Farage: millions are behind us (£9m donation from crypto investor)
The Guardian has reported on the latest data on donations to political parties
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has received a £9m donation from Christopher Harborne, a leading cryptocurrency, defence and aviation-fuel investor who previously bankrolled the Brexit party.
Reform is the only UK party that takes crypto donations and Farage has spoken up for Harborne before, hardly surprisingly given he has previously donated large sume to Farage’s various political projects.
While Reform likes to style itself as a party for the little man and woman, those left out or ignored by other parties (and indeed Farage has gathered quite large sums in supporters fees to the Reform political business of which he is boss) in reality the main funding for the operation is coming from millionaires
The German photomontager John Heartfield in a well known image made the same point about Hitler. Farage of course is not a new Hitler but the principle of far right parties gaining support from big business while gathering support from those who have little wealth remains an important one to grasp
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