James E Shaw

Lives in North West of England. Currently politcally homeless. Hobbies include swimming and walking. Favourite music includes Blur and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A full timeline of Nigel Farage’s grift and corruption

1. 2001–2014: Rent-free office scandal
Farage used office space rent-free, failed to declare the benefit properly, and was fined by the Electoral Commission.

2. 2015–2016:
Whilst serving as an MEP, Farage’s EFDD group spent around €1.8 million of EU taxpayer funds improperly on his “Say No to EU” Brexit campaign activity, including paying for rallies in the UK, venue hire, banners etc

3. 2016–2019: Farage’s Brexit movement was heavily funded by Arron Banks. Questions over the source of funding were referred by the Electoral Commission to the National Crime Agency.

4. 2017–2018:
The European Parliament docked Farage’s MEP salary to recover around €40,000 after concluding parliamentary funds had been improperly claimed for staff costs.

5. 2018:
A European political party closely linked to UKIP and Farage’s parliamentary group was ordered to repay €1.1 million after investigators found EU grants had been improperly used for national political campaigning, including campaigns in the UK directly supporting UKIP.

6. 2019:
Channel 4 News and The Guardian reported that Banks gave Farage benefits worth around £450,000, including accommodation, transport and overseas travel.

7. 2019:
The Electoral Commission warned the Brexit Party’s online donation system was at “high and ongoing risk” of accepting impermissible donations and required stronger controls.

8. 2019:
Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne donated around £6.4 million to the Brexit Party, beginning a financial relationship that continues today.

9. 2021 onwards:
Farage earns £400,000 a year from GB News whilst serving as the leader of a UK political party.

10. 2023:
Farage received around £1.5 million for appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.

11. 2023:
Reform UK received £200,000 from First Corporate Consultants Ltd, linked to businessman Terence Mordaunt who lobbies against Climate Change policy and campaigned for Brexit.

12. 2024:
The Good Law Project alleged Farage failed to declare assistance from a US public relations firm during a US trip funded by Christopher Harborne.

13. 2024–2026:
Farage received a £5 million gift from Christopher Harborne around 1 month before entering Parliament. In 2026, Parliament’s standards watchdog opened an investigation into whether it should have been declared.

14. 2024–2026:
Since becoming MP for Clacton, Farage has declared more than £2 million in outside earnings from media, speaking engagements, commercial partnerships, including activity closely linked to lobbying for policies that benefit his private funders.

15. 2025:
A complaint alleged undeclared election spending during Farage’s 2024 campaign. Essex Police took no action because the statutory time limit had expired.

16. 2025–2026:
Farage failed to declare 17 separate payments, worth around £380,000, within the required parliamentary deadlines. The Standards Commissioner found the breaches were inadvertent.

17. 2026:
Farage declared £270,000 from Direct Bullion for promotional work while sitting in Parliament, equivalent to around £22,500 per hour.

18. 2026:
The Sunday Times alleged convicted former aide George Cottrell provided undeclared support including security, accommodation, staffing and media assistance.

A true public servant and man of the people.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Imagine Keir Starmer took undeclared donations from a crook? Chris Mason would have been hyperventilating over that story. When Farage does it, it's a bland write thru leading with a spokesman's denial / two tier BBC reporting has to end 👇🏽

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Reform haven’t got any actual rebuttal to the Sunday Times story. That’s why their only strategy is to attack @Gabriel_Pogrund

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

5 July 1933. A huge fire engulfed the original Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and despite over 100 firemen attending the blaze, the hall was damaged beyond repair. A new building was erected on the same site and opened on 19 June 1939.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

So proof that Farage has been avoiding questions about a certain donor for at least 6 years and across two parties

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Labour Health Secretary Nye Bevan with Sylvia Diggory described by the British press as the “First NHS Patient” (1948). 📷 google images

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

5 July 1929. An electric score board was introduced on the Centre Court at Wimbledon (the photo is of the scoreboard during the 1980 Borg v McEnroe Men’s Final). The modem scoreboard has computer generated scores.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Wishing a very happy 78th birthday to our NHS.

Every day, London’s doctors, nurses, paramedics, NHS staff and volunteers go above and beyond to care for us.

Thank you for everything you do. You are the very heart of our city.

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

I took ages to work out why Farage didn't declare the £5million late, once the standards inquiry started. It's public anyway.

But if he cedes the principle, he'd have to declare ALL donations for the 12 months before the GE. And perhaps there's so much more we DON'T know about.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

5 July 1945. Voting in the British General Election began. It resulted (when the results were officially announced on 26 July 1945) in a huge landslide victory for the Labour Party and a shock defeat for the war-time leader Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The NHS is our proudest achievement.

It’s always been there for my family. I’m proud this Labour government is making it fit for the future.

Happy birthday, NHS.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

'What the Voice of the People is saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?’”

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

4 July 1941. German SS Einsatzgruppen massacre of Polish academics, scientists and writers occurred in the German occupied city of Lviv (now in Ukraine).

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Krishnan Guru-Murthy mocking Labour's Lisa Nandy for running away from Twitter

"If only there was a government minister whose job it was to do something about Twitter/X"

Sorry @RupaHuq agree with you on a lot of things, but on this, Nandy isn't taking a stand, she's running away like a coward when it's her remit to actually do something about it

A point of clarification:

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), headed by the science and technology secretary, focuses on areas such as AI, digital infrastructure, data policy, telecoms and innovation

Lisa Nandy, as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, is responsible for policy relating to online safety, media and the digital environment, including oversight of the implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023 through her department

So while DSIT has responsibilities for the UK's wider digital and technology agenda, the regulation of social media platforms and online safety sits primarily with DCMS, making it part of Lisa Nandy's ministerial portfolio

And that's why she's both incompetent for not addressing this in the two years she's been in the job, and then a coward for running away

And the idea that politics on Facebook and Instagram isn't toxic - she'll be in for a shock! - It's just as bad, though on a smaller scale

The whole point of government is to make everyone safe in the country, in person and online. two years into a Labour gov, where's the plan?

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

4 July 1826. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the USA, died (aged 83). He’s venerated as a supporter of individual liberty, hailed as the author of the Declaration of Independence, but criticised for being a slave owner. He died on Independence Day.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

If the EU didn't exist it would soon be invented. The alternative is trade between around 30 tightly packed nations crippled by tariffs and non-tariff barriers. People would be much poorer. Non-tariff barriers are a particular problem. Overcoming them means harmonising thousands of product and service sector standards. It means getting countries to agree on a level playing field with regard to health, safety, and environmental regulations, and subsidies to industry and agriculture, and so on. This is what the Single Market does. All of this relates to domestic policies, so it requires the pooling of sovereignty, and decision-making at the European level. EU decision making is a compromise between full European level democracy and nation-based decision-making through negotiations between national governments in the Council of Ministers.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

4 July 1954. Food rationing in Britain ended at midnight when restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat and bacon were finally lifted. Members of the London Housewives' Association held a special ceremony in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate the occasion.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Russian intelligence started tracking Boris Johnson while he was an Oxford student in the 1980s.

The Kremlin called him "likeable but not trustworthy," said he had "no principles" and "could be easily manipulated," The Telegraph. 1/

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Nigel Farage is building a vast personal fortune - linked to gold, crypto, property and media.

But tensions are showing - and questions keep coming.

Will he have to choose between Farage Inc and Reform UK?

My column: https://t.co/il0zH4b1p7