Is democracy being by-passed in favour of the billionaires?

Absolutely WWM2, the state of British media is scandalous, even the once reliable BBC is shamefully manipulative.

I came across this recently, I was surprised but thought it looked hopeful.

mediasovereignty.org/petition/

This is a huge problem. Why is a Thai billionaire giving huge amounts of money to Farage and Reform? This is blatant interference in our politics.
I find this very sinister.

When a billionaire bankrolls a political party or politician, he always does so because he considers it to be in his interest.

There is nothing altruistic about Harbourne.

Here’s a post I’ve just put on the ‘Andy Burnham’ thread, in response to a comment saying that all politicians should be treated the same (paraphrasing).

I’m re-posting my comment here because it’s relevant to this topic.

“When Keir Starmer was given a few pairs of glasses by a Labour Party donor - gifts which were declared - it was media headline news for days and days. It was apparently apocalyptic!

Fast forward to Nigel Farage’s secret, undeclared gift of £5 million from a Thailand based crypto guy … hardly a mention🤔 Even though Farage promotes cryptocurrency; says he’ll deregulate it ‘when’ he’s PM; and even promoted his donor’s crypto company Tether, in radio interviews.

Farage refused point blank to answer any questions about it in an interview with Beth Rigby the other day - she just accepted that and moved on to his agenda.

When Rigby asked Keir Starmer about glasses etc she was like a rabid dog with a bone. She would not let it drop, to the point of embarrassing herself.

Level playing field? I don’t think so!”

This dirty money is overriding our democracy, and the media (main stream and social) is complicit.

Farage has successfully avoided questions about the very questionable funding, because he cancelled television appearances etc where he would have had to answer the questions.

However parliament returns this week and I fully expect this funding from an overseas billionaire to be looked at in depth.

Yes to your first question.

Labour are trying to bring in the changes to funding for all political parties.

Reform aren't even classed as a party but this has always gone unchallenged.

Time to start holding them to account. I hate to think it is too late.