Charles Talbot has a topical Critic piece on the political duplicity behind agitation over donations to Reform UK. Not news to anyone paying attention, but the whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of how heavily the political dice are loaded.
Also a reminder that the Uniparty effectively buys voters with their own taxes, but we already know that too.
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The left’s outrage over Reform’s donors ignores where much more political money goes
Controversy surrounding Reform donations over the last few months, a story which has rolled intermittently but inexorably on, may finally have been upstaged in the media spotlight by two record-breaking donations of £36m each from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne. Both men have desire to help Nigel Farage achieve victory at the next general election...
Leave aside for a moment the generous donations to the Labour Party from unions, or the £4m they received from hedge fund Quadrature days after the election was called in July 2024. Or the fact that this amount is about on par with the amount of money used to contest the Michigan senate race. The criticisms miss a fundamental point. Political donations are not confined to the millions received by political parties fighting it out in the electoral arena. Far greater sums are pushed annually through the myriad charities which fight for political causes. These dwarf the annual income of political parties — and are deployed to advance no less ideological causes.
The left’s outrage over Reform’s donors ignores where much more political money goes
Controversy surrounding Reform donations over the last few months, a story which has rolled intermittently but inexorably on, may finally have been upstaged in the media spotlight by two record-breaking donations of £36m each from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne. Both men have desire to help Nigel Farage achieve victory at the next general election...
Leave aside for a moment the generous donations to the Labour Party from unions, or the £4m they received from hedge fund Quadrature days after the election was called in July 2024. Or the fact that this amount is about on par with the amount of money used to contest the Michigan senate race. The criticisms miss a fundamental point. Political donations are not confined to the millions received by political parties fighting it out in the electoral arena. Far greater sums are pushed annually through the myriad charities which fight for political causes. These dwarf the annual income of political parties — and are deployed to advance no less ideological causes.
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I'd abolish the policy of HMG "donating" my money to charities. In fact, so corrupt have many charities become I'd probably remove their tax advantages and tax them as companies. Come to think of it, we could do the same for trade unions (if they were allowed to exist at all.)
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