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

[Greyrock79]

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

I do think there should be a cap on individuals. But there isn't at present so I would be quite happy for Greyrock to take a hammer to his piggy bank and donate his money to Nige. But only if I get to watch his face when Reform don't win the next GE.

Do you want a cap on the amount given or would you try to exclude the unions so they alone can donate millions?

So, no objections, then?

Noted, thanks.

Leaving aside how creepy that comes across…

Ah, you see - that’s the nature of risk, something alien to socialists. Let’s say I do back Reform and they lose the next GE, you will not hear me moaning. Equally, if they were to win, I would not brook any moaning from socialists who failed to fund Labour.

Feel free to hide the thread or scroll on by.

Ps. There is another similar thread, evidently - feel free to jump on it.

I do think there should be a cap on individuals. As for excluding the unions, there are various organisations and companies which donate to parties across the political spectrum which wouldn't be subject to such a cap. So it is not just the unions. For example Tory donors like JCB and Homeserve would be able to continue to give millions.

But maybe there should be a cap on companies and organisations too.

What a non-story. Wouldn’t it make sense to focus on repeated and deliberate behaviour than penalise every single person who was late or didn’t turn up because of a cancelled bus or a sickness bug? Claimants provide digital evidence of job searching, turning up for an appointment is insufficient anyway.

Regardless of caps, Angela Rayner suggested yesterday that laws could be backdated to force reform to return recent donations. Likewise, TUC leader, Paul Nowak is pushing for legislation on donations, but says donations from the unions are okay.

Sounds very like double standards.

The proposals to backdate the legislation were in place before the donations to Reform were made.

@MelissaLovedMantari

The proposals to backdate the legislation were in place before the donations to Reform were made.

But only to 2025 (after Farage became an MP and Reform headed the polls). Why not further back?

It is. Rayner is typically Labour on this. Burnham did a puff piece recently on wanting wealth creators in the UK. Then Rayner does the usual and prefers to squash any competition even if it’s from residents here.

Hopefully Burnham had some faith in his own policies and won’t do as his predecessor would and pull a bill from the HoL in a panic.

No response @MelissaLovedMantari ?

@EasternStandard

It’s the backdating bit that I think is the most wrong. When governments can backdate laws in an attempt to block other parties, democracy has been lost.

Yes on principle we should all know what we’re doing is within the law. Not that it can change so it’s not afterwards. Ik some are keen for to party politics but if it was something else I doubt they’d like retrospective laws.

I feel sure posters can Google. I also feel sure that you would ridicule a non-expert's attempt at an explanation-I've seen you do exactly that to other posters. So I am not playing that game, ta very much.

Farage's unfavourability rating hits 10-year high, YouGov polling suggests

YouGov says this is the worst unfavourability rating it has recorded for Farage since it has been running this tracker.

This is post-conference but pre-donation

I just had a look at the YouGov figures:

69% of Britons now see Nigel Farage unfavourably, the highest recorded by our tracker to date, while 24% have a favourable opinion of the Reform UK leader

While an unchanged 46% of Britons see Andy Burnham favourably, the proportion viewing him unfavourably has risen six points to 39% in the last month

Britons tend to see Kemi Badenoch unfavourably, by 47% to 32%

Zack Polanski’s latest net favourability rating is -29, while Ed Davey’s is -8

27% of Britons have a positive opinion of Ed Miliband, up four points since July, though 52% hold an unfavourable opinion of him

@MelissaLovedMantari

I just think the donations are massive gaslighting. And panic - don't the two often go together? How intimidating for those women.

@MelissaLovedMantari

The most recent YouGov I can find is 7 Sep 2026. It listed both Labour and Reform on 23%

However, poll percentages can’t be used to forecast the outcome of a general election. 2024 was a good example,

Labour received fewer votes in 2024 compared to 2019, but increased their seats from 203 to 412.

If you look at the percentages:

Labour 34% of votes, but 63% of seats with 412

Reform 14% of vote, but less than 1% of seats with 5

@MelissaLovedMantari
@Warmlight1

If polls are accurate, why bother with general elections at all?

Burnham’s honeymoon numbers are fading, as expected.

I would suggest the reason they havent fallen more quickly is simply because - beyond tinkering with bus fares - he hasn’t actually done anything.

That might change post-budget….

What will crapto billionaires want from crooked Nige then?

Having checked out reform policies and seen the economic and cultural disaster Farage inflicted on us through Brexit I can honestly say hell would freeze over before I voted for him and his party. They cannot run a tea party let alone a government. A load of them were voted into Cornwall council at the last locals and they could not stop the in fighting, the refusal to talk about anything but “the boats” and a load either left or had to resign due to some murky past. The whole party is full of racists, weirdos and conmen. We are now led by a Lib Dem.

First thing to go will be women’s rights, then workers rights and minimum wage, then privatising NHS through the back door, public services and welfare state decimation and isolation from EU, Trump style politics along with corruption at the top. I am confident enough in the UK don’t want that to vote tactically to stop him getting in. Farage is out for enriching himself, his crony donors and billionaires. No thanks.

The 7/9/26 you gov poll was the only one of 10 polls that week which didn't have Labour ahead of Reform

It was an outlier

Polls and elections are two entirely different species. Polls are just a snapshot of how the electorate is feeling at a particular point in time, not a prediction of the outcome of a future GE.