Elon Musk has once again suggested civil war is imminent in the UK. Given that Musk is a social media baron who has the power to control the flow of information, some have accused him of abusing his position to push a political narrative. Others have accused Musk of ‘demanding’ a civil war.
Regardless of your stance, it certainly seems like the sort of thing a government should be taking notice of.
And yet:
Keir Starmer’s spokesman says they “haven’t seen” Elon Musk’s demands for a civil war on the streets of Britain.
No plans for the Government to leave X
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 29, 2025
Laughable from Labour on Elon Musk
If I was the prime minister and someone contacted me to say ‘that social media kingpin is pushing for a civil war again‘, I’d respond in one of two ways:
Looking into the claim and then presenting a response to it.Simply keeping quiet.
Labour have chosen a third option, in which all they’ve achieved is highlighting how useless they are. Of course, they have done this before.
For clarity, here’s the offending tweet from Elon Musk:
These two foreign clowns are always so desperate to see violence on Britain’s streets. Civil war is not imminent in real life at all- they really need to take a break from social media- it’s clearly frying their brains and the ability to differentiate between the two. pic.twitter.com/1HJWEpUfB6
— Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh) October 29, 2025
As people have noted, you could certainly say this is more of a ‘prediction’ than a ‘demand’. There are issues which need addressing, though.
Firstly, Musk’s position as the king of X/Twitter allows him to amplify certain voices and narratives:
Reminder that this is the reason Elon is astroturfing Tommy Robinson so muchpic.twitter.com/Mje3YbTan2
— Tony Rigatoni (@tonyrigatonee) September 3, 2025
From being deplatformed, censored and lied about without reply.
To a BILLION impressions in 3 months.
Thank you @elonmusk for giving us our voice back.
Keep your eyes on this page if you want to see the biggest patriotic rally in London coming this Saturday
pic.twitter.com/JNYwlRD2uw
— Tommy Robinson
When you factor in his support and promotion of the British far right, it starts to look less like Musk is predicting a civil war and more like he’s attempting to shape one.
While Musk has claimed to be a ‘free speech absolutist’, he’s frequently shown himself to be anything but. As Gaby Del Valle wrote for The Verge, Musk has worked with governments to repress free speech on X. Musk has also made frequent use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) to silence the employees / mothers of his children who may one day wish to speak out against him. It’s additionally reported that Tesla tried to use these dubiously legal agreements to muzzle their own customers.
Musk has ensured that all manner of racism is now permissible on X, with Germany having sued the platform in 2023 for failing to “moderate antisemitic content and Holocaust denial”.
While we understand that Ben Shapiro is a loathsome figure who has publicly backed antisemites because they support Israel, we don’t think his comments should look like this; we don’t think anyone’s comments should look like this:
too busy watching nick and tucker, jewboy
— rapist_werewolf (@rapistwerewolf2) October 28, 2025
He’s got game
Elon Musk has been talking about civil wars for some time now:
2/11 Elon Musk is pushing for civil war in the West.
He’s not just amplifying far-right voices—he’s actively inciting political violence.
And he’s doing it with the power of X, his wealth, and global influence.
This is not just reckless. He’s out of control and dangerous pic.twitter.com/tYwK62DKjQ
— Joni Askola (@joni_askola) September 15, 2025
4/11 After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Musk didn’t call for calm.
He amplified claims of left-wing violence before knowing the motive, and pushed the idea that civil war is inevitable.
He’s pouring fuel on the fire—again pic.twitter.com/L9EKQOlr4s
— Joni Askola (@joni_askola) September 15, 2025
The immense grip of capitalism over Britain, is despite Elon Musk inciting for civil war in our country and interfering in our politics.
We will do absolutely nothing to economically hurt him. He can profit off our nation and we will accept it.
Money rules everything
— JimmyTheGiant (@jimthegiant) September 15, 2025
People had a lot to say about Musk’s latest intervention and the Labour government’s failure to respond:
No one in Britain has guns and the left /right divide is basically conservative retirees vs everyone else, you could end the kind of civil war Musk wants with a stiff breeze https://t.co/sNCSN61TrD
— Brigitte Empire (@BrigitteEmpire) October 29, 2025
They were right on that Bob Vylan stuff within minutes though. https://t.co/QXI8sFiiOt
— Tom Hatfield (@WordMercenary) October 29, 2025
Meanwhile, an American writes:
Elon can’t get a Civil War here so he tries it in Britain.
Lay off the ketamine pic.twitter.com/qAse9NM6yL
— Haters_gonna_hate (@princess_kim_k) October 30, 2025
To be fair, it’s not confirmed that Musk is abusing narcotics; it’s merely heavily suspected (and credibly reported):
It turns out that Musk is high on ketamine all the time.
Gee, you can’t even tell. https://t.co/POEQ4rYABd pic.twitter.com/tkDGoZjo8c
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) May 30, 2025
Inactivism
As people have highlighted, Labour have been very quick to jump on comments made by relatively powerless people. This gives the game away, doesn’t it?
If you have money, you can get away with whatever you like in modern Britain – like Elon Musk is.
The real ‘war’ is between the people who see this and the people maintaining the status quo.
Featured image via Number 10 (Flickr) / James Duncan
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