g

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Hard to overstate the importance of this Sunday Times insight investigation into the politician considered favourite to be next British prime minister

[Thomas Evans @Renewal2030 🇬🇧 @ThomasEvansAdur]

In a Daily Mail interview in December 2017, Nigel Farage claimed he was "53, separated and skint". He argued that there was "no money in politics" and that he had spent twenty years spending more than he earned.

In the eight years since then he has purchased 4 houses worth £4 million.

It's about time Reformers asked themselves a) how does a "skint man" purchase £4 million worth of houses in 8 years, b) whose money is bankrolling those purchases and c) who stands to benefit from his continued financial incoming "donations".

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Keir just bodied 30p Lee again, pivoted straight to Farage’s £5m donor drama, hidden lobbying & gold salesman grift.

Reform MPs turning PMQs into comedy gold for Starmer.

Absolute gift.

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

A new investigation alleges Christopher Harborne, now Reform's biggest donor and at the centre of the £5m scandal, was present at the secret Blackfriars meeting and on the campaign trail in Hartlepool the day Farage made the decision that delivered Boris Johnson's Brexit majority.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 HOLY HELL: Corrupt Clarence Thomas was just caught sneaking out of speaker Mike Johnson’s office.

A Supreme Court justice should not have a private meeting with the speaker of the house.

What were they talking about?

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

Given the SCOTUS refusal to review the @ejeancarroll case, let me remind everyone about the below email where Epstein describes to Michael Wolff the settlement Trump paid from an assault he committed in 1994 IN IVANKA’S BEDROOM that is almost exactly how Carroll described her attack. It also confirms Trump’s own words millions have heard around the world on the Access Hollywood tape that was released in October 2016. Epstein emails show there was a trigger in place with the Wikileaks information being spread immediately after the tape’s reveal.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Ben Habib claimed Christopher Harborne paid Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson £1m each to fix the 2019 general election.

Harborne is now suing Habib for defamation.

So what actually happened? Read part 2 of our @thenerve_news investigation #HarborneReceipts to find out.
🔗 below

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Nigel Farage has spent today on the media rounds repeating the same defence on the £5m he took from Christopher Harborne. He wasn't an MP when the money arrived, he says, so it wasn't his business to declare, and it certainly wasn't political. The first half of that is true. The second half doesn't survive contact with Companies House.
The money landed in June 2024, weeks before Farage's late U-turn to stand for Parliament, and he's right that he wasn't yet an MP when it did. That's the basis for his defence against the specific charge now sitting with the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, that he failed to register a financial interest within the required 28 days. If the rule only bites once you're an MP, and you weren't one yet, the rule arguably doesn't bite. Fine.
But "not an MP" and "not political" are two different claims, and Farage has been running them together as if proving one proves both. It doesn't. Reform UK was set up from its inception in November 2018 as a private company limited by shares, structured that way deliberately, in Farage's own words, to fast track the creation of the Brexit Party ahead of the 2019 European elections and to stop the party being hijacked by bad people. He held the majority of those shares personally. He kept holding them, by his own account, until February 2025, when the party was finally restructured as Reform 2025 Ltd, a company limited by guarantee with no persons of significant control, handing nominal ownership to the membership.
That means in June 2024, when Harborne's £5m arrived, Farage was the controlling owner of the company that was Reform UK. Harborne was not a stranger making a personal gift to a private citizen. He was, by that point, the party's largest financial backer by a wide margin, with a giving history stretching back to 2019 that would eventually total more than £22m, including a desk at Brexit Party campaign HQ in 2019 and tens of millions more in the years since. A donation of that size from that donor, to the man who personally owned the company behind the party, arriving in the run up to a general election Farage then decided at the last minute to contest, is political by any ordinary reading of the word, whatever his parliamentary status happened to be on the day the payment cleared.
None of this changes the narrow legal question the Commissioner is actually examining, which turns on registration timing rather than motive. But it does mean Farage's broader defence, that this was simply a private matter between two individuals with no bearing on politics, doesn't really hold. He wasn't a backbencher waiting to be elected. He was the owner of the vehicle the money was, in every meaningful sense, flowing towards.
Sources: BBC, Companies House filings for Reform UK / Reform 2025 Ltd, Channel 4 FactCheck, The Lead, GB News, City AM.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 This is actual genocidal intent on full display.
Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss openly admits on camera they will use starvation as a weapon to ethnically cleanse Gaza:
“We won’t give them food or anything. After we cause famine, they’ll leave Gaza — and the world will accept it.”
Her mother is from Poland. Her father is from the United States.
Palestinians?
“Go home.” This isn’t fringe.
This is the ideology driving the settler movement.

[Capman #FBPE @Euro_toff]

Full disclosure 😁I don't really listen to JOB anymore
but I know it's an old one and it's James o brexit
But if you haven't seen it and you want to see a masterclass in how to flush a turd down the toilet @Nigel_Farage 👇

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🔥 Piers Morgan calls it exactly what it is, LIVE.
Daniella Weiss (far-right Israeli settler leader & founder of Nachala, the “Godmother of the settler movement”):
“The land of Israel belongs only to one nation.”
Piers Morgan: “But what are you going to do with all the millions of Palestinians?”
Weiss : “They would go to other places.”
Piers Morgan : “It’s called ethnic cleansing.”
And then she said it with zero hesitation.
This is the ideology behind settlement expansion.
No spin.
No filter.
Just the words. 📢📢

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

One thing that seems to be overlooked in most discussions around the £5m

The guardian reported that the £5m had come via a company linked to Harborne.

You can give a political donation via a company. You CAN'T just give a gift to a friend via company

You would have to take the money out of the business as salary or dividend, pay the appropriate tax, and make your gift from what is left, otherwise you would be dodging tax.

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

Without Russia's promotion of Farage, Brexit would not have happened.

On September 16, 2014, Farage and Nathan Gill made speeches to the European Parliament parroting several of the same Russian propaganda lies.

They both called Ukraine "The Ukraine," a term which refers back to the old Slavic word for borderland, which Russia uses to deny Ukraine's nationhood.

They both used the expression "poking the Russian bear."

They both parroted the Russian lie that there had been a coup in Kyiv in 2014.

They both parroted Russian lies about NATO and EU expansion.

They both repeated the Russian claim that the real threat was Muslim extremism, a claim that Putin had very effectively used to distract Western leaders from Russian aggression and its hybrid war against the West.

Reform UK initially claimed Farage barely knew Gill. That turned out to be a blatant lie.

And a reminder that before the BBC picked up the baton, Farage was propelled to prominence by Russian TV. The Kremlin clearly thought Farage would be useful to Russia. He has doubtless more than exceeded their hopes.