TBH the interesting part will be seeing what he has instructed the lawyers to do.
Or whether he has at all.
The last Private Eye podcast commented on how, whilst they have plenty of lawyers letters, they also have plenty of fictional ones.
They gave an example of how sometimes their rotten borough writers get contacted by local paper reporters asking "we decided to follow up this story but the person says a)its false and b)they are suing you. Is this true?" .
They then wondered how many cases the local journalist is put off by the claim of the lawyers being on the case and so give up.
Its a good way of putting a story on ice and hopefully having it become yesterdays news.
his fans wont care Reform is a protest vote for many
but it may cause him sone headaches that his corruption is being exposed
https://bsky.app/profile/pickardje.bsky.social/post/3mlspex6qi22r
of course streeting has managed to bury this
Well he does need something to secure with that security money 🙂
It’s always a funny one, they hounded two jags Prescott back in the day for the audacity of owning his own jaaaag and using a ministerial one but a 5 million squid freebie.
Politics has really moved on.
his fans wont care Reform is a protest vote for many
This.
The Brexit vote was timed as austerity really started to bite. Remind me how people reacted ..
Because then Johnson is in his pocket.
True but why as part of this particular deal? Why not before.
It just seems an odd part of the story.
Doesn't seem odd to me at all. Get Farage and Johnson to do a deal, each get £1m to ensure the crypto guy gets the result he wants.
Johnson and Farage both had form for being easily greedy and always wanting money. Seems a perfect fit.
Get Farage and Johnson to do a deal, each get £1m to ensure the crypto guy gets the result he wants.
But Johnson is getting what he wants anyway eg to remain as PM.
There might be a separate side deal where Johnson does certain policies as PM but if if I was handing out the cash I would be keeping things separate.
I might use the threat of Farage not standing down to negotiate with Johnson but ultimately its separate deals.
But Johnson is getting what he wants anyway eg to remain as PM.
Don't forget Johnson was always moaning about lack of money - he had all those kids to keep and was vastly overpaid as a journalist. PM was a big pay cut for him
Don't forget Johnson was always moaning about lack of money
Of course and this might just be me applying somewhat odd standards but I would have already been bribing the incumbent and then when it came to bribing someone not to stand I would have knocked it off the bribes to the incumbent. Anyway lets leave aside this side discussion since I will admit its highly questionable from my perspective and get back to Farage.
Bit awkward with his latest interview saying "And this was given to me on an unconditional basis, completely unconditional basis. But frankly, it was given as a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years"
That sounds, I dunno, a bit political and not personal?
As for unconditional. Just in case anyone rich is reading I support the claim that Marlowe is also Shakespeare after some believers came into the Canterbury pub I worked in (more years ago than I care to remember) and a)tipped heavily and b)brought me some beer once I finished my shift.
All I am saying is no conditions but good tips and some beer goes a long way.
his fans wont care Reform is a protest vote for many
but it may cause him sone headaches that his corruption is being exposed
https://bsky.app/profile/pickardje.bsky.social/post/3mlspex6qi22r
of course streeting has managed to bury this
Nothing to do with Reform, but Jim Pickard is terrible on a mountain bike (I have video evidence) 🤣 .
Reform TV had their Patrick Christys do a story where they went on and on about Angela Rayner and he financial issue with the HMRC. It was their usual unsubstantiated crap, but they went through every single donation, with cheeky comments to accompany each and more unsubstantiated speculation.
The thing is though it just makes them look outrageously hypocritical, because if anyone donations should be checked through on public television with unsubstantiated speculation and cheeky comments it should be Farages.
Farages lawyers are going to be busy since the parliamentary standards have announced that they are going to investigate that 5 million.
Its hard to see how it can be anything other than a breach regardless of what he claims it was given to him for.
Even if they find him guilty they don’t have much power to sanction him. The commons could then throw him out but I’m sure a seat would be found for him via a bye election
TBH it would create a lot more media attention and work out better for him if he did get suspended from Parliament and a recall was triggered, even if he lost his MP it’s not like it’s 3 months to an election.
Farage has a long history of fraud
when le penn did it (on a bigger scale ) she was barred from running as president in France
