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[A6er 💙✊ @A6er]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Denmark has a new king, the King and Queen get approximately $500,000 from the Danish Government a year, and the whole family is worth $40m.

In the UK King Charles gets $180,000,000 a year and his family is worth $25bn.

We need to be more like Denmark.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Well done @POTUS - YOU MADE BELGIUM GREAT AGAIN

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

WATCH: Farage asked by @skynews whether it was a mistake not to declare gifts provided by crypto tycoon George Cottrell, who had been convicted of wire fraud in the US, ahead of becoming an MP

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Not sure daddy’s going to be able to do anything about this hammering…

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Is Grievance Politics running out of road? https://t.co/mYbEoS8o7J What happens after Farage? And Trump?

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Farage running scared. It's over.

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Farage failed to declare a year of funding from a convicted fraudster. His own Register shows it.
Nigel Farage's Register of Members' Financial Interests currently lists two entries connected to George Cottrell: a £9,253.60 trip to Belgium in April 2024, and a £15,276 US domestic flight in December 2024. Both are framed as one-off visits. Neither mentions ongoing funding.
That framing doesn't match what's now on the record. The Sunday Times reported that Cottrell, a convicted fraudster with links to an offshore crypto gambling platform, paid for Farage's staff, security, drivers and social media output throughout the year before his election as MP for Clacton on 4 July 2024. Cottrell's own lawyers have confirmed he hired staff for Farage's private office and paid them by bank transfer. He has also let Farage use a Georgian townhouse near Buckingham Palace, both before and after the election.
Under House of Commons rules, new MPs must register any benefit worth more than £300 received in the twelve months before their election, provided it relates in any way to their political activities. The only exemption is for gifts that are purely personal. Farage's position, relayed through his Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick, is that the funding predated his time as an MP and came from a personal friend, so no registration was required.
Jenrick went further than that defence allows. Asked directly on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg whether Cottrell paid for Farage's staff and security, he confirmed it, then added that it was perfectly legitimate for a personal friend to offer security. Asked whether Farage had stayed at Cottrell's townhouse, Jenrick didn't deny it. He said Farage had stayed there a couple of times, describing the visits as infrequent.
This lands on top of an existing inquiry. Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg opened an investigation in May into a separate, undeclared £5m gift Farage received from crypto investor Christopher Harborne in June 2024, weeks before Farage reversed his decision not to stand for Parliament. Farage has given shifting explanations for that gift, including that it was to cover his personal security, a claim now complicated by Cottrell's lawyers confirming Cottrell was already paying for that security at the time. Labour's Lucy Powell has called for the Cottrell revelations to be folded into the same inquiry rather than treated separately.
It's also not Farage's first pass at this defence. In January, he was rectified by Greenberg's office for 17 late-registered payments totalling around £384,000, a breach he apologised for and which was treated as administrative error. Two more undeclared funding streams from crypto-linked donors, running at the same time as that error was being resolved, is a harder pattern to explain the same way.
One of the sharper reactions came from Trixy Sanderson, who spent over a decade as Farage's UKIP speechwriter and press aide and had an on-off relationship with him from 2005 until 2016, before changing her name and building a career in Wiltshire Conservative politics. Posting under her current name, Annabelle Sanderson, she responded to the Sunday Times story with four words: "Boom. Follow the money."

[A6er 💙✊ @A6er]

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[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

@invisiblebone In the Mail today, tax exile lectures on scroungers.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Total spend on welfare has sat between 10.7% & 10.9% of GDP over the past decade.

It is not spiralling.
It is not out of control.

That is a lie.

We spend below average for Europe.

55% goes on one of Europe’s lowest state pensions.

But yeah.

Bombs & drones & death.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Under Starmer, any journalist who works with a source [from Gaza] or even approaches them for information, could face 14 years in prison https://t.co/Rb8lLMq1X7

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Did you know that if you were a British journalist in 1945, and tried to interview a holocaust survivor, you could have faced 14 years in prison for the crime of interviewing a genocide survivor?

Just kidding, that's the policy today for the genocide survivors of Gaza.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Why can't people understand that the dodgy financial dealings of a taxpayer funded public official are none of their business?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I do wonder if there’s a point in this story at which the British press take a moment to remember that Nigel Farage’s last main funder sued one of their number in the High Court for investigating him..& they said fuck all & did fuck all

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Nigel Farage.

As an MEP his salary was docked by £35K after he misspent EU funds.

As an MEP, investigation called for into £450k of undeclared 'gifts.'

17 breaches of the MPs code of conduct.

A £5 Millon 'gift'.

Funding from convicted criminal George Cottrell.
#BBCLauraK

[Michael. @cawleym1]

The only honest thing he's ever said prior to getting the £5m gift from crypto's Lord Voldemort.

[Lord Llamedos of Abertawe vc.cbe. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @2446Ian]

@andywigmore @DPJHodges

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

BREAKING NEWS:
Lee Anderson is to be the subject of a House of Commons Standards Investigation after allegedly being given a gift of 5 million tons of bacon by a secret donor.😳

[LORD OF THE SOUTH🇳🇬🇬🇧 @jaynzegwu]

Takes a £5 million bribe so he can stand in an election as an MP and lobby for the crypto billionaire who funded him.
Takes money from a known millionaire criminal to lobby on his behalf as well.
Yet @SPT1603 thinks he's in tune with the people. 😐
He wasn't working for the people; he was working for the people who were secretly funding him.

[Michael. @cawleym1]

@timespolitics Oh no, what a terrible shock! Farage is a grifting cunt, who could have imagined....