Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://news.sky.com/story/reform-given-72m-by-two-donors-in-record-breaking-haul-13584780

Reform UK’s two biggest donors have each handed the party a record-breaking £36m

The figure is more than the total received by all UK political parties last year…

British cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo said he was making his £36m donation to create “a level playing field” with other parties - and ensure that Reform is given a “fair fight” at the polls in the next general election. Fellow crypto entrepreneur Christopher Harborne swiftly followed suit on Saturday, netting Reform UK £72m in the space of two days.

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Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Do people voting Reform ever wonder why the ultra rich put all their money behind Reform and Restore?

Do they not see that if the group of people who hoard all of the wealth to the detriment of voters, its probably so they can hoard more wealth, therefore making their conditions worse?

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- thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Sole of the Reform supporters I’ve come across see it as a sign of success. They see more donations to “their team” as positive regardless of where the money comes from or what strings are attached to it.
  
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- Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Their worldview is defined by cognitive dissonance. Logic doesn’t work on them.
  
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  - horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I think this is a dangerous view to hold. It feels nice to tarnish them like this but it leaves open the risk of never actually allowing us to understand their motives.
    
    A large swathe of the media did this with Brexit, and those dragons were never put back into their cage.
    
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- horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I think they do see it, but they see themselves as realists; some of them see it as refreshing that the corruption of democracy is out in the open rather than being hidden.
  
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- sirico@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  But until it’s too late, they get to feel a semblance of power and control in their insecure fear led lives…
  
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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Do people voting Reform ever wonder
  
  Nope, not about anything. I’ve talked to them, they haven’t got a clue how anything in government works, but they believe Farage when he tells them that they should be angry about it.
  
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stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They are very well funded for an “upstart” “insurgent” party fighting the “establishment”.

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phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How the fuck is that even remotely legal?

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It isn’t. It’s extremely illegal, it was already pretty bad and this is made it way way worse. It’s just no one’s going to do anything about it because they’re scared of reform.
  
  Apparently there is a police investigation into reform, I doubted it will result in any arrests, but you never know.
  
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  - geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Well Ben Delo used to be imprisoned until Trump pardoned him so the lines between MAGA and Reform are pretty clear. And as usual nothing of legal consequences will ever happen against the far right. They’ll get Justice Johnson on the case to declare Farage innocent and call it a witch hunt afterwards.
    
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