Is changing donation laws for Reform retrospectively unfair or politically justified?

Good to know. You can listen via headphones but ok.

No, I don't listen to the morning radio. I commute by train.

It’s not. You’ve all focused on nonsense about quoting radio interviews. The point is there’s a gap between representation of Delo and his huge amount of giving to good causes.

Reform could burn through the money and still not win anyway.

In case it takes a while for my post with a link to the Bylines Times to be unhidden

🔴 Reform UK Could Pocket Nearly £500,000 in Interest if They Are Forced to Return £72 Million Cypto Billionaire Donations

Exclusive: Electoral Commission confirms interest earned on impermissible gifts can be kept, prompting calls for Nigel Farage to hand any proceeds to charity

If the donations have to be returned, Reform would be entitled to keep the interest earned on it.

That is quite a win win situation

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/reform-uk-could-pocket-nearly-500000-in-interest-if-they-are-forced-to-return-72-million-crypto-billionaire-donations/

As said you’ve already decided without listening, so yes that’s this isn’t surprising.

Well no. Do people not listen to the morning radio? Just turn stuff on and Reynolds or whoever will be doing the rounds.

If you’ve missed it use playback from the day they did the rounds, which you can check. But probably two days ago I don’t keep a diary on it.

I have no particular interest in hearing it, it would be much more efficient if you would just tell us what was said and by whom. As you are clearly unwilling to do this, we can only draw our own conclusions.

And my conclusion is that you made a vague allegation (that Labour have tried to "position Delo as the worst"), then realised when challenged that you couldn't back it up with any hard evidence.

Well indeed.

I refer us to my earlier comment that there is a palpable desperation in the attempts to distract us onto ANYTHING rather than actually discuss the central facts.

Viz that two crapto-billionaires are donating a record-breaking amount of money to a party which has stated that if it gets into power it will introduce crapto-billionaire-friendly legislation.

And that the crapto-billionaires in question are so keen for this party to be in power that they say they are actually moving to the UK in order to donate this money (however temporarily).

You sound very keen to hear it. There’s playback for exactly that.

But I’m genuinely not sure how saying “you can’t donate an unprecedentedly large amount to a political party, and neither can any other billionaires who don’t reside in the UK” is driving him away. The legislation isn’t targeting him specifically, it will apply equally to all political parties.

And as a PP has suggested, if he is recently returned to reside in the UK - which seems to be what he and Reform are suggesting - then surely it is under a Labour government that he has been attracted back?!

Well, you've said that he has now relocated to the UK and plans to stay here, so it doesn't seem the Labour government has driven him away. Quite the contrary, in fact.

As for the radio thing, I understand that you're telling us to listen to it because that's all you've got. You don't want to tell us what was actually said (even though you claim to know) and you don't want to tell us who said it. I think we both know that you would be very quick to share quotes if there was anything concrete to actually back up your argument.

So, it seems that we have now established beyond reasonable doubt that there was no actual substance to your earlier assertion that Labour have been seeking to "position Delo as the worst". Perhaps we can get back to the rest of the discussion now?

But you could say something like - "it's on Politics with Joe Bloggs, Times Radio, here's the link to the episode"

I’m not writing up radio interviews, it’s not even possible. You’ll need to turn on what you want to listen to instead.

You’ll have to listen instead. Besides what it prompted was looking up Delo and I can see an Oxbridge first, maths and finance success who wants to give away millions to universities and maths education is a big gap to Labour’s lines.

I want people here who give millions to maths education, and £25m to a charity he founded to help dc with autism. I’d prefer it if politicians welcomed them rather than drive them away.

Blimey.

"Ask AI to invent something from scraping dodgy internet content" is certainly a step up from "Google it because although I know all the details I'm not going to provide a link."

Doesn't look at all evasive!

You edited your post after I had started typing my response.

As things stand, there is nothing of substance to dismiss. No quotes, no details, not even the name of the mysterious political analyst. It isn't so much that I have dismissed it, it is rather that you have failed to present your case.

So you know the phrasing but you don't want to share it, and you don't even want to tell us who the "political analyst" was?

Perhaps if you could provide at least a little bit more detail, we could ask AI for exact quotes. I've given AI the details that you've provided and it isn't coming up with anything that matches your description.

If you have a point, please make it, rather than sending us off on wild goose chases to listen to random unidentified radio commentary from unnamed political analysts.

If you aren't willing to provide the detail, then I will assume that that's because you know that the evidence doesn't actually stack up.

Upthread you said that you didn’t have time
to link a PP to the specific commentaries you mentioned.

It seems like you’ve spent a lot more time responding subsequently than you would have spent just posting the links.

Reminds me of when my kids spent 20 minutes arguing why they didn’t want to do a 10 minute spelling homework.

Yes I know the phrasing, quoting a day or so later isn’t going to be a transcript for you. You’ll need to listen to get what you want to know.

You sound as if you’ve dismissed it already though.

OK. So you don't actually remember the phrasing that Reynolds used, the name of the political analyst or what she actually said?

And yes, I listen to the radio daily, and I listen to a lot of political analysts, but if I was going to quote one in a political discussion, I would always name them as they are not usually politically neutral. It's ok if you can't remember/don't want to say.

So was the political commentator Kate Andrews?

Well yes I can’t pull a radio transcript out of the air. You’ll need to listen.

Do you listen to the radio btw they often have a regular political analyst covering politics. Times has politics, finance, sport etc regulars.

No one wants to pay more tax, but if that's what is needed that is what is needed.

Just drawing attention to the seemingly deliberate vagueness in your post.

So are you now going to tell us who this mysterious "political analyst" was, what she said and what specific phrasing of Reynolds she was commenting on?