Elon Musk is a man of tremendous gifts, to put it mildly. He recently caught a rocket between some chopsticks, for crying out loud. But insight into the mood of British politics is clearly not one of those gifts.

Having only just learned about Britain’s shameful, grotesque, never-ending grooming-gangs scandal, declaring that Jess Phillips should be in prison for failing to back a full national inquiry into it, Musk has now turned his ire on his erstwhile ally, Reform leader Nigel Farage.