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Bring it on Elon!

(535 Posts)
FriedGreenTomatoes2 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:10:59

The world’s most successful business man wants to support Reform. The Tories and Labour will be bricking it.

JudyBloom Tue 17-Dec-24 19:14:20

This is brilliant news!

Fleurpepper Tue 17-Dec-24 19:16:30

Sheer provocation from FGT2- how very unpleasant.

Surely no political Party should be allowed to run as a PLC and not be fully accountable.

And foreign interference, via large (massive) donations from abroad should be illegal and stopped.

Democracy is 'bricking' it (what a disgusting term).

Fleurpepper Tue 17-Dec-24 19:17:39

So we should notbe part of a coalition which makes common rules together (the EU with us at top table)- but totalsell out to the USA, Trump and Musk = brilliant news.

Bizarre and sick.

LizzieDrip Tue 17-Dec-24 19:19:19

Would you like Reform to win the next election and therefore form the next government? If so, could you tell me how Reform would make life better for the UK population? Genuinely interested!

LizzieDrip Tue 17-Dec-24 19:20:01

To FGT and Judybloom

Septimia Tue 17-Dec-24 19:21:13

I'm with you Fleurpepper. Our government shouldn't - mustn't - be run by foreign businessmen.

GrannyGravy13 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:24:34

Septimia

I'm with you Fleurpepper. Our government shouldn't - mustn't - be run by foreign businessmen.

Keir Starmer - Bill Gates..

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:29:09

And whilst Kemi gives her unwanted views on sandwiches and Starmer sucks up to the EU , Farage is talking to the grown ups.

LizzieDrip Tue 17-Dec-24 19:32:26

FGT what will Farage & Reform do to improve the UK?

Dickens Tue 17-Dec-24 19:32:29

Between 1946 and 2000, the US has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections.

... what could possibly go wrong for Democracy?

Fleurpepper Tue 17-Dec-24 19:36:38

Grown ups - oh sure!

Whomever- how can it be legal to run a political Party as PLCand take massive donations from non UK donors?

Smileless2012 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:39:43

I don't think this is good news either and I don't think that someone starting a thread should be accused of sheer provocation and being very unpleasant, just because their opinions aren't shared by others.

Nonnato2 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:39:52

Excellent news!👏👏

Fleurpepper Tue 17-Dec-24 19:41:09

Smileless2012

I don't think this is good news either and I don't think that someone starting a thread should be accused of sheer provocation and being very unpleasant, just because their opinions aren't shared by others.

using the words 'bricking it' is hardly conducive to fair and pleasant debate, is it?

Fleurpepper Tue 17-Dec-24 19:43:01

Opinions that differ- or just the end of democracy as we know it.

Just leave you to it- just can't be asked anymore (and yes, this is how I spell it).

Nonnato2 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:45:27

Fleurpepper

Opinions that differ- or just the end of democracy as we know it.

Just leave you to it- just can't be asked anymore (and yes, this is how I spell it).

👋👋👋

Louella12 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:45:41

Sheer provocation from FGT2- how very unpleasant.

What?

A valid thread is provocative? This is not fake news. It's true. Farage is meeting Musk at Mar-a-Lago.

And if people want to support him then that's ok.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:47:26

Me. 😁😁😁

imaround Tue 17-Dec-24 19:48:14

You do not want Elon wrapped up in your politics, trust me.

Signed, more than half of the US

Farzanah Tue 17-Dec-24 19:50:10

What happened to democracy. I fear we are slipping down a black hole.

Smileless2012 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:51:11

It's a valid thread Fleurpepper and is always much better to play the ball not the man and TBH, I'm getting fed up with the personal insults on GN directed at posters whose opinions are not agreed with.

petra Tue 17-Dec-24 19:53:43

I couldn’t care less one way or the other 🤷‍♀️ But at least we know who we are dealing with.
What concerns me more is the fact that no concerns have been raised in parliament over the illicit flow of Russian money pouring into the uk.
£100 million is small Change compared to the above.

Smileless2012 Tue 17-Dec-24 19:55:41

Well yes petra 'better the devil you know' springs to mind.

flappergirl Tue 17-Dec-24 19:57:28

FGT and JudyBloom, be careful what you wish for. Just saying.