PULSE POINTS
WHAT HAPPENED: Aggressive protests targeting Vice President J.D. Vance and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) frontman Elon Musk, featuring unflattering billboards and other imagery, were orchestrated by charities funded by the British government.
WHO WAS INVOLVED: J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Rainbow Migration, Hope Not Hate, the People vs Elon group, and the British government, particularly under the formerly governing Conservative (Tory) Party.
WHEN & WHERE: The protests and campaigns have been ongoing, with information on the charities the British government was involved with spanning from 2019 to 2024.
KEY QUOTE: “What on earth were the Conservative Party up to?” – Independent journalist Charlotte Gill.
IMPACT: The involvement of charities in political campaigns raises questions about their role and government affiliations.
IN FULL
Aggressive protests against Vice President J.D. Vance and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) frontman Elon Musk in the United Kingdom involved organizations directly linked to the British government. Independent journalist Charlotte Gill, building off research by Lewis Brackpool of the Restore Britain group, found that Rainbow Migration and Hope Not Hate, both part of a collective known as People vs Elon or Everyone Hates Elon, have received government advisory roles and funding.
“[T]he crucial thing to know here… is People vs Elon also goes by the name Everyone Hates Elon, and Everyone Hates Elon, if you go to its Instagram page, you will see it’s… behind all of the recent J.D. Vance nastiness,” Gill explained in a video posted to social media, referring to a billboard and poster campaign intended to harass the Vice President during a recent vacation in England’s Cotswolds.
Hope Not Hate, which claims to be an anti-fascist organization but spends much of its time doxxing and harassing people with popular right-leaning opinions, has a private wing funded by its charitable trust. Gill notes that this legally separate arm allows it to engage in political lobbying, despite its advisory role with the Home Office’s Counter Extremism Unit.
The involvement of the British government in propping up charities behind political campaigns against American political figures like Vance and Musk raises questions about the misuse of public funds for partisan politics. Gill stressed that much of the charities’ government links stem from the period when the Conservatives, rather than Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, were still in power.
“What on earth were the Conservative Party up to? It just shows what a complete mess the charity sector is that we have these organizations that have been really aggressive to the Vice President of the U.S. and they worked with a Conservative government,” she emphasized, adding, “You can’t make it up.”
President Donald J. Trump, speaking to Nigel Farage of the Reform Party—which is rapidly supplanting the Conservatives on the British right—observed in 2023, “[The Conservatives] really weren’t staying conservative… they were literally going far left. It never made sense.”
EXCLUSIVE: The Home Office, under the past Conservative government, worked with charities responsible for recent anti-Musk and anti-Vance protests
Thanks to @Lewis_Brackpool for his FOI which informed my research pic.twitter.com/2g3VfQkgje
— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) August 14, 2025
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