This is an absolute delight to listen to, and worth 5 minutes of anyone's time. A 94-year-old Clacton resident schools Reform UK Cllr Justin Jay out canvassing for Farage. Jay is not the brightest, claiming Farage is paying the £250k election costs, which of course is a lie.
Michael Crick: "4 people in Farage's career have gone to jail for acts of dishonesty... what kind of world does Farage live in... cryptocurrency is great if you're a drug dealer or people trafficker... it's an absolute boon to the world's criminals... the whole thing stinks"
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.
I will absolutely leave the Labour Party if @Keir_Starmer is undemocratically ousted by @andy4makerfield.
This situation feels like a travesty of the values I joined @UKLabour for.
We worked so hard as members to secure a Labour government.
PM Keir Starmer has shut down the resignation rumours.
His message is clear.He is not walking away. Britain will not be destabilised.
He is staying to fight for the working-class families who voted for change.
True strength isn’t bowing to pressure,it’s staying the course to fix what’s broken.
Tune out the noise and support a stable Britain.🇬🇧
~LBC
Henry Nowak's mother has said:
"We are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. We want his memory to help bring our society together."
And there you have it.
So Farage ran away from parliament after he was shamed by the PM.
Where did he run away to? To Oswald's in Mayfair, a private members club.
When will people wake up. He doesn’t represent you. He doesn’t understand you. He’s not like you. He’s using you.
https://t.co/pMJw5uKCYv
Good morning to the enlightened, please electrically share this through the feeds and letterboxes of all the simpletons that you know. They can't win. #Farage#FarageRiots
“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"
"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"
"Other people had guns inserted inside them"
"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"
Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:
Robert Jenrick under investigation.
Nigel Farage under investigation.
Richard Tice dodging taxes.
Where are the so-called media? @BethRigby@Peston@bbclaurak@ChrisMasonBBC
There would be breaking news reports every 15 mins had it been Zack Polanski or Keir Starmer.
"Dear Diary,
Note to self: think carefully in future before making up bullshit stories about Russia hacking my phone. Labour have reported the 'hacking' to police and the National Cyber Security Centre, which means I have to choose between coming clean or lying to them both. As ever, my instinct is obviously to lie, but they'll see through that as soon as they look at my phone. I have a strange feeling my phone may be about to be stolen..."
Farage has a long history of making huge unsubstantiated claims, and being allowed to get away with it
But with the Putin Hacked My Phone line he’s claiming a state actor has breached the digital security of a party leader who aspires to be in No 10
That is massive and has implications, if it were to be true, for the security and integrity of our democracy
Time for Farage to learn you can’t just say stuff….. Full investigation required with public outcome https://t.co/WLIUpSQLMq
A Congressman’s warning: “I really hope the British public learns the lesson from Donald Trump when it comes to Nigel Farage”.
“Farage is a total fraud, and I hope they realise before its too late”