Reform UK, Nigel Farage, and Elon Musk (E311)

Take a break from hearing about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.S. politics to learn about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.K. politics. Annie Kelly brings us an update on the state of the far right across the pond. Specifically, we learn about political party Reform UK, and its relationship to the UK’s two most prominent far-right figures. Those figures are: Nigel Farage - Mr Brexit himself and Reform’s leader, and Tommy Robinson, the perpetually re-imprisoned anti-Islamic agitator. Elon Musk spent weeks on X boosting the views of Tommy Robinson. This has caused some consternation for Farage, who has tried to distance himself from Robinson’s explicit ethnonationalism. This episode features contributions from Joe Mulhall, director of research at Hope Not Hate, the UK's largest antifascist organization. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: http://www.patreon.com/QAA Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Jake Rockatansky, and Corey Klotz. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. LINKS Web Worm: How Racist Agitator Tommy Robinson Found Support with the World’s Richest Men https://www.webworm.co/p/tommyrobinson Hope Not Hate https://hopenothate.org.uk/ Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance by Joe Mulhall https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rebel-Sounds/Joe-Mulhall/9781804441169