Reform UK’s two biggest donors have each handed the party a record-breaking £36m.

The figure is more than the total received by all UK political parties last year.

British cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo said he was making his £36m donation to create “a level playing field” with other parties - and ensure that Reform is given a “fair fight” at the polls in the next general election. Fellow crypto entrepreneur Christopher Harborne swiftly followed suit on Saturday, netting Reform UK £72m in the space of two days.

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    15 days ago

    It has been proved over and over, UK and overseas, that the non-millionaires/not wealthy people voting for right wing populists (MAGA, Reform, AfD, RN) are doing so for emotional not logical reasons. You can’t argue people out of a position they didnt use logic to get to.

    This implies that everyone else used logic to arrive at their points of view. I don’t believe this is true for the most part. I think it is almost impossible to make a logical political choice given the complexity of the world we inhabit.

    To argue that your position is grounded in logic whilst the ‘other’ group is ground in emotion is an ego-inflating fantasy. People most often make decisions based on emotional reasons and then use logic to post-hoc justify them.

    We are all closer to reform voters than we would like to believe.