Musk could donate $100 million to Reform

[Fraidycat]

Twitter/X has a UK Ltd company, which can legally donate money to UK political parties.

Musk has pretty much unlimited funds, he handed out $10 million like candy to people who signed his petition last month.
And Musk openly admits he has plans to save Britain, by helping elect a Reform government in 2029

[NickFitz]

Given that Reform is a company and not a political party, I assume they'd have to pay Corp Tax on it?

[mgrover]

On the one hand I'd instantly vote for any party that nukes IR35 and IHT.

On the other hand Reform ain't it.

[malvolio]

Wasn't Musk complaining loudly about foreign interference in the USA presidential elections...?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Wasn't Musk complaining loudly about foreign interference in the USA presidential elections...?

Oh it's all ok when he does it. Allegedly. Lottery about apparently. .

Cue the Spitting Image "I've never met a nice south african".

[NotAllThere]

Oh it's all ok when he does it. Allegedly. Lottery about apparently. .

Cue the Spitting Image "I've never met a nice south african".

Every South African I've ever met has been perfectly pleasant. I've never met Musk, but a friend of mine was at the same school and says he was a git then.

I'm not entirely convinced that simply spending 100 million would get Reform into power. Unless it's to bribe people to stand and bribe people to vote.

[jamesbrown]

Pesky British voters may not like that sort of thing

[Fraidycat]

Pesky British voters may not like that sort of thing

By 2029, Labour will have destroyed economic growth just like the Tories did, probably by even more by the looks of things, while Musk and Trump will have record growth in the US.

By 2029 British voters will be begging Elon for help.

[WTFH]

BOFP calculation:
47,000,000 total voters (approx)
BUF got 4,013,000 votes (approx)

If Elon tries to bribe the rest of us, that's only $2.33 each.

It's going to take significantly more than that for anyone with a brain, a sense of morals and a desire for a better society to switch to the grifters.

As for the graph posted by Mr Goebbels above, it shows how well the US economy did under Biden, compared to how badly the UK did under Johnson, Truss and Sunak.
That might make anyone think twice before posting it as evidence that facism is good for the economy.

[vetran]

BOFP calculation:
47,000,000 total voters (approx)
BUF got 4,013,000 votes (approx)

If Elon tries to bribe the rest of us, that's only $2.33 each.

It's going to take significantly more than that for anyone with a brain, a sense of morals and a desire for a better society to switch to the grifters.

As for the graph posted by Mr Goebbels above, it shows how well the US economy did under Biden, compared to how badly the UK did under Johnson, Truss and Sunak.
That might make anyone think twice before posting it as evidence that facism is good for the economy.

It seems plenty will vote for reform now

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/nigel-fa...urable-opinion

https://www.markpack.org.uk/155623/v...oll-scorecard/

Currently they are third party by votes. Maybe by next election so many of New Liars 2.0 will have been found out?

Trump was 2017 -2021 so the start of that climb was on Donnie's watch. The shorter blip was him. Maybe joe was too busy niffing hair to crash the economy or maybe he isn't as good a non economist as our Rachel?