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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] 53 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] ceenote 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Valmond 10 points 3 weeks ago

Parasites on society

[–] stupidcasey 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] teamevil 2 points 3 weeks ago

Treat the plague as we should then

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

normal and totally not undermining democracy

[–] shalafi 12 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Lennny 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

That musk creature is pure cancer.

[–] captainlezbian 9 points 3 weeks ago

Where's a mangioni when you need him?

[–] Maggoty 8 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] iAvicenna 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

fuck they are spreading like cancer. thanks I guess

[–] cabron_offsets 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We should treat them like the cancer they are.

[–] iAvicenna 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Like American treatment or first world treatment?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

He's a Commonwealth creation.

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

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

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

[–] uebquauntbez 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lock em up!