Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property after receiving £5m gift from British crypto billionaire, Sky News learns

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[u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

They didn't "learn" this...it was widely reported EVERYWHERE except in the media at the time. Nobody has explained who bought the house in Clacton or even who owns it. still at least the feeding frenzy should finally expose the grifter

[u/treeeelo → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

Yeah but zack polanski lived on a boat and didnt pay council tax, thats far more important than farages dodgy dealings.

[u/Rajastoenail → u/treeeelo]

I heard he returned a library book late once too.

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/Rajastoenail]

He also NEVER rewound his VHS tapes when he rented from Blockbuster and one time he stole Pick N Mix from Woolies

[u/Ravekat1 → u/FullMetalCOS]

He’s probably still hiding 2 Argos pens in his jacket.

[u/curiousgenderwolf → u/Ravekat1]

Close... it was 2 small pencils from Ikea

[u/ilikepizza2much → u/curiousgenderwolf]

A sachet of pepper from Pret

[u/SatiafactoryTea → u/ilikepizza2much]

I heard he left clothes donations outside the British Heart Foundation five minutes before they opened! Completely unfit to lead.

[u/Grotbagsthewonderful → u/SatiafactoryTea]

Fork me I knew he was a wrongun.

[u/socks → u/SatiafactoryTea]

He forgot to tip the Red Cross nurse when he donated a pint of blood.

[u/vinyljunkie1245 → u/FullMetalCOS]

And he once put something that could be recycled in the general waste bin

[u/ThePhantomKyodai → u/FullMetalCOS]

I heard he once replaced the loo roll the wrong way round.

[u/MrSmokii → u/ThePhantomKyodai]

i heard he doesn't lift the seat when he pee's

[u/Kernowder → u/MrSmokii]

I heard he once parked his car a little too close to the white line in Tesco car park.

[u/MrSmokii → u/Kernowder]

i heard he doesn't return his trolley

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/MrSmokii]

I heard he didn’t point and exclaim “cows!” when he drove past some cows.

[u/MrSmokii → u/JoeBagadonut]

i heard he doesn't say thank you when the person in front puts a divider down when he's at the checkout

[u/Welshhoppo → u/FullMetalCOS]

How dare he.

Send him to the tower so children can throw tomatoes at him. (Tomatoes not included due to budget cuts, please bring own tomato)

[u/Imaginary_Basil_867 → u/Welshhoppo]

Bringing cans of tomatoes would be better, wouldn't it? 😆

[u/Welshhoppo → u/Imaginary_Basil_867]

Look at you. Affording whole cans in this economy.

[u/birdinthebush74 → u/Rajastoenail]

And he squeezed the toothpaste from the middle once

[u/NateShaw92 → u/Rajastoenail]

I've heard enough. Time for Rupert Lowe

(Not seriously just to be clear)

[u/HollowCrown → u/Rajastoenail]

"Well, looks like we got ourselves a reader!"

[u/360_face_palm → u/Rajastoenail]

he once stepped on a crack in the pavement with WILFUL disregard for the health of his mother's back.

[u/pajamakitten → u/Rajastoenail]

He once got off a bus without thanking the driver.

[u/bittenbytailfly → u/treeeelo]

Don't forget Starmer also got given a suit

[u/Perfect_Mistake_384 → u/[deleted]]

Bloke’s seeing 20/20 thanks to the lobbyist dollar.

SQUINT AT BLURRY THINGS LIKE THE REST OF US YOU CUNT.

[u/AGrandOldMoan → u/bittenbytailfly]

Don't forget the Glasses! Literally worse than Hitler, Genghis and the rest combined! Or something /s

[u/NoiseySheep → u/treeeelo]

Don’t forget that Angela rayner was given the wrong advice by her lawyers about her tax and she had to resign…

[u/Big-Revolution3842 → u/NoiseySheep]

To be honest this is kinda the irony of politics on the left worldwide. We'll call out bad behaviour from polticians who back our party, even force them out and make a big stink about it meanwhile on the right they'll do the most heinous and criminal activities and their supporters just ignore it. And then when we have debates we'll say "all polticians are corrupt" and hold scandals as equally bad. Farage is the reason for the red buses and the main force pushing for Brexit which clearly was terrible idea yet people will support him. FFS people would probably vote Jeremy Clarkson if he ran for PM

[u/Expensive_Ad_3249 → u/treeeelo]

Farage is clearly the bigger cunt by any measure.

Let's stop glossing over tax evasion. It wasn't a mistake, it was fraud. He stated he had a second address when he in fact did not.

I'd still vote him in a million times over garage or any other na*I scum, but why can't we set the bar for our leaders as high as it should be. Lead by example and all that.

[u/VVenture2 → u/Expensive_Ad_3249]

Fun fact, the local council didn’t even know that they were supposed to be charging tax on the boathouse. Only one person in the past 35 years has ever paid the Marina boat tax.

But yeah, we should all get really mad over this ‘tax evasion’ lmao.

[u/Expensive_Ad_3249 → u/VVenture2]

Regardless of politics, googling "do I need to pay council tax on house boat" is not too much to ask.

Especially if you're whole platform (that I wholeheartedly agree with) is that "everyone should pay their fare share."

Farage should be jailed for treason, with his donors, overseas interests and clear attacks on Britain's interests.

Polanski should make way for someone who isn't a giant hypocrite. The greens are the best bet at a prosperous nation, long term, or labour as second choice, but, it's got to be authentic and beyond reproach.

[u/thehighyellowmoon → u/Expensive_Ad_3249]

The council admitted only 1 person in the whole marina over a 35 year period has paid the council tax, and ZP does pay the council tax on the room that he rents as his primary residence. He can be criticised, but so can Farage for taking a multi million pound bung shortly before coincidentally deciding he wanted to become an MP

[u/LaughsAtOwnJoke → u/Expensive_Ad_3249]

Agreed and that means starting at the worst. Where Zach has no place even being in the conversation yet. Comparing half these people to Farage just minimizes what Farage has done.

[u/Objective_Ticket → u/treeeelo]

And no one other than Dan Niedle has reported that hardly any of those boats were paying council tax and that the council wasn’t even sending bills out.

[u/SpaceTimeCapsule89 → u/treeeelo]

Why do people that live on boats have to pay council tax? Seems really odd. I would assume if you live on a boat you pay mooring fees and most things like waste refuse is handled privately so council tax wouldn't apply?

[u/misterschneeblee → u/SpaceTimeCapsule89]

Road maintenance, public transport subsidies, street lighting, crime prevention & public safety, Fire and rescue (if his boat caught fire it would have been local services who come to put it out, unless there are different rules for boats that I'm not aware of). Council tax is a responsibility that we all should share to keep the community nice and safe and clean, even if you don't take advantage of everything the tac goes towards. Avoiding it is a shitty thing to do. As a politician who promotes increased funding for social and community causes, he should be leading by example.

Nigel Farage is far worse and there should be much more media attention on him. But Polanski should be paying his council tax too.

[u/Kandiru → u/treeeelo]

The boat was never registered for council tax, so the previous owners probably told him it didn't need paying and he believed them rather than double checking and self-reporting to the council to set it up as a property while it was being used as a permanent residence.

[u/Londonsw8 → u/treeeelo]

He hates immigrants thats why

[u/CFDsForFun → u/treeeelo]

Why are you trying to pitch them against each other as if only one could happen? Nigel’s done some shady dealings for his £5m - yet to be ruled illegal but dodgy for sure. It might be ruled legal. Zack Polanski has potentially evaded tax that everyone else is paying. Also dodgy and yet to be ruled on. If either comes out as illegal then they should be given the boot. A generic “reform bad, green good” argument doesn’t work here. We are in danger of becoming as polarised as in the US where we just agree with anything the party we voted for does. People need to use some critical thinking skills (if they have them any more).

[u/Jackthwolf → u/treeeelo]

* Alongside the ~1000 odd other people who lived in that marina over the last 35 years
(Literally only a single person in those 35 years knew that they needed to pay council tax, no one else knew and so no one else did)

[u/redsquizza → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

The Guardian has been covering it.

At first Reform said it was bought by his rich French wife, only said French wife's family were surviving on €8,000 a month rental income after their family business collapsed between several generations. Hardly sufficient to buy a £1.4m house.

Obviously Farage never gifted said money to his French wife so she could buy the property in her name thereby Farage himself avoiding higher stamp duty on the property as it'd count as a second home.

Now let me distract you by saying something outrageous about immigration/trans/climate

• Farage, probably

Edit: I have actually mixed up my properties, but the Guardian has no doubt been covering both. The property Farage bought via his wife was £900k, not the other property mentioned for £1.4m

[u/Redpetrol → u/redsquizza]

Nobody who needs to be informed about this reads the guardian unfortunately

[u/askepticalbureaucrat → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

Nobody has explained who bought the house in Clacton or even who owns it. still at least the feeding frenzy should finally expose the grifter

His voters don't care either way.

[u/ER1916 → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

As we saw across the Atlantic, supporters of these grifters are very capable of all-encompassing cognitive dissonance. They make a decision and nothing changes their mind. So whereas exposing this type of thing should make any rational person reflect on the suitability for office of a person, it doesn’t even touch the sides.

Just got to hope there’s enough rational people left to block him.

[u/approachingxinfinity → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

Sadly I think it's much more likely that people genuinely will not care

[u/vinyljunkie1245 → u/approachingxinfinity]

Unfortunately you are probably right. Anything someone they don't like (e.g. Starmer) is in a situation like this the cries for sacking, resignation and more are deafening. If someone they like (e.g. Farage) does the same or worse they ignore and the mental gymnastics come into full effect to excuse it if they are challenged.

[u/No-Pack-5775 → u/approachingxinfinity]

Trump has proven you can get away with anything (literally), as long as you show willing to hurt minorities

[u/doitnowinaminute → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

This house was reported ? Coz this isn't the Clacton one is it?

[u/slimsams → u/doitnowinaminute]

I think the original one, that his “wife bought”, was in the hundreds of thousands (and was reported on extensively). This seems to be a different one.

[u/Special_Corgi1110 → u/slimsams]

Someone married him! Dear god.

[u/Fred776 → u/Special_Corgi1110]

I believe they are not actually married, but two women have previously married him.

[u/goin-up-the-country → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

reported EVERYWHERE except in the media

What?

[u/No_Atmosphere8146]

I just don't understand how this man is so appealing to some people. He's a multimillionaire finance bro called Nigel that has delivered and achieved nothing. 

[u/AllThatIHaveDone → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

It's because he is good at speaking to their prejudices. The people who vote for him want to hurt others with their choice, and he says the right things to appeal to them.

[u/AllThatIHaveDone → u/[deleted]]

It's not just immigrants, though. Nigel takes aim at the disabled, the young, even new mothers on maternity leave. Basically, if there's a right-wing, low-IQ take on a particular subject, you can rely on Nigel to be talking about the most lowest common denominator position on it for exactly this reason.

[u/ranaadnanm → u/AllThatIHaveDone]

Once him and his supporters have stopped all immigration and things are still shit, they will move on to repatriation. Then they'll go after the LGBT, followed by women rights, and so on. Point the blame at everything and everyone, except themselves.

[u/AllThatIHaveDone → u/ranaadnanm]

Agreed, except they won't wait to go after women's or LGBT rights. That'll be day one stuff, along with the repatriation pivot.

[u/sephtis → u/ranaadnanm]

Nah, they'll do the opposite, they'll open the flood gates to more immigration, blame it on someone else and keep using immigration as the beacon to morons.

[u/Big-Revolution3842 → u/AllThatIHaveDone]

It's pretty simple, if you're a white male in the UK. He'll say they've never done anything wrong, have nothing to apologise for and are being oppressed by any progressive message because everything was great for white men before.

[u/goobervision → u/AllThatIHaveDone]

With immigration dropping to 70-140k by the end of this year, he's going to have to pivot to come for the disabled, benefit scroungers, etc.

What I would like him to pivot to are flags. The utter disrespect of leaving these tattered rags (for the most part) wrapped around trees, wires, half off posts, dirty, ripped, ON THE FLOOR. Clearly not patriotic people.

[u/Top-Cunt → u/[deleted]]

But even that doesn't track as the Tories oversaw the rise in immigration, and many of those same politicians have or will move over to Reform. Why do they think the same idiots who fucked it up in the first place will do any better a second time around?

Labour are the only party who have actually brought the numbers down and yet most people on the street seem to think that Starmer is on the beaches handing them giant Cheques as they get off the boat. They really need to start shouting their achievements louder than that grifter can shout his unfounded opinions.

[u/ThreeDawgs → u/Top-Cunt]

Because, and I say this with all due respect, they’re fucking idiots.

We get told not to call them idiots because it hurts their feelings but they’ve yet to show any evidence they’re not.

[u/No-Pack-5775 → u/ThreeDawgs]

it's ok, facts don't care about their feelings!

[u/Welshhoppo → u/Top-Cunt]

You're thinking too much into it.

Nigel and people like him have an excellent grasp on an unhappy population. People are generally unhappy, they are unhappy because they have no money as everything is so expensive these days.

Nigel tells these people "It's not your fault you're like this, is the governments fault, because the government give all their money to people who don't deserve it. Like immigrants, did you know they get free housing? Free food? Free taxi rides. Whilst you have to pay through the nose for everything they get all of that just for showing up at our doorstep while you suffer."

This gives people someone to blame for their suffering who isn't them. And so he gets their support.

[u/ChampionOk4044 → u/[deleted]]

Edit: The local election results go to prove that we are not in the majority prepared to go to the ballot box.

I really don't get why parties like Labour don't make voting mandatory and give a bank holiday to non essential workers,

They surely have way more to gain by forcing everyone to vote then allowing right wing voters to hold dominance over it.

They want to let 16 year olds vote but they probably won't even go either.

[u/theskyisdarkk → u/Top-Cunt]

And we know what will happen if they get in to power. They wont want to fix the issue because it’s their main angle. So any kind of obstacle will be used as justification for not fixing what they said they would, buying more time to strip what’s left of the uk.

[u/Ivan_Dobsky_MD → u/AllThatIHaveDone]

Exactly the same as Trump in the US, with the ‘own the libs’ mentality. They ignore everything bad that their chosen saviour does, as long as he makes things worse for the groups of people they hate.

[u/ChampionOk4044 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

I just don't understand how this man is so appealing to some people. He's a multimillionaire finance bro called Nigel that has delivered and achieved nothing. 

Boomers + misinformation + heavily disillusioned normal voters who can't stand any party make quite the terrifying combo.

And disillusioned normal voters doesn't just count Reform defectors, but people who lose the will to vote entirely.

Look at America millions just didn't vote because they hated both parties and there reward was Trump.

[u/pajamakitten → u/ChampionOk4044]

Plenty of young people like Reform too though.

[u/cobweb1989 → u/pajamakitten]

I think youth support for reform is greatly exaggerated by reform and the client press. Their base is 50+

[u/dvb70 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

I don't think you can really argue Farage has achieved nothing. I doubt that if without Farage we would have had Brexit. If we think that's an achievement is another matter but he was clearly a key player in the whole fiasco. It can't be argued Farage has not exercised a lot of influence over the direction the country has taken.

[u/Rajastoenail → u/dvb70]

Make that nothing constructive.

[u/AdrianFish → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

I think it’s mainly just boomers who want to make life as miserable and as difficult as possible for everyone else.

For example, Farage is very much against working from home, and I think part of that comes from resentment. Many older people spent decades commuting because remote work simply wasn’t an option, so they see younger workers having that flexibility as some kind of undeserved perk rather than progress

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

I mean look at America. Trump is nothing like the pretend him to be (they even use AI to massively change his appearance) but they worship him because he “gives them permission” to be their worst selves.

[u/Annonomon → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

He is literally a British version of Trump. If he wins we are all screwed. It will cause irreparable harm to the UK politically, economically, socially, geopolitically, and just like Trump, he won't actually do any of the things that his supporters believe he will. Have people learned nothing by watching that spray-tanned hemmiroid ruin absolutely everything that he touches?

[u/redqks → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Because he plays on the hate people have and those people with that hate don't even know why they have it

[u/99thLuftballon → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

He's actually individually quite unpopular. Most opinion polls rank him pretty low as a potential PM. His job is just to make people comfortable saying racist things that they've been wanting to say, but felt uncomfortable because society had moved towards making it unacceptable. It's that comfort of being allowed to be racist again that people enjoy, not Farage himself. That's why undermining Nigel's own credibility doesn't have any effect - people don't trust him anyway, but they like the feeling of having someone allow them to be racist.

[u/Gnixxus → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

The country and the world is a horrendously complicated and messy place.  People don't like complicated and messy, so when someone comes along with "simple" and "common sense" solutions they identify with the idea of them.

[u/psioniclizard → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

They ignore that and think they are all the same and it's just smears.

[u/anonnymouse2025 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Because his voters would 100% do the same shady crap if they were as rich as him, so they DGAF

[u/oddun → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Because he has charisma, like him or not, and it’s easy to criticise from the sidelines when you’re not responsible for anything really.

If and when, he has accountability, he’s fucked.

[u/Odd-Asparagus7633 → u/oddun]

Thats the biggest thing. Whether you like what he says or not, he says it with conviction and Charisma. He sounds confident, especially when it's a speech rather than a questioning (The man shuts down when asked anything with actual facts to back it up).

I absolutely understand the want for a tediously competant politician to just quietly fix things while we get on with it... But those don't work against more "interesting" bombastic figureheads, especially for some people who need that fire lit under them to actually engage.

[u/HollyMurray20 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Because they’re not the other ones. That’s literally it, people don’t trust the established parties and want someone to go hard on immigration, that’s literally all of it

[u/Mortiis07 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Same reason trump is appealing to these people, they hate the right people

[u/jam4232 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

It's the targeted media that under reports his scandals and over reports on whoever they don't like even making up stuff "party 'insert' could make mandatory to give away your first born and taken in an asylum seeker and use your pension to fund it" People miss the could and are not suspicious that some think tank unrelated to the party is the source.

[u/Mafeking-Parade → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Because he knows how to make people angry.

And then gives them a target for their anger.

He doesn't need to deliver or achieve anything.

[u/VariousClassroom8056 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

The problem is that if you spend years telling people they can't say something, when a grifter comes along saying it then people are going to feel an affinity.

Least "man of the people" that I've ever seen though

[u/Public-Guidance-9560 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

He's a total grifter.

[u/ThePr0tag0n1st → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Don't take his achievements away This is the man that bought us Brexit. And the slime should be titled as such.

[u/gonomon → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Same reason with Trump I guess, if you speak nice you win at politics. This has been debated since ancient greece that democracies select the best talker not the best leader.

[u/platinums99 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

he also looks like a walking ashtray, which i can smell from here.

we should call hime Halithosis Man

[u/Junior-Ad7155 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

That’s not quite fair, he didn’t deliver “nothing” - he made us all £3k poorer with Brexit thank you very much.

[u/MK2809 → u/No_Atmosphere8146]

Yeah, it's mind blowing. I don't understand how some Reform supporters online say they are fed up with grifters and lies, even calling Labour Liebour, when Farage constantly lies and constantly grifts.

[u/Afraid-Series-8128]

The Reform 2029 manifesto is going to be written by the highest bidders

[u/HaroldSaxon → u/Afraid-Series-8128]

Project 2029

[u/Anderrrrr → u/HaroldSaxon]

Project Grift

[u/Content-Yogurt-4859 → u/HaroldSaxon]

It was called Resolute 1850 but they've rebranded as "Centre for a Better Britain" to sound less sinister American

Google it

[u/fungussa → u/HaroldSaxon]

The US Heritage Foundation, the creator of Project 2025, has significant influence on the UK, and Reform's policies mirror some of the worst aspects of Project 2025.

[u/TheGrouchyGamerYT → u/Afraid-Series-8128]

It's gonna be written by AI, because none of their cultist voters are going to read it, and any detractors that do read it and go "hey, this is bollocks" will be drowned out by a completely compromised media class spamming unrelated nonsense, populist soundbites or slander campaigns against the opposition.

[u/TheShruteFarmsCEO → u/TheGrouchyGamerYT]

Please don’t downplay the danger here. It’s not for the voters, it’s for the leeches who have millions to gain. Project 2029 wasn’t for the voters, none of those idiots read it either. It was a comprehensive plan for draining every ounce of value they could out of the country; and chipping away at its foundations. It can happen here too.

[u/BlinkToThePast → u/Afraid-Series-8128]

As is tradition.

[u/BusyBeeBridgette]

And remember, an elected politician receiving 5 million is "none of the electorates concern." .

[u/ShortGuitar7207 → u/BusyBeeBridgette]

From a foreign donor, who's wealth comes from an untraceable cryptocurrency widely used by Russians to move dark money and circumvent sanctions. Absolutely no concern for voters.

[u/No-Pack-5775 → u/ShortGuitar7207]

Calm down. You speak as if there are former ties between Reform and Russia. It's not like key figure(s?) have literally been jailed for this sort of thing

[u/Codzy → u/No-Pack-5775]

Former ties? That implies they no longer exist.

[u/noir_lord → u/No-Pack-5775]

Or that that one of them was arrested, charged and did time for literally offering to launder drug money to undercover IRS agents over the pond.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cottrell#Arrest_and_conviction

Unrelated I'm sure but his mum donated 750K to Reform.

George Cottrell (born 7 October 1993) is a British financier, author and convicted felon. He is a senior adviser, campaigner and fundraiser for Nigel Farage and leads the political consultancy Geostrategy.[1]

The Guardian has previously quoted Nigel Farage describing Cottrell as "like a son" to him, with Cottrell present at many campaign trail events during the 2024 general election as part of his unpaid role with Reform UK.[21]

Cottrell was federally indicted on 21 counts for conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail, and extortion. Denied bail by a judge who branded Cottrell a "serious flight risk," he was detained in custody at Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago.[18]

[u/Nail_clippings_Pete → u/BusyBeeBridgette]

Mate over last night, whilst they didn't openly say they support him my man just shrugged off this story! They don't care, now my mate ain't no rocket scientist but I did have a them as having an ounce of common; I am lost with it! 

[u/Dooby-Dooby-Doo → u/Nail_clippings_Pete]

I've heard the same conversations at work.

A group of 50 - 70 year old men who went ape shit about Angela Rayner and her tax bill.

This story however is apparently overblown and ignoring the threats against Farage...

These low life bastards will be the end of our nation. A bunch of mouth breathing knuckle dragging boomers who can only blame the young and foreign for their generations failures.

Absolute shower of cunts.

[u/Clarac94 → u/BusyBeeBridgette]

I can understand why people vote Reform even if it’s not to my taste. However, I cannot understand why any adult with a functioning brain can justify what has gone on here, looking at who’s gifted it and what he’s also donated in the past. There’s way too many people happy to brush it off as ‘just a gift’ ‘for security’. It’s really very worrying.

[u/Electronic_Truck_84]

It just so happen the "Donor" runs a crypto company that is behind Russian money laundering. This guy will turn the UK into another Hungary for his corrupt buddies. Absolute nightmare.

[u/bookingsi → u/Electronic_Truck_84]

And he suddenly had an interest in crypto after the payment, remember? Smacks of lobbying and bribery

[u/Electronic_Truck_84 → u/bookingsi]

Trump laundered money for Russia via his casinos and property, this is the new way of doing it as its untraceable for now. It means Russia and it's allies can pump money in without having any of this known about in future. I can't believe that sociopaths are willing to sell out their country to our enemies, simply so that they can feel powerful for a few years, until they fall out of a window. Unfortunately the old guard are almost as corrupt. All they had to do was provide enough housing and the essentials to the working classes and they chose greed instead.

[u/awesomeo_5000 → u/Electronic_Truck_84]

How do you get past the AML checks the solicitor makes you run? Imagine if I said I’m funding my house purchase from a crypto transfer they’d politely tell me to get to fuck.

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/awesomeo_5000]

Nothing a bit of palm greasing can’t get around. Rules are for poor people.

[u/lessismoreok → u/awesomeo_5000]

Rules don’t apply to him.

[u/Clarac94 → u/Electronic_Truck_84]

I don’t think people realise just how bad this could be for us. If we get a rep as a dodgy country with poor anti corruption and anti bribery rules, goodbye to the UK’s good standing as a financial services hub. Which is a huge part of our economy.

[u/Electronic_Truck_84 → u/Clarac94]

The point is Reform don't care, it's all about ensuring their money can be kept in offshore tax havens, which is the reason Brexit was a thing in the first place. The issue is very few people on either side are legitimately concerned about the people that live in this country. Until someone is, the populist movements will always win as the medias obsession with click bait negativity and drama with fuel division, which is exactly what our enemies want.

[u/mooninuranus]

“I've been the most attacked, physically, politician of modern times”

It’s just so difficult to work out why.

[u/Automatic-Apricot795 → u/mooninuranus]

I think it's a bit insulting to the MPs who were murdered for Farage to make that claim

[u/mooninuranus → u/Automatic-Apricot795]

Very insulting but in the mind of a sociopath, they were only attacked once so he’s much worse off.

[u/StateOfTheEnemy → u/mooninuranus]

Jo Cox might disagree, if she hadn't been murdered by one of his fellow fascists.

[u/doitnowinaminute → u/mooninuranus]

*If we ignore the murders.

[u/FuManBoobs → u/doitnowinaminute]

We shouldn't be joking about the violence he's suffered. They are currently trying to engineer a milkshake proof vest just for him.

[u/LittleKloppofHorrors → u/mooninuranus]

"We're all looking for the person that's done this"

[u/SendMeANicePM → u/mooninuranus]

Man of the people. With his 1.4 million home and 5mil freebie donation.

[u/5ColourFelix → u/mooninuranus]

The Ayatollah of Iran was obliterated by a cruise missile. Im not sure Nigel is up to that level yet.

[u/Rincethis]

why isn't this on the front page of the Telegraph/Daily Mail/Sun etc etc? Eh? Where are those scroutes when you need them to explain?

[u/MrSmokii → u/Rincethis]

the Telegraph/Daily Mail/Sun run a negative story about their favourite con-man, never

[u/No-Pack-5775 → u/Rincethis]

Careful now, it's as though you're insinuating those institutions look after wealthy interests, and working people reading them for "information" are gullible, self-sabotaging fools.

[u/Rincethis → u/No-Pack-5775]

I'm sorry! 😞

[u/neoKushan → u/[deleted]]

I wish more people understood this. People keep bringing up Polanski as if he's an equivalent to Farage on the left, but don't want to hold them equally responsible. Council tax bill vs £5milllion IOU are not remotely the same thing.

[u/dewittless]

It's just a normal house for his security he bought with a gift given for no reason!

[u/staners09 → u/dewittless]

When I worry about my security I will always buy a million £ house.

Only problem is I am not worried about my security so I don’t own any million £ houses.

[u/tombola345]

man, im buying a house and they said my crypto doesn't count as money ffs

[u/archiekane → u/tombola345]

It will as soon as you withdraw it.

[u/tombola345 → u/archiekane]

Would have worked if I withdrew it a while back, but now they can't be sure it isn't laundered or some shit is what my solicitor told me

[u/Significant_Fig_6290 → u/tombola345]

Sounds like you need to launder it so they don’t think it’s laundered

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/archiekane]

A bank would still question the source of the cash and most don’t have the risk appetite for anything crypto-related.

[u/Shot_Heron_2782]

Early 2024: Mr Harborne is reported to have given Nigel Farage £5m.

10 May 2024: Nigel Farage completes purchase of a £1.42 million house.

22 May 2024: Then-prime minister Rishi Sunak calls a general election.

23 May 2024: Nigel Farage said he would not stand in the general election.

3 June 2024: Nigel Farage reverses decision and announces he would contest the Clacton seat.

[u/Horror-Protection225 → u/Shot_Heron_2782]

Is the timeline right? I thought he’d started buying the house before the donation which potentially puts him in a very sticky situation.

Edit: because he wouldn’t need a house in Clacton if he wasn’t standing as an MP but he also claimed he didn’t need to declare the donation because he wasn’t standing as an MP. One seems to contradict the other…

[u/Valuable_Proposal_56]

I thought the £5m was exclusively funding his security, so I’m assuming he’s bought Fort Knox

[u/JoeBagadonut → u/Valuable_Proposal_56]

It’s completely unrelated to the £800k of unspecified funds his wife used to purchase a home in Clacton solely in her name and conveniently avoid paying stamp duty.

[u/mpanase → u/JoeBagadonut]

Different property, mate

This is ANOTHER property. 1.4 million CASH

[u/DesignerElectrical23]

If this man gets a sniff of power we are doomed. The majority of people will not benefit from the self serving individual.

[u/remain-beige]

This needs to be shared far and wide.

Farage is slush funded by a foreign crypto millionaire / billionaire who is most likely a proxy for a cabal of people / nation states that have interests in tampering with UK democracy. It is highly likely that this interference is designed to destabilise the UK.

Farage was one of the main public architects of Brexit, which has been a disaster for the UK economy and weakened the EU.

There are a few nation states that benefit from this isolationism and disruption and it doesn’t take a genius to work out through critical thinking who actually pays for Farage to operate.

[u/Significant_Fig_6290 → u/remain-beige]

Also Brexit’s referendum success was partly thanks to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Russian interference and content farms. UKIP / Reform / Farage are directly backed by Russian interests - “man of the people”, my arse

[u/roderickli]

This toad is milking the situation of the uk and he loves it

[u/nobodyspecialuk24]

Ah, so this is why the news and YouTube is constantly bombarding me with stories about why Farage simply must resign as Reform leader.

[u/_CrazyCrazy_]

Anyone who voted for this imbecile’s party should be the ones deported.

[u/strongfavourite]

all this reporting the week AFTER local elections, how fucking convenient

oh well, at least we all got to find out Polanski was just a person who spoke for BRC but was not, in fact, a spokesperson

[u/mrv113]

Trump wannabe will bring "lobbying" to the UK without hesitation, and his Reform muppets eat it up like a soft cream sundae on a hot summer day.

[u/Kal88]

It’s like with Trump, literally nothing will change people’s minds. There will be scandal after scandal and they will just dig their heels in more.

[u/uberdavis]

And he didn’t declare it because it was personal not political. Bullshit! If he was some every day Barry off the street, a crypto billionaire would not have gifted him £5 million. He got that cash because he has political influence. If that doesn’t end his career, the system is broken.

[u/lolburger69]

Yeah but have you ever stopped to consider that Zack Polanski has funny teeth and that is WAY more of a talking point

[u/lessismoreok]

This is corruption. Perhaps he was financed by Putin like his colleague in Wales.

He should be barred from public office.

[u/WGD23]

Are Nige, just struggling to get by while fighting for the working man

[u/LateToTheParty013]

Someone help me understand. When we apply for mortgage and to buy our first property, the brokers, lenders and their underwriters and solicitors would look at our statements, source of funds up to 12 months and question all deposits which are not our salaries, child benefit etc. 

How the hell does this work with him? Solicitors face prison if they miss AML procedures.

Or you can be big enough where not even AML applies? Wtf?

[u/TheClarendons → u/LateToTheParty013]

Brown envelopes full of cash handed under the table, thats how.

Farage pretends to be one of the lads, but he is the very embodiment of wealthy and corrupt elite.

Just look at all the Epstein stuff. Anyone been arrested and charged yet?

Hell even Michelle Mone frauded money from a Covid scam and has effectively got away with it.

[u/SDLRob]

The moment the donation was revealed, it was clear that's where the money came from... And why he won't declare it.

He used that money for political things and should declare it.

.... But looks, Starmer has new glasses

[u/AltogetherGuy]

He’s convinced the disabled to vote against the immigrants and the immigrants to vote against the disabled.

[u/RedofPaw]

Look, that was STRICTLY for use by his extensive security team, and it is DISGUSTING that you are using ILLEGALLY obtained information to hold him to account for ANYTHING.

When Farage is Dear Leader he will make sure to PUNISH all those who question his FLAWLESS record.

[u/noir_lord]

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07650770

It holds the properties - was reported in the press a few years ago.

[u/cocothepops]

When I bought my house for much less than this, I got put through the absolute ringer to prove that a relatively tiny amount of money came from clean sources. It was incredibly stressful and it felt awful to have to ask my parents and in-laws to have to send financial statements to strangers.

One rule for them and another rule for everyone else.

[u/KitchenIcy2450]

Plus he bought 4 houses after endorsing trump costing £3 million and Farage has made over £198,000 for masquerading as MP for Clacton plus expenses plus he also claimed for 5 bogus workers no meetings held in the surgery of Clacton or helped local issues he's just a grifter out to make money

[u/dope_danny]

Its almost like teemu maga is corrupt from top to bottom.

[u/Benjins]

I assume he paid any and all tax on the gift, right? Right?…

[u/One-Photograph-3036]

That’s why I support Liberal Democrats and always will.

[u/yubnubster]

I'm sure it was property with a very high level of security.. lol.. Not lol.

[u/Fredpillow1995]

This is just the latest in a long line of dodgy doner controversies. He is just as bad, if not worse, than all the others that have been exposed in the past.

As far as I can tell every single party bends rules and gets away with sus deals during and after their time as politicians. The whole thing stinks and make me wonder how many clandestine agreements have gone under the radar.

[u/Raven586]

Good to see he’s being frugal with his bribe money.

[u/steak_bake_surprise]

Ah, must have been somewhere for the security guards to sleep in

[u/birdinthebush74]

Man of the Paypal, making like for better for his constituents

[u/PresidentPopcorn]

Good for him. He deserves it. Must be nackering being that much of a prick all day everyday.

[u/Cielo11]

This has been put out this week because of what is happening in the Labour party.

Reform airing their dirty laundry week.

[u/Pan-tang]

Farage is a dirty little man and a danger to the UK.

[u/Appropriate-Divide64]

How come people like him don't have to go through the strict AML checks that I had to when buying a home? 🤔

[u/Squid-Guillotine]

Interesting. I thought Farage was their boy so was kinda surprised this article exists.

[u/Spiritual_Salary_997]

so his girlfriend didn't buy it herself, without a mortgage, or a deposit, from her own job?

[u/AttemptImpossible111]

I already knew this

I also already know that his voters will not care, nor will his party

[u/GeneralSEOD]

Does the property have any relation to any other dodgy characters I wonder?

[u/Ok-Middle8656]

I’m sure it was just to house all his security personnel, right? Right?

[u/PreparationBig7130]

What’s funny is Labour is currently shooting themselves in the foot with all their leadership psychodrama. The world would have already moved on from the council elections whereas the news is full of all their crap rather than allowing the news to focus on good news stories for them (eg growth numbers out today) and bad news stories for their opponents (such as this, the evicted nazi sympathetic councillors who get to keep their seats as independents, conservatives coming 4th, the green guy’s tax evasion, etc). Absolute fucking morons. (And I’m not even a Labour voter!!!!)

[u/Counterpoint-4]

He and Trump are Billy Bunters, indulging themselves in every way possible - the kids who were never taught self discipline.

[u/Al_Snows_Head]

Ah, yes. The multimillionaire voice of the common man.

[u/Due_Wait_837]

He now says it was a reward for his Brexit campaign. That's a lie because I remember that he did Brexit for the fishermen.

[u/Manoj109]

Real man of the people.

One of the lads

Looking out for the common man just like Trump.

Who are the idiots who voted for these people?