Farage tax avoidance

I'm sorry, LizzieD but I don't think that Byline Times (much as I enjoy their reporting) is going to be particularly influential in holding Farage to account. They're a minority read

MaizieD I totally agree with you. That was the point I was trying to make a few posts up - probably not very successfully.

It’s only the ‘minority reads’ that are scratching beneath the surface of Farage’s affairs.

The more ‘popular’ media aren’t picking up on their findings (for whatever reason) and so they remain ‘minority reads’.

Until the likes of the DM, Telegraph et al (much as I dislike them) decide to scrutinise Farage, he will continue to operate unchecked and with impunity … and he knows it.

I don’t agree, I think every piece of information on every MP, particularly somebody who has enemies, is remembered, filed and reused in the fullness of time. Farage has very few allies, two Reform MPs and 15 councillors have already gone, the Tory party is still being backed by business, and every aspect of both him and Reform is being scrutinised. It might be donations, it might be tax, it might be his declarations of interest, it might be candidate scrutiny, or whatever, who knows.

Talking about the 'integrity' of MSM, on the same day, the Telegraph had two articles.
Front page was of course about our Angela, further in a page devoted to 'How to avoid tax on your second home'.

Oh the irony, Maremia..

Maremia

Talking about the 'integrity' of MSM, on the same day, the Telegraph had two articles.
Front page was of course about our Angela, further in a page devoted to 'How to avoid tax on your second home'.

Good old Telegraph - never fails does it🙈

Chocolatelovinggran

Oh the irony, Maremia..

🤣🤣🙄

Here’s what I mean MaaizieD, only one day later.
news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-admits-he-made-a-mistake-over-house-ownership-after-a-week-that-proves-how-much-details-matter-13426302

Are we seeing two tier media reporting 🤣🤣

Casdon

Here’s what I mean MaaizieD, only one day later.
news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-admits-he-made-a-mistake-over-house-ownership-after-a-week-that-proves-how-much-details-matter-13426302

It’s hardly going to see him hounded out of his political eminence or bother his supporters, is it?

Farage is untouchable.

MaizieD

Casdon

Here’s what I mean MaaizieD, only one day later.
news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-admits-he-made-a-mistake-over-house-ownership-after-a-week-that-proves-how-much-details-matter-13426302

It’s hardly going to see him hounded out of his political eminence or bother his supporters, is it?

Farage is untouchable.

Nobody is untouchable MaizieD, I can’t believe you really think that.

I don't blame people for doing what is lawful. But I do blame governments and Parliament for enacting laws with tax loopholes.

Grantanow

I don't blame people for doing what is lawful. But I do blame governments and Parliament for enacting laws with tax loopholes.

Especially since the loopholes are more easily available to those with the money to pay someone to advise them how to use thé loopholes.

I think he is untouchable in the sense that it is the wrong approach. Just saying how awful farage is won't work.

Casdon

MaizieD

Casdon

Here’s what I mean MaaizieD, only one day later.
news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-admits-he-made-a-mistake-over-house-ownership-after-a-week-that-proves-how-much-details-matter-13426302

It’s hardly going to see him hounded out of his political eminence or bother his supporters, is it?

Farage is untouchable.

Nobody is untouchable MaizieD, I can’t believe you really think that.

It took a huge amount of media and voter tolerated corruption to bring Johnson down and in the end it was his own government colleagues who did it, not public opinion or an Ethics advisor (because, of course, by that time Johnson had failed to fill the post left vacant after Lord Geidt resigned when Johnson failed to get rid of Priti Patel, who had been found to violate the ministerial code not once, but several times. Just a reminder ; bsky.app/profile/sturdyalex.bsky.social/post/3ly5yphlp2c2w )

Farage is as big a liar as Johnson but far more wily. He walks on water....

At the moment but it won’t last.

He has too many skeletons in his cupboard. One day the door will be forced open.

Galaxy

I think he is untouchable in the sense that it is the wrong approach. Just saying how awful farage is won't work.

Well, that's odd, Galaxy because it worked like a charm with Angela Rayner.

Galaxy

I think he is untouchable in the sense that it is the wrong approach. Just saying how awful farage is won't work.

That’s not what I’m saying? There are people, and some have many enemies, searching for any transgressions, him and other high profile figures, and if they are there, at some point they will be uncovered. People are reporting just some of what they have found so far, but for each of them it’s a big jigsaw just waiting for the missing pieces.

Where's your commercial fishing boat, Nigel and why has it not been declared in the MPs register of interests?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/04/wheres-your-boat-nigel/

Well yes Farage and Angela Rayner are different people, it's gyreat people are looking into him but I don't think it will work in terms of stopping the current trajectory. If they uncover something really really weird/criminal then maybe but not otherwise.

Galaxy

Well yes Farage and Angela Rayner are different people, it's gyreat people are looking into him but I don't think it will work in terms of stopping the current trajectory. If they uncover something really really weird/criminal then maybe but not otherwise.

Are you saying that the current trajectory is just him? I think it’s rather that certain individuals are targets, the more mouthy they are the more they upset the opposition - and the more the media go for them, set them up to kick them down.

If Farage was on power, or about to be in power, there’d be more detailed and forceful attacks. Reasons for so much on AR were to do with her government and the position she held in that government.

I think that’s true Mollygo. It’s like a ballet, choreographed to hit when it hurts most.

Mollygo

If Farage was on power, or about to be in power, there’d be more detailed and forceful attacks. Reasons for so much on AR were to do with her government and the position she held in that government.

Farage may not be in government but he is immensely powerful. Who do you think is driving the hatred of immigrants and the mas flying of cheap Chinese 'England' flags?

Who is encouraging the narrative that 'immigrants' are taking British jobs and straining British infrastructure and being treated handsomely by the government while our own disadvantaged population is languishing on the streets and on the breadline? Who has driven the media agenda over the past few weeks?

And who is being desperately copied by our own spineless government?

MaizieD

Mollygo

If Farage was on power, or about to be in power, there’d be more detailed and forceful attacks. Reasons for so much on AR were to do with her government and the position she held in that government.

Farage may not be in government but he is immensely powerful. Who do you think is driving the hatred of immigrants and the mas flying of cheap Chinese 'England' flags?

Who is encouraging the narrative that 'immigrants' are taking British jobs and straining British infrastructure and being treated handsomely by the government while our own disadvantaged population is languishing on the streets and on the breadline? Who has driven the media agenda over the past few weeks?

And who is being desperately copied by our own spineless government?

We should not underestimate Farage and Reform, they are not “socialists” like Labour and not “toffs” like the Tories so appeal to a very wide range of voters who don’t like the widespread liberal attitudes today.

Unless Starmer gets control of the economy and especially his own MPs, those voters who deserted the Tories and voted him in will vote him out in short order.

Some people are desperate to get Farage into trouble and AFAIK have been disappointed. Remember all that banking business and the Bank had to apologise to him?