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
Why did Boris Johnson accept a £1m gift from the same billionaire who gave Farage £5m?
What did Nigel Farage AND Boris Johnson do for the biggest lump sums of cash ever given to British politicians?
So glad to see this trending. #HarborneReceipts
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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.
Voters of Clacton, when you voted for Farage did you expect to be represented by a man who is almost never in Parliament & who almost never votes? Did you expect that his efforts as an MP would be so focused on reducing taxes on & deregulation of crypto (after a £5m payment)?
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 👇
Didn’t see this coming! I was name checked by @CountBinface at the Makerfield by-election as he was being interviewed by… LBC.
LBC: Will you hold onto your deposit?
Count Binface: If I do, I’ll invest it in my ‘What Happened to Sangita Myska Fund?’
🚨 This was the moment Jeremy Hunt had no answer.
@mehdirhasan “The two biggest hits to UK growth in the last 10–15 years were brought about by Tory governments: austerity and Brexit.”
@Jeremy_Hunt “Covid, the global financial crisis, Ukraine?”
Mehdi: “They were global issues. I’m talking about ones we did to ourselves.”
That’s the point. Britain cannot keep blaming the world for wounds it inflicted on itself.
#Newsnight #Brexit
Robert Gros made £27m selling useless gowns via the VIP PPE Lane, of course he never paid back a penny, he bought 2 mansions instead.
RT and see if we can make him as famous as Michelle Mone.
Perhaps Nigel Farage could give an emergency address on the following:
The £5 million 'gift'.
The £1 million 'gift' to stitch up the 2019 General Election.
The Clacton House stamp duty tax dodge.
The 17 breaches of the MPs code of conduct.
Where exactly has he been hiding.