Do you really think that Parliament is effective in debating the issues that affect the nation? Over the last 20 years we've seen the effective self-destruction of our political system. You have scandals such as the expenses scandal and multiple personal scandals. Parliament is not and in its current form never will be fit for purpose.
I'm more in favour of a technocracy where experts run everything for the better based upon facts and not the stupidities and opinion involved in politics. Imagine if transport experts ran the train network, or healthcare experts and doctors ran the NHS and decided its funding? God forbid such a thing!
With Musk it's not about pandering, it's about recognising the reality that he is going to be a powerful player in that field. If the UK wants an industrial strategy that involves AI then it'd be idiotic not to engage with him. I'm not interested in judging him based upon whatever brand of politics he supports, it's irrelevant.
It's ironic to mention AI as a capitalist tool given AI will naturally lead to a more socialist model. There isn't even a need for money in a world where everything is done for us.
The paucity of debate in Parliament can be linked directly to the qaulity of sitting MPs. The amount of sex offences for a relatively small workplace is astonishing. Then there is the deliberate polarisation of the debate, the role of politican is to lead and bind a country together, the opposite is done cynically for monetary gain for a specific minority audience. Sadly Parliament has become a means of generating celebrity, Matt Hancock, JRM, Nadine Dorries, Lee Anderson, George Osbourne, Ed Balls, Rory Stewart, Boris Johnson, Dehenna Davidson. The amount of sitting MPs with TV gigs is disgraceful, the X factor, Big Brother reality TV Parliament.
As for Musk, can you imagine Biden, Clinton, George Bush, Putin, Xi, or even Thatcher behaving like this, the fawning sycophantic questions? The choice of Musk was a homage to celebrity and hoping his stardust will allow Sunak to position himself as a tech bro post his premiership. Musk is also not a impartial operator, at best he has serious questions to answer SEC stock manipulation and interference in global wars. There is two major wars raging on, why not meet a Nobel laurete prize winner? This was not about learning, it was the equivalent of sucking up to the cool kids at school and hoping everyone thinks you are one.
