{"id":2464,"date":"2024-08-06T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/seriously-elon-musk-criticised-over-totally-unjustified-remarks-about-uk-riots\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:00:41","slug":"seriously-elon-musk-criticised-over-totally-unjustified-remarks-about-uk-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/seriously-elon-musk-criticised-over-totally-unjustified-remarks-about-uk-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Seriously?\u2019: Elon Musk criticised over \u2018totally unjustified\u2019 remarks about UK riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s claim that \u201ccivil war is inevitable\u201d in the UK is \u201ctotally unjustified\u201d, a government minister has said, after the billionaire clashed with Sir Keir Starmer over the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the owner of X, has been <strong>engaged in a war of words<\/strong> with the prime minister over riots gripping the UK, amid concerns online disinformation is fuelling the unrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p><strong>UK riots latest: Petrol bombs and violence in two cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a comment on his social media site below a video of rioters setting off fireworks at police, Musk said \u201ccivil war is inevitable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This was quickly rejected by the PM\u2019s spokesperson, who said there is \u201cno justification for comments like that\u201d and \u201canyone who is whipping up violence online will face the full force of the law\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p><strong>Musk<\/strong> then replied to a social media post from Sir Keir who had criticised violence towards Muslims, with the tech entrepreneur saying: \u201cShouldn\u2019t you be concerned about attacks on *all* communities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Courts minister Heidi Alexander told Sky News that \u201ceveryone should be calling for calm in this situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I do think the language around civil war being inevitable is totally unjustified,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Former government minister Rory Stewart criticised Musk\u2019s comments, posting on X: \u201cSeriously?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince when have you claimed to understand British communities or British politics? Exactly how many days have you spent with these communities?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it ever occur to you that this might perhaps be the wrong time to sound off about a subject you know nothing about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armando Iannucci, creator of comedy series The Thick of It, also posted in response to Musk\u2019s comments about civil war, saying: \u201cTomorrow morning you\u2019ll see the people who live here tidy these streets up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall gangs of thugs do not a mass movement make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve been taken in by your own platform, which amplifies noise at the expense of facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers have been among the targets of far-right rioters across the UK over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Former police chief Neil Basu has said the worst of the far-right violence <strong>should be treated as terrorism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s claim that \u201ccivil war is inevitable\u201d in the UK is \u201ctotally unjustified\u201d, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}