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
BREAKING:Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
— Jim Pickard (@pickardje.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T11:24:10.520Z
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
BREAKING:Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
— Jim Pickard (@pickardje.bsky.social) 2026-05-14T11:24:10.520Z
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
THEGUARDIAN.COM when le penn did it (on a bigger scale ) she was barred from running as president in France
BBC.CO.UK farage will eventually be caught out be his lies
at which point he will call it out as an establishment an witch-hunt, proving the mainstream media and traditional politicians are scared of him and validating his rallying cry for change. It won't stop him, it will embolden him.
I fully expect him to **** off soon.
He will have trousered the money ,been stopped from being our great leader by the nasty press and can continue earning vast fortunes by doing not much.
The first sign of any responsibility or actually having to work and he’s off.
****.
If its a gift it's taxable income, innit?
Not if genuinely a gift, no. If it was a payment for promotion, lobbying and influencer work (like bigging up the company on your radio show)... then absolutely. If* it was also a political donation... then tax laws is the least of Farage's problems. Not that it'll be a big problem for him... we're already in Trump territory here, where doing wrong doesn't influence his support negatively.
*I think I already posted this... but his party only has two dedicated stand alone policy papers on their website... one on immigration... the other on what they will do for the cryptocurrency industry. Anyone who believes that is a coincidence is either stupid, or a racist who will let Farage get away with any grifting he wants as long as he makes it okay to be racist.
The first sign of any responsibility or actually having to work and he’s off.
Indeed. Everyone saying he's going to be the next PM is delusional. He doesn't even want to be an MP, never mind have the responsibility of actually making important decisions with real life consequences. He'd run a mile if he was ever faced with the possibility of that happening.
But he has to keep giving the impression that that's what he wants, to keep the grift going and the money rolling in. Does anybody seriously believe that the £5 million donation was the only one? Of course it wasn't! Guaranteed, there will be many more where that one came from, no doubt weaseled away in offshore bank accounts and crypto. We just don't know about them (yet).
Not if genuinely a gift, no. If it was a payment for promotion, lobbying and influencer work (like bigging up the company on your radio show)... then absolutely
I thought either the doner or frog face had said it was for work in achieving Brexit - so earnings rather than gift then..
Harborne also said he gave the money to Farage "because of my great admiration for the decades of work he had done to achieve Brexit".
Indeed. Everyone saying he's going to be the next PM is delusional. He doesn't even want to be an MP, never mind have the responsibility of actually making important decisions with real life consequences. He'd run a mile if he was ever faced with the possibility of that happening.
Everyone said that about Trump & Boris, didn't stop them pillaging the state for their own good.
The list of Reform Councillors resigned, defected or suspended has reached 22 since the 7th May elections. Near as makes no difference a couple every day since the elections.
Everyone said that about Trump & Boris,
Johnson (dont use his stage name) definitely wanted to be PM its just thats where his plan stopped.
Seem to be several main reasons to try and become PM.
Becoming PM just to be PM. As above Johnson who seems to think he was born to it.
Becoming PM because you think you would be good at it. No real plans beyond that so not massively different from the first. Cameron and Starmer fall into this for me.
Becoming PM because thats how you carry out your ideological changes to the country. Liz Truss being a recent example.
Becoming PM out of a mix of the other three plus a certain "someone needed to do it". May and possibly Sunak.
I thought either the doner or frog face had said it was for work in achieving Brexit - so earnings rather than gift then..
Yeah its a bit awkward for him to have blurted that out. He doesnt handle anything other than sycophantic questioning well.
I guess the lawyers will have fun defining "gift" vs "deferred payment".
I fully expect him to **** off soon.
He will have trousered the money ,been stopped from being our great leader by the nasty press and can continue earning vast fortunes by doing not much.
The first sign of any responsibility or actually having to work and he’s off.****.
Well if you get back into the EU I expect he’ll be busting a gut to get elected as an MEP 🙂
Not if genuinely a gift, no. If it was a payment for promotion, lobbying and influencer work (like bigging up the company on your radio show)... then absolutely
I thought either the doner or frog face had said it was for work in achieving Brexit - so earnings rather than gift then..
Harborne also said he gave the money to Farage "because of my great admiration for the decades of work he had done to achieve Brexit".
Which he got paid for at around 8k€ a month + expenses for er 21 years as an MEP and got a nice pension coming in the future as well for doing nothing.
farage will eventually be caught out be his lies
TBH they seem to be forgetting about the other house his girlfriend may have bought/not bought money from rich parents/not rich parents.
But he’s doing what any normal man of the people would do which is to buy lots of property.
Can I have a friend who will give me £5m and expect nothing in return, Im sure we could all use one
I don't need £5m... just £2.3m to buy some mansions for cash.... to "protect" me from having to live near the working class. No... hang on... a boat and a skipper to run it for me would be lovely as well. Okay... £5m million it is... who's paying... and what do they want in return...? Nothing at all?!? Lovely...
Its getting to be a real dilemma as to who I spend the rest of my life kicking, farage or Wes Streeting.
Oops despite picking a plumber like the Greens did in Gorton
reform may have some issues with their candidate for Makerfield he was so racist he got suspended from musk Twitter!!!!
and had since deleted his entire social media history....
It's not the £5m bung we should be focussing on, it's Habib's allegation of the £1m reward for the 2019 election deal with Johnson
It's all of it. They're just utterly corrupt, the lot of them. It's just another way in which Nige and his mates are looking across the Atlantic at Trumps example of how you can turn the millions you're presently grifting into billions, if you can get in power.
The Torys were bad enough during Covid, handing multimillion pound contracts to their mates, but can you imagine what this lot would do in similar circumstances?
Has anyone seen nige lately? He seems to have gone to ground since he's actually finally being properly questioned about where all the dodgy funding is coming from?
Just a shame that he's not gone to ground in the place that elected him to represent them. But then, why would he give a shit about them? They were a vehicle to be used.
it's Habib's allegation of the £1m reward for the 2019 election deal with Johnson
I would stick primarily with the £5 million and further questions about exactly where his girlfriend got the cash from.
Followed by questions about how the lawsuit against Habib is going. Problem if you go too hard into the 1 million bit is the chance of being sued vs the "you are suing, right?"
Just a shame that he's not gone to ground in the place that elected him to represent them. But then, why would he give a shit about them? They were a vehicle to be used.
Maybe he is in hiding in Clacton, it's the last place anyone would look for him.
Maybe he is in hiding in Clacton, it's the last place anyone would look for him.
I will be showing my prejudices here but having lived in Colchester as a kid and occasionally visiting both Clacton and Jaywick (one of my relatives who was the classic Londoner resorting to that holiday home as permanent accommodation although in their case happily it was only a year or two) .
**** it I can take the lynch mob!
Name a time and place!
So long as it isnt the Clacton constituency. Hell I will even take on the lynch mob in Ipswich!
FB sends me links to Farages page if it senses my blood pressure is too low. Today he is claiming that X small boat arrivals yesterday is proof that we are being "invaded".
It's as if he's been hiding somewhere that didn't see this weeks net migration figures, or the recent run of days with a big fat 0 arrivals.
Utter lying, shameless, grifting ****.
FB sends me links to Farages page if it senses my blood pressure is too low.
😀
+ Johnson + Trump + Baker + Davies + ...
Today he is claiming that X small boat arrivals yesterday is proof that we are being "invaded".
That, the Russian hack and other nonsense is him attempting to divert the media away from £5mn by throwing them a different bone
It works well in the US, but our media is more aware, less influenced and gnawing on a particularly juicy morsel
From 2020
Our analysis therefore presents empirical evidence that is consistent with the hypothesis that President Trump’s tweets systematically divert attention away from a topic that is potentially harmful to him, which in turn appears to suppress media coverage of that topic.
AND
The fact that suppression nonetheless seems to occur implies that important editorial decisions may be influenced by contextual variables without the editors’ intention—or indeed against their stated policies.
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As the reach of social media platforms continues to grow, other present and future leaders may engage in similar types of behaviours.
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BTW when he hits 63 in April ‘27 he will get to collect his MEP pension so (I’ve seen £73k a year quoted but can’t confirm it’s correct)for life.
Ive seen posts saying he’s able to collect it now but looks like they have got his age wrong.
Interesting/worrying to see to that polls have Restore eating in to Reform vote in the by-election
Makerfield By-Election Voting Intention:LAB: 43% (-2)RFM: 40% (+8)RES: 7% (New)LDM: 4% (-3)GRN: 3% (-1)CON: 2% (-9)Via @survation.bsky.social, 18-22 May.Changes w/ GE2024.
— Election Maps UK (@electionmaps.uk) 2026-05-23T19:48:19.369Z
i suspect 7% is on the optimistic side for them but will be worrying farage & co and as nice as it is to see their vote being split, restore is an openly racist party calling for mass deportations and vocally backed by a grim coalition of ex BNP, neo nazis, holocaust deniers , Musk . .. etc
i suspect 7% is on the optimistic side for them but will be worrying farage & co and as nice as it is to see their vote being split, restore is an openly racist party calling for mass deportations and vocally backed by a grim coalition of ex BNP, neo nazis, holocaust deniers , Musk . .. etc
Restore supporters/bots are increasingly appearing in my feed - as soon as the "Vote Reform" bot appears another one pops up saying why they are switching to Restore
