AIBU to question why crypto investors are heavily funding Reform?

I went and looked it up and it was quite interesting!

Here are some of their donors:
💰 Mark Constantine
Co-founder of Lush (900+ stores globally)
Est. net worth: £250m–£350m
💰 Antony Gormley
Internationally renowned sculptor (Angel of the North)
Est. net worth: £40m+
💰 Julian Dunkerton
Founder of Superdry (global fashion brand)
Est. net worth: £375m+
💰 Matthew Oakeshott
Investment manager & property firm chairman
Est. net worth: £25m+
💰 Sigrid Rausing
Tetra Pak heiress
Family wealth: £12.5bn
💰 Vivienne Westwood
Late founder of global fashion brand
Former donor (est. net worth ~£40m at time of death)
Corporate donors:
💰 Lush Retail Ltd
Global cosmetics company
£800m+ turnover
💰 Ecotricity Ltd
Major UK energy supplier
£500m+ revenue
💰 Adam Management Holdings
Property investment firm
Multi-million pound assets

All donors will have a vested interest in the political party they are giving the money to. The real question is who are funding the Greens?!

Agree

Do you not see that the unions are currently actually exercising the undue influence over government policy that they have bought with their millions. The c donors have not.

One of those has happened and is actually happening.

The other hasn't happened

Do you not see the cognitive dissonance in arguing that £22 million over several years from the Unions is a massive vested interest that buys excessive influence, while at the same time arguing that more than 3x that amount in one lump sum from a couple of extremely wealthy private individuals with a vested interest in one industry is completely fine?!

FWIW I want to see a donation cap, even if it does affect the Unions. I’ve seen a cap of £1 million put forward and I think that seems sensible.

I agree. Of course there's a comparison to be made. The unions gave £22million to Labour since 2023. Thats a lot of money to threaten to withdraw. And obviously theres also the threat of strikes.

It may be 10p per individual. But those 10ps are concentrated into a vast sum under the control of often militant union barons. If you are capping donations you need to do it for everyone and that includes the unions.

Union funding and affiliation is a huge conflict of interest for Labour as they make decisions based on special interests and union pressure that aren't in the national interest. Eg pay rises we can't afford.

Oh Nevermind my first comment is back

This is so weird I responded to this with a one word comment of said c word followed by a question mark and it got deleted straight away. What on earth is wrong with saying cry*?

Crypto?

I absolutely do compare. Vested interests making donations to a political party with the hope that the party that supports their interests gets into/remains in power. It doesn't matter if it's made of thousands of small donations collected from their group or one large one from an individual, the intention is the same.

I genuinely think our democracy would be much, much better if more people were like you and voted for policies not personalities, but unfortunately, all the research shows that in UK elections, people’s opinions of the leader have a massive influence on how they vote. And I do think Nigel Farage’s falling popularity is a problem for Reform, right now.

Im more endeared by a political leader who has the policies I agree with couldn't give a f if they spend time raising money for a charity or drink down the pub in their spare time.

And your evidence for that statement is?

The tax man is scary. And relentless. I wouldn't be so glib about the repercussions of tax evasion, Farty!

That's nonsense.
Sixty of the UK's wealthiest individuals (each earning over £50 million annually) contributed more than £3 billion in income tax in 2021/22 (from a BBC report)

What about your bingo? bingo! etc

Bingo happens from Labour too.

I was cynical when my dad told me about communist agitators at his union meetings in the 70's, thirty years later I read 'spycatcher' which said the security services were well aware of it as a cold war strategy to weaken the west. The disruptive strikes were a manifestation of that.
More recently, certain unions political actions have not been in tune with all their members interests and have been disruptive & destabilising.

MSM wants you to believe that but I really can"t see the Tories or Restore doing well TBH. Last news cycle it was the Greens who were going to wipe the floor with Reform, now it is just back to any old thing but Farage that is going to do well. All B.S, same as the B.S on the media before Brexit.

Surprised at the timing, he doesn"t look that fit, will he give 15% of his speaking fees to charity was the question though, maybe he will, he is probably not a bad bloke really, I just don"t think he should be running the country and neither did his party until recently.

This! My first thought ....