Nigel Farage denies breaking rules over undeclared benefits
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Ian Dunt278It's not just the seriousness of these stories, but the relationship between them. For instance: If Farage used money from this shady crypto guy to pay for security, why did he say that he used the money from the other shady crypto guy to pay for security?
lilysmalls.bsky.social106Robert Jenrick just called The Sunday Times ‘a labour supporting paper’ for running the story. Have I woken up in a parallel universe or something? 🙃
Cambridge for Europe61Good. Right-wing populists like Farage are supported by crooks and billionaire oligarchs because they all want to weaken and destroy the national and international institutions that can hold them to account. They want to make the UK like Putin's Russia, and they are profoundly anti-democratic.
Phil Harrison51The thing is, there'll be more. There's always more with this cunt. He loves money. He'll take it from anyone who's giving it away. Literally anyone. Inching towards wondering if he stays in politics long enough to fight the next GE. He likes money more than politics, I suspect.
Kerry33If he goes, Reform will collapse. At the end of the day, it isn't a political party, it is a business & a corrupt one at that. Dicky Tice will piss off permanently to Dubai with a bit of luck, the rest of them will fall into obscurity, esp Dorries & the Runcorn nutcase, 30p Lee will be pissed up!.😁
Elthampug 🇬🇧🇺🇦27Did anyone with half a brain ever dispute Farage being a dodgy fucker?
Mallory Moore28Every time I see things like this I think about the fact that there are conversion therapists running children's trans healthcare in the UK, at least according to patients, leaked materials from the NHS itself etc, and the mainstream press won't cover it even slightly.
Shannon Vallor13As a new UK citizen, I think about the pieces on corruption that could have prevented our full-scale American calamity but didn’t. So many pundits and media just framed it as normal politics, mere grounds for ‘controversy’ rather than outrage. Praying that we can look across the water and wake up.
🗽LOLGOP🗽6Children, learn from our mistakes. (There's no gravity with these guys. Just what you can slow, stop, and defeat.)
Funkhauszorra4Das klingt ja mal interessant
Stewart Parsons3No Farage, no Reform. And I would expect the whole grubby money laundering exercise to fall overnight.
Enough Of That Now3Except much like every post-2014 Trump revelation it won't be "devastating", because the people who are going to vote Reform simply don't care and the people running Reform are only interested in power You could reveal that he fucks puppies then eats their corpses and it wouldn't move the dial
Kevin 🏴🇪🇺💚 #VoteGreen3Let's hope not! 🤞🤞🤞🤞 And let's hope it takes #Reform down with him, too. #Farage #FarRight
Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴 🇮🇪2'Posh George: The Criminal Behind Farage', shows the web of undisclosed gifts and payments from Cottrell that helped pave "Daddy" Farage’s path to Westminster. Crypto paid for Farage's "security" even before Harbone paid £5M for security for life / reward for Brexit.
Charlie Massey2When people show you who they are, believe them. He was a weasel back in the 80's at Drexel Burnham Lambert when I was briefly a colleague, after his allegedly anti-semitic school years. How on earth has he hoodwinked so many for so long? Most journalists just love that he's a "story". 🙄
"The sort of flags on lampposts we can get behind! Activists from Take Back Power, a non-violent civil resistance group, took to the streets of Frinton-on-Sea in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton to raise 'Tax the Rich' flags, while removing England flags and Union Jacks" via London Economic
NotMyCircus12That's no good. He'll never see them...
Cotswoldy5Where do we buy these flags?
Rabid Cormorant2Old Fivemil loves a nice flag so I'm sure he approves of these
Stephen Kinsella2Where can I order one of those flags?
Cat Ballou2takebackpower.net - join and see if they’ve got some flags. 🤠
pushkin99.bsky.social1"Tax the rich". Especially the recipients of large 'gifts'.
Runic🔥2Thats more like it 💪🔥
Amazing work by Reform in picking Robert Jenrick as the man to tour the broadcast studios to portray Nigel Farage and his party as a model of probity
Sarah Murphy42It is all they’ve got. The canny ones are dodgy as hell. The rest are way too dim to cope with media interviews.
Stuart Hemingway25When Jenrick is the most honest person the Party can put forward for interview then you know they are in deep trouble.
Pete15Well following his work with young asylum seekers he’s a dab hand with the whitewash I guess.
kentisharsenal.bsky.social15Just heard a clip on the news that Kendrick said that the Sunday Times was a Labour supporting newspaper - wow 😯
Alan Stedman11When is someone in the Media going to sit down with Farage and start with, "Now with regard to the Nolan principles..." Psssst They are still up on the .Gov website www.gov.uk/government/p...
Democracy Crisis8None of them are serious about governing. Our local reform has responded to polite inquiry asking about an ongoing development project in our area and an invitation to a council meeting with a borderline abusive response. What are we doing?
Bremain in Spain20Such an upstanding politician too. A perfect substitute for Farage ..
Sarah Murphy5Yes. But Jenrick is a grubby little bastard himself… and absolutely cannot be trusted… bsky.app/profile/adam...
Lady Tina Murphy2Satire is being slaughtered between Trump and Reform. They are making themselves the object of ridicule by being their own satirists.
Farage is done. He simply cannot become PM. He’s a ragingly greedy, corrupt, national security risk. We aren’t America. Anyone shouting “witchhunt” on this just looks like an idiot. Off you go, you most loathsome man.
Sarah Murphy117Some more detail of the crypto-criminality that has boosted Farage far beyond the limits of his own potential. And should now bring him down.
Jim Higham14Definitely not a witch hunt. Actually a duck hunt. Looks like a duck, walks like a, duck, is a complete and utter, er, duck.
pause-for-thought.bsky.social11Sadly we have enough idiots, 33% who like MAGA are becoming increasingly resistant to intelligent reasoning. Farage has allowed this bigoted group the ability to express their racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic self - under the guise of free speech. They are in a cult of hatred.
kaybell27.bsky.social10His illegal activities are out in the open now, even our MSM no longer protects him. Time for him to go and finally face justice.
Holly Brigstocke8imo Murdoch is getting rattled about attention on Farage beginning to expose the network of abuse of power and dirty money behind Farage. They're treating him as their "cut out" or "fuse" by burning him and hoping people stop looking. It goes right to the top of govt. Keep digging.
Marty1981 (uk)8According to Jenrick on Trevor Philips's show, The Times is a labour supporting newspaper 😬
Phil McDuff18Oh can't he? Says who? Who will stop him? Andy Burnham?
Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺12He is so corrupt at this point , nobody can believe a word he says.
Paul Russell9We see it in the US, where even Fox News is questioning Trump’s extraordinary use of the presidency to enrich himself, and we see it here, where Farage is embroiled in yet *another* corruption scandal. These populist grifters all have the same fatal flaw - they simply cannot control their greed.
Maggie Duarte #fbpe6I so hope you’re right
Sandra Whittleston3What is so upsetting, is how the UK (England in particular) has been in the thrall of this man and his ghouls for far too long. We have lost so much ground over the past 20 years since he was installed by right wing hacks as a so-called "man of the people". @bylinetimes.bsky.social
ntheowl2[And interesting this media focus now, given his other major funders and their support of Johnson and the Tories...]
Johann S 🇨🇮🇺🇦 ⬅️2If the Reform Party is funded by criminals, should we be bringing such people into No10 Downing St. Serious stuff
In a Daily Mail interview in December 2017, Nigel Farage claimed he was "53, separated and skint". He argued that there was "no money in politics" and that he had spent twenty years spending more than he earned. In the eight years since then he has purchased 4 houses worth £4 million.
Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱29It's about time Reformers asked themselves a) how does a "skint man" purchase £4 million worth of houses in 8 years, b) whose money is bankrolling those purchases and c) who stands to benefit from his continued financial incoming "donations".
Simon J. Barrett10Hmmm, nothing to see here! Grifting little weasel…
woodcollier.bsky.social8If all he gets is booted out of Parliament, the optics for HoC will be ‘sweeping under carpets’. The message I’d like to see is a trial and custodial sentence for treason.
mitch8951.bsky.social5Who cares! Certainly not those who vote for him, work alongside him OR the investigative journalists who publish 'In the public interest' stories
Spending more than he earned? Should this be deemed a "quality"? To me, it's just "I can't plan my budget"… which is not good in a politician's CV.
PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸4He also been funded by criminals according to the Times
He literally took undeclared donations from a criminal - never mind “breaking rules” Farage has tried to ignore them entirely for personal gain. And he’s done it over and over again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
victoria1921.bsky.social13Carole Cadwalladr has been telling the 🌎 about Farage accepting dirty money from overseas billionaires + other criminals for years. This thread from her is before the world's richest racist turned 🐦 into a toxic cesspit. Johnson ruined BBC with RW Tory stooges. threadreaderapp.com/thread/11301...
Russ11This ‘I wasn’t involved in politics’ line is bullshit. He was the majority shareholder in a ‘political party’. Your party needs to get a grip of this and close these loopholes down. Farage couldn’t complain if Burnham comes out Trumpian and just does it.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈7you all are just as much on the take as he is. you can literally buy government policy under labour.
Elkeblom5Farage's antics have only ever served Farage. They have cost this country billions and weakened the cohesion of both the UK and Europe. He's a selfserving fake patriot who's done Putin's dirty work for him. I think in the olden days they used to call them traitors.
Fraser Wylie4He MUST be held accountable. No excuses.
NotMyCircus4If only there had been signs. Perhaps the government might "tweak" immigration policies that pander to Reform voters' "legitimate concerns". I won't hold my breath though.
Alom Shaha26America could have stopped Trump if they’d treated him like an ordinary citizen who had broken their laws. We could do the same with Farage but it seems laws don’t apply to some people.
Chris Dillow19I'm not sure how much support this will cost Farage: many of his fanboys think "they're all at it", which is why all his other misdeeds haven't brought him down. (A better hope is that he gets tired of the coverage & walks away).
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈11okay @torstenbell.bsky.social, now do all the bribes labour cabinet ministers regularly take. sorry i mean 'donations'. 🙄
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉7He’ll quit and do same as Truss and promote the “they hounded me out” “the blob conspired against me” “the lefty wokerati faked evidence”, “I was too big a threat so the deep state had to silence me” “I was stitched up” Annnnnd “I’m living proof that free speech no longer exists in the UK”
Knitting Cat3Our right wing media has suddenly woken up. Private Eye has been revealing these facts and truths for years.
kevinanthony.bsky.social2#bbclaurak … @samcoatessky.bsky.social I’m sure you will be having a deep and thorough investigation … or …are glasses and suits more important and too easy?
Has Nigel Farage broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare benefits provided by an ally who’s a convicted criminal? He says he hasn’t. The Sunday Times reports George Cottrell supplied security & social media staff who worked on Mr Farage's online content in the year before he was elected
Victoria Derbyshire56Mr Farage is already facing a parliamentary investigation over that £5m from a crypto billionaire based in Thailand, which wasn’t registered. He says that was for personal security & was a personal gift/non-political
Sarah Murphy49So many different people seem to be paying for Farage’s “security”. Bottom line is - Farage’s greed has made him a crashing liability and could ultimately do for him. The hope invested in that possibility is looking less and less precarious.
Bestie33How about you stop putting Reform MPs on Newsnight every bloody night?
John Rob28He was the majority owner of Reform ltd at the same time he trousered the 5 million bung, and received all those freebies. So, however he tries to spin it. He was heavily involved in British politics at the time. Therefore it all should have been declared.
Quiet Majority13It's a brilliant piece of investigative journalism. It will be very interesting to see where it goes. We suppose that Farage won't be on Laura Kuenssburg's show today.
ppoppe.bsky.social12Is Murdoch turning on Farage? It looks like a “catch and kill” story being given its freedom. There’s going to be more of this for Farage now that he’s lost his “protection”.
Chipper60🏴🏴🏴🏴3A blind ameoba knows he's corrupt,it's the English MSM fawning over him,lauding him,pushing his rhetoric,cheerleading him 24/7--365..journalism in ALL UK doesn't exist anymore,ordered what to report,what NOT to report(we know what)just the same 🐂💩 misinformation by the hour,hacks R us
Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan2Pharage seems to have for years had loads of things funded for him by associates, it was Arron Banks a while back, it's Harbourne and Cottrell now. But he's just like a bloke down the pub, anti establishment and anti elite though.
Harvest2It’s a minor quibble @vicderbyshire.bsky.social but I’m not sure Farage himself has actually said anything ?
A bombshell article in The Times last night claims Nigel Farage may have breached standards (again) by not declaring donations from George Cottrell in the form of hiring staff for him. #Farage #GeorgeCottrell #NigelFarage
viviancomma.bsky.social4Yes but honest Bob Jenrick says there's nothing to see here and it's a Labour supporting Times newspaper just trying to cause trouble!
Huw Jelly2Farage is toast. Who do we need to expose next?
Jon Hewlett2The detail about Farage being with Posh George when was arrested is just beautiful 😂😂
PhilT6022No, no, no. You misunderstand. You only have to declare the gifts & donations that people KNOW about!!?
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU1Is that George Cottrell the convicted criminal and crypto gambler?
James #We are Starfleet.1I've been hearing rumbling that Nigel is about to step down and will not put himself forward to become PM in a future election. A great start to Sunday if true.
Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.
"He's raking it in for an MP. He is loaded." For a politician who plays the role of a 'man of the people' how long can Farage sway voters when he's promoting gold bars online, and owns a £4m property portfolio, all while voting against workers' rights? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/will...
Lucas S Diamond4I'm old enough to remember him being that skint he only had enough for a normal bank account. Then suddenly people wanted to give a financially vulnerable man free unconditional money on a regular basis?
Phil 6T2The UK needs a grafter, not a grifter.
Tabitha Potts2Let’s hope so! The last thing the UK needs is this chancer
Steven M. Foster1Does Farage actually want to be PM? Or is he just grifting hard to make as much money as possible and at the least minute - before any general election - is he gonna blow the whole Reform thing up, quit, and walk away blaming the “deep state”?
Farage has spent weeks denying, denying, denying. It’s coming to an end. Farage denies rules broken after reports benefits from ally were not declared
Neil9Taking a bung from a convicted fraudster and failing to declare it isn't a good look for the self styled 'man of the people'
Suffolk Sue7Can't come soon enough. This lying little fascist should be in jail for what he's done and still doing to the country.
Winter026Now go after all of them. Tice, Kruger, Jenrick, Lee, Pochin, will all have corrupt money salted away.
Alucard3The sooner the better all these reform crooks are investigated.
psion02.bsky.social1If he gets suspended from parliament would anyone notice? He's never there...
Winter021Jenrick has said that the Sunday Times is a Labour supporting paper and that’s why they are trying to smear Farage.
