British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced growing calls to sanction Elon Musk after the eccentric billionaire told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must "fight or die".
Addressing a gathering of more than 100,000 people – who had turned up to Saturday's "Unite the Kingdom" demonstration in London in support of restricting immigration to the UK – Musk called for the dissolution of Parliament and a change of government in Britain.
He told protesters "violence is coming to you" and "you either fight back or you die", adding that the United Kingdom needs "revolutionary government change,"
"There needs to be massive government reform in Britain and the people need to be in charge, not some bureaucracy that doesn't care," Musk told activist Tommy Robinson, the organiser of the rally.
"We must have revolutionary government change… This really requires everyone to sort of marshal the people, to take charge, reform the government, and make sure that you actually have a government that is for the people, by the people," the billionaire said.
This is not Musk's first foray into UK politics. Last summer, during a wave of violent anti-immigration riots, the Tesla boss said that "civil war is inevitable".
In January, he said that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer should be in prison.
Politicians condemn Musk
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest party in Britain's Parliament, urged Starmer and Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch to join him in condemning Musk's attempt "to sow discord and incite violence on our streets" and interfere with British democracy.
Equalities Minister Jacqui Smith said Musk's remarks "were wrong and they were dangerous."
Business Secretary Peter Kyle called the comments"slightly incomprehensible" and "totally inappropriate".
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