Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺

Left wing, green, liberal and remainer

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@Perseverer4 @ElectionMapsUK @claire_adams694 Those who've realised Farage is just another lying crook

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Robert Jenrick: “Nigel Farage had the courage to put himself up for a by-election, which very few people do.”

Tim Stanley: “Well you didn’t.”

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Love her 🤣🤣🤣

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

He's a parasite.

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@LadyLili1980 Morning 😘

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Update: The Met is now investigating Reform UK itself, and two people have been interviewed under caution.

Everything reported on Reform's finances this week has involved agencies assessing, referring or reviewing money. This is different. Gabriel Pogrund is reporting that the Metropolitan Police is conducting a criminal investigation into at least £500,000 in donations from George Cottrell's mother, Fiona Cottrell, to Reform UK before the last election, and that two people have been interviewed under caution over allegedly "disguising" the source of the funds or making false statements about them. That's not a review. That's the formal step police take once they've identified potential suspects in a criminal offence.

Fiona Cottrell has already surfaced repeatedly in reporting on Reform's finances. The Sunday Times found she'd become one of the party's largest individual donors, giving £750,000 to Reform UK directly, despite describing herself in 2023 legal documents as a "retired stylist." Separately, she gave £1 million in June 2024 to Britain Means Business, Richard Tice's think tank, which then passed £500,000 to Reform UK that same month. The Met's new investigation, into "at least £500,000... before last election," lines up closely with that same transfer.

The specific allegation matters. Interviewing people about "disguising" a donation's source or making false statements about it points toward offences under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act, the law that governs routing money through an intermediary to obscure where it actually came from. A think tank sitting between a donor and a party is exactly the kind of structure that provision exists to catch if used that way.

This is now the fourth separate law enforcement thread running across Reform's senior figures simultaneously: the NCA on Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage personally, the NCA on Tice's £80,000 loan from Cottrell, the Met on Robert Jenrick's foreign-sourced leadership campaign donation, and now the Met on the party's own donation intake, with actual named or nameable individuals being questioned as suspects.

The distinction is worth being precise about. Everything else this week has been about individuals' personal finances. This is about how money entered Reform UK as a political party, under active criminal investigation, with people already being interviewed under caution rather than simply having their transactions flagged.

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@spectator 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The question everyone should be asking

But most already know the answer

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@HonestPassion13 Bugger!!!

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Reform UK supporters are asking 'who funds Count Binface?' The short answer is, not a Thailand-based crypto billionaire. And not a guy who was banged up for offering to launder money for a coke cartel.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

A spokesman for Restore Britain explained that Rupert Lowe only described the 17 deaths and 15 injuries at Dunblane as "one murder" because he's an entitled piece of shit who cares more about the freedom to play with his guns than about human life.

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

They call it GB News to make it sound patriotic.

It’s owned by Australians.

It’s based in the Dubai tax haven

It’s managed by New Zealanders.

The only British bit are the fools watching.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

10 years on and spot on 🤣

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@BrugesGroup Reform are unlikely to be the next Govt!

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@reformparty_uk Or maybe we should let the investigation conclude, put the facts to the electorate then let them decide. We all know this was an attempt to stop the investigation, should have read the rules properly again shouldn't you.

[Adam Boulton @adamboultonTABB]

No I didn’t like you misrepresenting what happened.

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

Again. This is just the start. Like Mandelson, it’s not going to bottom out for Farage. There’s no way to draw a line.

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@SB_B99 @DPJHodges Try answering the points he's raised

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@raelbrav This is satire? Right?

[Mark Scott 💙💛🇬🇧🇪🇺 @mbs278]

@StevenJonMiller @Nigel_Farage Wisdom isn't something Nige possesses, e.g. "up the Ra" eh Nige 🤣🤣