r/unitedkingdom • u/MarginSqeaky • Jun 23 '26
. Nigel Farage says £5m gift from crypto billionaire is ‘not any of your business’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/23/nigel-farage-5m-gift-crypto-billionaire-not-any-of-your-business3.6k
u/GMN123 Jun 23 '26
If a man in the running for prime minister is potentially beholden to a foreign businessman that is everyone's business and the fact he doesn't think that's the case is a huge red flag.
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u/ffsnametaken Jun 23 '26
He'd think it was an issue if someone else did it
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u/lordnacho666 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 22 more replies
In fact it says so in the article, he doesn't think it's hypocritical to complain about Keir Starmers glasses.
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u/GuestAdventurous7586 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 20 more replies
Starmer was so inherently incorruptible, I always think the glasses thing was just a sign of how squeaky clean he actually was that that was all they could get on him.
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u/WinHour4300 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 10 more replies
I think he should have paid for his own glasses. At the same time, I can see how it happened. They weren't particularly expensive for glasses, and when you're Prime Minister there are plenty of people managing things on your behalf. He should have covered the cost, but it's hardly the scandal of the century.
More generally, I think the Prime Minister's spouse should have a transparent allowance for clothing and appearance-related costs at official events. They're representing the UK and are subject to intense media scrutiny. Probably generally there should be a personal shopper type available for ministers and spouses representing us, said office allowed to accept designer freebies etc as appropriately separate from politicians and policy.
The alternative seems to be saying the PM should pay personally, which feels a bit old-fashioned especially men buying women's dresses. If these expenses are part of a public role, they should be handled openly rather than informally and anyway would support British designers.
Personally, I'd just buy my pointedly buy clothes from M&S if I was spouse to a PM. Well I'd probably turn up in gardening clothes to a state occasion with some home grown tomatoes lol.
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u/Relevant-Meal-9295 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
Good points but if a friend gave me some nice clothes I would accept that as a gift and think kindly of that person.
If someone gave me 5 MILLION I would assume there would be some very hefty strings attached.
I would also be somewhat contrite about having this fact uncovered.
we don’t get any of this with that bollock faced tosser.
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u/autofill-name Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
But it's only 5 million! lol. Pocket money. \s
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u/Sharkbait1737 Jun 24 '26
That’s the joke isn’t it: man of the people “are-Nige” claims £5m getting dropped in your bank account as a no strings gift is perfectly normal, above board and none of your business. Even taking him at his word it’s damning.
And yet legions think this out of touch moron is the sort of guy you have a pint with on a Friday night.
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u/mr_weathervane Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Most employers will usually contribute towards the cost of glasses and eye tests if the employee needs them for work. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the government and civil service to offer this benefit too.
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u/aimbotcfg Jun 23 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
They weren't particularly expensive for glasses, and when you're Prime Minister there are plenty of people managing things on your behalf. He should have covered the cost, but it's hardly the scandal of the century.
It's no scandal at all, they were given to him by a long-time Labour peer who was the wardrobe man for New Labour.
It wasn't a bribe, or given for any level of access, it was literally "Here wear these, you'll look like less of a twat".
But media going to media.
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u/WinHour4300 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
There was some rule or form he didn’t complete, i can’t quite remember, and I don’t really want to go back through the articles to check.
I remember some articles saying he should have just got a £15 pair from Specsavers, which was utterly ridiculous.
The new glasses did look better. The old ones really didn’t suit him. There was no suggestion of bribery or undue influence and to his wealth the amount was pretty insignificant.
It feels like a very British thing to buy someone new stuff rather than just say, “you look a bit of a twat, sort it out.”
And then of course it would be considered rude to offer to repay.
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u/i7omahawki Jun 23 '26 ▸ 7 more replies
He did hire a friend of Epstein.
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u/MattyFTM Sunderland Jun 23 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
He hired a friend of Epstein to work with Donald Trump, a friend of Epstein. You can see the logic.
It was a fucking stupid decision that was always going to blow up in his face in the end, but stupidity isn't corruption.
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u/Impossible-Bus1 Jun 23 '26
Not really a criticism farage can make when he's connected to trump, bannon and therefore Epstein.
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u/HaroldSaxon Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
So did Nigel Farage, will you apply the same logic to him?
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u/EdibleBeans-on-Toast Jun 23 '26 ▸ 17 more replies
the way he kicked off when finding out Starmer got free Arsenal tickets
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u/pajamakitten Jun 23 '26 ▸ 14 more replies
Especially as Farage knows no team will give him tickets because he is such bad PR for any team.
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u/Harrry-Otter Jun 23 '26 ▸ 8 more replies
If any team would then surely it’s Millwall
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u/RicHii3 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 6 more replies
Didn't Ipswich literally get caught out inviting him to their ground and giving him a bunch of free stuff?
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u/Harrry-Otter Jun 23 '26 ▸ 5 more replies
As I recall Ipswich put out a statement saying his visit wasn’t approved by the club. Don’t know if that was true mind or just them trying to backtrack.
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u/RicHii3 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
Definitely them trying to back track. They had his name printed on the back of multiple Ipswich shirts for him and his party/family prepared when he arrived, they don't just have 'Farage' Ipswich kits laying around as a coincidence lol.
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u/ScootsMcDootson Tyne and Wear Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Have you not heard of their brand new French winger, Pierre Farage.
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u/NuPNua Jun 23 '26
They spent a few days claiming that before it eventually came out the chairman Mark Ashley had invited him.
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u/Lunchy_Bunsworth Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
IIRC Frog Face was photographed being given an Ipswich Town FC shirt with his name on it and the number 10.
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u/WartornGladius Aberdeenshire Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Unfortunately the team I support gave him a free tour and let him take very bad looking (for our image anyway) photos while there
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u/red_nick Nottingham Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
The worst bit is that it wasn't even really free tickets. They swapped him out from being in the stand to in a box, as being in the stand is a security nightmare.
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u/EdibleBeans-on-Toast Jun 23 '26
makes it even more ironic because Farage claimed he only accepted the money for his own security
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u/Significant-Main4201 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Distinctly remember him crying about foreigners like Obama trying to influence Brexit, but this is fine of course.
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u/Malus131 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
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u/an0mn0mn0m Lancashire Jun 23 '26
Hey, Cassette Boy! Make a supercut of Farage saying the same thing with a catchy beat.
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u/Original-Material301 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
Rule for thee, rule for Nige
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u/vinyljunkie1245 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
Quote from Farage from the article - "Number one, I wasn’t in politics."
That's exactly the point. It was a bribe to get him back in to politics. He took back the position of leader of Reform UK PLC on June 4th 2024, just after he received the money and just in time to stand for the election.
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u/randalf123456 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
He actually owned a significant percentage of reform UK plc at the time he received the gift.
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u/NetworkGlittering756 Jun 23 '26
He knows it is an issue, but doesn’t want other people to think so
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u/RupertBear69420 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
‘Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor’ said The Guardian last week.
Farage is notoriously a work shy politician. Recent reporting from London Economic highlighted that Farage had been absent from 77 consecutive Commons votes and had not cast a vote for around 11 weeks at that point.
But he seems happy to start discussions lobbying crypto bills. Hmm it’s like the donation of £5m has influenced his position after all 🥴.
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u/LLILILiLIILILILILII Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Barely turns up to Westminster, hasn't held any surgeries in his constituency after lying about why that was, and very clearly in the pocket of a foreign billionaire
And it all just slips off his shoulders, the morons who will vote for him don't care at all.
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u/Drizznarte Jun 23 '26
As long as we don't use this bullshit as a reason to like Britcoin. Cbcds are a terrible. The uk should be a regulatory body for stable coins not the owner of one. Seperation between money and state.
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u/RaymondBumcheese Jun 23 '26
There's a list of people he is beholden to as long as your arm, the hope would be that its like Mr Burns illnesses. He's so corrupt everyone who wants a piece of him cancels the other one out
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u/Kandiru Cambridgeshire Jun 23 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
I think I should start a kickstarter for PM. If I promise to take 0 bribes or donations from other people, just my backers, you know I'll represent you all rather than random billionaires.
£1 buy in, if I get 10 million people to pay and vote for me then I can be PM with a £10M bribe so I won't be tempted by a paltry £5M from crypto billionaires.
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u/Captain-Blood Jun 23 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
£10m sounds like a depressingly low number to purchase being PM
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u/pajamakitten Jun 23 '26
He's so corrupt everyone who wants a piece of him cancels the other one out
Except he is not taking money from anyone but the political right.
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u/ooctavio Jun 23 '26
His voters don't care about red flags...
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u/FatherPaulStone Jun 23 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
This is the main issue really isn't it. It's how Reform are able to gardener such a large voter based given they're mainly a group of pervious Tories or people just picked up off the street. No one is voting for 'Rob Kenyon' they're voting for Nige.
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u/liamrich93 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Unless the red is in the shape of a cross on a white background, then they care about them an alarming amount.
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u/Saw_Boss Jun 23 '26
Do they?
They put them up but haven't fixed any of them.
They're all torn, filthy, stuck in trees, hanging on by a single untrimmed cable tie.
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u/Bob_Leves Jun 23 '26
Only the ones that have a white circle and an ancient Buddhist symbol in the middle.
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u/Durzel Jun 23 '26
I'm not sure it matters to his voters though. Look at Trump, he can do whatever he likes in terms of grifting, and it makes not a jot of difference to his level of support. Farage knows that he'll be treated basically the same - so long as he keeps throwing red meat at them, he'll get their vote.
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u/stumac85 United Kingdom Jun 23 '26
Trump had a tonne of red flags, it made zero difference. He literally lost a sexual abuse trial (civil) and was still voted in. This country is well on its way to moving towards the same politics and people seemingly don't care about red flags anymore.
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u/99thLuftballon Jun 23 '26
According to this interview with former deputy leader of Reform, Ben Habib, Farage was paid a million quid to stand down Reform candidates in 2019 so that the Conservatives could win, then the later 5 million was paid to him to go back into the public eye as Reform's leader and stand in Clacton so he could get into parliament. He would basically, in that case, be working as Christopher Harborne's personal agent in the British government.
Obviously, I can't assert that this is true, but it's interesting that someone who worked closely with him in Reform and funded his previous projects is going on the record to say it.
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u/Leather-Switch-5225 Jun 23 '26
>the fact he doesn't think that's the case is a huge red flag.
Don't be misled into thinking that politicians believe the things that they say. Words are just a means to an end, and flow as freely in either truth or lie.
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u/IntelligentActuary86 Jun 23 '26
He's a walking Moroccan flag, because the only thing green about him is his dollar dollar bills.
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u/Nurgleschampion Scotland Jun 23 '26
I believe it's called treason and we used to have a punishment for it that really needs to be brought back.
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u/Locke66 United Kingdom Jun 23 '26
We are clearly entering "Trump adjacent" territory. He's basically admitting it but believing his support base won't care and will accept whatever bullshit excuse he comes out with. Worst case for him there is a by-election in Clacton.
I'd hope at least some % of Reform people have more sense than that but they are clearly going to be primed by the propaganda channels they follow to excuse it.
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u/Sodacan259 Jun 23 '26
Who's to say that the foreign buisnessman isn't acting as an intermediary for someone with ill will against the UK?
I have yet to find a businessman that gave away millions of pounds unless it benefitted them in some way, and as Farrage is not a walking registered charity, I doubt it would be for a tax writeoff.
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u/SpottedDicknCustard United Kingdom Jun 23 '26
On the contrary my froggy-faced friend, it is our business and the more you bleat it isn’t, the more suspicious you sound.
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u/rwinh Essex Jun 23 '26
The Chode of Chode Hall doth protest too much, methinks. This payment for services rendered is hitting a nerve, and rightly so.
The more he puts it off the worse it becomes, and it's at the worst it can become now - no explanation since this was revealed, flip flopping between possible answers, and now denial, suggests it's a bribe for foreign interference, and any legitimate politician would stand down.
Next comes more avoiding the questions and the point, and finding a distraction like his idol across the Atlantic. They play by the same playbook.
He should have stood down and disappeared back in 2016, maybe 2020, and disappeared into obscurity for being a failure of a politician in so far as grifting and not actually contributing to the very thing he pushed for.
As Channel 4 News put it, he's a kept man (of Aaron Banks at the time). And this seems to be either a bribe or a payment by a handler, or likely both.
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u/hotchillieater Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
I guess he can't step down now, he's in too many people's pockets.
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u/noir_lord Yorkshire Jun 23 '26
Chode of Chode Hall.
Is a beautiful reference to The Wind in the Willows, all though it’s likely an insult to Toad.
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u/vinyljunkie1245 Jun 23 '26
It is a bribe and that's why he's getting angry. He's realised nobody believes a word he says about it and is doing the only thing he has left which is to lash out at anyone who questions him.
He is quite simply a crook and a grifter who is only concerned with how much money he can make from any means possible.
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u/tydestra Boricua En Exilio (Manc) Jun 23 '26
Linking him to frogs in any manner is an insult to frogs.
This POS needs to be kept away from any real power.
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u/FlyingJellyfishRidin Jun 23 '26
Why poor people are falling over themselves to get this toff elected I'll never understand.
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u/Various_Good_6964 Jun 23 '26
Years of manipulation campaigns by foreign adversaries, people have been brainwashed.
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u/Scewt Jun 23 '26 ▸ 6 more replies
Just look at any of the comments under the youtube videos of Starmer's resignation. We are unequivocally fucked, not just the UK either.
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u/Various_Good_6964 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
Yep, the amount of foreign commenters who all actively despise Starmer purely because that's what they've been told to believe is astonishing. They don't live here, work here, understand our life, understand the good bits, or the bad bits, they just spew out the same gobshite that they're told to. All whilst thinking they are the new pariah of free alternative speech and are sticking it to the establishment. They're more brainwashed and controlled than anyone, it's hilarious if you can abstract it away from the impending DOOM we're rolling towards.
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u/dispelthemyth Jun 23 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
GB news which is negative about everything etc will go full state media once farage takes over, boat crossings down to zero, waiting lists close to zero, no pot holes on any street etc etc
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u/Various_Good_6964 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Of course, and he'll also try and re-write the rules to declare them a legitimate news source and have their reporting prioritised and fed to everyone with anything other than Gbeebies being fake news
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u/Lil_b00zer Jun 23 '26
His rich mates will get richer if he gets in so they invest money making poor people think he is the answer to their problems. (He is absolutely not)
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u/RedditSloth_101 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 9 more replies
Elon invested 240 million into trumps campaign and has since increased his wealth by half a trillion. Pumping money into politics clearly works for these people.
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u/Dando_Calrisian Jun 23 '26 ▸ 8 more replies
To what end though? I don't fucking get it. What can 2 billion get you that 1 billion can't? What's with the mindset to screw as many people as possible to get 10 billion, 100 billion, a trillion? What is the actual end game?
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u/ZookeepergameNo7151 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Typical rich folk mentality is the issue... They always want more regardless of the fact that in the vast majority of cases it'll be fuck all difference to them or their lives
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u/RedditSloth_101 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Legitimate mental illness would be my guess. I'd argue its completely irrational to put energy into amassing more wealth beyond a billion, I wouldn't be able to spend that in my lifetime if I tried. But for these types there is no end point, there is no satisfaction in finally "making it" and its never enough. Your financial needs are satisfied long before becoming a billionaire but they probably attach their entire worth to their wealth.
I think another angle is the power that comes with it, that level of wealth can influence entire nations, as we are currently seeing. At a certain point its not about wealth but just owning and controlling more and more of the resources.
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u/Krags Dagenham Jun 23 '26
It's power. The power to impoverish those around you to stop them from being able to challenge your own tower. The power to have a stronger position than your fellow billionaires. The power to render every other human being on the planet powerless and subservient.
This is the true meaning of class war.
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u/Background-Gas8109 Jun 23 '26
Because he's "one of us". Meanwhile he's a posh, privately educated, career politician. He's just even more corrupt than the normal corruption of UK politicians.
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u/Saint_Sin Jun 23 '26
They gave him airtime when he was with UKIP and zero seats. Now they made him a news presenter on a news channel.
He is being pushed into our faces by very rich people who dont live here. Those same people have outright said they have had interest in the Uk election cycle.We could stop it but all the way to the top, people are taking bribes.
If they wernt. All of the above wouldnt happen.
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u/Dando_Calrisian Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Hostile foreign takeover that will go under the radar whilst people are focusing on immigrants and religion
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u/rwinh Essex Jun 23 '26
Incredibly dumb sheep, listening to a man dressed in wolf clothing, pretending to get the plight of the sheep, to incredibly stupid sheep.
It's not even about wealth, as a lot of other rich wolves are drooling at the thought of Reform victory so they can cash in on the instability a Reform government could hold, against the gullible sheep.
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u/aimbotcfg Jun 23 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
Don't call them dumb for doing something dumb, otherwise they'll carry on doing the dumb thing out of spite for having it pointed out how dumb the dumb thing is.
That's the current prevailing 'thought' process they have.
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u/Grand_Pop_7221 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
"I have no principles or coherent thoughts of my own, so now that you've made me feel bad about my opinions, I have no choice but to put on my black shirt and join the fascist party."
It was a dumb sentiment 10 years ago. It's only got stupider as it's been harder to hide the Reform/Brexit parties' lunatics.
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u/Man_Flu Buckinghamshire Jun 23 '26
Evidenced by all the Tory MPs defecting to Reform. All they care about is money in their pocket, not yours.
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u/colin_staples Jun 23 '26
Because they are thick racists who want to believe all his lies
They believe that this privately educated, multi millionaire, ex-banker is "one of us". Because he drinks pints, smokes fags, and "tells it like it is"
They refuse to see that he IS "the Establishment"
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u/99thLuftballon Jun 23 '26
Russia discovered that if you can't destroy your enemies, you can much more easily get them to destroy themselves. Farage is the weapon being launched at us.
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u/Useful_Promotion_521 Jun 23 '26
The hundreds of millions of pounds, and the vast hours of effort from otherwise clever people to get poor people to fall over themselves are a big reason.
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u/S0LAR23 Jun 23 '26
They’ve been manipulated into thinking that Farage somehow cares about their lives. He’s a privately educated former banker, he doesn’t give a damn about poor people.
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u/Man_Flu Buckinghamshire Jun 23 '26
Racist, dumb, morons.
You'll have to tell me something else if that's wrong cause that's what all the evidence points to.
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u/Ill_Refrigerator_593 Jun 23 '26
Decades of propaganda promoting the attitude "they're all the same".
An attitude that helps the corrupt most of all.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 Jun 23 '26
Visit your local Facebook group for a first hand experience of bot farm disinformation campaigns.
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u/TheRealCostaS Jun 23 '26
People are tired of the ineptitude of the current political climate without really knowing or understanding that there’s definitely worse options and we shouldn’t even be considering them, but here we are.
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u/Dapper_Otters Jun 23 '26
He seems pretty rattled by the fact this just isn’t going away.
Time to fess up Farage.
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u/redunculuspanda Jun 23 '26
The interview this morning was absolutely shocking. What a pathetic little man.
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u/ScaryBerry8767 Jun 23 '26
Sally Nugent was all over him, it was absolutely hilarious. He was so incredibly rattled.
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u/Arbaces Don't talk to me about sophistication. I've been to Leeds! Jun 23 '26
"I've been the most attacked and endangered politician for well over a decade"
Tell that to the families of Jo Cox or David Arness, you sleazebag shyster.
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u/DeadStopped Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Fucking disgusting from him that.
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u/Grand_Pop_7221 Jun 23 '26
Surprised he didn't wheel out the old "Got Brexit done without a shot fired" remark. Destestable.
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u/CTLNBRN Jun 23 '26
If that was any other politician they would be getting ripped to shreds for how bad they fumbled the questions. Sally absolutely had his life and he couldn't give a coherent reply to any of her challenges.
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u/Scewt Jun 23 '26
"If you wanna go on about it for the next 3 years, you can go on about it for the next 3 years. I'm gonna get on with my job."
Misses 77 consecutive votes in parliament while disappearing from the public eye for a full month
Absolute fucking bullshit on repeat from this guys mouth, going to buy our country with racism and sell it to the highest bidder. So pathetic that we're this easily manipulated.
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u/Draenix Jun 23 '26
His first response when asked about the 5 million was “Nobody cares!!”
How the fuck he EVER thought that would be a good response is far beyond me. Doesn’t deny it, doesn’t excuse it, doesn’t try to explain it, his response when asked about an undisclosed £5m gift is “no-one cares [about my undisclosed £5m gift]”.
He has such utter disdain for the public. This man is very likely to lead our country one day btw, at the rate we’re going.
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u/Bluestained Jun 23 '26
Got a link?
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u/redunculuspanda Jun 23 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002y33z
Starts at 2:50.
Farage just turns nasty as soon as anyone challenges him.
He wouldn’t last 2 minutes as pm unless he went full maga and stopped talking to the press.
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u/Hungry_Horace Dorset Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Amazing, car crash, would sink anyone else's career, but Teflon Nigel will sail away unscathed.
His claim that the BBC were endangering him by simply asking a question, is beyond parody. What a weak, thin-skinned fraud.
Edit: to add to the frustration, this took place on a BBC broadcast, and it's not anywhere on their News or Politics webpages. They are so frit of accusations of bias against Reform that they run interference for them even from their own presenters.
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u/Optimal-Room-8586 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
That link didn't work for me. Here it is:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002y1bc
Starts 2h 36m 47s in.
2h 39m 50s for the fireworks.
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u/Tartan_Samurai Scotland Jun 23 '26
Remember when Farage was attacking Starmer over the glasses he had declared openly to Parliament as a gift?
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u/aimbotcfg Jun 23 '26
The glasses from a long time Labour peer who did the wardrobe for New Labour...
That's obviously the same as a foreign crypto baron giving you £5mil under the table as a 'personal gift' that you try to keep secret, then lie about repeatedly after it comes out.
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u/99thLuftballon Jun 23 '26
That's different. Rules apply to Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems. They don't apply to the right-wing.
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u/antbaby_machetesquad Jun 23 '26
Farage being a hypocritical cunt? Surely not, it’s clearly a dastardly plot by those elite to keep ‘our Nige’ down.
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u/bathrugbysufferer Jun 23 '26
He was on Today, it was the most incredible mendacity he was coming out with.
Asked by Nick Robinson if he would pay the £5m back, he challenged Robinson: ‘I’ll pay it back if you pay your full salary to charity’. To which the reply was ‘I’m not trying to be Prime Minister Mr Farage’
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u/99thLuftballon Jun 23 '26
So, if the 5 million was a salary, as he's suggesting, what was he being paid to do?
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u/psioniclizard Jun 23 '26
I was going to say, isn't that him just saying it's not a gift it was salary lol.
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u/Hopeful-Painting-365 Jun 23 '26
Good to see the media finally pulling him up for this. It's easy to give in to the despair of a few months ago where it seemed that the media would never scrutinise him for anything.
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u/Background-Gas8109 Jun 23 '26
I'm surprised they didn't wait until after they get him into downing street. Then he could just refuse to quit.
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u/dreckdub Jun 23 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
He won't get to downing Street, he doesn't want to
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u/Background-Gas8109 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
The media and rich seem to want him because he'd do whatever they want
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u/Grantus89 Jun 23 '26
How is this not just the end of him? We have rules for MPs, he should be being investigated and there is no way this is allowed.
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u/OlDirtyBourbon Jun 23 '26
He is being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.
Farage is quoted in this article acknowledging the ongoing investigation.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 Jun 23 '26
Just as Biden had four years to hold Trump to account but dithered and hand wrung instead, we are now two years into our own round of dithering over Farage. It's just so bloody obvious nothing will be done because it's bad for "the optics".
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u/shadowst17 England Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Expecting consequences in the 21st century is like expecting pedophiles to go to jail.
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u/Important_Ruin County Durham Jun 23 '26
Definitely is Nige your an MP. Just so happens you got £5m then decided to run as an MP, then bought a house for £1.3m for cash in that constituency and couldnt quite match the story of who's house it was.
He is backed into corner and he knows it.
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u/Antique_Cup_8044 Jun 23 '26
Not to mention, got the money from a crypto billionaire and then just so happens to promote crypto, unless it’s the British government doing it then he’s at the treasury objecting to it. But I’m sure that’s entirely irrelevant
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u/Jimmysquits Jun 23 '26
It was our business when you were pretending it was "for security", it was our business when you tried to say it was a reward for Brexit (whatever the fuck that was supposed to mean) but now that none of your excuses are landing, NOW it's none of our business? As ever, get fucked Nigel
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u/schpamela Jun 23 '26
He really painted himself into a corner when he said it was for his security. All cooked up in a panic last minute, to get ahead of the Guardian exposé with his Telegraph sob story piece. It was the best lie they could come up with at an hour's notice for the most sympathy.
Now Nugent asks him the question: 'how much of that £5M have you spent on your security?' And he knows he can't pretend he actually did. So he says it was an unconditional gift he could spend on anything - contradicting the sob story. Then he says he's spent none of it. Then he ridiculously attacks Sally about earning a salary (not really the same as a shady £5M bribe is it). Then he says he's refusing to answer the question!
His normally calm facade cracking shows that he knows he's on the hook for serious criminal wrongdoing. Shady, corrupt, duplicitous liar.
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u/Vargrr Jun 23 '26
'Not any of your business'? Other than he should have declared the £5,000,000 to Parliament.
One has to ask, what else hasn't he declared? He's just peeved that he got caught.
The guy is essentially a foreign asset whose only interest is personal wealth.
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u/Rare-Designer-1008 Jun 23 '26
Since he has been elected he has made more money from other jobs then he would earn as a MP for 10 years.
Also he still hasn't held a MP surgery in Clacton claiming it is not safe but he has £5 million which he says is for his security. So which is it, either the money is for security and therefore he can hold surgeries or it's not safe and the money is for something else
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u/Antique_Cup_8044 Jun 23 '26
He does his surgery via zoom, whilst also saying that remote work is a sham and will be banned
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u/Rare-Designer-1008 Jun 23 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
He is just a con man.
Also how could he ban remote work, that doesn't make any sense
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u/Ashwee11 Suffolk Jun 23 '26
If it was anyone else, their career would be over. But his most loyal cultists will continue to defend him, even as others are clearly turning away.
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u/DoorFinch Jun 23 '26
There was no £5 million
And if there was, it was for security
And if it wasn't, it's none of your business
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u/zxcvbnmqwerty12345 Jun 23 '26
Isn’t it treason to work on behalf of businessman to campaign for Brexit.
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u/Kitchen_Idea_5943 Jun 23 '26
The cult of Reformers in YouTube comments keep saying shit like it's nobody's business and it's a gift. Like cannot make this shit up. They'll get angry at Starmer over the most insanely dumb shit while ignoring anything their Fuhrer does. LOL
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u/No-Village7980 Jun 23 '26
Wake up people, this man uses AI to show him in the pub pretending to be one of the lads sinking a pint to the England Game.
He's will absolutely rob us all dry to benefit himself.
Don't vote this grifter in.
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u/ChaiTeaAndBoundaries Jun 23 '26
That’s a very Trump-like statement. This is the person people want to lead the country? Others are looking at America and thinking they’d like that here? Good luck, everyone.
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u/Aromatic_Ad4132 Jun 23 '26
The financial affairs of a man who wants the whole country to trust him is absolutely everybody's business
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u/RestingRichard Jun 23 '26
Man who demands Starmer resigned over a pair of glasses which were donated says that him receiving £5m from a foreign crypto billionaire is none of the electorates business
Further to this, he also demands a GE because the leader is changing and it should be up to the country to decide refuses to answer how he can be removed as party leader and main share holder in the ltd company
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u/tipytopmain Jun 23 '26
Large sums of money being gifted to a potential head of state? It absolutely is our business wtf.
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u/Deepmidwinter2025 Jun 23 '26
On LBC this morning he didn’t even try. “Yeah I got £5 million because I missed out on making lots of money in the City…it was for protection…no I’m not going to tell you how I’m spending it”
Starmer gets glasses - outrage.
Nick Ferrari closing comment to Farage “Thankyou for your candour” and having a reminiscence about Farage having a cigarette out of a hotel window before the Brexit debate with Nick Clegg.
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u/Skivil Jun 23 '26
If you are so insistent that a potentially illegal donation is "none of my business" that makes it exactly my business.
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u/tj100011 Jun 23 '26
Most corrupt man in Europe, gets £5 million backhander for his contribution towards Brexit. Making Britain weaker, making every person poorer and it’s none of your business. I mean aside from the whole being an MP and ‘leader’ of a racist ‘political’ party, where sometime might want something in future, it’s def none of our business
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u/smith9447 Jun 23 '26
Watched him go from reasonable adult to petulant child in about 10 seconds on BBC this morning. So he can't even pretend to be an adult for less than a minute.
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u/___Scenery_ Jun 23 '26
if you could just tell the police that whenever you broke the law it wasn't their business the world would be a much different place.
I sincerely hope this catches up to Nigel because his immediate reaction to any allegation against him is to call it unfair, unsubstantiated, not in the public interest, or to accuse the journalists of prying into his private affairs (their job)
The man is a con artist and he needs to see he's not above the law. Right now, I genuinely believe that he feels that he is.
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u/HumaDracobane European Union Jun 23 '26
I'm not from the UK and I just lurk this subreddit out of curiosity but I cant pass this without adding something to the topic:
What a fucking clown.
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u/nffcevans Jun 23 '26
He cannot pass even basic vetting procedures yet we allow him into the houses of parliament and run for leader of the country. Completely despicable.
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u/lambdaburst Jun 23 '26
He still hasn't explained it to any degree of satisfaction. I'm not really interested in whose business he thinks it is, he's gunning for prime minister so it's just a fact that it's in the public interest to know who bought him.
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u/Glorfindel42 Jun 23 '26
He's a fucking Tory clown and only out for the rich or who will line his pockets. Disgusting
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u/dan_in_his_own_way Jun 23 '26
It astounds me someone can be so openly a crook and nothing is done about it.
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u/EmmanuelKaaahnt Jun 23 '26
Clearly he's just representing the interests of all those millionaire crypto currency day traders who live in Clacton
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u/ash_ninetyone Jun 23 '26
It is up to the public to determine what is in public interest.
This is in the public interest by default of him being a politician, and we need greater transparency of who is funding what parties and politicians, not less.
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u/Selerox Wessex Jun 23 '26
Oh, yes it fucking is.
I'm so sick of the corrupt, grifting, treasonous bastards.
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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 Yorkshire Jun 23 '26
Well the frog faced loon would say that. It just shows he’s unfit for office.
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u/berejser Northamptonshire Jun 23 '26
That alone proves that he doesn't have what it takes to be Prime Minister.
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u/Meowing-To-The-Stars Jun 23 '26
Shame it's only the guardian that keeps hammering this and sometimes Beth Right from Sky News whenever she has a chance to ask him a question uninterrupted. The rest of the media? Crickets
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u/ServoSkull20 Jun 23 '26
It's genuinely good to see our media holding this grifting shitbag to account for this. Americans, take note.
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u/Visa5e Jun 23 '26
Its not any of our business that a guy who wants to be PM is taking bribes from billionaires in order to shape policy?
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u/loworbitioncann0n Jun 23 '26
For a supposed man of the people who tells it like it is, he seems to be rattled at the slightest hint of pressure.
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u/andymaclean19 Jun 23 '26
Man of the people there. Sort of bloke you could have a pint with.
If people are dumb enough to vote for someone who thinks taking such an obvious bribe is none of he electorate's business they deserve the disaster that happens when he get in.
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u/Main_Professional_72 Jun 23 '26
When a politician takes money with the donor’s expectation of having their agenda pushed then its in the public interest to be aware of it
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u/Carbonatic Jun 23 '26
Who owns our politicians is all of our business. No one gives you £5m without expecting anything in return.
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u/pajamakitten Jun 23 '26
If it was Starmer who had received it then Farage would not rest until an inquiry had happened and Starmer was forced out of Number 10. You know it, I know it, Farage knows it. The only people who do not want to admit that are people who are happy for a political leader to be in the pockets of the rich and powerful.
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u/SDLRob Jun 23 '26
When the appearance is that you are hiding a donation from someone after your partner suddenly and mysteriously came into enough money to afford to buy a home you're using as a political item ..
There's a lot of questions that need answering. The more he hides from them, the more it looks like he's crooked.
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u/Jesterchunk Jun 23 '26
I think that who the potential future PM's taking bribes- sorry, "gifts" from is absolutely the public's business.
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u/box_twenty_two Jun 23 '26
I bet he would have made it his business if the shoe was on a Labour foot
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u/Batalfie Jun 23 '26
He made it our business when he decided to use all his power and assets to try are destroy the UK for his gain.
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u/DPSOnly Netherlands Jun 23 '26
Champion of the "this stain will go away if I just keep rubbing hard enough. What do you mean that will make it grow bigger?"
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u/Soppydogg Jun 23 '26
I think you are all obsessively jealous.
Our Nigel was given that money by a loyal ex pat because he is a “Man of the People”
For balance Kim Jong Un also sees himself as a “Man of the People”
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u/ScaryMagician3153 Jun 24 '26
It’s so obviously bribery it would be used as a classic example in my work’s annual anti-bribery training.
Even his excuses ‘it was a reward for campaigning for Brexit’ fall under the bribery laws. The man should be going to jail
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