of rioting in cities in the United Kingdom, the nation’s government warned that anyone inciting violence online will face legal consequences. Could the billionaire be one of those people?

It’s not going to happen, according to a legal expert contacted by Newsweek, who instead said he was “shocked” that newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the left-wing Labour Party, would make such a threat.

In the U.K., the febrile situation has raised concerns about misinformation on social media, but also concerns, including among some far-right activists, about social cohesion in multicultural societies.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of X (formerly Twitter), posted his comment on the same social media platform under a video showing rioters setting off fireworks at police. Musk has claimed there will be a civil war in Europe multiple times previously.

Newsweek has reached out to a representative for Musk via email for comment.

“There is no justification for comments like that,” Starmer’s spokesman said on Monday.

And seemingly moving in lockstep in response, as Brendan O’Neil writes: The British elites’ crazy rage against Elon Musk.

It’s not enough to call this a ‘mask-off moment’. It’s more like the phoney liberals have ripped their masks to shreds and stomped them into the dirt for good measure. Their rage is linked to the riots currently rocking the UK. Musk’s own tweets, they say, not least his chatter about Britain being on the road to ‘civil war’, have helped to whip up the mayhem. Worse, his ‘free-speech absolutism’, as one ‘liberal’ magazine snottily refers to it, has meant that every tosser with a smartphone has been able to tweet their inflammatory views on the riots and even to spread misinformation. In essence, says a writer for the Guardian, Musk has been ‘leading from behind on UK thuggery and race riots’.

Got that? The reason Britain is going to shit is not because of any internal rot but because a billionaire in Texas said ‘civil war’ on the internet. Glad we cleared that up. Even worse than the great and the good’s shameless deflection tactics – where they try to pin the blame for their own failures on a foreigner with money – is their tinpot solutions to this supposed problem. It might be time, says that sexagenarian Marxian in a leather jacket, Paul Mason, to ‘pull the plug’ on X entirely. Yesteryear’s tyrants smashed up printing presses and chased booksellers out of town – today’s want to switch off a website on which no fewer than half a billion souls regularly share their thoughts and feelings.