There’s no hate or jealousy, merely frustration because we countries outside the US are affected by what your government does. Unfortunately we have no voting rights, but we have to deal with the consequences.
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Does nobody check for conflict of interest when appointing to such posts?
The pen is mightier that the sword.
“La plume est plus forte que l’epee.” 
What Musk is doing is checking governments wasteful spending. That has nothing to do with the UK.
Offering to buy Greenland has nothing to do with England.
Tariffs on Canada. Mexico and China for goods coming into the US has nothing to do with England.
Follow misinformation about Palestine, has nothing to do with England.
Kicking major crime offenders and undocumented people with them at the time of arrested, out of the US has nothing to do with England.
I do not see anything mentioned above effecting the UK unless they are getting waste funds from the US. Even when he wasn’t president there were a lot of attention being brought up. The laying off of the two, this is the correct term, Trump haters, just like the state attorneys that were literally trying illegal tactics such as charges and attempt to move political opponents of federal ballots.
So, I’m going to go with hatred is the main cause.
Apparently Musk himself decides on whether he has any conflicts of interest yet his companies are US government contractors too. So how does that work?
This fact pretty much answers the question of his missing salary - if he himself is auditing his own business interests and the environment in which his own interests operate, then without checks and balances he will be paid a pretty penny without any cash changing hands and nobody will be able to prove this ever happened.
Quotes below from today’s FT article “Mr Musk goes to Washington” - I can’t find this article online, but it’s in the FT weekend 8,9th Feb paper edition.
““No information has been provided to Congress or the public as to who has been formally hired under Doge under what authority or regulations Doge is operating” eight Democratic senators protested to the White House this week”
"Doge’s rapid progress astonished even its early supporters. “Doge is doing things that we could never have fathomed” says James Fishback, an investor who advised the body after its formation in November. “They are acting with speed and they are acting with urgency.”
“They are finding technicalities to work their way around the law” says Richard Painter, who was George W Bush’s chief ethics lawyer. “They’re finding loopholes to exercise presidential power in unprecedented ways.”
"Musk would need to "divest from a lot or recuse from a lot " to avoid falling foul of conflict of interest laws that govern federal employees, Painter adds. But enforcing such rules would fall to Trump’s dept of Justice. "
England this England that? It’s either Britain or the UK - thank you very much.
Everything is to do with Britain and the rest of the world because the US is the biggest economy on the planet as well as being the most influential nation state. We have major trading links with the US and today we hear that tariffs have been put on worldwide Steel and aluminium which directly affects everyone involved in those industries. I see you don’t mention that calling Canada the 51st state has nothing to do with Britain. Why didn’t you mention that? Did I say anything about Greenland?
It’s up to you what you do with your movement of people, but when it affects world trade then we are an important stakeholder. If Mush is dismantling your federal infrastructure then yes it affects world trade because if your infrastructure is shot to bits then it will send a ripple through your trading links.
I was speaking to a friend in the US just last week. A fervent Trump supporter, but she was shocked at what is going on. I’m sure she’s not the only one. How many of these people being sacked voted for him I wonder.
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I understand, but he or she is still unelected, not appointed, and maintains a massive conflict of interest. Further, from what we have seen in the last 50 years the monarch has a tremendous amount of global influence. What checks are in place to prevent your monarch from…say…attending a state function and leaking information to a hostile head of state - or heaven forbid, being bought off?
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Again apparently you don’t know and making up lies.
DOGE will work with the Office of Management and Budget
It works this way: Subpart 3.6 - Contracts with Government Employees or Organizations Owned or Controlled by Them | Acquisition.GOV
They will refer you to this:
OLRC Home
Other CFR may also be referenced.
The organization has a set expiration date of July 4, 2026
You can find salary information on sites like FederalPay.org
So you don’t know if he is auditing his own business. What if he is keeping hisoney on Mars?
Checks and balances are in place and the rest is just you imagination that only you will be able to answer.
In reference to the article they have the know how to check the information and the laws that govern them.
He said he would mind Canada being the 51 state. So is Canada asks to become a state, it wouldn’t be hard to make that happen.
Take you business elsewhere
Again take your business to Russia. We don’t dictate who the UK does business with.
People have the right to pull their money from any share they want. Sounds like the want cooperation back in government where they are saying they want corporations out of government. Make up your mind
Get out while the getting is good.
The English Civil War was 1600 and something and it was Cromwell that started the ball rolling…
The Magna Carta (11th Century?) which curtailed the powers of Kings and Nobles is even older (though they still have too much power in Britain) .
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Well we make sure the monarch is rich enough not to do something so silly. Plus they don’t want to be kicked off the throne, which has happened at least once in our history and they still remember it.
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I don’t know why you are even discussing what Elon Musk is being paid. His net worth is $397billion according to Google
If he gets a return of 5% on this, which is not unreasonable, it means he earns about $20 billion a year or about $54 million a day
Paying him a salary isn’t even pocket money. His motives lie elsewhere. Power perhaps?
If you paid him $100,000 per day, you would have to start paying him many, many centuries (Millennia?) before the Pyramids were built to pay him his current wealth
yes that was the point I was trying to make, he can conveniently let any investment in his own programmes survive his federal cull. He has access to any information stored about him.
Kind of like Musk, except his work is temporary.
who are the “we” in Musk’s case and how does what King Charles does compare with this “audit”?
The King doesn’t meddle in matters of Government. If he even hints at expressing any political opinion it is all over the news. The late Queen’s outfits were analysed for any symbols of political opinion. e.g. when she wore an EU coloured outfit to the state opening of parliament speculation was rife. The monarch maintains a careful balance and is not in any way equivalent to Mush. The monarch is equivalent to the President but with very few powers.
So why hasn’t Oz become a republic?
The constitution was changed so that evil bast@rds like Jo Bjelke-Petersen can’t subvert the political process.
A referendum was held in 1977 to amend section 15 of the constitution - it passed (approx) 75% to 25%
However the main reason why Australia did not become a republic in the 1980s was Princess Diana’s visit, now there is little interest, as with you, the Dismissal has been forgotten
Bugger!
