Yes, that's the impression from abroad, from Europe.
It is not normal for a hard right/far right party to get 72 million quid funding from crypto-billionaires within 3 days while that same party is under police investigation for breaking laws on electoral funding/donations.
That and the more... interesting folks over the pond seem determined to interfere with our politics as well.
The instability/uncertainty in the US is because of their historical (and current) weight on events spreading everywhere.
It's easy to poke fun at the US while downplaying our issues but in the long run, *unwise*.
That's money that was used to attack Ukraine, and millions used to destabilize US and Western Europe.
> It's easy to poke fun at the US while downplaying our issues but in the long run, unwise.
But it's slightly cheaper too.
Nobody donates those kind of sums without wanting a quid pro quo. And the donors, as you say, are extremely dodgy. As a brit it frankly frightenes me.
In the same week as the undercover documentary where one of the senior Reform figures said on hidden camera "but if gets you a friend in No 10, worth it" while discussing how to circumvent the law on foreign donations.
If we don't crack down hard on this shit now we'll pay for it later.
The USA provided an excellent example for us to learn from. But I do wonder if this cancer of corruption has already spread worldwide and is too powerful to stop the well financed populism through which it spreads.