Labour’s staggering hypocrisy over Reform’s record-breaking donations, the AfD’s seismic breakthrough in Germany and the extraordinary £483 billion climate-damage claim over North Sea oil and gas.
In Episode 96 of the Sceptic, guest host Ellie Hodges sits down with our very own Editor-in-Chief Toby Young to talk about Reform’s enormous £72 million donation. They get into donation caps, Labour’s proposed rules, the hypocrisy of Labour attacking Reform’s funding while taking huge sums from trade unions and what Reform should actually do with all that cash.
Then it’s over to Germany to find out what our resident Germany correspondent Eugyppius thinks of the AfD’s latest electoral breakthrough, why Friedrich Merz is a “dead Chancellor walking” and whether Germany’s AfD firewall is starting to crack.
And for premium subscribers, Ellie talks to energy expert David Turver about the eye-watering claim that the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields in the North Sea could cause £483 billion of climate damage – and whether the maths behind it makes sense.
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Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.
00:00 Intro
02:13 Toby Young on Reform’s £72M Donation
03:23 Donation Caps
05:43 Labour’s New Rules
07:41 Retrospective Legislation
09:05 Buying Political Influence
11:31 Union Funding
13:53 State Funding
15:00 Spending Reform’s £72M
20:40 Eugyppius on AfD’s Big Result
23:20 Merz’s Problems
28:05 The Firewall’s Impact
31:22 Can The Firewall Survive?
33:25 AfD & Europe
36:04 David Turvey on the £483Bn Claim
38:21 The Cost Of Carbon
40:27 Counting Climate Damage
49:59 Climate Policy
