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US billionaire endorses Reform UK leader after Mar-a-Lago meeting with party treasurer Nick Candy

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago

Will somebody please rid me of this troublesome ~~priest?~~ Billionaire...

FFS he's a walking advertisement for how abhorrent it is to have that much power in the form of wealth.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Billionaires are a plague. Plagues don't respect borders.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Parasites on society

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Neither do doctors, damn Doctors Without Borders! We need to do something about this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Treat the plague as we should then

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

As a US citizen, Mr Musk cannot legally donate to a UK political party, but he could give Reform money via the British branch of X.

I'm sorry I fail to see how that's any different. If he had talked to the head of Xitter's UK branch sure, but he went to Florida and talked to Elon Musk. This is foreign interference in broad daylight no matter how that money arrives now. It could be anonymously dropped from a plane with God Love The King printed on the side and it would be obvious.

The UK should make it absolutely clear this is unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Where's a mangioni when you need him?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

normal and totally not undermining democracy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

That musk creature is pure cancer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hate to jump on the ever popular CEO and billionaire hate train around here, but fuck me. He just bought America and now he's aiming for Britain?!

Assholes like Musk always eat it in the end, but damn I hate the wait.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

fuck they are spreading like cancer. thanks I guess

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

He's a Commonwealth creation.

You have no one to blame but yourselves... And the Dutch. And Adam Smith.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We should treat them like the cancer they are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Like American treatment or first world treatment?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't it be funny if Trump proved to be untrustworthy on this and never actually pay up, bankrupting Farage in the process?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Lock em up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Well he needs it after all.