Thread 5 Burnham: Be More Dolly (Title edited by MNHQ at the request of the OP)

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The HoL 2nd reading of the Representaion of the People Bill is scheduled for Monday 14 Sept.

Because they are thick as pigshit.

When I looked into crpto in (checks notes) 2011, one of the "features" that was noted was that a crpto based economy would allow differential values of the same currency.

The way it was explained to me at a conference was

"You get paid in employment pounds. But you can't spend those. You can only buy spending pounds. From the government. With the exchange rate being 'tax'. Which now becomes pretty much unavoidable in any way."

A future Farage and (Only)fans are probably hastening in.

Keen non-dim people may be hearing "truck acts" in the background.

You cant buy class

Or success.

I presume the donors are sure that Farage will be leading or if donated to Reform that anyone else in charge takes the same stance.

They seem to be doing everything possible to deter anyone with a moral compass from voting for them.

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080

Further details on the bill.

MN is their recruiting ground

Also confident he isn't scamming everyone as had been suggested by ex party members!

Or is this the new form of tax evasion? Party donations should definitely be taxed.

Not even that, but surely their fan base are the ex military, non-working less educated male. Since when have they as a group thought "those billionaires must have my best interests at heart, they fled the country, don't pay tax, acquire wealth via dubious means and are also supporting the person I am voting for - must be all round good geezers, caring about 'lil old me!"

That is a good question.

If Farage, for example, was to be found guilty of a criminal offence and the party collapsed how much would Reform have to pay back? Maybe nothing as it is chump change to these men, I suppose.

Yes, I see our favourite (not) multi-banned poster is back again, trumpeting Reform.

Money given that's already paid tax cannot be taxed again.

The question is has the money been taxed at source.

Also not putting all his eggs in one basket - there's a long list of who he has 'helped' in the past Ben Habib, Rupert Lowe, Badenoch, Gove, Yaxley-Lennon, Munira Mirza, Clare Fox etc etc

This is a long detailed investigation from 6 months ago!

Revealed: a crypto billionaire’s political base hosting ‘anti-woke’ and rightwing activists in Westminster | Politics | The Guardian

Protecting women and children by directing abuse at their women & children’s spokeswoman!’

searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/orla-minihane-leaves-restore-blaming-culture-of-misogyny-and-abuse/

My previous post was hidden because it had the forbidden word craptocurrency in the link but has now appeared

It is all pretty scary and rather sickening. We are powerless against all this ☹️.

Relax! MNHQ have reassured us that mumsnet is safe from all this crap unlike virtually everywhere else

Power lies with voter enfranchisement.

Oh yes, of course!

@placemats but somehow it doesn't feel enough in the face of this.

Which will sadly shrink down any profitability from being a resource for parents.

But as one door closes, another one opens

(you get the idea)

'Formums sounds like a scary new school app. Very right wing.

More immediate issues for UK is the Middle East - petrol prices are bound to shoot up https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62m933465eo and Houthis now emboldened. How much to we bet Trump will not mention any of this or help out?

Thank you.

Don't worry. The US will protect them.

Pleased to announce the Portsmouth protest went peacefully from both sides.

Very few masks and those who wore them removed them on request.

Nice to see democracy and the right to free speech being shown correctly - although clearly I was only supporting one side! (SUTR).

I wasn’t there.