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Would be great to see this sort of thing for all political parties, or at least Labour and Conservatives.
I was thinking the same thing. I'd imagine a LLM could do a pretty good job after you crawl the data from companies house.
Hammer meet screw.

Companies House is already a large graph of companies and ownerships. You can do this with naive methods easier.

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Not that I care politics but one should think why reform and why the label "far right"? Why now?
By 2024 standards, saying that a man cannot be pregnant, or that illegally coming into a country is... well, illegal, is enough to be "far-right".
No other political parties are constructed as a limited company controlled by a single person, that's what's so interesting about Reform.
That is true. However The Conservatives have a lot of satellite companies run by politicians. There are some fairly well known ones even though it's not obvious they are run by party members.
Yeah, but then you get into disambiguation hell. My first serious coding project was an insanely ambitious attempt to do something like this with CH data. Great punt for a Masters thesis, but not the sort of thing I'd base proper research on.

Love the look of the library they used to do this, in considerably better shape than my attempt.

https://github.com/ribenamaplesyrup/sugartrail

Not research, but I spent 5 years writing matching algorithms for data for financial companies which was entered from random crappy mainframes driven by the lowest bidding data entry workers. This tied together the financial relationships of millions of people. The dumber it was the measurably more accurate it was. Hell even some of it used soundex scoring and a naive z-test to work out the confidence that two names were matching.
Maybe I missed something in the article, but it goes through the companies office finding companies based on the names of key Reform UK members.

Couldn’t the same be done for other major members of the other major UK parties?

Quite possibly. The same could be done with the Register of Members' Interests. But again, Reform is unusual in that it has no internal democracy and is basically the Richard Tice party.

Buying your way into British politics is very cheap. He'll get maybe 15% of the vote and no seats in exchange for spending an amount 1/100th of a minor US senate seat race.

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This is your last chance, somebody stop them please. /s
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> Andrew James Bridgen[2] (born 28 October 1964) is a British politician and businessman who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire since 2010. He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023, having had the whip suspended in January after criticising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and claiming that an Israeli cardiologist told him it constitutes "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust".

> In March 2023, Bridgen posted tweets promoting a conspiracy theory claiming that COVID-19 originated at Fort Detrick.[86]

> On 29 February 2024, Bridgen referenced capital punishment as an appropriate response to "crimes against humanity" regarding the vaccine rollout.[87]

Is he not?

There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics:

> On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust." Bridgen claimed the tweet had been moderated by staff members, which was denied by a Conservative Party spokesman.[84] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the comparison "utterly unacceptable".[5] Two days later, Bridgen issued a statement saying his tweet was not antisemitic, and apologised "for any offence caused". He said he was taking legal advice about action against those who had labelled him as antisemitic. Bridgen further contended that he asked "reasonable questions" about the side-effects of mRNA vaccines, and had "received huge support from ordinary people, medical workers [and] those who have experienced vaccine harms themselves".[85]

> In March 2023, Bridgen posted tweets promoting a conspiracy theory claiming that COVID-19 originated at Fort Detrick.[86]

> On 29 February 2024, Bridgen referenced capital punishment as an appropriate response to "crimes against humanity" regarding the vaccine rollout.[87]

He didn't make the statement, he retweeted a professor from an Israeli university who made the statement.
It doesn't seem to matter, there's another post alleging Bridgen said vaccine = holocaust 2.0. They've been radicalized to attack when they hear trigger words.
Bridgen compared vaccinations against covid to the holocaust.
In the case of forced vaccination, it's a reasonable comparison, as it violates several item of the Nuremberg code. Some places did force vaccination, and even where it wasn't, there were plenty of high profile figures calling for it.
There is this pervasive believe that the far right is somehow supported bottom-up. But historically, capitalists and technologists have only been too happy overthrowing status-quo to become part of the new oligarchy.
A blog post that says a lot of words without really saying anything at all.

The whole post boils down to "The founders of Reform have multiple companies."

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Agreed they're using the term 'far right' without basis - the BNP, Britain First, and other groups that use violence are far right. These are parties that are concerned about immigration. But the 'hack' and bad language won't get you far on HN. Just flag the post and move on.
Racial slur against Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckmg1mldk0mo

"Britain should have accepted Nazi offer": https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/10/ref...

We all know immigration = anyone who isn't white living in the country.

None of those things are advocating for ethnic violence.
All I will say is: Learn to read between the lines. Most people in politics are not stupid enough to say anything that crosses the line much further than shown. Especially considering it is illegal to call for violence.
So you’re advocating that these groups are secretly conspiring for violence? ok.
No they are calling the Prime Minister a "fucking p*ki" because they see all British equally.

Clearly you can't be reasoned with on this and just made your own angle obvious.

I didn't say that. I asked if they were advocating for violence as political extremists do by definition. You don't have a response.
Is it a big conspiracy that Leave.EU, Reform UK, UKIP, and Nigel Farage are connected to each other? Other than that, the rest of this article seems to simply be talking about businesses that someone named Richard Tice (who is also connected to Reform UK) is involved with.

All of these people are publicly connected to each other. They also seem to be pretty small fry. Wouldn't be surprised if this itself were funded by the Tories, in order to quote in press releases. If not for Reform, the Tories would be at least running even with Labour in this election.

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The correct axis is free vs. anti-free. If you map your ideology on economic freedom vs. government control of the economy, and personal freedom vs. government control of your body, then you get a quadrant rather than a left-right divide.

If you support personal liberty and economic freedom, you are a libertarian. But you would be labeled "far right" by many.