Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations

"Move on, nothing to see here" luv from Nige.

From what I have seen so far it was very well organised, police obviously trawl social media, but this time it seems they were caught unaware, for the numbers involved it is quite alarming.

The net is closing.

Nah, it's a move to obfuscate the question of who is responsible for ensuring electoral integrity and MP's standards.

Worked well for Boris's ABBA party.

Spaffer forced to resign, after much wriggling.

Name a political party that hasn't accepted dodgy / tainted money in exchange for influence / favours / titles.

Reform Uk

Wasn't on social media as it wasn't declared,... Hence the series of investigations.

Somewhat ironic how crypto was designed to be anonymous and allow people to trade freely away from the prying eye of the state, yet a crypto billionaire cant find a way to slip a politician a few million quid without everyone in the country knowing about it

complete myth that crypto was designed to be anonymous.

It's a public blockchain, every bitcoin transaction from the year dot is there to see on thousands, maybe  millions of computers.

If you want your bitcoin to be anonymous you have to 'wash' it in much the same way as any fiat currency.

Most of the actual hard, "caught red handed" evidence that the pertinent donations in question broke money laundering laws comes from Bitcoins blockchain.

The evidence is irrefutable, the only way out is to obfusecate who is responsible for holding him to account.

Somewhat ironic they called it crypto which quite literally means to hide

Ben Delo has donated £36m to the Reform Party.

Cue the lefty outrage ....

A crook, pardoned by Trump. Who'd have thought it?

Surely donations should only come from UK residents who pay tax on all their income.

What next? China sponsoring Restore?

Wrong un

A ridiculous analogy Nobby. 

On that basis, do you therefore think Ben Delo should not be giving away his fortune to good causes as per the following ?

Philanthropy
In 2020, he co-founded the Sheila Coates Foundation, which supports students with autism in Britain.[3] In 2025, he funded the Ben Delo Fellowship at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences.[17] In 2026, he gave £25 million to his autism charity the Sheila Coates Foundation,[18][19] and pledged an additional £20 million to the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences.[19]

He has pledged to give most of his fortune away in his lifetime, so why shouldn't he support a political party ? As he has said , he just wants Reform to be on a level playing field with the big established parties, who obviously are petrified of such a prospect.

Nobby slipped up about Piddington.. thread removed .. cats arse

Reform are Newcastle
With out the restrictions
The handbrake is now off
And that rug that was pulled is now been put back in place

yep

BBC 5B v Reform 60M, hardly a fair fight.

The media are shamelessly determined to stop Reform, as they were to stop Brexit.
Let's hope they fail again.

Lol, the refuk party voted on first two readings of bill, where the wording was clear.

Trying to trigger thickies again,...

At least one dutiful as ever

Trying to trigger thickies again,...

At least one dutiful as ever



Yup, thanks for signing in donny

Do you think it might be Napoleon syndrome, to add to all the others? Lol.

2 and one of those on repeat trying to make sense of
his brain washings,the other an idiot.

Donny's trying to come to terms with his footy team not being able to spend the money they have in order to compete, due to the regulations favouring the cartel of clubs at the top who already have a "locked in" advantage.

Which is rather ironic given Reform are now potentially facing the same kind of problem

Lol, idiot fantasising about living my life again.

Fo, donny, lol.

Ah his little friend, how sweet.

No brainwashing to project today, lol.

It's Ok for Labours to Receive Millions from the Unions , The rancid  left Included  , 2 Business men    want to donate to Reform ,  not acceptable

Terrified of NIGE

Terrified of CORRUPTION

Terrified of change. We'll take more of the same punishment please. Thank you sir.

Meanwhile tice apologises to house for failure to declare his little trip to
Israel before speaking in debate on Israel

Can the change you want only be acheived by corruption?

Has increased corruption ever been beneficial to a country's population?

Surely its time to carry out Checks on all union Members making Donations , Wonder if there are any Wrong uns among them ?

take a bit of time to do , But needed IMO

Only need to take a look at Dale Vince to spot a Labour donating wrong un.

Yep be plenty more in the rank and file ,  they need to prove they are worthy of Donating ,IMO, Labour wouldn't want Terrorist supporting types Donating Funds , would they ?

Reform need to bring this to the fore  , who knows what Groups or Individuals are hiding under the Union Cloak > hope Mr Burnham has Money to carry out all these checks ?

It's workers, out of their wages, so very easily checked but yep check all them online
donations to refuk plc, crypto from Russia
sneaking in to disrupt UK.

The nonce bonnet wearing crypto fascists need their donations checked too.

Cheapskate Social club tight Wad .. Bingo night

Another bit of fantasy where you project your feelings onto the forum.

Take a chill pill, crack open a jar of caviar and wesh it doon with a wodka

Vlads payin

I have worked in a factory which was a closed shop. I had to agree to a deduction from my wages in favour of the union. No doubt they and the Labour party would call it a donation, I call it extortion.

This is becoming like the new proportional representation for the left. 

When the Greens split the left and reform were topping the polls it was we don't like FPTP and it should be reformed.

Now Reform are getting the big donations it's unfair lets cap it.

The Employment Act 1990 made all forms of closed shops illegal across the UK.

The hypocrisy of Labour and their acolytes laid bare for all to see.

They want to pull up the donations drawbridge now that Reform are going to benefit from a huge funding boost.

But since 2000, Labour have received £135m alone from just three unions .  They also received £4m from an offshore hedge fund in 2024.
Massive double standards, but only what one has come to expect from this cowardly bunch in government, who are basically "merde effraye" of Reform.

Dale Vince, who chucked £5m to Labour a couple of years ago to "help level up the playing field", now thinks all such donations should be banned for all parties.
Shame you were not saying that in 2024 Mr Vince. No more levelling up allowed for the likes of Reform then eh ?

Commie Filth bearded bookreading  Collaborators

The questions remains the same “why did foreign crypto lads donate to reform “
Reform were caught out proposing crypto
Sensible answers please
I think it strange

If reform say we think crypto is way forward in future then that’s grand but make that your”e policy and donations from crypto lads will help us do that.
Nobody has any problem with that but I think it’s strange, but in fairness I know very little about it, I won’t be buying a greyhound in crypto next year.
Thankfully

They want to pull up the donations drawbridge now that Reform are going to benefit from a huge funding boost.



Err, no, the pretend donations came months after the law making process was set in motion.

And the investigations into farage continue.


Refuk trying to go against the will of the people.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville is Labour's largest ongoing donor, giving over £21 million since 2010, with 53% to Labour and 47% to the Liberal Democrats, including a single £8 million donation to the Lib Dems in 2019. In 2026 alone he donated £1.32 million to Labour (Co-op), placing him in the top 5% of donors by total value

What's clear from the "anti-establishment" party supporters on here is:

A) They want to keep the establishment status quo of cash for questions/peerages/Vip Lanes/contracts.

B) They say Uni-Parties are corrupt, so it's ok for "our" party to be corrupt.


Reform UK? But lets not change anything.

Yea those NHS ppe frocks that didn't have ties at the back were a disgrace.

The issue is 2 individuals donating £36m EACH.

What is their reciprocal expectations ?

Donny, the fact remains that Labour want to backdate a law that isn't even in place yet.
To their advantage. Voters will see through this.

How are Reform "going against the will of the people" ?

Escapee proving once and for all that he is anything but the "unbiased" contributor he tries to paint himself as.

Facts - Reform have already made it clear that there will be no "reciprocal" advantages for these donors. No peerages like some Labour benefactors get.
Delo certainly isn't on the make - he has given chunks of his fortune away to charities and good causes and is on record as saying he will carry on doing so.

The £72 million donation is just to seize the narrative and divert it away from the original topic of this thread...

A crime of money laundering regarding a £1million gift has been committed, there is a "bang to rights" evidential paper trail showing the law was broken and who broke it.

And now the crime has been forgotten.

Happy days for clacton man.

The narrative has been moved from specific illegal money laundering to legal but questionable 'donations'

the fact remains that Labour want to backdate a law

Fairly standard to be able to start laws on date legislation was brought to Parliament.

No backdating beyond that day.

Why did refuk wait so long to try to counter the law, that was in effect already in place given Labour majority

Easy for idiots to not understand.

But the legislation isn't in place yet is it ? Senior Labour figures are trying to amend and strengthen it, to the detriment of their opponents.

If they try to stymie other parties in such a manner it will come back to bite them in the future when a right wing government gets back in.

Reply removed, lol

When a bill is started with action to take effect from
date it is brought to Parliament then this is clearly
stated in the bill.

Anybody seeking to circumvent the bill by acting in advance
of it passing into law will find the bill applies to their actions.

Pretending they don't understand this just makes
them look silly,...

As for threatening what a right wing party might do..
Well that's as good a reason as any to not vote for
them...

Parliament is sovereign, and can pass whatever laws
it wants. Scary to think what abuse of power might
bring.

Well we have been and are seeing some of your last sentence with the current government.


"As for threatening what a right wing party might do..
Well that's as good a reason as any to not vote for
them..."

And the same is true with Labour, only there's no might do, they are actually doing such things. So every reason not to vote them in again.

It would be tit for tat, if the left try to stymie the opposition when they are in power, then why should they not expect the same if the right win the next election ?

Lol, you threatened what a far right government would do, and compare to legitimate legislation

You really are deranged, having celebrated
the donations before you understood the law.

Whoops

The Durham Dunce is at it again.

How on earth can i "threaten" anything you halfwit

I never celebrated the donation, just pointed out how the left would react and BINGO !

How can one "understand" a law that isn't even in place yet ?

If there's a night school near you that teaches English comprehension then i would suggest that you enrol.

If they try to stymie other parties in such a manner it will come back to bite them in the future when a right wing government gets back in.

Idiot

How can one "understand" a law that isn't even in place yet ?

By reading it. By following the debate.

By listing to others who do understand

Idiot

I never celebrated the donation, j

Lol, idiot

If there's a night school near you that teaches English comprehension then i would suggest that you enrol.

I've no need for night school, lol, is that what you dunces attend

Do you ever have an original line to come out with ? 

Donny the Plagiarist has a nice ring to it, almost as apt as the Durham Dunce 

The previous point stands - how can I actually threaten anything ? I am not a politician or even a member of a political party.

A plagarist for quoting your post to show what my reply refers to

Lol, this must be your most idiotic rant yet.

- how can I actually threaten anything ?

You doesnt have to mean you will do it yourself
you can threaten what others will do

If your English was a bit better you wouldn't need to be
laughed at as often.

The irony of your third sentence after the mangling of the English language in your second one is priceless

Night school beckons for Donny the Plagiarist (you couldn't even spell that word correctly in your previous post ).

The Durham Dunce moniker really is richly deserved.

Lol, so you are lowered to finding typos

Idiot

Sentence 2 makes perfect sense,

Try spending more on "night classes" not lol

Sentence 2 does NOT make sense, as it is devoid of any punctuation

They might teach you how to use commas and apostrophes, as well as the correct application of speech marks if you enrol for classes.

Lol, idiot.

No punctuation, after, err, punctuation.

Idiot.

I'd be claiming a refund for your "night classes", still not lol.

Your original sentence was ;

You doesnt have to mean you will do it yourself
you can threaten what others will do

It should have read as follows  ; 


"You" doesn't have to mean you will do it yourself, you can threaten what others will do.

HTH

Hurray, an hour but you got there

Idiot

Some of us do have other things to occupy our time, unlike the illiterate among us 

Next time you need a bit of schooling, please do let me know.

Lol, you spent enough time on it to prove how thick you are, well done.

How did " night classes" go, not lol.

Accusing me of plagiarism when quoting your post was my favourite bit of thickness.

A special kind of thick.

You haven't got the wit, nous or vocabulary to even insult others effectively.

Just accept it.

Lol, you insult yourself with every post

I don't need to, plagiarism for quoting your posts, lol

I think that's called proving my point.

Much obliged.

Lol, you can claim whatever you want but
accusing me of plagiarism for quoting your
posts shows how thick you are, so simple claims, unsubstantiated, except in your own
mind are little things pleasing little minds.

Great that it's a stand you want to take on
a thread about refuk corruption. Stopping the thread falling down the pile.

We still havnt forgotten, nor that you didnt
understand how the law worked.

Err, lol.

Jeez you are tiresome, constantly regurgitating the same old guff. No originality at all, just typing "lol" and idiot" time after time after time. How sad.

If you can't c & p from the Guardian or X you are devoid of anything new to say.

Cue another pointless response with his favourite words .....

It's funny though, innit,

Plagiarism because I quoted which bits of your rant I was replying to, prime thickness



Sorry you find it tiresome, but, lol, not lol.

I'll keep reminding you