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Mum of teenagers, owner of daft dog, nature lover , Norwich supporter , hoping for better with this government
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Billionaire Reform UK donor Ben Delo is overreaching with this legal threat because he is using UK privacy laws and data protection rules to pressure platforms like @X and Substack into removing accurate public references to his spent criminal conviction.
The letter claims that his guilty plea for failing to maintain proper anti-money laundering controls at the huge crypto exchange BitMEX has become part of his private life under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the same ECHR that Reform wants to leave!
The letter argues that there is no public interest in discussing the matter and that publishing it violates his rights under the UK GDPR.
Yet this conviction was a major case involving a platform that handled trillions of dollars and carried real risks of facilitating illicit finance. Delo paid a ten-million-dollar fine and received probation after pleading guilty in the United States.
Even though Trump pardoned him in 2025, the pardon does not wipe away the historical facts or the court records, and it has no automatic effect on how UK law treats public discussion of the events.
Now that Delo is giving more than £4 MILLION to Reform UK, planning to move back to Britain, and funding political projects while presenting himself as a champion of free speech, the public has a clear and legitimate interest in knowing about his past.
When someone with that kind of money and influence steps into politics and policy debates in a democracy, their background becomes highly relevant for transparency and accountability.
Through his project called The Sanctuary (a suite of rooms overlooking Westminster Abbey) he provides free meeting space, catering, podcasting facilities, and networking opportunities specifically to groups and individuals who rail against impositions on free speech and political correctness, including the Triggernometry podcast, Restore Britain, and Advance UK.
He has also funded Toby Young's Free Speech Union and is hailed by some as a free speech hero for creating this ecosystem where controversial views can be expressed openly!
The law never intended the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act to let wealthy individuals airbrush verifiable public records from the internet whenever it suits them.
This kind of threat exploits burdensome data protection rules to create a chilling effect on open discussion, and it goes far beyond what courts have allowed in similar cases, such as the Google delisting rulings.
The move is particularly hypocritical because Delo has positioned himself and his donations as support for Reform UK, a party that loudly champions free speech and rails against government overreach and regulation.
He talks about fighting bureaucratic tyranny and defending liberty, yet he is now deploying the very same complex privacy laws that critics say stifle expression to suppress factual information about himself!
At The Sanctuary, he actively enables others to speak out against restrictions on speech while simultaneously sending lawyers’ letters to silence discussion of his own regulatory conviction.
True advocates for free speech accept that uncomfortable truths about their own history can be discussed openly, instead of trying to silence them with legal threats. By doing this, Delo undermines the very principles he claims to support through his philanthropy and political funding and reveals a clear double standard: free speech is for everyone else, but not when it applies to his own record.

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Wow. I’ve just received a threatening letter from Ben Delo’s solicitors Addleshaw Goddard. They are claiming, among other things, that it is unlawful to publish information about Delo’s conviction for an anti-money laundering offence in the US. They also say I cannot publish their letter. An extract is below. Is Delo going to get his solicitors to threaten everyone who mentions his conviction? How is this not a SLAPP? @sra_solicitors @DanNeidle
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Please sign this to urgent the Govt to renationalise water.
It's too precious to be in private hands.
asum izak@yrubswed
@GreenJennyJones Sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…
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@DavidMark124720 @cfdownes_ Ok. So The Human Rights Act, ECHR, Equality Act and Online Safety Act all removed? That's a lot of people's rights being removed . Why would that be done and how exactly?
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@maxribbs @cfdownes_ Let's debate it. To be replaced by a British Bill of Rights.
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@maxribbs @godlywomanhood @douglashknight Yeah right, like you're going to stop a violent man. Five of you couldn't do that.
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We’re witnessing how damaging it is for women to be in public spheres. Female judges allowing murders to go free. Female congresswomen turning vicious and promiscuous. Female influencers promoting careers for women and becoming destructive. Female preachers promoting all kinds of unbiblical garbage. Female voters overwhelmingly voting for Democrats and abortion. 💔 Go home, women. 🙏🏻
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@maxribbs @cfdownes_ Women would destroy civilization because they are easily manipulated. Most are young materialistic, childless with a form of suicidal empathy for foreigners and the environment at the cost of everything else. Stay in your lane.

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@areyoflight Personal experience. 17 year old autistic son starts to struggle. Ask (beg) for help. Put on waiting list. 3 + years later, son can't leave house. Advised as he has me, not an urgent case.
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@AileenBart60380 So, you are ok with Restore followers saying women should be banned from public office and have the vote removed? Happy to post screenshots. I've asked Restore to comment several times......nothing. What does that say?
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@Alexandr4Denman So as a woman, what do you have to say about the men who support Restore who are posting that women should have the vote removed, not hold any positions of power...happy to share screenshots.
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@RupertLowe10 Ok though to be supported by a foreign national who happens to own this site and receive £5k+ pm for your amplified tweets?
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@jude22118 @GBNEWS I would like Rupert Lowe to come out and say something about the idiots who support him saying women shouldn't have the vote and shouldn't have any positions of power...happy to share screenshots
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I want Rupert Lowe on @GBNEWS. He represents me and thousands more, and we want him on the show. If not, we should boycott GB News.
You are happy to have the left on there, so why not the true right too? What are you scared of?
Thumbs up if you're with me 👍🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧👍👍👍
@RestoreBritain_ @RupertLowe10

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@NorthernEye07 @cfdownes_ Nothing wrong with that sentiment?
Lol notice you couldn't answer my question! 🤡
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@maxribbs @cfdownes_ I tell the truth. You are extremely gullible.
"hoping for better with this government"
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@AdrianSage4 @RestoreBritain_ Restore want to remove ECHR? Those are the rights that would be removed.
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@RestoreBritain_ I'm surprised so many want to give up their right not to be tortured, enslaved, to liberty, fair trials, freedom of expression, protection of property and education and free elections....but maybe they don't read the small print. Hint...read it.
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@NorthernEye07 @cfdownes_ So @NorthernEye07 , as a woman with children , not materialistic, not easily manipulated, but with a care for foreigners and the environment, how will voting Restore help you. PS..sorry but you definitely are a knob.
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@AdrianSage4 @RestoreBritain_ Well I guess most of us don't want to vote against the right not to be tortured, enslaved, and for the right to liberty, fair trials, freedom of expression, education, free elections..but apparently Restore voters haven't read the small print...
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@RestoreBritain_ This is going from bad to worse. 28 people turned up, that's dreadful! I've totalled up all the meetings Restore have had all over the country, and its under 500 attendees..this is the tsunami that's going to win an election. Its actually sorrowful and your naivety is pitiful
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