The Spectator has a couple of articles on what it calls the 'pathetic pearl-clutching' by the two-party state over the Reform donations.
But as one article concludes:
If these Brits, Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne, feel those things – and having met Delo a couple of times every indication is that he certainly does, and I assume Harborne too – then who can begrudge them putting their money where their mouths are in the service of their country? That, to me, seems an act of the greatest patriotism.
No such patriotism for the climate-change Greens.
Rayner warns that ‘you cannot buy your way into democracy’
But the Trade Unions have been doing it for decades. So this is an obvious place to start with donation bans.
Labour seems to be aping the Mekon (Merz) in Germany in his efforts to ban the AfD by hook or by crook.
But this kind of knuckle-dragging will never get them anywhere.
Labour already has an unelected Prime Minister - how much more democracy do they want?
A more approriate comment for Angela Rayner would be: you cannot ban your way into democracy.