Farage fails to report 5 million gift!

Farage is trying to follow the Trump playbook but look where that has got America. Trump has got very very rich and most Americans have got a great deal poorer. Farage and his band of grifters are out to line their pockets at the expense of the British tax payer.

Farage, Tice and Jenrick are now promoting some JCB digger, whose owner just so happened to give Reform £200,000.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/reform-uk-funding-promoting-jcb-machine-farage-jenrick-anderson

Yeah! And people still vote for this "man of the people". I give up.

Sorry Foxie48 - I got a bit confused there.

LemonJam

Sorry, Im quoting ronib- but that post was a response to foxie48- who has just posted her response.

Bit confused as your response seems to be related to ronib rather than me. However, never mind as we seem to be on the same page!

Sorry, Im quoting ronib- but that post was a response to foxie48- who has just posted her response.

ronib

I don’t think money grabbers are confined to any one political party though. foxie48.

No one has said that ronib. However it has to be said that no other UK party leader does as little MP constituency work, spends so little time in Westminster as Farage. There is no other UK party leader that prioritises their time and efforts to secure additional annual income running to millions of £s in the same way as Farage.

Apart for Trump- Farage is in a league of his own when it comes to money grabbing whilst in high political office.

ronib

I don’t think money grabbers are confined to any one political party though. foxie48.

I haven't said they are Ronib but don't you wonder why three men are piling so much money into a political party? They all avoid paying their tax in the UK but want to have a say in how our taxes are spent. I wonder why, don't you?

"New research from Democracy for Sale shows that three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking and Richard Tice.
Together, the trio have provided £23 million of the £30 million donated since Farage set up the party - then the Brexit Party - in 2019.
On Thursday it emerged that Harborne, a Thailand-based businessman with major cryptocurrency interests, donated £9 million to Reform in September - the largest political donation by a living individual in British history.
We may never know how Reform spends this money. In the UK political spending is only recorded and regulated in a general election year."
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-reform-uks-donations-have-come

Thank you Elegran.

Or an MEP.

Chocolatelovinggran

I have two questions, which I hope that someone might answer.
1. If Mr Farage says that this was a personal gift, for security purposes only, and unrelated to any part of his political role, is he obligated to supply evidence of this being spent in this activity?
2. Should Mr Farage declare an " interest" in cryptocurrency, in Parliamentary questions and debates,as the recipient of money from a man much involved in this "industry".

1) He is supposed to declare it if he is, or hopes to be, an MP or MSP, whatever the money is to be used for.

2) If he is the recipient of money from someone involved in the crypto "industry", then how can he not have an interest in any legislature that affects that?

Cossy

LemonJam

Farage stopped being an MEP in January 2020 when the UK officially left the EU. He was entitled to a £153,000 severance as he left and took with him an annual pension of £73,000 annually, subject to annual cost of living increase.

He is a wealthy man in his own rights by any reasonable standards.

You’ve omitted to mention the 10 or so additional part time jobs, which also draw in massive salaries. He is indeed a very wealthy man.

No one denies him security as an MP, indeed serving MPs are all entitled to very basic security and to privately fund more, however Farage refuses to run surgeries or, it appears, even meet face to face with his constituents, because of security fears.

He is simply a liar.

Many people tell lies, many MPs tell lies, but I’ve yet to come across an MP who spends as little time in his own constituency and parliament and so much time out of the country and doing “part time jobs”

He is busy though now, out canvassing, he was in my constituency yesterday, spreading his divisive garbage and grinning his froggy grin.

Do feel free to list any more jobs Cossy- I got tired of typing!

I agree with all that you outline in your post. I would add- I have never seen or been aware of any other person in politics who so cravenly seeks to line £££ his pockets and who seeks so much attention- apart from Trump. They are cut from the same cloth and if Reform are voted into Government I fear the UK may experience some of the same outcomes.

LemonJam

Farage stopped being an MEP in January 2020 when the UK officially left the EU. He was entitled to a £153,000 severance as he left and took with him an annual pension of £73,000 annually, subject to annual cost of living increase.

He is a wealthy man in his own rights by any reasonable standards.

You’ve omitted to mention the 10 or so additional part time jobs, which also draw in massive salaries. He is indeed a very wealthy man.

No one denies him security as an MP, indeed serving MPs are all entitled to very basic security and to privately fund more, however Farage refuses to run surgeries or, it appears, even meet face to face with his constituents, because of security fears.

He is simply a liar.

Many people tell lies, many MPs tell lies, but I’ve yet to come across an MP who spends as little time in his own constituency and parliament and so much time out of the country and doing “part time jobs”

He is busy though now, out canvassing, he was in my constituency yesterday, spreading his divisive garbage and grinning his froggy grin.

I don’t think money grabbers are confined to any one political party though. foxie48.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would think that Farage and Reform have any interest in British voters's lives other than trying to secure their vote. They are all clearly a shower of money grubbing opportunists willing to sell their soul to the highest bidder.

Fraser Nelson sums it up rather neatly in The Times:

Only two years ago {Farage} was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to change — and change utterly. How?

The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given £5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift — so, not disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him “safe and secure for the rest of my life”. But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.

Read on.

www.thetimes.com/article/4b079209-6075-4121-bcb7-d77d2096811a?shareToken=ec89a12b1ef60635fe21550794f045ff

WithNobsOnIt

Is Farage even worse than Mandelson or countess other politicians?

Let go back to the Sixties.Think Ernest Marples who was then Minister of Transport..Who was shown in later years to be a complete fraud about contracts for his company.

I still remember him on TV cutting the ribbon on the opening of the Preston by pass. You know the UK's first stretch of Motorway.

I think this is an issue that should be addressed because it is part of the lazy thinking we have become assaulted with, especially in the media.
Do we see someone who breaks in to our house as a lesser threat because it is the first time they have done it?
Do we walk around thinking most burglers wear black tee-shirts so that man over there in a black tee-shirt must therefore be a potential burglar?
Oh he's now going into that house so I must ring the police and report a burglary?
Maybe not the best example but I hope you get what I mean.
This 'all politicians are the same so anyone will do' attitude is not helpful in a democracy.
The fact that you can single out Ernest Marples as an example really shows my point. What about all the other hard-working MPs who weren't and aren't involved in this kind of behaviour?
No we don't hear about them because the media can't stand them and are constantly prowling around looking for the black-tee shirt brigade to pin something on.
Why have we stopped thinking for ourselves?

Farage is a man without principles or morals and is in it for the money. He's funded by foreign governments and people like Harborne to promote their interests, not those of the British population. He's a racist with links to fascist organisations.

I have two questions, which I hope that someone might answer.
1. If Mr Farage says that this was a personal gift, for security purposes only, and unrelated to any part of his political role, is he obligated to supply evidence of this being spent in this activity?
2. Should Mr Farage declare an " interest" in cryptocurrency, in Parliamentary questions and debates,as the recipient of money from a man much involved in this "industry".

It doesn’t matter who is ‘worse’ though does it? If somebody doesn’t abide by the rules they will be rightly criticised, whether for political gain or not. I’ve got a low tolerance for dishonesty, as I think a lot of people have.

No thanks, let's for the moment concentrate on Farage, and what he is up to.

Is Farage even worse than Mandelson or countess other politicians?

Let go back to the Sixties.Think Ernest Marples who was then Minister of Transport..Who was shown in later years to be a complete fraud about contracts for his company.

I still remember him on TV cutting the ribbon on the opening of the Preston by pass. You know the UK's first stretch of Motorway.

There have been a number of Points of Order over the last week in the House of Commons where at least three MPs have complained that Reform MPs are coming to their constituencies without informing the local MP.

Here are two. Watch Amanda Martin (Portsmouth North Labour) at 12:38 and James MacCleary (Lewes LibDem) make the same complaint and hear the Speaker's response.

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e71a8fa7-2a33-491c-92d6-a1150b0907d8

MPs and constituency etiquette is made very clear here = page 21:

researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN02028/SN02028.pdf

Reform MPs riding roughshod over the courtesies that fellow MPs deserve.

My female MP received threats as a result of comments made by a neighbouring male MP from the opposition party. She doesn’t have thugs looking after her like the ones who accompanied Farage to my local pub 10 days ago, uninvited by the way. So I am totally fed up that this grifter gets away with everything . Even his henchman Zia on QT last night dominated and wouldn’t shut up. Give me strength to endure the next couple of weeks. Oh to have the authority and power to b force Farage to answer to these issues, but this old lady is running out of steam.

keepingquiet

Shows what a massive Grifter he is- I'm glad this has come out before the local elections because I am really worried about Reform getting in where I live.

I cannot understand why people support this man but constantly slag off Starmer.

I'm the same keeping quiet, I cannot see why people slag off Starmer unless they don't approve of what he's doing. The EU has been cleaning up tax avoidance & Farage took us out of that. Most of us are worse off but if you're loaded you'll welcome escape from the EU possibly. Starmer is also restricting the huge profits some private firms make. In my own work, fostering, since private companies became involved I've had to sign documents for kids in care to pay their adoption agencies around £2k per week. There's little choice so it has to be paid, bankrupting local authorities. It's sickening to think that little of that goes back into frontline services, but into shareholders pockets. It's similar with rail, water companies etc. they might be renationalised again & loose huge reliable amounts of payments from public money. That's why they don't like Starmer.

The storm over Mandelson was about Starmer allegedly knowing that he had failed security vetting and allegedly lying to Parliament about it.

We now know through the testimony of several witnesses to the Foreign Affairs Committee that Mandelson did not fail security vetting, that all the stories published by various newspapers from Maddox, Crerar etc were based on falsehoods.

Farage’s £5 million pre-election bung from Harborne, a man who has given a total of £22 million to the Brexit Party (£10 million) and Reform (£12 million) should have been declared and wasn’t. Had Farage bothered to engage with the induction programme for new MPs he would have known that.

Harborne makes his money from fossil fuels, crypto gambling and weapons manufacture. Reform - which is a cult based around one man - push fossil fuels and propose tax incentives for crypto and weapons manufacture. But nothing to see here.