Ed Davey responds to Elon Musk calling him a 'snivelling cretin‘

Ed Davey responds to Elon Musk calling him a 'snivelling cretin'Sky News

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00:00guess you are now internationally famous, having been described by Elon

00:04Musk as a snivelling cretin. Would you like to respond?

00:11Listen, Trevor, I've been in politics so long enough to know that there are

00:15insults made, and I'm sometimes not always complimentary about people

00:19like Elon Musk. However, the real issue of substance is that Elon Musk

00:24said that the British government, elected by the British people just a

00:27few months ago, should be overthrown. That's what he said. And he's now in

00:33the administration in America. He's sort of camped out in Trump's Oval Office.

00:39And I think that's a real matter of concern. And he didn't like it when I

00:43said, when he says those things, Britain, through our ambassadors,

00:48through our government relations, need to call him out. And I repeat,

00:52I think Elon Musk needs to be held to account, both by President Trump for

00:56the comments he made about the UK, and actually, this world's richest man,

01:00who has all this power with his social media platform, and now, you know,

01:04the best friend of the new President of the United States, is incredibly

01:07powerful. And I think he has to be held to account. And Britain, with our

01:12relationship with Europe, and Britain with our relationship with our European

01:14colleagues, needs to make sure that calling out these over-powerful

01:20billionaire US tech magnates like Elon Trump, we can't allow them to get

01:25away with what they're trying to get away with. It's too damaging.