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Elon Musk has called on King Charles III to dissolve the UK Parliament, citing past controversies involving Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Rotherham Scandal.

Musk accused Starmer of inaction during his tenure as head of the Crown Prosecution Service and urged a new general election, drawing backlash for spreading misinformation.

Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.

Musk’s growing political involvement globally, including support for right-wing parties, has sparked calls for regulation against foreign interference.

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    As a Brit I think Elon Musk should fuck off meddling in ours and other countries politics.

    I also think that King Charles should dissolve the monarchy as it’s sickening to have such a thing in 2025.

    People often say but tourism. The fact is France gets many more visitors a year than Britain and they got rid of their monarchy. We could make more turning Buckingham Palace into a bougie hotel for instance.

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    So, technically, the monarchy signed over the majority of executive power to Parliament with the Parliament Act 1911 which gives authority over taxation and budgets to Parliament.

    But bills do also technically still require Royal Assent, which has not been withheld since 1708.

    So… the Crown COULD try to force an impasse where nothing can pass without their approval, but then Parliament COULD make the Crown live off canned beans.

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    Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?

    “err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the, ,uhh, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress… burp

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    Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.

    Is that what “critics” argue about?
    How about the massive South African white elephant in the room:

    Why the fuck should Charles even acknowledge Musk’s noises?

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      They’re manufacturing consent for the plutocracy — that has always owned politics — instead of doing what one would expect in a democracy… bringing in a psychiatrist to explain the mental illness indicators Musk is very obviously displaying.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a brain tumor. He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one, and none of them are “normal”.

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        Too much money, like Michael Jackson and so many others.

        Boatloads of drugs and yesmen too.

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          You can’t blame the drugs lots of high people not interfering with another countries government calling for fascism.

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            Well do the usual drug enjoyer have the possibility to interfere in foreign politics?

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              I’m pretty sure you’d be surprised about the “adults” you wouldn’t think who are out there enjoying drugs.

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        He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one

        Aren’t all leaders?

        For politicians, it takes a particular mindset to think you’re the solution to other people’s problems and run for any election. I instantly distrust people who thrust themselves in the limelight and propose to rule others for their own good.

        As for CEO’s, it’s very well known that a disturbing percentage of them display psychopathic traits.

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    I mean, if the king really wants to become beloved of the people he should indeed make a visit to parliament, and request they dissolve Musk’s UK holdings.

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    Why is this reported on as if King Charles or anyone else in Britain should give a shit?

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      I mean, he is in control of the soon to be president of the US. Much as I hate it, other countries kinda do have to listen to him now.

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        The US has no control over the UK other than being trade partners.

        It is like your neighbor telling you to paint your house yellow. Would you do it just because your neighbor told you? No you wouldn’t.

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          “Listen to” and “obey” are two very different concepts, not sure where you got that I’m suggesting they do what he wants.

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            They don’t have to listen to him, only to Trump and even then they still can dismiss anything he says.

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        They really don’t. At every step everyone needs to be telling him to shut the fuck up and mind his own goddamn business. Make things extremely uncomfortable for the overinflated little basement troll. Smear him across the globe.

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          There will plenty of options for him to get his puppets in power in Europe too. But until then we really should tell him “stfu” as often as possible and as loudly as possible. And then we hope he has a fallout with Trump rather sooner than later, so he has to focus more on staying president in the US and has less time trying to meddle in our affairs here…

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        Plus, he still has control of one of the leading social media networks. And that network still (inexplicably and frustratingly) had a lot of influence on people, and thus on Western politics.

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      Here’s something kinda cool about the Monarchy. The king can just decide that Musk’s interference is illegal and shut down Xitter in the UK would be kinda funny.

      I’m not a fan of that approach, but at the same time you don’t ask cancer to leave your body, you cut that shit out!

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        The king has no real power. Real power lies with the prime minister since previous kings with the same name and the Glorious Revolution. He’s a figurehead.

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            The word “theoretically” is doing a lot of lifting in that video. He said that the Queen is in important political figure, but that’s incorrect. The monarchy in the UK survives by being apolitical and they all know that the day they start meddling in politics is the day when the royal family loses its one remaining role in the UK - ceremony. Their long standing popularity comes from the pomp and circumstance, and if they get mixed up in politics, they’ll become deeply unpopular, just like everyone else who tells the British people what to do does in the end.

            All the real power went in the civil war and the glorious revolution. Parliament decides who is the monarch. If the king went rogue, he’d be gone before you can say “that’s not what we were looking for in the role of ceremonial figurehead.”

            “The Crown” actually includes, quite as a matter of law, the government and specifically the prime minister.

            So all the stuff about signing laws isn’t real power. It’s not about whether it becomes law, it’s about when it becomes law.

            The King is The Sovereign, but he is not sovereign, Parliament is sovereign.

            He embodies British power, but he doesn’t wield it.

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      I hope he suggests musk seeks professional medical mental health.
      Musk is not in a healthy position. Someone needs to reach out to him, so he gets help

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if he had long Covid clouding his brain, he started going loony not long after the first big covid wave in the US…

        Used to be-

        • An introvert

        • Kept his opinions largely to himself outside some occasional jabs (ie. ‘The trampoline is working!’)

        • Intelligent

        • Supported universal health, free university and UBI

        Post 2021 -

        • Very opinionated, but mostly not his opinions- those of other people.

        • Extroverted to a high level, constantly talking.

        • Dumb

        • No longer supports any of the left ideals he used to, now it’s all full extreme-right.

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    Well, he has sausage fingers, but he can still do something like what Mummy likely would have done if some South African upstart tried to tell her what to do: