Starmer Urged To Block Tesla From Government Contracts Over Elon Musk’s Far-Right Rally Rant

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2. This guy is pretty plainly a national security threat. Even before he broadcast his incitement to violence to 110k flag-draped ‘Tommy’ fans he was completely unsuitable.

3. We could also do it over the fact they’re not good cars.

4. The US Federal Government wouldn’t be able to do this because of the First Amendment, thereby proving we don’t have free speech on anywhere near the same level.

5. He called for a violent overthrow of the government. If Labour had anything about them they’d do something about it. As is, it’ll probably be just words.

   Quite funny that the anti-immigration protestors are cheering a foreigner calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected British government though

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7. The brand is toxic anyhow so wont have much of customer base. Its a win win to strike elon out of any contracts

8. This isn’t popular to say but we should be looking at Twitter not Tesla, thats the part fanning the far right. 

   Calling for banning Tesla from government contracts is just performative, because they aren’t even really involved in government contracts. We might as well ban them from doing stage plays while we’re at it.

9. Um, yes?

   Ffs if procurement guidelines don’t include “not inciting civil unrest” then what are they for?

10. Inciting violence to achieve a political goal? That’s textbook terrorism isn’t it? Never mind that though, those 80 year old terrorists holding placards aren’t gonna arrest themselves!

11. He shouldn’t be being considered anyway after his nonsense in the USA. His edgelord call to violence should have him arrested if he ever steps foot in the country again.

12. Starmer can’t, without Trump hitting the UK with tariffs and/or throwing other deals we have under the bus.

    Or at least threatening it.

    As has been said ad fucking nauseam, the UK was *greatly* weakened by Brexit and now have to grovel for trade deals.

13. I think we should block Tesla because they are overly-expensive cars.

14. I think he needs to raise this with Trump during his visit.  Ask Donald what would he do if he were in this position, and a billionaire was using his influence to suggest removing Trump and the republican party? 

    I don’t think he would take very kindly to it.

15. Musk isn’t wrong, the order of the state is not what the people want and the only means the state ever has to get it’s order is violence. So long as that is true then ‘violence is coming’ is a true statement.. How it comes and how they use lies to sell it to complacent people isn’t certain, but there is no other way to get their order than violence.

    I don’t agree it’ll kill all that many people, the technological means to utterly destroy someone exists, the gatekeeping to finance, and communication or freedom of movement is all sealed behind modern technology. If you can’t buy food, if you can’t travel at certain times or in certain places, if you can’t communicate with others, your socially and politically dead, and that is good enough.

16. Should ban sales of new Tesla’s to the uk and stop them operating in the UK.
    Plenty of other electric cars. Many of them better than Tesla at everything Tesla’s do.

17. Yep once he’s in the contract will be expensive to get rid of.
    The guys a nut job

18. Yes, he is meddling too much. Agree with doing that.

    But stop calling it a “Far right” rally. Yes, there was some far right people there, doesn’t make the majority of them. The fact the media keeps calling it that, is just pushing more people towards it because you’re (trying and failing) to imply anyone against the shear amount of immigration, is far right – which is 70% of the population.

    With that said. The government should stop using Twitter, because guess which group this app favours?

    Maybe not immediately but come on, try getting some start up of British developers to create a different version and promote it. Regardless, you’re at the mercy of Musk by using twitter.

    it’s unacceptable what he is doing, start getting a backbone.

19. What a cunt. I kinda decided I wanted to be against violence on Saturday and as a pretty queer looking dude just wandered into the right march and struck up conversations with people. I was open about being on the leftist side and it was like, it felt that many people saw us as some sort of other and had never actually talked to someone more left wing. It was casual and mostly respectful (except one cunt that punched me in the face, but everyone around him were like wtf and he ran off). You can still discuss things with people you disagree with and you can tell them to their face that what they are doing seems reprehensible. But if you are lucky enough to be able to use words they will listen.

20. This is fine as long as far left people are blocked from.political contracts, and we get to label who is far left, because let’s face it, anyone who waves a flag in non government approved settings is now far right.. so it’s only the same in reverse, but yeah, I agree, strong political opinion people should be blocked from government contracts.

21. 100% you can’t incite violence without consequences. I’d go further and sanction companies he is a director of.

22. Starmers kind of in a corner here either way 

    If he does block Tesla (and Twitter like everyone is saying) then he’s gonna have some big problems because it will be used against starmer 

    If he doesent though nothing will change and thus this won’t go under the carpet like starmer thinks will happen 

    I also don’t think it would do much they will just spread onto other platforms I imagine . 

23. He certainly shouldn’t be let anywhere near our electricity grid.

24. restrict anything to do with this man. He is a security risk.

25. Oh leftists, proving once again that you guys are the real fascists.

26. Starmer is a weak man who will walk us into a fascism. Watch him do nothing.

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