Reform UK won't confirm timing of £72m crypto donations as peers push donation caps
What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)
Dawny B22I genuinely don’t think they understand.
Stephen Kinsella11Can’t we just call them crypto fascists?
Gerri McGerriface7Does she not understand or is she being deliberately obtuse, just in case at some point, Labour get a donation from a crypto billionaire?
Peter Scott5But crypto billionaires have the moral compass that allows them to make money from the said drug dealers, money launderers and other dodgy actors
Soviet Mole5They're donations from Moscow, ultimately. Bit of washing, a dose of laundering, but it came from Moscow.
Ben Sowton4We’re run by idiots. Do try not think that all these billionaires talk to each other. This is an attempt to takeover the uk. They’ve got Russia and USA.
Two crypto billionaires give Reform £72million in one weekend… to create a “level playing field”… as a “philanthropic gift to the country” Or.. back in the real world… yet more brazen corruption and greed with a strong whiff of treasonous criminality. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Mark Clay6Fatgarage will find out, as Elon Musk has, that no amount of money will save him from being vastly loathed by all right-thinking people. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Antifa Collective5It's going the same way it happened in the US. Goverment is open for business. Just Pay 2 Play. We will look after you..
PWCoghlan3It's all ok, apparently Farage has promised that his filthy rich donors won't receive peerages or govt contracts once they've elected him as PM
David Nice3And the Mail on Sunday carries a feature by Farage on why this money is necessary to rule the country. Saw a man on a train from Norwich to Wymondham reading it. Made me mad for the rest of the day.
Livsbian 🌈2I was a staunch antifacist, but you should’ve seen Reform UK Ltd’s facilities! Like something from Dubai, it was all marble & fountains & free massages from some little Filipino lady… Anyway, I’m going out canvassing for them next week!
The Board — Geopolitical Analysis2Alpha drop: Most people are sleeping on this. Capital flight from unstable regions often flows into political influence in perceived safe havens. That kind of money movement can indirectly buoy crypto markets if tradi...
Scramble to stop Reform corrupting UK politics with vast amounts of foreign donations.
Simon S10The legislation has its second reading this week so it was already before Parliament and Reform would have known of its provisions when they accepted the donations. Not like Reform to do anything dodgy though is it...
michael-martin22.bsky.social8What hypocrites.I’m sure if the Labour government had received a similar amount of donations from a couple of crypto billionaires,RefUK would be up in arms over this.They hounded Angela Rayner out of office for a few thousand pounds and bitterly criticised Starmer over his free glasses.
Bright water6They should have listened more it was announced in March
PWCoghlan5In traditional omnibus measures, £72m would fund ~1700 NHS nursing posts for a year No doubt Mr Farage had this in mind as he forwarded his bank account details to his like-minded benefactors 🤔
Janey Llou (Jane to my friends)5Is this the same party that wants to retrospectively deport people?
Jan Manners5Burnham will kick the can down the road. Fortunate for Farage, unfortunate for us and democracy, I hope I’m wrong.
“Let’s distract attention from the investigations into our finances by having two whopping Crypto-based donations.” It’s not the most intelligent strategy to remove any doubt about their financial probity.
nickequipechasee #TuckFrump63I think the most interesting revelation of the Channel 4 film was that they are now entirely dependent on Foreign Donations, because no-one in the UK will donate to them (!) So foreign donations are now entirely routine to them, and the only difference with these two is their size.
Dan.G 🇬🇧🇪🇺3And just to ensure that its properly distracting, if they could arrange for one of these donations to be from a Crypto-bro that had been found Guilty of money laundering for sex trafikkers (its OK if Trump pardoned him), and the other one from the same person who 'gifted' Nigel £5m...
Exactly this. Yes. Crypto donations should be banned . But that would not prevent the donations in GBP from crypto billionaires.
Justin1It shouldn't matter where the money comes from. Thats like banning donations from lottery winners. The issue is the amount from a single person, and the distorting effect it can have on electoral outcomes.
Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪1I’m constantly amazed by the complete stupidity of politicians when it comes to anything IT or tech related. Fuxking children the lot of them.
“Trade unions, MPs and donors have urged the government to look again at party funding rules…Labour MPs have voiced anger on internal WhatsApps that the government did not act last week when the elections bill was in the Commons to restrict domestic donations” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Jarl Graham Kirk. Photo of me 19652Well that's really strange. Just as the UK government were debating restricting political donations 2 billionaires set up a way to ensure refuckyou, received 72 milion pounds before the discussion even happened. Wow! They must have been so scared to prompt it. I bet they wish they had waited now.
Mark Lawson2Good. I hope No.10 gets roasted over failure to act expediently on this and then fixes their mess. FFS
Pirate Redux19The solution is simple. Give each party a very modest election campaign fund from the public purse. Don't allow any funding outside election periods. Jail them if they don't account for all they spend or if they use any additional money.
James Robinson8This will sink Burnham i think
