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.
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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.
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#14This is your last chance, somebody stop them please. /s
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#15This is your last chance, somebody stop them please. /s
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#17Would be great to see this sort of thing for all political parties, or at least Labour and Conservatives.
Not that I care politics but one should think why reform and why the label "far right"? Why now?
Channel 4 News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLRCY5fSM7s
At my time of writing 202406282043 - I'd consider that 'now'.
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#19Would be great to see this sort of thing for all political parties, or at least Labour and Conservatives.
No other political parties are constructed as a limited company controlled by a single person, that's what's so interesting about Reform.
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?
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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".
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> 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?