Why is no one talking about Farage's £5 million gift/bribe?

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The right wing press had kittens about Starmer receiving some free glasses, yet are shtum about Farage receiving £5 million in the twelve months prior to him becoming an MP. No one gives someone £5 million pounds. Farage is bought and paid for by a shifty, Thailand based billionaire. Why don't voters and the media care?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Oh no, no way. We shall laser focus on this man, his circle and his funding.
Precisely to avoid the rise of yet another wanna be richer to government.

They have to declare everything they got up to 12 months before becoming an MP. I think those are the rules.
When did this reward gift happen?

Grifters gonna grift

I'm surprised HMRC aren’t interested!

Oh dear.

A thread entitled "Why is no one talking about Farage's £5 million gift/bribe?" – and two separate posters have arrived to say, Please don't talk about Farage's £5 million gift/bribe.

It's not even a long thread!

I don’t care what bribes he has if he reduces immigration or is a big enough threat that the present gov sorts immigration - cos that’s what Labour need to do

The £5 m quid was given "in early 2024", according to those same articles.

Farage became an MP in July 2024. So yes, even Farage doesn't dispute that it was within the 12 months before he became an MP.

Interestingly, Reform sources quoted in the first of those articles say Farage received the money "before he had decided to stand as an MP".

I wonder if they realise what they've just said there?!

Well that would be a lot easier if Nige hadn't taken us out of the Dublin Agreement, wouldn't it?

That's the legal agreement which automatically allowed us to return asylum seekers to EU countries they'd passed through.

That automatic ability to move people out was what the Tories were trying to somehow recreate with their massively expensive and totally ineffective Rwanda scheme.

The Dublin Agreement was in an in-built deterrent, courtesy of our membership of the EU.

Wonder why old Nigel was so keen for us to lose that power?

Also wonder why he didn't bother mentioning it in his campaigning?

Anything I’ve read says Dublin agreement was ineffectual

ireland is having little or no success in getting its unwanted immigrants out

Or maybe let’s look at the 5 million things that makes Farage look as dodgy as fuck?

I am no fan of Angela Raynor but her issue is small fry in comparison. And regardless, why do we accept one corrupt politician because there have been others?

the personality cult around farage is thoroughly bizarre

£5 million is peanuts compared to what Brexit has cost the UK economy.

Cheers Nige, so committed to Brexit that you got EU passports for your kids.

And why would an immigrant in Thailand be interested in Brexit? What did he get in return for £5m?

Harborne gave the Brexit Party £6 million in 2019 and was mentioned in the Panama Papers

He’s repeatedly talked about that £5m as meaning he can pay for private security for the rest of his life but seems to have immediately spent almost 1/3 of it on a new house. Perhaps it’s a fortress.

It’s about time this fucking grifter was properly scrutinised with the same ferocity the media has for Labour politicians. Though considering who owns them it’s unlikely.

I’d quite like the media to report on the news rather than attempting to create it for more attention and clicks. The American import of 24/7 rolling ‘breaking’ news is doing nobody any favours.

It’s quite the conundrum, isn’t it?

Because Farage is a middle aged posh man.

Because most people, even those who like him, accept he’s ever so slightly dodgy and so it comes as less of a surprise.

Because Reform are the “in” thing and all the tub-thumping “patriots” don’t want to accept their Nige is up to this stuff.

The press love him and they hate Labour.

I can't stand Farage, and I'm rather left wing, politically. I also watch and listen to a lot of news. I've heard it discussed quite often in the last 24 hours.

Resurrecting as he’s now said it’s not the publics business what he does with the money. Asked Nick Robinson if he donates his salary to charity. I mean NR earns the money - is he saying he earnt the £5mill?

I think this looks really bad for him - not really man of the people and can’t really have a go at transparency/starmers clothes and then do this!

Yes, Farage is flailing all over the place with this.

Nigel Farage: I can spend £5m gift on Ferraris or betting on horses if I want
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/23/nigel-farage-5m-gift-crypto-billionaire-not-any-of-your-business
Challenged over why he initially said it was for his personal security, and then that it was a reward for Brexit, Farage said: “Because it was given as an unconditional gift, right? The understanding is, and you know very well, you know very well I’ve been physically more attacked over many years than any other politician.”
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Farage said he “wasn’t in politics” in 2024 at the time of the donation, but the BBC interviewer Nick Robinson said Farage had been interviewed for 40 minutes on his podcast about a possible run for parliament. Farage said that was “a very, very difficult decision. I was far from making my mind up.”

Asked if he could return the money to Harborne should he be found to have broken parliamentary rules, Farage said: “I don’t think it’s any of your business, frankly.

I saw him interviewed by Sally Nugent this morning and he claims the money is to be used for his security but refused to give any details. He very quickly got confrontational didn’t do himself any favours

He didn't help himself on Nick Ferrari's LBC show this morning either, even as Nick was trying to insert himself to his anus.

More details here:

Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business'
^https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0vx2edk0vo^

Pressed on whether he has spent any of the money, Farage repeated it is "none of your business" before asking presenter Sally Nugent how much of her salary had been spent on petrol and beer.

Told it was the public's business to know, Farage replied: "No, it's not the public's business."

Asked again to say how much of the £5m has been spent on security, Farage said: "No, I'm not going to answer that deliberately, wilfully.

"It's not your business at the BBC to put me in danger therefore I will not answer it."

Nugent replied "we're not putting you in any danger at all", with Farage saying: "If I answer that question you are, so I won't."

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Farage was asked if he would give the money back and replied by asking presenter Nick Robinson if he would give his salary to charity.

Asked again about whether he would give the money back, Farage said: "What on earth has that got to do with you?

He doesn’t want to say what he spent it on because it would put him in danger - so he’s not spent it on security then!!