The photo made the front page of the English press. Under a kitsch portrait of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, MP and leader of the far-right party Reform UKproudly poses with Elon Musk. The meeting took place Monday, December 16 at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in the residence of the president-elect of the United States, which has become the antechamber of power while awaiting his installation in the White House.
Nigel Farage didn’t make the trip just for the photo. A figure in the Brexit camp from the time when he led Ukip (the United Kingdom Independence Party), he returned to the forefront during the last elections at the beginning of July, thanks to the collapse of the Conservative party. Having become an MP again, Nigel Farage has since soared in the polls, and could well see himself climbing to 10 Downing Street. In six months, his party has doubled its number of members, and to continue the rise, he needs money.
That’s good, the richest man in the world has a lot, and he would be ready to put 100 million dollars on the table to finance his movement. It is Niegel Farage himself who assures this, returning from Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, where he met Elon Musk, in the residence of Donald Trump. Interview that he recounted with a satisfied air to the BBC. “Odidn’t talk about moneyhe said. We are in open negotiations. He wants to help us, he is not opposed to giving us money, provided we can do it legally through UK companies“.
Legal and political questions already surround this potential financing. The law does not limit the financing of political parties, but it is in principle reserved for British citizens and businesses. Elon Musk would have already found the solution, by imagining the British branch of his social network ensuring the payment.
In the United Kingdom, the traditional parties, Labor and Conservatives, are concerned about the considerable influence that Elon Musk could have with what would be the “biggest donation in British political history“. And in recent months the billionaire has increased his criticism of the government and the current Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose plan to regulate social media makes the owner of the X platform bristle.
Now omnipresent at Mar-a-Lago, at Donald Trump’s house, Elon Musk, like a godfather, connects audiences with courtiers from all continents. After the Argentinian JAvier Milei, and the Hungarian Viktor Orban, Nigel Farage constitutes another piece in the puzzle of a sort of populist International, libertarian tendency. For him, the “final struggle” seems to have already begun.
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