Farage receives second £36m donation in two days for Reform

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Farage receives second £36m donation in two days.

Reform’s biggest donor Christopher Harborne matched record donation given on Friday by fellow cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo

Let’s hope it gets used to remove Labour.

Interesting. How pull you feel if Burnham was handed 36 million by a Thai based billionaire? Or, do you only condone obvious corruption when it has a chance of meeting your end goal?

F must have a huge back pocket. Will it all be used to try to Reform us?

It really doesn’t help that crypto billionaires are all so dodgy.

I doubt it.

I would much rather a Labour government than one with Farage anywhere near it.

It isn't particularly shocking that ultra-rich craptomillionnaires want to give large sums of money to a corrupt leader who has no doubt promised them a massive return on their investment if he manages to dupe the people into electing him.

What is astonishing is that our political system allows such enormous donations from any individual to any party. Nobody should be able to buy influence on this scale, regardless of who they are or who they are influencing.

Why do these Crypto Billionaires want to give so much money to Reform? What about the party or their politics appeals to them so much?

We should ban calling crypto people ‘businessmen’. They have no business. They make nothing, sell nothing, create nothing.

They are a cancer, nothing more. It’s no surprise who they back, the party of self interest, personal enrichment and corruption.

This is going to be a difficult topic to discuss if we can't say the C word without being censored

Getting like the US isn't it? Want to be President?, well pay for me.

Oh, you can’t say the c word. That’s why so many posts are hidden.

Anyway, I was asking what these cancerous cxxxxxo people actually do? They manufacture nothing, employ no one but butlers, build nothing but monuments to themselves.

They are not business people. They are gamblers who want to be emperors.

No surprise who they favour politically.

Give your head a wobble! You don’t seriously think a Reform govt. will be interested in doing anything useful for the ordinary British person?

It’s pretty obvious they’ll be focusing on making their foreign donors/wealthy pals even richer. And they can only get rich at the expense of the poor.

Can you afford private education and healthcare?
If Reform gets in, you’ll end up forking out hundreds of
£££ just to see your GP.

Is that what you really want to see happen?

It is concerning. But legal, so not much that can be done about it.

Hopefully the British electorate will prove that they can't be bought.

What C word? The c you next Tuesday one? I thought that was allowed, or is there another word out there that's banned.

Cr*pto

Proper propaganda x

There should be a limit, a per donor total. I was looking at the rules of our neighbour Ireland, and by golly are they strict! But I think it was all tightened up there after some corrupt corporate donations in the past. I'm sure there are similar rules in other sane countries! Why UK lags behind I don't know.

There has been talk of capping donations previously but nobody has actually done it. Too late now!

So donations from unions are okay? I was part of a union and was horrified that part of my sub was going to support Liebour.
There are so many dodgy subs to ‘NGOs’ that also slip under the radar.
This is out and proud - clearly donated honestly within the rules - lefty grubby organisations…not so much…

What do you think the donor wants in return? A peerage maybe? Or is he just being philanthropic?

Was it the unions that didn’t want to cap it when it was suggested before

I think I'd like parties to be centrally funded. Hear me out.... base it on a per vote limit based on the last General Election results. So if you get 20 million votes for Labour, that's what you get £20million at £1 per head. Or something like that. No corporate/union or personal donations allowed.

Ah it's just a wild thought and I know it's probably fraught with more negatives than I think!

OK, throw the brickbats at me, I'd be interested to hear other alternatives!

A peerage "costs" a lot less than £36m, so I'm guessing they both want a lot more than that.

This is all about deregulation of crapto.

Yes, indeed. Scary times x

Imagine having a government fully owned by two foreign based crapto billionaires? But, he's claiming not to be part of the establishment? Righto