Come on Paul. You of all ppl should know that Reform is a private company owned by Farage.

Is he? Or his he exercising his freedom of speech and right to express his opinion, which he paid a lot for.

I think Lowe would be perfect as leader! 😆

I'd love Farage to be replaced, and see how long it takes for him to resign as MP for Clacton.

Money will take over the world. And no one will stop it.

How long until Mush appears on BBC QT? The producers will be falling over themselves to get him on given their track record with mendacious populist fascist agitators.

His ego is incredible!

Who let him on here?

That'll help their appeal no end. True men of the people are usually called Rupert.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this is absolutely hilarious. He genuinely thinks he knows what he’s talking about and that, without Farridge, Reform have any relevance ! He’s a proper bellend…

Turning on each other😂😂😂

Nicotine Nige must be livid. :-)

Musk obviously doesn't realise that Reform is essentially a one-man band, without Farage they are purely a bunch of nobodies.

Good pick Elon! Go for it! 😉

Not even the members of Reform UK get to choose the leader of Reform UK.

😂😂👍

Quite true. Reform is Farage's own political vehicle. The concept of replacing its leader is utterly meaningless. This illustrates just how little Musk follows and understands British politics.

Nothing says ‘man of the people’ like the forename ‘Rupert’.

While the media entertain this prick then expect more of the same gibberish from him.

I do wish he'd fuck off

At this point, all he has to do is tweet that he's withholding his donation while Farage is leader, and Farage will be booted out tout suite.

Farage can't be 'booted out', the company articles say that any matters concerning the company have to be decided by shareholders. Farage and Tice are the only shareholders, Farage being the majority holder.

They'll find a way if it means the difference between £100M and nothing ... Probably resign because Tice has some dirt on Farage, in the end, Farage may not survive this debacle as Reform leader.

We should support this. There’s no amount of money that’d make Reform successful with Rupert Lowe as leader.

Ah, let them kick lumps out of each other first...........Then make Lowe leader...... then release Tiny Tommeh and watch it all happen again!

£100m (or whatever it is) IS the way............ Money is the only reason Fromage set up Deform.

Farage will point out that the £100m is not a necessity, they’re getting donations anyway, and that £100m from Musk would probably hurt the party as much as it helps it.

It's already hurt the party, but £100M will help the company, and at the end of the day Farage is in this for the profit, otherwise he'd have formed an actual party.

70% shareholder. The last brexit party accounts should have given it away.

Yep, but he can resign, or rather, be forced to resign, depends what skeletons he has in his closet, and how much pressure can be put on him by the other shareholders.

Shareholder, singular. Fromage holds >50% but less than 75%, Dick Lice the rest. That's it, no other shareholders.

He’d rather bring the whole edifice crashing down around him, surely?

Resigning at this point will do that quite effectively anyway, but examine his past, he has no compunction in leaving a political party he fronts to die by the roadside. UKIP just crashed and burned when he left, twice.

At that point, would he retain his shareholding? It would be worthless if he tried to sell it, as its value is based on his being leader.

In any case, Farage is the not-so-secret sauce of Reform. Take him away and you only have some overprivileged middle aged racists in suits. Which Farage is also, but he’s presented as something more, and people swallow it.

Like UKIP, without Farage they're toast.

They will probably drop Rupert the horse farmer Lowe in, Farage would retain his shares so effectively still runs the show..... As in, does whatever Musk tells him to do, probably through the orange wotsit.

🤡

Reform is a business not a political party.

Musk also wants to be head of state of the UK.....

Shame it's a company with an owner who is unlikely to budge

If they get rid of Farage he'll only get Putin to fund another egotrip party.

Was he the one who beat up his girlfriend or was that another clone?

I bet Farage would sell for £10 mil

Hahahahahahaha *pauses for breath* Hahahahahahaha

This must surely call into question Farage's judgment; to align himself so closely with Musk, then defending his online vitriol (supporting it even) only to be thrown under the bus within days of meeting with him.

It’s about time “Leon” kept his beak out!

Bwahaha…not enough work to do?

It’s all a bit ridiculous now.

Apart from bringing Southampton FC close to extinction,what has Rupert Lowe ever done?

If only Pompey had kept up the payments.

*sigh*

Let's forget political correctness .. He's not trying to choose... He's demanding, and if they don't fulfill his order, the money will go to the Tories.. Apartheid Boy is not influencing politics.. He wanna dictate it .. It's that simple.

Farage is such a suck up that he'll probably agree to it.

If everyone just ignored Musk he’d get bored and go away.

You know, this all feels like the harbingers of Musk’s own implosion. Not the “vibe” I think he intended…

How on earth can mainstream news organisations like itv, sky, ch4 and bbc justify continuing to use Twitter aka X?!

Why does the media care so much about what Elon Musk has to say? I’m not on Twitter, I’m not American, remind me why his tweets matter?

He's President-Elect of the United States and the richest man on earth who controls the policy agenda of the US, and therefore the world. Sadly. We'll be hearing nothing but rubbish from Musk for the next 4 years.

President Xi, the President of Iran, Putin and a whole raft of Russian and Chinese Oligarchs have opinions on what the UK should do. Their views get ZERO air time. Time to adopt same policy with enemy of the people Musk.

He doesn’t control my world. He’ll fall out with Trump soon enough. He’s not even an American politician. His DOGE department is fake as in it doesn’t even exist. Everyone is losing their minds.

He's literally the most powerful man on Earth because of the way our horrible global socioeconomic structures work - thanks, capitalism!

He literally isn’t the most powerful man on Earth. He owns Twitter which most people aren’t on.

He has the most money and is plainly bossing around the incoming leader of the fascist administration of the world's most influential nation so yes, until someone stands up to him in a way where he faces consequences, he has and is exercising more power than any other single person.

He has no power. Literally zero. Everyone is going mad over a guy tweeting.

I just explained to you how he does in fact have power. That he can just tweet any dumb idea that comes into his head and directly cause a US government shutdown IS POWER. He's directly influenced events in the war in Ukraine, resulting in deaths. That IS POWER. Whether "official" is irrelevant.

“I just explained to you” sounded less arrogant in your head didn’t it?!

I don't really care whether you think it sounded arrogant or not as the point stands.

It was inevitable that they would begin to turn on each other this year but I didn’t count on it being before the Christmas tree is down!

Elon Musk obviously doesn't understand reform's procedure for removing the leader.

Its shame to even say he removed a leader

A bestiality scandal?

#Rupertloweforleader #anyonebutfarage

But Reform is the Fagash Furher's company 🤷‍♀️

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Love how Musk thinks online comments mean anything. He's so down his little rabbit hole.

What is worrying is that Lowe is one of the most racist people in politics today. The world should be worried about this kind of politics!!

You lot at ITV News have indulged this nonsense like it’s normal. Now he’s trying to control Reform UK, all of a sudden he’s unbalanced. You didn’t mind him telling outright lies about Labour and trying to start race riots. DO YOUR JOB!

How's that going to work seeing as Farage basically owns the company Reform? Look, the kit of them are nutters, best to ignore, I know this gives 'clicks' and 'likes' for the media, but for the rest of us it's just mental.

If the answer is Rupert Lowe then you are asking the wrong question.

This nonsense is not normal but somehow they make it norms

Question is how will donald respond

If he dangles the money Reform will probably give Musk carte Blanche to choose another clown to lead them

Reform is a company and Farage owns it. Literally. Reform doesn't have members, only subscribers happy to give Farage money.

Very true!

It would be best case scenario for Rupert Lowe to become leader of Reform UK. I absolutely support Musk's suggestion here. ReFuk is nothing without Farage, and it'll fade into obscurity with Lowe (or even Tice) in charge, just like UKIP did. Bring it on, I say.

Don't they need to call an EGM and vote there?

Should probably just do a "Squid Games" type thing. Wouldn't take long.

When others go high, Musk always goes Lowe

Ohh to be a fly on Nige’s toilet door…not

Um, surely the majority shareholder has some influence over that decision? If Musk weren’t such a ket-addled wreck he’d know that.

His candidate is interesting considering the vulnerabilities of Rupert Lowe.

Poor Elmo doesn’t realise that Reform is a company not a party 😂

I can’t stand Elon Musk, I can’t stand Reform and Nigel Farage gives me the heebie jeebies! I don’t care about reform I do care about a crazy trumped american oligarch interfering in our politics. Elon Musk ☝️

Musk is NOT AMERICAN! He is a South African. Regardless his allegiance is to himself not a country’s.

And again, what are journalists doing about it?