英国工会领导人在政治捐款监管问题上产生重大分歧。工会主席保罗·诺瓦克呼吁政府对大额捐款设置上限，以阻止富人对政治制度的腐蚀，此举源于两位加密货币富豪在24小时内向改革英国党捐赠7200万英镑的事件1。诺瓦克声称"这是我们民主的危机"1，并主张"不应允许那些不在英国居住和纳税的人进行任何捐款"1。他更直言不讳地表示："埃隆·马斯克，把你的贪婪之手从英国政治中拿出来"1。
上述两名捐献者分别是克里斯托弗·哈博恩和本·德洛1。德洛居住在香港但已返回英国；哈博恩在泰国居住但在英国注册投票1。根据现议会法案，海外英籍捐献者每年可捐献至多10万英镑1。
然而，工会对制定捐款上限的态度并不一致。联合工会总书记沙伦·格雷厄姆支持捐款上限1，但许多工会担心这种措施将被未来右翼政府用来限制工会本身的捐款1。前保守党首相鲍里斯·约翰逊也反对溯及既往的捐款上限，认为这种做法"可笑"且不公平1。
British trade union leaders are split over whether to impose caps on political donations, following a major influx of cryptocurrency wealth into electoral politics. Two crypto entrepreneurs, Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo, donated £72 million to the Reform UK party within a 24-hour period 1, prompting the Trades Union Congress to confront the issue at its annual conference.
TUC general secretary Paul Novak described the donations as a "crisis for our democracy" and called for the government to prevent wealthy donors from corrupting the political system 1. He specifically proposed that "people who don't live in the UK and don't pay tax here should not be allowed to make any donations at all" 1. Novak also issued a direct challenge regarding external influence, stating: "Elon Musk, take your greedy hands off British politics" 1.
However, the union movement faces internal disagreement on the matter. Unite the Union's general secretary Sharon Graham supports implementing donation limits 1, but many unions worry that such caps could be weaponized by future right-wing governments to restrict union contributions to political causes. Current parliamentary law permits overseas British citizens to donate up to £100,000 per year 1. Of the two recent major donors, Delo resides in Hong Kong but has returned to the UK, while Harborne lives in Thailand but is registered to vote in Britain 1. Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson has criticized retroactive donation caps as "absurd" and unfair 1.
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