Elon Musk takes ANOTHER swipe at Starmer over riots after PM hit back at 'civil war' claim
Elon Musk has hit back at Keir Starmer on social media after a wave of riots erupted across the UK
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Elon Musk has hit out at Keir Starmer on social media after a wave of riots erupted across the UK.
The billionaire responded to the Prime Minister's online post discussing the recent spate of violence on Britain's streets.
Starmer shared a video of him speaking about the riots, with the caption: "This is not protest, it is pure violence. We will have a standing army of public duty officers. We will ramp up criminal justice.
"We will apply criminal law online as well as offline. We will not tolerate attacks on mosques or on Muslim communities."
Elon Musk has hit back at Keir Starmer on social media after a wave of riots erupted across the UKGettyMusk commented on the post saying: "Shouldn’t you be concerned about attacks on *all* communities?"
More than 420 people have been arrested since riots began last week, with unrest witnessed in London, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Bolton and tonight, Plymouth.
Hundreds of thugs petrol-bombed a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham on Sunday.
Mosques across the country have also been targeted during the six days of unrest.
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Musk claimed on Sunday that "civil war is inevitable" in the wake of the Southport stabbing attack.
But No10 hit back and said there was "no justification" for the Tesla CEO's comments.
Starmer's official spokesman said: "There's no there's no justification for comments like that.
"What we've seen in this country is organised violent thuggery that has no place either on our streets or online.
"As the Home Secretary [Yvette Cooper] said this morning, we're talking about a minority of thugs that do not speak for Britain.
Sunderland was one of the cities hardest hit by the riotsGetty"And in response to it, we've seen some of the best of our communities coming out and cleaning up the mess, disruption of those that don't speak for our country.
"We've seen a response from people that do speak for our country. I think you can you can tell from that that the PM does not share those sentiments."
Britain's Government have called for social media companies, such as X, to remove criminal material and hate-filled misinformation.
The Prime Minister warned that "the criminal law applies online as well as offline".