Elon Musk is a test case for how we want to regulate our politics. He has the financial wherewithal to become the most influential donor to parties everywhere in the world - and the example of the US shows that it's a profit-bearing investment.
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Surely regulation is pretty helpless against extreme wealth. Suppose UK passes laws to fine foreign donors for illegal political contributions - billionaires will just regard any fine as petty cash.
He doesn't have any UK businesses with that much money for political donations. If he tried moving money around to do it that would break the rules. This is all for the noise and everyone is playing their game.
So what would happen if, say, Tesla UK would donate 1 million or for that matter 5 million to a party? (Asking because BSW in Germany has received 1 million from a legal person apparently set up for funding purposes)
Twitter UK had total shareholder capital of £38m at the last reported company accounts, so he could make a donation via this company but not to the size of £100m as reported (I should have been clearer here). He could donate enough to have real political influence.
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