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Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by RubberDuck@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Electoral Commission, the political finance watchdog, last week repeated its demand to link donations to the UK profits of the companies used to make them. Farage immediately pounced on the comments, describing the Electoral Commission as “establishment stooges” and suggested that the main parties were fearful of Reform’s rise.

That seems like a sensible idea. I'm assuming it hurts both Labour & Conservatives too though, hence why they're not pursuing it.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine looking at what billionaire money is doing to America right now and thinking, "yeah, we'll have some of that". It's blatantly a bad idea.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen how much money the American political grifters make? Of course the UK grifters want some of that too

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago

Have you seen how much money the American political grifters make?

Enough to fund a bunch of healthcare I imagine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_in_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election

Democrats, alone, raised $1 billion to lose. 😬