The UK Government is exploring a cap on political donations to limit foreign influence and prevent billionaires like Elon Musk from buying politicians, usurping democracy. #spookyconnections
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'May' as in depends how much is on offer.
dec 10, 2024, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile us politicians want all the $ with no traceability..sounds wrong, but what do I know?
dec 10, 2024, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Necessary
dec 10, 2024, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Such a dangerous person.
dec 11, 2024, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Smart move.
dec 11, 2024, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Do it !! The US was bought by billionaires. Our election was NOT a mandate or a landslide. It was the lack of voters coming out to vote and billionaires and doctors having something to hold over Trump and basically buy the Presidency. The US needs to change laws but of course that won't happen now
dec 10, 2024, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Corporations should be forbidden from making any political contributions. There should be a small cap, and it should be for individuals only. Government is supposed to protect us from faceless, heartless corporations. Not be in bed with them. Identify the enemy. End the oligarchy.
dec 10, 2024, 1:19 pm • 38 4 • view
We Had Law Preventing That But In 2012 Corporations We Crying Crocodile Tears Saying Corporations Are Peoples To And Got The Law Removed
dec 11, 2024, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
End Citizen's United.
dec 11, 2024, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) will not be pleased.
dec 10, 2024, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Should do!✌️
dec 10, 2024, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
dec 10, 2024, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Citizens united doomed us.
dec 10, 2024, 2:45 pm • 6 0 • view
Corporations are not people. Corporations are RUN by people. Only people need a voice. It’s a double vote by allowing corporations
dec 10, 2024, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Yet in 2017s General Election there was US involvement in the Blairite coup against Jeremy Corbyn. And in 2019 General Election held similar claims of US interference to prevent Corbyn from becoming PM. Corbyn didn’t like the war crimes in Palestine. How interesting.
dec 10, 2024, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the direction to go. Saw Australia is looking into it also. Been saying for about a decade lobbyists are the dumbest thing in government.
dec 10, 2024, 1:49 pm • 5 0 • view
What about AIPAC
dec 10, 2024, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok, and the punishment will be what? And by whom?Don’t we have a “cap”?
dec 10, 2024, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Every time I read a post where the word “donations” is used to refer to high amounts of money going to politicians, I will insist that the correct word is INVESTMENTS
dec 10, 2024, 1:21 pm • 8 0 • view
Or "purchases."
dec 10, 2024, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Investment is definitely not the right word for what it actually is: a bribe.
dec 11, 2024, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m being lenient.
dec 11, 2024, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I am not sure foreign donations are permitted under current regs: news.sky.com/story/what-a...
dec 10, 2024, 3:55 pm • 0 0 • view
May cap or will cap … what about wages to seating MP or ministers like GB News for political influence ?
dec 10, 2024, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
We did it in Canada!
dec 10, 2024, 4:50 pm • 2 0 • view
How about no foreign political donations?
dec 10, 2024, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Anything to get that guy below minimum wage.
dec 11, 2024, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
God I hope the UK can pull this together and do what we were not able to. I'm afraid it's too late for us in the US.
dec 10, 2024, 1:18 pm • 11 0 • view
Gee, wish we would get the memo 😔 I think next... I turn my attention to an amendment for money in politics, lets go #burnnieSanders #wethepeople
dec 10, 2024, 1:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Finally, Elon does a good thing.
dec 10, 2024, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
And ban ugly hats too
dec 10, 2024, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Too little to late for America💔
dec 10, 2024, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The spoils of Citizens United are felt now in the USA. UK would be wise to protect their elections.
dec 10, 2024, 3:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Do it!
dec 10, 2024, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
"So far fascists are losing big time here at the Freedom Bowl. Team Freedom has two touchdowns so far...one in South Korea and one in Syria while Fascism has only scored a field goal in America. Judges still arguing about that last call..."
dec 10, 2024, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't thin just common sense? Musk spent $277 million—that we know about—to get Trump elected. Musk's net worth since the election has risen several billion dollars—and that's before Trump's next round of tax cuts for billionaires. You can't have a democracy if oligarchs can buy presidencies.
dec 15, 2024, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view