Andrew Tate, the controversial misogynist, has announced his intention to enter UK politics. While his political ambitions are likely a publicity stunt, they raise concerns about the growing influence of online trolls in mainstream politics.
The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one,” the comedian Billy Connolly once said. Never has this been truer. There was a time when unapologetic narcissists and sociopaths thrived on the fringe of society, but now they seem to be moving into the mainstream. Andrew Tate , the self-styled misogynist, has announced his intention to enter UK politics - and unfortunately, when it comes to influence, we can’t just laugh him off.
Tate and his brother, Tristan, are currently facing several charges, including forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering. As the convicted felon and Donald Trump has demonstrated, you can get away with absolutely anything as long as you’re powerful enough. There is no better get-out-of-jail-free card than being the guy in charge of the jails. Tate’s political ambitions are about as nuanced and developed as you’d expect from a man who boasts about choking women and has said he dates teenagers aged 18 to 19 because he can “control” them. Not only does Tate not know how to spell Britain, he also doesn’t seem to realise that, unlike the US presidency, you can’t actually run for prime minister. Nevertheless, his acolytes have cheered him on and Tate has launched a political party called Britain Restoring Underlying Values (Bruv) that promises to “restore pride to a nation under siege”. I use the term “party” loosely: Tate doesn’t appear to have done all the paperwork to officially register Bruv as a political party and one imagines this will probably go no further than being a hastily put together X account. It’s about as close to being a serious entity as my own soon-to-launch political party: Britain Rejects Oligarchs, or Bro. While Bruv is obviously a publicity stunt, it’s important not to write off Tate’s political ambitions as meaningless attention-seeking. It’s highly unlikely that Tate will ever be prime minister, sure, but trolls like him already have an oversized role in politics, and their influence seems only to be growing. Indeed, it seems probable that the reason Tate was suddenly so inspired by the electoral system is that Elon Musk, patron saint of Extremely Online men with giant chips on their shoulders, has become obsessed with meddling in British politics. When he’s not tweeting about whether the US should “liberate” the UK from its “tyrannical government” under Keir Starmer, the South African-born billionaire is now publicly declaring his support for various right-wing candidates in the UK. At first it seemed as if Musk – who clearly fancies himself a kingmaker after his success bankrolling Trump’s campaign – was keen on Nigel Farage to head the UK. Now the pair have fallen out and Musk has declared Farage “; earlier this year Musk made headlines by calling for Robinson’s release from jail. I wouldn’t be surprised if Tate’s Bruv party is just a desperate attempt to get Musk’s attention and replace Robinson in the tech mogul’s affections. While Musk has retweeted Tate before, it’s not clear how well the two men know each other. But the lowlife clearly has American friends in high places. Tate has boasted that he’s spoken to Alina Habba – who is Trump’s lawyer and incoming counsellor to the president – on rightwing podcast The Benny Show, Habba gushed about what a big fan she is of Tate. Once upon a time the idea that an extremist such as Tate might have some sort of meaningful influence on politics would be laughable; now it seems a lot less of a joke.
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