Nigel Farage denies breaking rules over undeclared benefits
An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Ian Dunt572It's not just the seriousness of these stories, but the relationship between them. For instance: If Farage used money from this shady crypto guy to pay for security, why did he say that he used the money from the other shady crypto guy to pay for security?
lilysmalls.bsky.social212Robert Jenrick just called The Sunday Times ‘a labour supporting paper’ for running the story. Have I woken up in a parallel universe or something? 🙃
Cambridge for Europe134Good. Right-wing populists like Farage are supported by crooks and billionaire oligarchs because they all want to weaken and destroy the national and international institutions that can hold them to account. They want to make the UK like Putin's Russia, and they are profoundly anti-democratic.
Phil Harrison112The thing is, there'll be more. There's always more with this cunt. He loves money. He'll take it from anyone who's giving it away. Literally anyone. Inching towards wondering if he stays in politics long enough to fight the next GE. He likes money more than politics, I suspect.
Huw Jelly52Farage is toast. Let's hope he's prosecuted before he can simply resign. Who next? Do we need to look at any members of the old 'Conservative Friends of Russia' Maybe? 🤔
PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸28Shame it’s behind a paywall Most of those voters who like Reform don’t read the Times We need social media to do it’s stuff
🗽LOLGOP🗽90Children, learn from our mistakes. (There's no gravity with these guys. Just what you can slow, stop, and defeat.)
Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈38A crypto mobster owns Farage? It sucks that no one is surprised by this, but we really need to bring down this whole class of corrupt assholes. «Yet his relationship with Farage, whom he calls “Daddy”, has been most opaque.»
Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙26Paywall so Cottrell, who has been convicted of fraud, provided funding that covered private security, staff, transport & accommodation for Farage’s operation in the year before he became an MP…MPs are required to declare any gifts, benefits, hospitality in the 12 months before their election.
Miles King16What this looks like, to me, is that the establishment has finally decided that Farage is more of a liability to them, than an asset. So it's time to pull the plug. None of this is new, It's just that the media (apart from people like @carolecadwalla.bsky.social) chose to look away, until now.
Dr Rachel Broady8Farage won't leave the gravy train. He's a career grifter. Like Tommy Robinson. They don't have politics or principles. They just chase money. They don't care where it comes from. Two of the most inauthentic con artists around. It's a great scoop, though.
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷8The grift is too big for him to fail.
Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴 🇮🇪8'Posh George: The Criminal Behind Farage', shows the web of undisclosed gifts and payments from Cottrell that helped pave "Daddy" Farage’s path to Westminster. Crypto paid for Farage's "security" even before Harbone paid £5M for security for life / reward for Brexit.
Terry O'Connor5I have a sneaking suspicion that Reform voters are not big Sunday Times readers.
joemuggs.uk4He can't. He's done for. All the same people (on all corners of the compass) as said "Boris is a different sort of politician, the rules don't apply to him," even as ordinary punters were baying for his blood, are saying it now.
Daniel Yeo3As much as I wish that were true, Teflon Nige will get away with this. All the norms of politics have been corroded so nothing matters anymore. True accountability disappeared from UK politics decades ago. Please prove me wrong
"The sort of flags on lampposts we can get behind! Activists from Take Back Power, a non-violent civil resistance group, took to the streets of Frinton-on-Sea in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton to raise 'Tax the Rich' flags, while removing England flags and Union Jacks" via London Economic
NotMyCircus30That's no good. He'll never see them...
Cotswoldy15Where do we buy these flags?
pushkin99.bsky.social9"Tax the rich". Especially the recipients of large 'gifts'.
Stephen Kinsella7Where can I order one of those flags?
Wokerati International Brigades #FreePalestine #Antifa4ever7I'm way past "tax the rich", it's far too late for tinkering around the edges, extreme wealth has spiralled completely out of control. Only full confiscation and redistribution of extreme wealth will change anything.
Rabid Cormorant6Old Fivemil loves a nice flag so I'm sure he approves of these
Runic🔥4Thats more like it 💪🔥
Malcolm LibDem🔶🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦3That's the kind of flag Nigel will feel very much at home with - such a friend of the man in the street!
My Name is River 💚🌍 Ⓥ3Exactly #TaxTheRich parasites like Farage and all the rest of the rich millionaires and billionaires and tax dodging companies in the UK like Starbucks, Amazon etc need to pay FULL UK TAX not little or nothing as they are!
Thom McVeigh3Umm Can I get one of those flags?
smeders2Looks like he may be a gonner!
Kid Charlemagne2Where can I get me some of those?
Amazing work by Reform in picking Robert Jenrick as the man to tour the broadcast studios to portray Nigel Farage and his party as a model of probity
Sarah Murphy102It is all they’ve got. The canny ones are dodgy as hell. The rest are way too dim to cope with media interviews.
Stuart Hemingway46When Jenrick is the most honest person the Party can put forward for interview then you know they are in deep trouble.
Alan Stedman28When is someone in the Media going to sit down with Farage and start with, "Now with regard to the Nolan principles..." Psssst They are still up on the .Gov website www.gov.uk/government/p...
kentisharsenal.bsky.social26Just heard a clip on the news that Kendrick said that the Sunday Times was a Labour supporting newspaper - wow 😯
Pete24Well following his work with young asylum seekers he’s a dab hand with the whitewash I guess.
Richard Barfield14As expected, Kuennsberg gave him an easy ride.
Bremain in Spain30Such an upstanding politician too. A perfect substitute for Farage ..
Sarah Murphy12Yes. But Jenrick is a grubby little bastard himself… and absolutely cannot be trusted… bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pete Fraser9I think the fact Reform feel they aren’t in a position to simply ignore the corruption stuff is quite interesting - they’ve now spent a lot of time putting senior figures on telly to deny that this is a big deal, all of which makes it look like a big deal. It seems sort of indefensible too.
James Woodfield5Would you buy a used testimonial from this man?
Lady Tina Murphy4Satire is being slaughtered between Trump and Reform. They are making themselves the object of ridicule by being their own satirists.
Penny Horwood3After having watched Jenrick on both Sunday shows I think he’s the JD Vance of UK politics. Sold his soul to what he considers the most likely winner, oddly aggressive, profoundly dislikable and disliked including by most of his own side.
nlwa.bsky.social2Black Kettle The Calling Pot…..
Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.
TC Won't Give In To Lies33@davidrvetter.bsky.social 💯 Burnham needs to move quickly to replace the Tory appointees in #BBC management, so we can get back to quality journalism. The country needs at least one source not controlled by corporate stooges.
Philo of Alexan22I’ve seen this happen before in my country Don’t fall for it like my countrymen did
Sophie Mac20Although until recently The Times/Sunday Times were just as bad re Farage. He must have royally pissed off their masters
Nigel Walpole15John McAndrew is Director of Programmes for BBC News, prior to that he was the launch editor of The Andrew Neil Show at Channel 4. Before this he was Editorial Director and Director of News and Programmes at GB News. Just saying..
⁸9Nick Eardley BBC. Another disappointment to journalism.
Belle de jour7You could say the BBC is behind the Times…
Jack - Oi, Shiny!7And people tell me it's right-wing to be anti-BBC. The BBC *created* Reform/UKIP/BNP/etc etc by elevating them from pub bores. They treated them like a political party, and thus gave them power. And now here we are.
Tyler4You can't even blame this on deferring to conservative outlets, because this is COMING from a conservative outlet
An Animated Cylinder of Xenon for PM4Look if we started setting the standard that nepotism was unacceptable in bodies ostensibly set up to serve the public, imagine how many useless producers and their friends who haven’t worked in 30 years would have to get jobs
Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani4The BBC is complying in advance… 3 years in advance of Farage potentially becoming PM
Tomi Oladipo3The BBC’s headline is now “Reform denies”. The allegation from the actual report is given a brief summary and buried beneath the reactions. For an organisation with ‘trust’ as one of its values, when it comes to Farage, I’m afraid they’re not delivering.
Cis PeeBee🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈BLM🍉3And by complete coincidence, just had BBCR4 news on & they described Cotterell as having admitted - but no mention of being convicted of - fraud
Keith Henry2This isn't left vs right, the Sunday Times is extremely right wing and often explicitly racist. Their subscribers love Reform, I wonder what happened here? Some kind of falling out between the dark money shitbirds that fund them?
Farage is done. He simply cannot become PM. He’s a ragingly greedy, corrupt, national security risk. We aren’t America. Anyone shouting “witchhunt” on this just looks like an idiot. Off you go, you most loathsome man.
Sarah Murphy176Some more detail of the crypto-criminality that has boosted Farage far beyond the limits of his own potential. And should now bring him down.
Jim Higham18Definitely not a witch hunt. Actually a duck hunt. Looks like a duck, walks like a, duck, is a complete and utter, er, duck.
pause-for-thought.bsky.social18Sadly we have enough idiots, 33% who like MAGA are becoming increasingly resistant to intelligent reasoning. Farage has allowed this bigoted group the ability to express their racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic self - under the guise of free speech. They are in a cult of hatred.
kaybell27.bsky.social13His illegal activities are out in the open now, even our MSM no longer protects him. Time for him to go and finally face justice.
Holly Brigstocke12imo Murdoch is getting rattled about attention on Farage beginning to expose the network of abuse of power and dirty money behind Farage. They're treating him as their "cut out" or "fuse" by burning him and hoping people stop looking. It goes right to the top of govt. Keep digging.
Paul Russell12It’s depressing but also comforting - these populist grifters all have a fatal flaw. They simply cannot control their greed, even when it threatens to bring them crashing down.
Paul Russell38We see it in the US, where even Fox News is questioning Trump’s extraordinary use of the presidency to enrich himself, and we see it here, where Farage is embroiled in yet *another* corruption scandal. These populist grifters all have the same fatal flaw - they simply cannot control their greed.
Sandra Whittleston36What is so upsetting, is how the UK (England in particular) has been in the thrall of this man and his ghouls for far too long. We have lost so much ground over the past 20 years since he was installed by right wing hacks as a so-called "man of the people". @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺26He is so corrupt at this point , nobody can believe a word he says.
Phil McDuff25Oh can't he? Says who? Who will stop him? Andy Burnham?
Maggie Duarte #fbpe6I so hope you’re right
ntheowl2[And interesting this media focus now, given his other major funders and their support of Johnson and the Tories...]
Charlie Massey2But I bet I could still walk down the street here in Oakham today and half of the people I pass would still vote for him.
Johann S 🇨🇮🇺🇦 ⬅️2If the Reform Party is funded by criminals, should we be bringing such people into No10 Downing St. Serious stuff
Has Nigel Farage broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare benefits provided by an ally who’s a convicted criminal? He says he hasn’t. The Sunday Times reports George Cottrell supplied security & social media staff who worked on Mr Farage's online content in the year before he was elected
Sarah Murphy108So many different people seem to be paying for Farage’s “security”. Bottom line is - Farage’s greed has made him a crashing liability and could ultimately do for him. The hope invested in that possibility is looking less and less precarious.
Victoria Derbyshire94Mr Farage is already facing a parliamentary investigation over that £5m from a crypto billionaire based in Thailand, which wasn’t registered. He says that was for personal security & was a personal gift/non-political
Bestie67How about you stop putting Reform MPs on Newsnight every bloody night?
John Rob61He was the majority owner of Reform ltd at the same time he trousered the 5 million bung, and received all those freebies. So, however he tries to spin it. He was heavily involved in British politics at the time. Therefore it all should have been declared.
Stephen Kinsella43Genuinely, how satisfied are you with the BBC’s own efforts over the years at holding him to account and examining his finances? Because much of this is very old news.
Yorkshire Lad27Wonder what "Farage fan boy" Chris Mason explanation will be next time he does his pseudo reform political broadcast on the been ??
Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan6Pharage seems to have for years had loads of things funded for him by associates, it was Arron Banks a while back, it's Harbourne and Cottrell now. But he's just like a bloke down the pub, anti establishment and anti elite though.
Chipper60🏴🏴🏴🏴4A blind ameoba knows he's corrupt,it's the English MSM fawning over him,lauding him,pushing his rhetoric,cheerleading him 24/7--365..journalism in ALL UK doesn't exist anymore,ordered what to report,what NOT to report(we know what)just the same 🐂💩 misinformation by the hour,hacks R us
Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈3It actually took Michael Gove to remind Laura Kuenssberg that him being a convicted fraudster was the real issue after she failed to even mention that part while interviewing Jenrick.
Tony3What is it with these right wing throbbers never paying for anything themselves? This should be an auto disbarment from any kind of political office. Didn’t pay for it out of your own pocket with money you’ve genuinely* earned? Out you go. *cap their outside earnings at half their MP’s salary.
Brian Cutts2The Times deciding it's time to go for Farage is good (though a fair amount of his voters won't let facts get in the way of their xenophobia)
Harvest2It’s a minor quibble @vicderbyshire.bsky.social but I’m not sure Farage himself has actually said anything ?
He literally took undeclared donations from a criminal - never mind “breaking rules” Farage has tried to ignore them entirely for personal gain. And he’s done it over and over again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
victoria1921.bsky.social31Carole Cadwalladr has been telling the 🌎 about Farage accepting dirty money from overseas billionaires + other criminals for years. This thread from her is before the world's richest racist turned 🐦 into a toxic cesspit. Johnson ruined BBC with RW Tory stooges. threadreaderapp.com/thread/11301...
Russ18This ‘I wasn’t involved in politics’ line is bullshit. He was the majority shareholder in a ‘political party’. Your party needs to get a grip of this and close these loopholes down. Farage couldn’t complain if Burnham comes out Trumpian and just does it.
Elkeblom13Farage's antics have only ever served Farage. They have cost this country billions and weakened the cohesion of both the UK and Europe. He's a selfserving fake patriot who's done Putin's dirty work for him. I think in the olden days they used to call them traitors.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈11you all are just as much on the take as he is. you can literally buy government policy under labour.
D.Moore8BBC headline failing to declare Farage is secretly funded by convicted fraudster & crypto gambler. ‘Ally’ Wtaf?
Fraser Wylie6He MUST be held accountable. No excuses.
Alom Shaha187America could have stopped Trump if they’d treated him like an ordinary citizen who had broken their laws. We could do the same with Farage but it seems laws don’t apply to some people.
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉29He’ll quit and do same as Truss and promote the “they hounded me out” “the blob conspired against me” “the lefty wokerati faked evidence”, “I was too big a threat so the deep state had to silence me” “I was stitched up” Annnnnd “I’m living proof that free speech no longer exists in the UK”
Chris Dillow26I'm not sure how much support this will cost Farage: many of his fanboys think "they're all at it", which is why all his other misdeeds haven't brought him down. (A better hope is that he gets tired of the coverage & walks away).
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈18okay @torstenbell.bsky.social, now do all the bribes labour cabinet ministers regularly take. sorry i mean 'donations'. 🙄
WillieMillersMoustache14Do Labour Together next Torsten. Go on lad. You can do it.
Abigail5Do you think Farage didn't think he'd be elected? I reckon he's furious at being elected as an MP with no real extra power but with a whole load of scrutiny of his dodgy dealings.
Knitting Cat5Our right wing media has suddenly woken up. Private Eye has been revealing these facts and truths for years.
kevinanthony.bsky.social2#bbclaurak … @samcoatessky.bsky.social I’m sure you will be having a deep and thorough investigation … or …are glasses and suits more important and too easy?
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.
Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱36It'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".
Simon J. Barrett11Hmmm, nothing to see here! Grifting little weasel…
woodcollier.bsky.social10If all he gets is booted out of Parliament, the optics for HoC will be ‘sweeping under carpets’. The message I’d like to see is a trial and custodial sentence for treason.
PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸6He also been funded by criminals according to the Times
mitch8951.bsky.social5Who cares! Certainly not those who vote for him, work alongside him OR the investigative journalists who publish 'In the public interest' stories
Suffolk Sue5He was lying then and is still lying now. It's all he's got. He's a spiv.
A bombshell article in The Times last night claims Nigel Farage may have breached standards (again) by not declaring donations from George Cottrell in the form of hiring staff for him. #Farage #GeorgeCottrell #NigelFarage
Carol Hedges19But there will be no consequences. There never are.
viviancomma.bsky.social7Yes but honest Bob Jenrick says there's nothing to see here and it's a Labour supporting Times newspaper just trying to cause trouble!
Jon Hewlett5The detail about Farage being with Posh George when was arrested is just beautiful 😂😂
James #We are Starfleet.4I've been hearing rumbling that Nigel is about to step down and will not put himself forward to become PM in a future election. A great start to Sunday if true.
kaybell27.bsky.social4Farages day's are numbered, we all have long known that he consistently breaks the rules and his actions are extremely suspect but the authorities and particularly MSM have deliberately hidden it. That they are now reporting on this shows he no longer has their support.
Huw Jelly3Farage is toast. Who do we need to expose next?
Self-contained5For some reason the right-wing media have suddenly decided that Far*ge is surplus to requirements and they've turned on him. From being an oracle, a saviour who could walk on water, they've decided to open his closet and air out the skeletons and tear him down. Not a moment too soon
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit4Farage's Achilles Heel? Ironically, being an MP.
Farage, crypto and money Nigel Farage did not declare gifts and benefits provided by a crypto entrepreneur previously convicted of fraud. Farage already under parliamentary investigation for undeclared £5m donation form a Thailand-based crypto billionaire. What are the rich getting in return?
Gildy Stern4It's funny when you're posh you're an 'entrepreneur', not a chancer
Murph3He’s operating Trumps ‘pay to play’ scheme in the UK. It’s paying off brilliantly for Trump here in the States and all we’re getting out of it are shady businesses providing services they’re not trained to do
Pete Hudson 🇬🇧🇨🇵🇪🇺🏴🇮🇪🇳🇱🏴🇮🇳 #FBPE3Farage is defined by his grifting, his lust for power and money. These character failings, along with his failure to represent voters in all positions of power he has held, in the EU and as MP, demonstrate his major threat to the UK as a potential PM. A Trump clone who should be unelectable.
Tim Lowe1Part of global influence operations attacking all the Liberal Democracies. #FightBack
ala8.bsky.social1Getting in return, favors, don't get that kind of money for nothing
Gavin Draper1The convicted entrepreneur also co-authored a book called “how to launder money”. Just saying. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage being a wrong 'un who associates with wrong'uns? If only there had been a sign.
Jackie❤️☮️🇵🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧🎵🖤♿2If it looks like a bigoted hypocritical grifter, speaks like a bigoted hypocritical grifter, acts like a bigoted hypocritical grifter, then it's a bigoted hypocritical grifting cunt.
Bobbert2But I'd heard he's just a working class bloke, who likes a pint and a bit of a banter with the lads. Now I dont know what to believe. 🤔
Colin Gribble1A cult follower will miss all the signs!
Alan Pennie 1It's a great shock, said no one.
Nigel Farage has made a career out of ‘taking back control’ - but he is not being straight with the British people about who controls him. Today, I have written to the Standards Commissioner to urge that the latest Sunday Times revelations are investigated.
Somersetchris3Talking of not being straight, I have been trying to work out how many trips Farage has made to the USA since he was elected as an MP in July 2024. It is at least 10 in my reckoning. According to the register of interests he has only been 3 times www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/26352/nig...
richardmwhelan1.bsky.social2Well done Josh. It is what is needed to expose wrongdoing.
Dan Smith (Avenrise)1First post on here in 3 months, at least it's a good one I guess.
When did Nigel Farage last run a surgery for his Clacton voters, Robert Jenrick? #BBCLauraK is inadequate.
Jop10LK is a right wing apologist, one of the many reasons I cancelled a thirty year direct debit with them.
robdodds.bsky.social8If only she was an experienced BBC political reporter and knew that the declaration rules relate to the previous 12 months before becoming an MP, she could have asked Jenrick about that too.
Dave7Kuennsberg did her usual performance of holding Reform to account, by not holding Reform to account
madamechic.bsky.social6Inadequate? She’s a shill for RW politics
solvognen5If the Lauracle were any more of a plant she'd be an aspidistra.
red_3Weird that Ukraine only made advances against Russia after Boris left office? Weird that Laura Kremlinsberg became useless as a political correspondent once Boris left office? 🤔
AJ 🦋4#LauraK is a shill - nothing more.
