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

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Greyrock79 · 12/09/2026 13:47

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

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dwordle · 12/09/2026 23:28

CheerfulBunny · 12/09/2026 23:26

This. 100%. I wish people would get it into their thick heads. 'Uncle Nige' doesn't give a shit about you. He's harvesting you for his rich mates. He wouldn't pee on you if you were on fire.
I fear we are monumentally screwed. I don't want to live in a fascist country and I'm honestly scared. I can't imagine how frightening it must be to be not white (or in any way different - for want of a better phrase)

Which is why I've kept my European passport and a house in my home country....I'm off if they win. Britain will sink under Reform...I guarantee that...

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 12/09/2026 23:30

KeepPumping · 12/09/2026 23:10

Reform are not far right though, and if they join forces with the Tories (stronger leader now more connection with the public) and Restore (more leaning towards actual far right and more palatable to certain voters who want hard line policies) tactical voting for some daft independent character dressed as a bin or a flower pot won"t stop them.

Whether Reform is far right or not is a matter of opinion, and it also depends on your definition of "Far Right". From my perspective, and from the perspective of millions of others, they are most definitely far right. You may have a different opinion.

The potential for pacts between the Tories and Reform would certainly make me hesitant to vote Tory in order to keep Reform out, but like I said, sometimes you have to pick the lesser of two evils.

As for whether voting for a bin could stop the far right? Well, I guess that depends on how many people prefer bins to Farage, I guess. I'll take the bin any day.

dwordle · 12/09/2026 23:33

You have just had 20 years of the Tories and they were an utter disaster. Honestly people are like gold fish... can't remember yesterday.

All the problems we have now are thanks to the Tories. Do you think the Tories would even consider nationalising anything, do you think they would give those who rent rights, build council houses, save British Steel....

Grow up

caringcarer · 12/09/2026 23:47

Cardhey · 12/09/2026 13:47

Let’s hope it gets used to remove Labour.

🤞👏👏👏👏

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 12/09/2026 23:56

KeepPumping · 12/09/2026 23:16

The point is that Farage taps a very deep vein in UK politics, the issues of Brexit and immigration are more important to many voters than old party loyalties and the notion that he is some sort of passing threat that can be neutralised just by voting for random independents is fantasy.

Thank you for clarifying.

I agree that old party loyalties are no longer relevant. However, the majority of the population now recognise that Brexit was a mistake, and the proportion of the electorate that would contemplate voting Reform is much smaller than the proportion that voted leave.

Also, Farage may well have an ability to connect with a certain section of the electorate, but don't underestimate the strength of the feeling against him amongst other sections of the electorate. There will be many people who are deeply committed to keeping Reform out.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 13/09/2026 00:02

Livelovebehappy · 12/09/2026 22:42

Agree. I can’t understand why people aren’t aware that there’s clearly a lot of dodgy donations to all parties. The main parties are just better at disguising them as they’ve had longer to practice. Clearly though there’s been a recent ramped up effort to dig dirt on Reform.

Do feel free to report your evidence to the police.

KeepPumping · 13/09/2026 00:10

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 12/09/2026 23:56

Thank you for clarifying.

I agree that old party loyalties are no longer relevant. However, the majority of the population now recognise that Brexit was a mistake, and the proportion of the electorate that would contemplate voting Reform is much smaller than the proportion that voted leave.

Also, Farage may well have an ability to connect with a certain section of the electorate, but don't underestimate the strength of the feeling against him amongst other sections of the electorate. There will be many people who are deeply committed to keeping Reform out.

The majority of the population are not affected by Brexit at all in their day to day lives.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 13/09/2026 00:24

KeepPumping · 13/09/2026 00:10

The majority of the population are not affected by Brexit at all in their day to day lives.

I profoundly disagree that most people aren't affected by Brexit. We are all deeply affected by it. But it's quite telling that you don't realise this.

Regardless, the majority of the electorate do now recognise that Brexit was a mistake.

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 05:17

Switchnow · 12/09/2026 22:11

Why would I go now?

Because, the UK is going to deteriorate further until Labour is out.

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Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 05:18

dwordle · 12/09/2026 23:33

You have just had 20 years of the Tories and they were an utter disaster. Honestly people are like gold fish... can't remember yesterday.

All the problems we have now are thanks to the Tories. Do you think the Tories would even consider nationalising anything, do you think they would give those who rent rights, build council houses, save British Steel....

Grow up

Twenty years?

Labour would have been an utter disaster during the pandemic, and clearly didn’t know which side of Brexit they were on.

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Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 05:20

dwordle · 12/09/2026 23:27

You can opt out it's totally democratic. Unions are the most democratic organisations in the country. When you join it gives you the option to use part of your subs for political donations.

Labour are the only party that represent working people, they are the party that gave you the rights you have today. The party that gave you access to healthcare, free milk in schools, school dinners, paid holidays, sick pay, state pension, maternity pay, right to challenge unfair dismissal.....

People need to read some history before they start demonising the labour party...

Labour are the only party that represent working people,

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Burnedbyquestions · 13/09/2026 05:51

If the cxxx billionaires have endless pots of cash it will end up that they can buy votes like the current US President has just announced.

if you were offered £5k to vote for anyone at all would you? Or £10k? They’d only need to do it once to dismantle democracy from the inside. Every decision maker paid whatever they need to ignore their principles if they even had any.

And then what? AI used for everything. Intelligent robots installed everywhere. Drones flying everywhere as they’re out doing “deliveries”/ surveillance.

Think how much Google knows about you already - do you feel confident that all of that is out there somewhere attached to your phone data, home address, Face ID, Ring doorbells know if you’re home. Your phones know where you and your kids are at all times. They have the content of every search you’ve made and and message sent - they will know who you vote for.

How safe do you feel with all of that data controlled by Reform and friends - Trump, AfD in Germany, Russia, China, Iran etc etc?

BIossomtoes · 13/09/2026 05:58

Livelovebehappy · 12/09/2026 22:48

Not enough will. You’ll never get someone who has been a life long Labour supporter voting Tory, and vice versa. A floating voter might - someone who has in the past voted either/or, but there’s not enough of them who will make it count.

Oh you will. The best bet where I live to keep Reform out is a Tory vote so I’ll hold my nose. If I’m prepared to do it there will be many other lifelong Labour voters who will.

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 06:03

BIossomtoes · 13/09/2026 05:58

Oh you will. The best bet where I live to keep Reform out is a Tory vote so I’ll hold my nose. If I’m prepared to do it there will be many other lifelong Labour voters who will.

Ca marche.

Reform will keep a Conservative government firmly to the right.

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summater · 13/09/2026 06:56

dwordle · 12/09/2026 23:27

You can opt out it's totally democratic. Unions are the most democratic organisations in the country. When you join it gives you the option to use part of your subs for political donations.

Labour are the only party that represent working people, they are the party that gave you the rights you have today. The party that gave you access to healthcare, free milk in schools, school dinners, paid holidays, sick pay, state pension, maternity pay, right to challenge unfair dismissal.....

People need to read some history before they start demonising the labour party...

They were the party for the working people years ago, they certainly aren't now.

Scenicgirl · 13/09/2026 07:00

howshouldibehave · 12/09/2026 13:55

I doubt it.

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

Good grief I can't believe that there are still people who would willingly vote Labour in again. How much more damage do they have to do to ruin this country?

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 07:14

Scenicgirl · 13/09/2026 07:00

Good grief I can't believe that there are still people who would willingly vote Labour in again. How much more damage do they have to do to ruin this country?

My guess is that the remaining Labour supporters despise the Conservatives and Reform so much, they would rather see the UK burn.

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concertinacornflake · 13/09/2026 07:18

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 06:03

Ca marche.

Reform will keep a Conservative government firmly to the right.

How do you foresee the Conservatives becoming the government on a 20% vote share? They have ruled out a coalition - do you anticipate a confidence and supply arrangement?

BIossomtoes · 13/09/2026 07:22

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 07:14

My guess is that the remaining Labour supporters despise the Conservatives and Reform so much, they would rather see the UK burn.

Despite several posts saying that isn’t the case. Do you always ignore evidence that doesn’t suit you?

concertinacornflake · 13/09/2026 07:28

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 07:14

My guess is that the remaining Labour supporters despise the Conservatives and Reform so much, they would rather see the UK burn.

This post makes no sense.

concertinacornflake · 13/09/2026 07:35

summater · 13/09/2026 06:56

They were the party for the working people years ago, they certainly aren't now.

When you say 'working people' who precisely do you mean?

Clearly people in unions are working people, and still choose to send their political support to Labour.

MadellineBellPictureMeGoneNS · 13/09/2026 07:40

Ashmol · 12/09/2026 13:54

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

His back pocket has had to accommodate Putin,Trump,first £5million guy and now these two.
His back pocket will be getting a thourgh ..ahem..rifling for those amounts of money.

Scenicgirl · 13/09/2026 07:41

Greyrock79 · 13/09/2026 07:14

My guess is that the remaining Labour supporters despise the Conservatives and Reform so much, they would rather see the UK burn.

So if they felt that way they wouldn't vote for anyone?
Sounds like you agree that Labour are ruining the UK.

MelissaLovedMantari · 13/09/2026 08:06

KeepPumping · 12/09/2026 22:07

Charged with what? There will be a long line of political types lining up to be charged if that happens.

Charged with breaching the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. He could go to jail if found guilty.

Warmlight1 · 13/09/2026 08:07

@Greyrock79 See I disagree there. In the pandemic Labour for example would have known already what people's jobs were- IE who were key workers-: a pre requisite for governing a country. The conservatives didn't know this and were not therefore in a position to organise anyone. Staggering isn't it, given they like reform continuously tell people public sector jobs are superfluous. . They actually didn't know what the jobs were. And probably most of them still don't.

Also Labour would have realised that you can't tell families that one parent only can access their children for an indeterminate period.
Conservatives actually tried to do that. I won't even speculate as to how on earth they ended up with that.
Then they had parties.
Labour would not have had parties in Downing Street. Because the unions represent an additional layer of accountability to ordinary people. There is just simply more of a connection.

So when we look at Reform we see pretty much that cohort of politicians and that type of thing. And they keep confirming it- assault on women is laudable, etc, and the funders find on that basis we know those sort of idiotic events are what we can expect.

So we don't vote for them

Labour funders - that's most people in unions - are explicitly anti assault on women and wouldn't support Downing Street parties when people were grieving

So more likely to vote for them