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Elon Musk thinking about donating $100 million to Nigel Farage and ReformUK

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Please do it! This would be awesome if it happened! :LOL:
 
They just had an election. They only have elections every FIVE YEARS.

A fool and his money are soon parted.
 
Well, his father was a Nazi after all.
 
PoS said:
Please do it! This would be awesome if it happened! :LOL:
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Why do you think this would be "awesome" exactly? Partisan politics aside (unless, of course, that is your only reasoning), why would it ever be a good thing for a wealthy foreigner to pour money in to a minor party and intentionally disrupt a democratic political system?
 
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LOL thanks for proving how clueless you are on how the UK government works. :ROFLMAO:

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Won't happen with Labour having 402 seats, that's a supermajority. And even if there were, Reform UK is one of the parties that loses big on the UK fptp system. They got third most votes last time, but only 4 seats, ending up with less seats than the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and SNP.
 
joluoto said:
Won't happen with Labour having 402 seats, that's a supermajority. And even if there were, Reform UK is one of the parties that loses big on the UK fptp system. They got third most votes last time, but only 4 seats, ending up with less seats than the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and SNP.
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And it's safe to say that 99% of the Reform voters who voted in the 2011 referendum to replace fptp with an AV system voted against it.
 
Sven Karma said:
And it's safe to say that 99% of the Reform voters who voted in the 2011 referendum to replace fptp with an AV system voted against it.
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To be fair, I don't think AV would really help Reform. Quite a few would not rank them as their second or even third choice.
 
joluoto said:
To be fair, I don't think AV would really help Reform. Quite a few would not rank them as their second or even third choice.
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mmm I'm not so optimistic about that. This is the electorate that voted shedloads of UKIP muppets into the European Parliament under a non-fptp system.
 
Oh good, Musk is backing Farage. One of the lunatics that orchestrated Brexit that ended up costing UK trade both imports and exports, the loss of tens of thousands of jobs across multiple sectors impacting everything from agriculture to transportation to manufacturing to even finance and banking, GDP growth well below comparable EU nations ever since, awkward inflation spikes for no other reason than terrible fiscal and trade policy attempts, and a sinking monetary value against the international basket of currencies.

By all means, put those idiots back in charge... :rolleyes:
 
Sven Karma said:
mmm I'm not so optimistic about that. This is the electorate that voted shedloads of UKIP muppets into the European Parliament under a non-fptp system.
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But wasn't that proportional. AV is not proportional. Under a proportional system Reform would be third largest in Parliament.
 
joluoto said:
But wasn't that proportional. AV is not proportional. Under a proportional system Reform would be third largest in Parliament.
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Sure, but even under AV I imagine UKIP would still have had a shedload of Euro Parl't seats.
 
PoS said:


Please do it! This would be awesome if it happened! :LOL:
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Why yes, it would be 'awesome' in a Boris Johnson '£60 million spaffed up the wall' way.
 
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The rules about political donations in the UK are pretty strict and I doubt he'd be allowed to give a party that sort of money.
That's more than the ruling Labour Party will spend in many, many years as we have spending limits for politics.
 
Peter said:
The rules about political donations in the UK are pretty strict and I doubt he'd be allowed to give a party that sort of money.
That's more than the ruling Labour Party will spend in many, many years as we have spending limits for politics.
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That's certainly a point, though in his asperger's way Musk is probably just saying aloud what the oligarchs have been doing for years, since they're always telling us the rules are being tightened etc but between institutional incompetence and legal fudge who knows.

The per capita party election expenditure in the US compared to anywhere else is (like all the gun things) super sized.
 
zincwarrior said:
Putin didn't need to invade Ukraine, just buy the politicians like Musk has done.
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To be fair, he did try that with Viktor Yanukovych; it didn't quite work out.

Also, this sort of thing is de facto political corruption out in the open (though I don't believe Elon will be able to do exactly what he wants); it's wild that this sort of thing has become largely normalized.
 
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