Can you stop an election being bought?
The News Agents
Global
4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Farage, Reform treasurer Nick Candy, and Elon Musk gathered below a portrait of a young Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago. They were discussing campaign tactics, apparently, and whether Musk's money could be funnelled into Reform.
What can governing parties do to stop elections being bought? We ask the Polish Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, a politician who has helped to see off populist government in his own country.
Nigel Farage clip courtesy of GB News.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | X will help reform UK at the election coming up. |
| 0:15.5 | He's already given me considerable help. |
| 0:17.8 | We're targeting voters who can't get. |
| 0:19.3 | Understanding the process from start to finish, reaching disaffected communities who frankly |
| 0:25.9 | feel there's no point voting for anybody, but just to get them to agree with you or to |
| 0:30.8 | like me on TikTok or whatever, that just isn't enough. |
| 0:33.6 | You've got to get them registered. |
| 0:35.3 | You've got to know who they are. |
| 0:36.6 | You've got to get them to vote. |
| 0:38.0 | Inevitably, given all the press stories, we did discuss money. Now, that's a negotiation we would go back and have again. |
| 0:46.1 | He is not against giving us money. He hasn't fully decided whether he will. |
| 0:50.4 | Let it be said that no one shows a bit of leg better than Nigel Farage, teasing, |
| 0:57.4 | tempting you to believe that the money is in the bank already for reform from Elon Musk and that |
| 1:03.9 | they see eye to eye and they think alike. Christmas has come early for Farage as he was in Mar-a-Lago with his new treasurer cosying up to Elon Musk. |
| 1:16.9 | Today we're going to be looking at the tentacles between Elon Musk reform and the next UK general election. |
| 1:25.1 | Can an election be bought and can a party of government do anything to stop |
| 1:31.2 | a lot of money coming in from overseas? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John. |
| 1:42.7 | It's Emily. It's Lewis. |
| 1:50.5 | And in case you didn't know, there are probably four, maybe five shopping days before Christmas. |
| 1:56.4 | And I thought it was only fair to alert you to the possibility that your Christmas present buying could be solved. |
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