Reform UK has received a total of £72m from crypto billionaires over two days, but Nigel Farage says they want “nothing” in return – 18 savage responses that are right on the money

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Reform. The anti-establishment party of the working people. https://t.co/1KXoTABCpQ

— Seán_Heuston 🌊💙 (@Sean_Heuston_16) September 12, 2026

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So we’ve now had two donations to Reform for £36m each, totalling £72m.

More money in 24 hours than was spent by Labour and the Tories at the last election COMBINED.

Both donations from crypto billionaires.

This is a straight up assault on our democracy.

— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) September 12, 2026

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Dear @andyburnham,

A £36m donation to Reform

You could have prevented this

You could protect our democracy from being bought like this

So, why did you drop plans to cap donations?

We need you to reverse course on this now

…before it’s too late. https://t.co/QqFIycfvcW

— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) September 12, 2026

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Ridiculous sums of money don’t level the playing field – they distort it. It’s increasingly urgent that we get to grips with Political funding in Britain – our democracy is for sale to the highest bidder, Reform are a minor party with no track record (no positive one) and no real…

— Dale Vince (@DaleVince) September 12, 2026

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Farage can’t buy his way out of the scandals he and Reform UK are drowning in, or the multiple police investigations that are ongoing into Reform’s dodgy finances.

No amount of money will get rid of the stench of sleaze coming from Reform UK – the public can smell it a mile off. https://t.co/Nc4nUqIjS9

— Bridget Phillipson (@bphillipsonMP) September 12, 2026

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In light of Reform UK receiving £72 million from two crypto billionaires:

In March 2025, Stella Creasy warned in Parliament that huge donations and outside money could distort British democracy. In July 2026, she formally tabled an amendment for a £100,000 annual cap on… pic.twitter.com/wnpxaZ4VfM

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) September 12, 2026

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Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

— Count Binface (@CountBinface) September 12, 2026

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If you believe a billionaire is giving millions to Reform in order to improve the lives of Britain’s working classes, you’re the mark.

— Oliver (@OWS1892) September 12, 2026

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“You know what Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne want? Nothing. Just a government that will fix Britain”. Nigel Farage is now just treating the British people as if they’re idiots. https://t.co/eiT0tw5Rkz

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) September 12, 2026

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Like Ukip and like Brexit, Reform is fundamentally a scheme hatched and backed by very rich men who are peeved that they don’t run the country. Surely even their own voters have to grasp this eventually.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) September 12, 2026