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The Reform UK Party (latest nigel farage vehicle) is it to be laughed at or not

Musk wants to be a Bond villain and thinks the world really does work like that.

Does the Twitter or any of his other companies boards have the power to side line him at all?
I think he is majority shareholder (>50%) in twitter now so i doubt it. Not sure about tesla or space x though.
 
Musk is basically a child with no filter. Surely his only appeal can be the pots of cash he holds? Hopefully he can sabotage the right a little more before he fucks off.

Permanently online, rage posting at 3AM... But that's enough about me. Seriously though, he's just some angry middle aged tosser, posting shite all day and reacting to his own algorithmic toxified echo chamber. Very sad for anyone but for someone who could be doing pretty much anything else... A good advert for billionaires aren't geniuses however.
 
Yeah, I never believed that "$100m" figure, I forget where it first came up, but it was some nutjob outlet, like the Express, Mail or GB News, it seemed pure fantasy to me, in the back of my mind I thought at most it would be $1m, if anything.
Yeah, but who knows with Musk, it's all small change down the back of the sofa to him anyway. Subsequent circumstances suggest that the meeting with Farage and Candy might have included the offer but also the cost in terms of positioning. Seems like the refUKers were understandably keen to get out the news of the former and maybe hoped that the donor would somehow forget the fash turn bit?
 
Hilarious stuff, only seems a week ago that the Farage was meeting Musk and posing in front of a bizzare cricket themed picture of Trump and all the talk was about Musk spunking 100m bucks on reform - and Farage is giving it large about 2029 and him being PM. Then they have a row over little Tommy Robinson - Musk rates him, Farage has to be careful to not piss off the majority of his base vote, but also not scare the horses and piss off possible weak Tories from coming over - now him and musk are no longer mates - bye bye 100m (I doubt that was ever going to come), and Reform seem to be arguing with eachother, wrecking their dreams of being a credible party.

Lovely stuff.
 
Someone new for Musk to back, instead of Farage?

 
If Tim Montgomerie's comments on the C4News, just aired, are anything to go by, it sounds like the refUKers have definitely given up on the idea of getting any Musk money. Montgomerie went further in saying that he thought that the zero prospect of getting the cash actually represented them 'dodging the bullet" as, had they taken any, Musk's subsequent behaviour would have necessitated its return.
 
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Someone new for Musk to back, instead of Farage?


A criminal and alleged sex predator getting elected?

Not a chance!
 
Interesting bit of involved polling from 'More in Common' for LBC.


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Of course everything can easily change before the next GE, but an interesting snapshot ATM.

I'm all for kicking Starmer while he's down but polling that focusses on one party's voting like that without looking at any movement the other way is pretty poor practice (and probably questionably motivated).
 
Interesting bit of involved polling from 'More in Common' for LBC.


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Well LBC along with the rest of the media are certainly helping. They've just had him on again for a phone in.

Given that many disgruntled former Labour voters voted Green How many times do their leaders get invited on air....
 
I'm all for kicking Starmer while he's down but polling that focusses on one party's voting like that without looking at any movement the other way is pretty poor practice (and probably questionably motivated).

Considering both Farage and Tice have said they are now focusing on taking votes from Labour, because I am sure they know there's not going to be much or any more movement from Tory voters, it seems a perfectly reasonable thing to be looking at.
 
Someone new for Musk to back, instead of Farage?

For a man with a planet-sized brain, Tate doesn't seem to know how the political system works.
 
Considering both Farage and Tice have said they are now focusing on taking votes from Labour, because I am sure they know there's not going to be much or any more movement from Tory voters, it seems a perfectly reasonable thing to be looking at.

Well the point isn't that nobody should be looking at it it's that doing it in isolation is a partial (in both senses) and not particularly useful approach. Basing that on what Farage and Rice have said just emphasises it.
 
Someone new for Musk to back, instead of Farage?

Musk doesn't have a clue about UK Politics, Without Frog Lord, ReFUK is just a collection of drunken pub bores.
 
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