Not getting over it anytime soon. And now aware the grass is greener, and the sky is bluer away from this increasingly toxic place. @Marina59.bsky.social.
@AshleyBrow89350@joni_askola We have known about the 5 million for over a month. Farage hid away until Tuesday, when he finally had to face questions about it. We 'libs' enjoyed the resulting car crashes very much.
But today my timeline is full of Reform fans claiming he's being unfairly treated.
It's a cult
Nigel Farage's hidden £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire would instantly tank any mainstream career, but it serves as a perfect testament to the willful blindness and degraded ethical standards of populist voters who simply refuse to care.
Farage is facing an official parliamentary standards investigation after it was revealed he hid a staggering £5 million cash gift from a major cryptocurrency tycoon. While the payout itself wasn't delivered in crypto tokens, it came directly from one of the industry's big players.
Concealing that kind of cash until he was caught red-handed proves Farage knew how toxic it looked, especially since his party immediately pushed a draft bill to slash crypto taxes.
Taking multi-million-pound payouts from a tech tycoon creates an obvious conflict of interest, pointing directly toward an attempt to buy backdoor political influence.
This isn't just a British problem. We see the exact same dynamic happening in the United States with Donald Trump. Just like Trump's base, Farage's followers operate with a level of political gullibility that excuses blatant financial misconduct as long as they are fed enough anti-establishment anger.
Traditional officials are held to strict ethical codes, but populist supporters in many countries have lowered the moral bar so far that they will happily let their favorite grifters get away with pocketing fortunes from elite special interests.
Farage needs to be called out aggressively for this. He is treating the public like fools, and his base is proving him right
@Willibee64@SarahForRuncorn Having heard some of her interviews, I can well believe she is stupid enough.
As well as racist enough to willingly believe that obvious lie.
Did he really think he could just casually throw it out that Russia leaked his £5M bung without anyone asking for at least one tiny shred of evidence? He’s got so used to his lies being swallowed whole that he’s become complacent. Keep digging Nigel.
https://t.co/8zVHLQetoX
Trump: “Drugs coming by sea, meaning coming by water, by ocean. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.”
The dumbest president in history
This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh
Funny how the 'Take Back Control' crowd are so comfortable being subsidised by offshore interests.
It's also depressing how cheaply our democracy can be bought for. I'm all for efficiency, but being able to influence the national direction for a similar price to a mid-tier London townhouse is just embarrassing.
@NoMoreStarmer@lyncey_gilbe@MikeHolden42 Oh dear. You seem a little confused.
The “donation “ was made in the first half of 2024.
If it needs spelling out, 2024 came before 2025.
So your claim the money was required due to actions of Keir Starmer is simply wrong.
Stop flogging a dead horse on behalf of your hero.
@NoMoreStarmer@lyncey_gilbe@MikeHolden42 That’s an article (or more accurately it’s the BBC repeating claims by Reform) from October 2025. So I ask again, how did Keir cut Farage’s security prior to the 2024 election?
He didn’t did he?
@NoMoreStarmer@lyncey_gilbe@MikeHolden42 Talk me through how Keir ‘cut his security’ before he was Prime Minister?
And who, other than a gangster boss, could possibly spend 5 million quid on ‘security’?