For those who doubt it, this is the timeline of corruption:
Late May 2024: Christopher Harborne secretly transfers £5 million to Nigel Farage.
3 June 2024: Days after the transfer, Farage announces he will stand for Parliament.
4 July 2024: Farage is elected MP for Clacton.
29 May 2025: Farage announces that Reform UK will become the first British political party to accept donations in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
29 May 2025: Speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, Farage unveils plans for a Crypto Assets and Digital Finance Bill, including reducing capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10%, creating a Bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England, and preventing banks from debanking crypto users.
September 2025: Farage publicly namechecks Tether and Bitfinex, companies in which Christopher Harborne is a major shareholder, and says he is going to the Bank of England to argue against restrictions on crypto and against the proposed digital pound.
13 October 2025: At the Digital Asset Summit in London, Farage says he wants to “bring crypto in from the cold” and immediately halt work on a UK central bank digital currency (“Britcoin”).
25 October 2025: At the Zebu Live crypto conference in London, Farage positions himself as a political champion of the crypto industry and repeats calls for lower crypto taxation and wider adoption.
3 November 2025: In a speech in the City of London, Farage again calls for crypto deregulation and for the UK to become a global crypto hub.
If it could be proven that the £5 million secret payment influenced Farage’s actions as a sitting MP, that raises extremely serious questions. Potential issues could include parliamentary standards breaches, tax issues, bribery or corruption offences. Under the Bribery Act 2010, the most serious bribery offences carry a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment.
British economy snapshot over the last 4 years:
Gas: +94.1%
Electricity: +78%
Fuel: +49.3%
Airfares: +34.4%
Hotels: +37.8%
Groceries: +25.0%
Eating out: +26.5%
Baby food: +26.3%
Dog food: +58.1%
Rent: +25%
Used cars: +30.5%
Public transport: +18.7%
Real average weekly earnings: -2.8%
The UK population is being killed
Source: ONS
Everything rotten in Britain stems from this period. Everything.
Landlord rents. Shit in the rivers. Zero work hours. No British industry. Gas, electric bills through the roof,
No affordable housing.
All of it.
I think a lot about the concept of a one hit wonder and how often it has a derogatory connotation but then I see someone like this and I think god…how lucky to be able to have given the world even just one like this? Even if they themselves struggle with the limitation of it, I find it a deeply honorable incredible thing to give a true HIT to multiple generations
Most common living arrangement for young men used to be with a spouse, now it’s with their parents
If you care about the birth rate so much you could do worse than increasing their disposable income by 9%
It appears Reform have really raised the bar by announcing a serious political heavyweight in Matt Goodwin as its candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Let’s look at Matt eating a book on TV.
#PoliticsLive#newsnight
Anyone claiming to hate The Beatles always turns out to be the worst kind of performative "look at me, look at me!" obtuse contrarian arsehole, and I've yet to see an exception.
My eyes are very bad, I can't drive due to it. Taking Uber/cabs to work, I've noticed something. Over time, Uber will raise the price if they reason that you *must* go to a place. That you rely on them. From $9.50avg to $23avg within 6 months.
I wrote a small program to
- Create new uber account
- Create new proxy credit card
- Request ride to given destination from current
Back down to $9.50 avg. Tech companies are so comically evil that it's transcended unfunny.
Statements from the British PM today indicate that the UK will not retaliate in any way, even if, as threatened, an additional 25 points are added to the current 10% baseline tariff imposed last year.
There is a logic to this, which illustrates how relative size matters in economic warfare. For the UK, even the most drastic measures it could take would have little impact on the US economy, while minor additional measures the US could take against the UK would be very damaging. And that is before non-economic dependencies are factored in.
Britain would be in a much stronger position if it were in the EU and the EU would have the additional weight of another G7 economy.
Brexit was bad for Britain and bad for Europe. It is even worse in the new era of great power predation.
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“Your courier has received your order & will let you know as soon as it’s dispatched!”
“There is a problem with your delivery. It may take an extra amount of time to reach you!”
“Excellent news! Your courier has left the local depot & should be with you between 8am & 10pm!”
“We’re sorry your courier was delayed today. Your delivery will be with you within a few days!”
“Could you confirm your postcode to allow us to deliver your order on time?”
“Great news! Your courier is on its way!”
“We’ve delivered your order!! How did we do?”
Oh FUCK OFF…
The clean mirror is maybe the greatest piece of art in the last 10 years. It represents the moment that the high-art of the elite is confronted by the sensibilities of the working class they claim to represent.
Only millionaire dipshits love crappy art that obscures their vision. The working class they claim to admire sees right through their bullshit and fixes their perception so that it is clean and clear and beautiful again.
The upper class says "we are confused and obscured in the broken-ness of social awareness" and the working class says "I got some windex here, let me fix that for you"
@elonmusk The candidates for the EU commission are nominated by each democratically elected EU member state, then the democratically elected EU parliament votes to approve the candidates...the EU commissioner has therefore gone through a democratic process to be there in the first place