Farage fails to report 5 million gift!

ronib

Some information seems to suggest that Angela Rayner has an even lower attendance rate in the House of Commons than dear Nigel. In fact 55 MPs have lower attendance rates than Nigel.

If you look into it further ronib, ministers do have a low attendance rate, because they are often away from the House on ministerial business - not slacking off. Look at Rayner’s pre 2024 attendance record to see before she became a minister.

Yet another reason why we have rules in place for MPs too declare gifts and donations as highlighted by the Guardian today:

"The defence secretary, John Healey, has urged Nigel Farage to provide transparency about the £5m gift he received from a billionaire businessman, in particular over whether any of the sum could have been linked to Russia-connected profits.
In a letter to the Reform UK leader, Healey also asked him to address the possibility that the war against Iran might boost the revenues of AML Global, an aviation fuel company owned by Christopher Harborne, who gave Farage the £5m in 2024. Farage initially supported the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

The letter, asked Farage to confirm that none of the sum was “derived from transactions with Russian state-linked energy companies”, and to give assurances that AML Global had complied fully with all sanctions on Russian energy since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022".

Some information seems to suggest that Angela Rayner has an even lower attendance rate in the House of Commons than dear Nigel. In fact 55 MPs have lower attendance rates than Nigel.

ronib

There are as everyone knows 650 MPs and 437 actual seats in the House of Commons. Nigel Farage is 97 percent aligned with the Reform Party when he votes. Obviously loads of MPs can’t physically get into the House.

There is seldom 100% attendance of all the MPs, except for events like the King's speech. However most MPs attend as often as they can, and find time to be present at their constituency as well.

As a member of the EU Fisheries Committee, he was present at just one committee meeting out of 42 in 3 years. He has done better at Westminster, but has not attended a single meeting of the Clacton Town Board out of the meetings held in his first two years as an MP. Clacton voters must wonder whether they actually have an MP.

Ronib, you said "clearly Farage knows how to direct his energies". You have your answer- he does not direct his energies towards Clacton- hence he has no plans and has made no improvement.

Or outside

A party of how many MPs? 5? What does make me angry is that Farage promised to improve Clacton whether inside our outside the House. What are his plans and what is being done? Casdon

You keep bringing complete irrelevancies into this ronib. There’s nothing wrong with being angry about what you see as failings of the government, but stop pretending that an elected MP and party leader does not need to do the role he was elected to do. There is just no plausible defence, he is doing wrong.

How? Our local hospital rebuild has been kicked into the long grass by this government. What exactly does representing your constituency entail? foxie48

What you think is an MP's responsibility and role and what it actually is are not the same thing *ronib Thankfully, most of our MPs represent their constituency, which is what they are paid to do.

I don’t think doing what you want is confined to the opposition. The government has such a huge majority that they are solely responsible for the decisions being pushed through parliament. No contest. The buck stops there.

If you take Ronib's posts as being valid, basically unless you are in government, once elected you can take the salary and bugger off to do whatever you want. Which is exactly what Farage does.

Begs the question if an MP and party leader feels attending Westminster/HoC why do the job in the first place. But then as Maremia outlines he's a performer not an active politician.

He is a Performer, not a Politician, and his act is getting old.

But that is not relevant, as it does not detract from the dereliction of his core duty as a party leader. None of the other party leaders regularly fail to perform the most basic elements of their role. Why are you defending such actions?

A minority party at the moment. I am more gobsmacked by the majority party. The party who keeps coming up with some pretty strange ideas.

I’m just amazed at your attitude to MPs, particularly party leaders, not being expected to fulfil the most basic of duties for which they were elected ronib. In fact I am gobsmacked.

For the record, I am not a Farage supporter. But I can quite understand why he sees our present government as a … waste of time?

Good to know that Farage's £5million gift affords sufficient security to campaign on the streets of Greater Manchester but not enough fund security to attend one constituency surgery in Clacton? Just why 🤷‍♀️

Has Farage got himself onto any of the select Committees? That's where much of the real work of MPs is done.

Reducing the number of MPs would mean bigger constituencies and voters feeling even more remote from Parliament /Westminster.

The place that needs a huge cut in numbers is the House of Lords; there are about 800 of them. Many of them there because of patronage, not worth.

An MP and Reform UK party leader, that wishes to be the next PM no less, who can't be bothered to do his job by regularly attending Westminster/ HoC and his supporters can't see much point either.

I have no words...

I can’t bring myself to debate something so obviously required as the attendance and participation in questioning the government by party leaders at PMQ on a regular basis.

I don’t agree Casdon. Farage clearly knows how to direct his energies.

MPs are known to stand in the House of Commons.

There are as everyone knows 650 MPs and 437 actual seats in the House of Commons
Time to reduce the numbers of MPs and save some money in the process?

He is a party leader, there is always a seat for party leaders in the house. Party leaders are expected to be present for PM questions, because that is the challenge forum for opposition parties. You must know that.

He is rarely even there for major issues on which votes are recorded. He has participated in about 33% of recorded votes since becoming an MP, which ranks among the lowest in the House of Commons. That is woeful for somebody who wants to become PM.

I’m sorry ronib, but there is no excuse for needing to ask such a basic question.