{"id":78914,"date":"2024-12-02T07:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=78914"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:46:15","slug":"will-labour-rise-to-the-challenge-from-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/02\/will-labour-rise-to-the-challenge-from-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Labour rise to the challenge from Musk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/elon-musk-planning-f-starmer-103450019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elon Musk is reportedly planning to make a $100 million donation to Reform UK as a \u201cfuck you\u201d to Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/elon-musk-pay-nigel-farage-prime-minister-xts720xsp?t=1733042866574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to the Sunday Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"11\" data-v9y=\"1\">According to the Sunday Times<\/a>, the tech billionaire could funnel the cash through the British arm of his social media platform X to get round rules banning foreigners from giving money to British parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Labour had any sense it would take this threat very seriously and then do four things:<\/p>\n<p>1) Ban corporate gifts above \u00a35,000 to any political party in a year, treating a company and all its related entities as one company for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>2) Ban any gift to a political party of more than \u00a35,000 from a person and their related parties in a year.<\/p>\n<p>3) Start the \u00a0state funding of political parties, within strictly limited budgets.<\/p>\n<p>4) Begin electoral reform.<\/p>\n<p>That is what I would expect any democrat to do. The system is clearly at risk from Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Will Labour take action? Who knows. But we will know they don\u2019t reality believe in democracy if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Yahoo has reported: Elon Musk is reportedly planning to make a $100 million donation to Reform UK as a \u201cfuck you\u201d to Keir Starmer.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/02\/will-labour-rise-to-the-challenge-from-musk\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,122,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-election","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78915,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78914\/revisions\/78915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}