However, Musk can polish any turd, and will boost the stock on some other fantasy that will happen in (some future movable date)

Only if you are a Unionist though.

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Does he care, probably, does it change anything.........no

Are there any Republican politicians voicing concern at any of the demented rankings, or are they just interested in self interest?

The EU could solve the UK issue by simply saying anyone in the UK who wants to emigrate to the EU can do so, leaving less folk here (Reform/Labour/Tories happy if we are too full), and letting the rest of us escape this bin fire of far right hatred. Or just bin Brexit.

Didn’t he do a gig recently in Saudi…………..

I doubt he has the intellectual capacity to do all that, but the Project 2025 dead eyed sociopaths are using him as the willing idiot.

Fascists robustly determine the right to freedom of speech, right up to the point they can take away yours.

Add to that the Republicans Party and a large swathe of Americans

Manufacturing in the UK is pretty much gone, which left service and finance sectors. Brexit torpedoed the finance sector, so is it any wonder growth is low. Artisan cheeses can only do some of the heavy lifting.

If tariffs are supposedly issued by EO due to a National Emergency, is an advert an emergency, and if not, why isn’t this increase just laughed at?

And being allowed to………..

It is almost like Labour is in the pocket of the rich and their media moguls

Democracies generally assume a certain level of decency and behaviour and when that falls short, it doesn’t know what to do, so blindly adheres to what the President says, and their Party will go along with it. Nothing short of a general strike might stop the rot.