I'm not sure if it's entertaining or a little frightening to watch the weight being thrown around by Elon Musk in the political arena. Not just in the United States, but also right now in the United Kingdom where, in addition to slagging off Keir Starmer, he was looking likely to throw a large amount of money at Nigel Farage's political party Reform UK. 

In fact, the news around the budding bromance between Musk and Farage has been hard to keep up with. Farage recently described Musk as a hero for buying Twitter back - saying that whether we like everything he says or not, "he's a hero." He also said Musk made him look cool to younger voters. 

Not so cool now - with Musk posting on X that Farage "doesn't have what it takes" to lead Reform UK. He hasn't explained his reasons, but maybe we can assume that it's because Farage doesn't want anything to do with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who is currently serving a prison sentence for contempt of court. 

It's worth noting with some of Musk's focus falls on fertile ground in his criticism of governments for failing to address the issue of grooming gangs - an issue also honed in on by far-right groups in the UK, including Robinson - who he has ridiculously described as a political prisoner. But it seems his support for Tommy Robinson was a step too far for Nigel Farage.

So, it is looking like with Musk it's a case of - you are either all in or you're out - the change in the potential financial fortunes of Reform UK happening within hours of Farage, in an interview with the BBC, describing Musk as a friend. 

They say a week is a long time in politics, but perhaps when it comes to relationships with Elon Musk, maybe a single day can feel even longer. 

All this has got to raise your curiosity as to how long the friendship with Donald Trump will last with Trump publicly promising Musk a role in his administration. Plenty of people are surprised the relationship has even made it this far. 

The bigger question is how comfortable any of us are with someone like Musk, with his immense wealth, wielding - or attempting to wield - power through money. Not that this is a new concept - money talks and always has. 

As we've seen, Musk has also been wading into German politics, endorsing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, sections of which have been described as right-win extremist. Oh great... just what we need - a far-right German government!

Musk has recently had a crack at the German Chancellor on X, tweeting "Chancellor Oaf Schitz or whatever his name will lose". Scholz's response was to simply say "don't feed the troll".

Problem is, Musk the troll has plenty of his own fuel to add to the fire, whether he is fed or not. 

You might remember a while ago; Elon Musk was telling us how we should be trying to make Mars habitable. He once claimed that in 30 years, there could be a million people living on the red planet. These days, I wouldn't mind betting there is an ever-increasing number of people hoping he'll be one of the first to make the trip, and I'd probably be one of them. 

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