1976

Through thin & thin, empty seats & no history, lots of money, no legends.
It means four. 🏆🏆🏆🏆

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@davidyelland He's obsessed David and has been dishing it out for days. Give the lad a chance because politics has been toxic since Brexit and something radical needs to happen.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

@reformparty_uk Transparency ????? Reform????? What about your Nigel’s £5 million bung eh?

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Andy Burnham knows, when he looks out at the media attending any press conference, that a huge chunk of them are paid to harm him, paid not to listen and whose bosses represent a circular firing squad out to undermine him.

This is the reality. This is why it makes sense, on a day like today, to let the speech flow through broadcast media unmitigated by ‘But is Ed going to ruin the economy by being Chancellor….’

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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[Sam Lee @SamLee]

Rico Lewis is hosting a football tournament tomorrow to raise money for homeless charities. It’s at Belle Vue and starts at 12. 7-a-side tournament in a mini-World Cup format 🏆 winning team gets £1500 so should be tasty

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

It’s official, @ZiaYusufUK.

[Grok @grok]

@RpsAgainstTrump Trump's current polling average is ~40% approve / ~57-58% disapprove.

RealClearPolitics (through June 25): 40.5% approve, 57.5% disapprove.
Nate Silver: net approval ~-19.

Trump's 65% claim is false.

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@scottsyns @bigrednaxela @MDMorrison82 Incredible, I've seen it a few times and it just gets better. I've not seen anything in the UK that comes close

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@SirTys @DTathletic Great point Sir Tys, remind me how being guilty works please

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Only Congo fan in the mid of gigantic Colombian fans sea is singing his anthem.

Colombian fans respectfully stay quiet and at the end celebrates with him.

This makes you feel better and better as more as you watch it

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@PaulPrescott3 @DaveOCKOP Great question Paul, just remind me how being guilty works?

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

In 2023 the bankers Coutts made this internal assessment of Farage, "a disengenuous grifter...xenophobic & panders to racists." The only thing that's changed is the scale of his grifting.

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@TiceRichard There's a farmer in your constituency who needs solar panels in his field, as its one of the only ways he can make money since we left the EU and lost the subsidies. You really are stupid

[Sam @SamCKx]

The more I dig, the more I realise that Nigel Farage is literally done for. It's over for him. The £5 million bung is big enough to take the entire Reform movement down and possibly land Nigel in jail.

1) The fact the donation was made BEFORE Nigel was MP is absolutely irrelevant. Parliamentary Code of Conduct requires all receipts for the full 12 months before election. Nigel receiving his bung just a few days before he announced his candidacy makes it so much worse, not better.

2) "Category 5: Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK - THRESHOLD FOR REGISTRATION Section 39. Members must register, subject to the paragraphs below, any gifts or benefits with a value of over £300 which they receive from a source outside the UK."

Nigel argues this was 'purely personal' but the Code refers to partners or families when it comes to personal gifts... this takes us to the next issue...

3) Christopher Harborne has a long track record of making SUBSTANTIAL political contributions to Nigel's parties, first to The Brexit Party, and later to Reform. He is a POLITICAL DONOR - any "gift" he made to Farage CANNOT be argued as personal or without political context due to this track record.

4) Using his platform as an MP, Nigel went on to promote 2 companies in which Christopher Harborne holds $ billions in stock - Nigel NEVER publicly endorsed or mentioned these companies prior to the "gift". Nigel also began actively pushing for policy that would directly interest Christopher Harborne and his business affairs. These were not interests that any could argue could possibly be of interest to his constituents - deregulation of crypto, and lowering of taxes on crypto gains. Nigel spent a substantial amount of time and effort pushing these policies.

It is beyond a doubt that this is the biggest breach of Parliamentary Code of Conduct rules in relation to donations in parliamentary history.

But even more concerning for Nigel will be that if it can be proven he was secretly incentivised to use his public office to push for policies to support a wealthy donor, then he should very likely face a criminal probe for corruption and bribery. I suspect Harborne might also be exposed to this. The United Kingdom and Thailand have a bilateral extradition treaty. Maximum prison sentences of up to 10 years for the offence.

This is not going to go away.

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC I believe it's voted for by the public so I wouldn't pay attention. More people watch soaps than David Attenborough, so their critical thinking may be compromised.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

@Nigel_Farage Of course you have

Guess what YOU LOST
- in Gorton and Denton, in Makerfield, in Caephilly, in Aberdeen Sith, in Arbroath
- beaten by Greens, Labour, Plaid, Tories and the SNP

Does that not send you a message you can hear - the public want hope not hate.

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@MBdaytrading I heard something like this a while ago and I think its the fairest way even though I'd pay more. I'm not sure 0.48% would be enough though, maybe 0.60%. Probably raise an extra £8 billion a year for the treasury based on current housing stock in UK

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

It’s the business of all of us - when a politician gets a secret £5m bung from a foreign based Crypto dealer. All of us. Nigel Farage is a privately educated, rich person posing as a man of the people. His lobbying for new rules beneficial to Crypto dealers is a worry and a classic example of the kind of suspicion that private donations to politicians begets. We should end it all, ban all donations and use public money to fund a squeaky clean political system. It will cost peanuts - in fact it’s the cost of a packet of crisps per person per year. We can end the suspicion and the actuality of cash for influence - once and for all. Labour’s new leader should take a close look at this, for a staggeringly small sum of money we can properly clean up politics.

https://t.co/xBUqaoebbW

[1976 @Charlieblue2012]

@blueman2668 @Ginopower3 @TheRealFbloke You are so gifted at debating mate, well done