May I suggest that overseas people with criminal convictions pertaining to financial crimes should not be permitted to donate to political parties.

I can't praise you enough for this podcast because I just love the blend of factual reliable information and satire, comedy, and fun poking. It's the perfect blend. Thank you so much for the work that you do.

For what its worth i am sick of finance milking the economy generally and then feeding said loot back in via right wing extremism ...thankyou private eye for exposing the con as ever

To lose one Welsh Reform leader may be considered a misfortune. To lose two… begins to look as though there’s something about the party that attracts criminals.

the whole argument of this even things up shows just why it's an issue! 2024 Labour received £64.76million from unions, who collectively had a little over 6million members, so that's a little over £10.70 per member. The aim of that was to improve working law/legislation/conditions for those 6million+ people (a little under 10% of the UK population, or 17% of the working population) plus wider all workers. Harborne and Delo donated £72million for the purposes of improving legislation and conditions for Harborne and Delo (0.0000029% of the UK population, or 0.0000058% of the working population) to make more money. They couldn't give two s#its about you, me, workers or anyone else in this country!

Reform stink of the same level of corruption as Trump

"Money doesn't talk, it swears!" - Bob Dylan

I have a simple way to fix oversea donations. Everyone who makes a donation to a political party is deemed a resident for UK tax for the 3 full tax years either side of the donation.

Shouldn't we just call it klepto currency, because that is what it's all about.

A lot of people seem to misunderstand how political donations from union dues work. They were made opt-in by the Trade Unions Bill 2016, and later on a Conservative government tried to prevent unions from collecting donations *at all*. The latter was found to be unlawful by the Supreme Court.

It is good to see that the RNLI has seen a good increase in donations and support.

I love this show, thank you

I'm worried less about AGI ending us, and more about how miserable life seems to be becoming in this race to the bottom, where no one has a job, or land, or owns anything really, where wealthy people don't really need anything from you, or have a reason to care about any of your own needs.

Best democracy money can buy.

Brilliant as always, thanks.

If only we could lock up the kleptocrats!

Buying politicians is the best way to launder money.

Farige set up Reform as a limited company. Donations to ltd companies are taxable as income. Will the tax bill be discussed?

I love that Richard always comes in with the full notebooks like a databaron.

“Four Scandals”….. 😂