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I guess Reform won't be getting a $100m donation any time soon...
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This is as inappropriate as his other comments. He needs to be ignored - what relevance does he have?
It's top class trolling, obviously. Probably the most successful he's done, because normally he is a pretty average shitposter.
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hahaha
it'll be fun seeing how low farage will now kowtow to his prospective owner
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It's a joke, but no laughing matter. Musk could quite easily buy out Reform. Reform say what the public want to hear and the public vote Reform into power. Musk has control of the UK. Unlikely, but entirely impossible? Hmmm.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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uk politicians/parties accepting foreign money and gifts (i.e. bribes) should've been made a criminal offence (both to give and to receive) long ago
perhaps the threat of even greater foreign interference in uk politics will provide the impetus, though those benefiting from it to date would have to finally remove their snouts from the trough
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Musk must have seen how Farage leaving was the making of UKIP...oh wait.
It screams to me that Musk hasn't paid sufficient attention to British politics if he thinks anyone else in the reform fold would be doing a better job.
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musk bought his way into trump's circle of panderers, but he's not maga, and he knows trump can and will discard him like a used condom whenever it suits him
with reform, he can own it, farage will have to kiss musk's pallid spotty arse, or he'll be out
for now he's just cracking the whip, watch farage get back in line
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Farage would just start a new Party. The guy is an arsehole but he is the attraction to most who are inclined to vote for a Party with those sorts of policies.
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has he got policies?
from what i've read, i avoid listening to farage due to the nausea, they spout performative nonsense, the media are either too adoring or too scared to call them out, any competent interviewer should be eviscerating farage, imagine paxman of old, he'd gut him like a fish
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Surely musk can only own reform with the permission of reform's largest shareholder...
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money talks, even more so when x's owner decides what can/can't be said on his platform, and unfortunately people listen to the fucker
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I don't see how that could happen unless Musk either buys a majority shareholding in Reform from Farage or makes a substantial donation to Reform with strings attached, neither of which seem at all likely now.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
So long as Farage has his slots on GB news and his hotline to the Question Time bookings team, I think he'll feel like Twitter isn't the key communication method it once was. Especially as more and more people defect to BlueSky.
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Twitter seems to be the medium that has got the BBC jumping to GB News' tune.
Institutions need to work out what twitter is now. It's like a brand that Mike Ashley takes over and there's a residual memory of what quality it used to possess.
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x carries on having more influence than it probably merits, especially with the far right who think free speech only applies to themselves
musk will carry on playing his games, there's no downside for him
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Can't work out in Farage refusing to allow Yaxley-Lennon to be associated with Reform is an actual moral choice or that he is worried he would get upstaged. I suspect the latter. Musk seems to have become more and more emboldened to show his true far right leanings recently and his expansion of interference in Western politics is doing nothing to help my personal conspiracy theories about him.
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This could go in any number of threads now, but it really does intrigue me how long government agencies can justify staying on X, given its owner's current stance.
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I really don't think Farage is that concerned about being upstaged by a coked up Tommy 10 names, it's just that having someone who is largely seen as a racist thug would be a waste, when Farage's dog whistle politics already ensure he has lots of that vote.
With Reform, Farage has worked out that almost every other politician who would campaign with him is just a massive liability, so has set up the party accounting for that.
If musk was to finance reform and swap Farage out for Robinson, I think it would be the political equivalent of buying Barcelona, sacking all the players, and replacing them with a selection of part time Rugby players.
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i think farage will sniff the money, grovel to musk, and thenceforth abstain from any criticism of the blotchy one
farage is interested in benefitting himself, not the uk
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I have no doubt that Farage is only in it for himself and is fundamentally a grifter. However, I'm not sure he's up for agreeing that he isn't the right person to lead Reform, and Reform are better off without Musks money than with Musks money but having Tommy Robinson in a prominent position.
I imagine Farage has his fingers crossed for Musk and Trump falling out now though.
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The more obvious point is that SYL is in prison because he's an idiot and will be staying there however much Elmo stamps his feet. Farage might be a lot of things but he's not stupid.
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