Looks like they still retain significant shareholding...
"Since delisting, KKR and CPP Investments, which now hold 35.6 percent and 12.9 percent of the entire Springer company".
That means, in the same week that Farage called for non-UK citizens to be disenfranchised, he announced a new £3 million donation from a Thai-based investor 🤡
Also there seems to be a pharma exec in there. Am interested to see how they square that donation with the fact that Farage openly questions the Covid vaccine
Of the £5m+ donated to Reform in the final three months of 2025, more than half (£3m) was given by crypto investor Christopher Haborne.
The rest appears to have been given by an assortment of metals traders, asset managers, and property developers.
Great article from Sam @writesbright.bsky.social on Farage's impersonation of Trump's favourite tantrum and lie - "the election was stolen" 😭
writesbright.substack.com/p/inconvenie...
“He’s happy for foreign billionaires to buy British democracy, but not for marginalised, maligned, working-class Muslims to choose their local representatives. And that, folks, is Nigel Farage in a nutshell.”
Welcome to Farage-land, where it's not okay for Muslims to vote in elections, but it's okay for Reform to have overseas members and foreign billionaire backers...
Reform are a bunch of crybabies who need to accept that democracy involves losing quite often.
Their petty whinging is surely intensely off-putting to potential voters
Farage has been flying around the world trying to raise cash from foreign donors - a fact that deserves a front page a million times more than this autocratic racism
Matt Goodwin works for a (loss making) political propaganda platform masquerading as a media outlet.
He has zero room to talk about indoctrination
Voters making their choices in part based on complex foreign policy issues would often be seen as the sign of an enlightened electorate.
But apparently in the minds of Reform and the right-wing media this means sectarianism and the death of democracy.
Probably because they lost.
I mean Polanski used the video to claim that Labour and Reform are the same - which is total utter nonsense, especially on climate policy
I agree - that money and influence is what I spend all of my time trying to expose.
It’s more disingenuous imo because Labour received millions before the last election from green funders. That was a huge counterweight to the small amounts of cash from lobbyists who have oil clients
It matters because he said Labour directly received money from fossil fuel companies, which proves my point about political campaigners masking the full truth for their own gain
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Untrue - these firms don’t exclusively lobby for fossil fuel companies
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Usually between 20 and 100 different companies in various sectors. Public affairs companies that lobby exclusively for fossil fuel firms are very rare
How am I being disingenuous? Where’s your proof? I literally monitor fossil fuel donations to political parties for a living
I know - I commissioned and edited this article.
If Polanski had said that Labour received donations from fossil fuel lobbyists - fine. But he didn’t. He said they received cash directly from fossil fuel companies
A (climate) hedge fund is not the same as an oil company
Lobbyists are not the same as companies. Read the details
The fact is that Labour received a lot of money before the last election from green investors (eg Dale Vince). To claim otherwise is denying reality
A hedge fund is not an oil company. Quadrature is also a very reputable climate fund. In my opinion this article is tosh
A hedge fund (and a majority green hedge fund at that) is not an oil company
e.g. I think it’s a bit rich for certain Green supporters to claim that Labour has been misleading people, when Polanski claimed in his recent party broadcast that Labour has received money from oil companies - a blatantly false statement
Agreed. Most of the right-wing media is a political operation masquerading as journalism
It’s disturbing the extent to which political campaigners are willing to ignore facts and mislead people in their effort to win.
This by-election has definitely cemented why I prefer journalism to politics
Have hugely enjoyed reading you throughout the years. Good luck for what comes next
