To think Farage surely has to go

[OneKookyShark]

So Farage has some dodgy private company set up to avoid paying tax. Is he being pressured to resign as head of Reform? Of course not. Because he’s an entitled privileged man.

The double standards are incredible really. Here’s the story https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

While I think Rayner had to resign, why are the same standards not being applied?

Yea, he sounds like an Angel doesn’t he? 🙄

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency, but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given that he already owns other properties.
The use of personal service companies is not illegal, but it has been criticised across the political spectrum as a way to reduce tax bills. Farage has declined to publish his tax returns for 2023/24”

Right!? It’s laughable isn’t it!

Quite ridiculous and desperate isn’t it.

This was a fun read

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/05/donald-trump-nigel-farage-free-speech-reform

I get people are feeling it re Rayner going and you want similar but I don’t think your story has it beyond a thread here.

I did enjoy Nige getting taken down by the Democrats- absolutely joyous

R

🤣 Excellent try. It’s all over social media. And the press.

Can't abide the man. He utterly disgusts me, as do the politics that Reform stands for.

Sadly, they are a company not a political party and the people who would have to remove him share his revolting grifting traits and populist views. They celebrate him rather than seeing him for what he is, as demonstrated on this thread.

I do always think of Sliding Doors and how different this country could be if he was no longer in the public eye. How much damage him believing he is invincible has allowed him to wreak.

So you think he’ll be gone soon? You seem more focussed on Farage than most, nothing building on the radio on this.

Read: Trump Playbook.

Tax breaks for millionaires.
Convince the working class that immigrants are the source of all of their problems, and the solution is to deport 12 million people.

It just hits different when a politician advocating for higher taxes is caught evading taxes herself.

Before anyone comes after me, I dislike both, and much more so Farage. But on this very specific topic (tax optimisation, if you will), Rayner comes across as the bigger hypocrite.

The entirety legal steps Farage has taken are not remotely comparable to Angela Rayner’s illegal tax underpayment.

Where do you stand on him asking another country to apply sanctions on the U.K.? Is that totally above board too?
How about him not doing surgeries in his constituency and lying about why?
Or turning up to way below the average sessions/votes in the House?
Or earning more than any other MP in second/third/nth jobs? (One of which is advising the rich on how to offshore tax by getting multiple passports - hypocrisy you say?)

He didn’t use the word sanctions, no. He encouraged them to use economic levers though. You say potato….

What Rayner has done is not tax evasion. Tax evasion is deliberate evading of tax for which you have to prove intent.

She will just have to pay the money back plus (perhaps) a penalty of about 1/3 on top of it.

She was actually told by two firms that she didn’t need to pay the extra tax BUT they qualified that with telling her to seek specialist tax advice, which she failed to do. That’s why she had to go.

The key difference is that Farage has not been shown to be a hypocrite over this, as (to the best of my knowledge) he hasn’t criticised others over tax evasion. As what he is doing is legal, he will probably be fine.

Farage is looking very likely to be the next PM. He already well ahead in the polls. The only people that need to worry and the feckless and lazy who might have to get off their arses for their cash. The country will change massively for the better.

Quite Rayner was at best negligent, at worst it was downright tax fraud. I thought it was the wealthy not paying tax that the labour supporters hated?

Sturgeon uses a private company to avoid paying taxes so does Humza Yousaf. I'm sure many other MP's also have companies they own to minimise their taxes.

That it’s legal and others do it doesn’t make it right…

Rayner broke the ministerial code didn’t she? That’s a problem plus the lies about getting advice.