Elon Musk has declared it is inevitable that there will be civil war the UK in response to the violent murder of a man out walking his dog in London, allegedly by an Afghan migrant.
Musk, who has come under fire for his comments, also claimed that a civil war in the United Kingdom “already began quietly several years ago”, but “only the other side was fighting”.
Civil war in Britain is inevitable.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2025
Just a question of when. https://t.co/SpmcPkziZr
The Metropolitan Police said that a 22-year-old Afghan national, who entered the UK in a lorry in 2020, had been arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Breitbart reports: Along with a metaphor comparing native Britons to the peaceful Hobbits of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the strident remarks came in response to the alleged murder of a local man in West London on Monday. A 22-year-old Afghan migrant male was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder over the triple stabbing. It was later reported that the individual was illegally smuggled into the country.
Footage of the frenzied attack, in which the dogwalker was thrown to the ground and repeatedly stabbed, quickly spread on social media. But after London police made implied threats against those sharing the footage online, many instances were deleted, apparently prompting Mr Musk to post it himself on Wednesday morning.
The “civil war” comments are particularly worthy of note, given the clear influence Mr Musk has exerted over British politics in recent memory. His relentless posts about the long-hidden child rape grooming gangs that have plagued many English cities for decades earlier this year brought renewed attention to the matter and certainly contributed to the government finally, reluctantly, agreeing to a statutory inquiry.
Musk’s interventions unfailingly anger the legacy political and media establishments that his comments invariably target. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accused Musk earlier this year of “lies and misinformation, slinging of mud”, while an intervention in German politics saw him decried as “completely unacceptable” by the German Chancellor.