Terry Edwards

Train Driver/Local Staff Representative. Life long 🦁 let em come

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

If I had five million quid for every time a crypto billionaire tried to buy my integrity, I'd be Nigel Farage

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

The Guardian has released a statement after Nigel Farage posted a photo of one of their photographers' press passes, implying that a photojournalist threatened his safety:

"The Guardian is concerned by the recent publication on Nigel Farage’s social media pages of the professional credentials of a photographer working on behalf of the Guardian while he was working lawfully in a public space. Holding public figures to account is the role of a free press.

"As part of the Guardian’s journalism covering Nigel Farage’s purchase of a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift, a photographer took pictures from a public path and showed his press card when asked to identify himself."

https://t.co/6iyeYmJAvd

[Catherine Blaiklock @blaiklockBP]

The main things I learnt working with @Nigel_Farage
1. His word is not his bond.
2. He does not write emails - no paper trail.
3. He has zero ability to do any detail: 1-hour meetings turn into 56 minutes of Nigel talking about Nigel and 4 mins on the subject the meeting was about.
4. Nigel has no real friends - everyone and everything is expendable.
5. Nigel has enormous energy, but a lot of it is wasted because he drinks and parties too much.
6. Nigel is not an intellectual - he thinks Jordan Peterton is boring.
7. Nigel has spies.
8. Nigel loves money and spends it like water.
9. Nigel surrounds himself with rather facile young men like the convicted posh George.
10. Nigel does not really like working if it is not him being a showman - I cannot even imagine him reading a policy paper.
11. Nigel dictates tweets to Dan Dukes.
12. Nigel has a powerful lawyer behind the scenes who keeps files on people.
13. Nigel is vicious - the plastic sheen is a facade that cons so many people.
14. No idea if Nigel actually has any morality or values or what he believes in except fame and money.

@RupertLowe10

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Nigel Farage would hate if this went viral.

So let’s share the shit out of it 👇

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

- Two-thirds of Reform's money is wired from Thailand
- Ben Delo, pardoned by Trump for breaking money-laundering rules, has given £4m.
- Farage's secret £5m bung

A new model of politics is meeting an old model of transparency. With dangerous results: https://t.co/MKPSwt4VDu

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

After the Brexit referendum, Farage declared himself “skint,” saying “there’s no money in politics”.

Now he has so much that he can gamble £215k in a speculative Kwasi Kwarteng startup.

My column on how the crypto kings changed everything:-

https://t.co/mfhGVd3aV4

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

One might expect @ChrisMasonBBC to be able to find the rules on donations - it takes 3 seconds to do so: https://t.co/xwlNSOQ7lL

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Chris Mason is a brilliant journalist. It takes real skill to report on me accepting a £5 million donation without mentioning that the rules require all such donations to be properly declared.

[Sam Wolf @SamRWolf]

@docrussjackson GB News is going to try to pretend that DCI Pete Kirkham was just an occasional guest, now he faces charges for making indecent images of children and grooming then sexually abusing young men.

But GB News had him on every single fucking show.

[Tom @tomwhx]

Back in October, Reform made a big fuss claiming that Nigel Farage's publicly funded security detail had been cut by 75%

But this week Farage claimed that he has never had publicly funded security and all of it has always been provided by donors

These can't both be true

[Paul Vick @PaulVick138203]

Is the BBC Chris Mason going to be investigating the Nigel Farage £5 million crypto donor story for 6 weeks?🤔

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“It means that Nigel Farage has a kind of sponsor, a kind of sugar daddy.”

@FraserNelson says Reform’s bankrolling by crypto bosses is a “major” conflict of interest, as Nigel Farage is under fire for not declaring a £5 million gift by Christopher Harborne.

[Phil Jones @Phil_Jones01]

Something very wrong here. Farage doesn’t get touched. A prime minister who made an error and apologises gets hounded. UK political press looks biased, bought and very corrupt. Banana Republic corrupt.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

@AsplinKevin Reporters - myself included - have been on this trail ever since Farage rustled up £215k to personally “invest” in Kwasi Kwarteng’s company. Where does a politician find cash like that? The Guardian and other papers have been on the trail for some time. It found the answer.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

What's to celebrate? Harborne lives and pays his taxes in Thailand - his 'charity' involves a secret £5m (!) to Nigel Farage personally.

This degree of personal bankrolling and enrichment is unprecedented in our democracy. A scandal hiding in plain sight https://t.co/maRks88jMO

[Terry Edwards @ted7743]

@PaulEmbery Ask Virginia Bottomley she closed all the secure mental hospitals in favour of care in the community. That's worked out well!

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Also: gifts aren’t taxable.

So £5m tax-free personal “gift” to Farage will be the the biggest single sum accepted by any UK politician in democratic history.

Reform is lobbying for crypto tax cuts, forcing BoE to hold crypto etc. A scandal hiding in plain sight.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

It was never clear how Nigel Farage had a spare £215,000 (!) to invest in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto company.

But if he had been personally given £5m by a Thai crypto king, then it’s clearer.

My story from March:
https://t.co/gwTDW4rxnU

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Post-truth nonsense from @KemiBadenoch at PMQs. Some facts:
- employment is up over 800k since the election
- employment rate is near the highest on record (look at this chart)
- inactivity rates are lower than all but one year under the Tories