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The tens of millions in foreign donations received by Reform is, first and foremost, about foreign interference and billionaires buying British politics. But it’s so much worse than that. It will allow Reform to continue to campaign like it is the run up to an election, but all year round. It will buy them ads in newspapers, airtime on tv and the ability to micro target to an alarming extent on social media. It will buy foreign hate bots who threaten and abuse, bots that call women worthless slags and black people the n word. It will be spent continuing to normalise racism, misogyny, homophobia and ableism in Britain. It will be spent on online radicalisation, spreading fear and panic about minorities and creating an illusion of mad consensus. They will create the problem, then they will claim to be the solution to that problem. Their rhetoric will only get worse. They will have to get worse because Restore will only become more extreme and they’ll need to compete for votes. It will exponentially increase division in society, it will incite unrest, all on behalf of and to the benefit of their billionaire pay pigs. It is rich men, who don’t even live or trade in Britain, trying to buy our political outcome for their own financial benefit. The only people who will get richer are the politicians they are funding and the disaster capitalists who need Britain to decline to prosper. It’s treachery. The antithesis of patriotism.