On Labour’s Elon Musk problem, Richard and Oscar nailed it long ago. The famous Rodgers and Hammerstein song asks, “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” and basically concludes that you can’t. The word “darling” pulls one up, but otherwise, with a fashionable change of gender and apologies to Julie Andrews: “He’s as flighty as a feather/He’s a darling, he’s a demon, he’s a lamb/He’d out-pester any pest/Drive a hornet from its nest/… throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.”
The songwriters have their Austrian nuns conclude that their errant sister is a “problem” for which there is no solution. So it is for Elon Musk, lately exploiting the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal by accusing the Prime Minister of “raping” Britain, calling for the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, to be imprisoned, and suggesting that King Charles dissolve parliament and call an immediate election.
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