As part of a recent spike of interest in British affairs and an hours-long posting spree on his social media platform, X, on Friday morning—which included attacks on the country’s current Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and controversial demands for the release of a imprisoned right-wing rabble rouser—Elon Musk suggested that the United Kingdom’s parliament should be dissolved entirely. Why stop at shutting down the government of just one country, after all? The billionaire highlighted a reply-bait post asking whether King Charles III “should dissolve parliament and order a General Election… for the sake and security" of Britain, retweeting it with a one-word comment: “Yes.” (Britain’s monarch has the “prerogative power” to do so, usually following guidance from the Prime Minister. The dissolution of a Parliament triggers a new general election.) And while his post is predictably gaining traction across the MAGAverse and with right-wingers in the U.K., British politicians understandably feel differently. In a radio interview Friday morning, the country’s Public Health minister Andrew Gwynne said that Musk “perhaps ought to focus on issues on the other side of the Atlantic.”
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