To not understand why Farage hasn’t been forced out yet?

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Let’s call a spade a spade…

when a person takes multiple ‘gifts’ from various shady sources they aren’t nice presents from one kind person to another. They. Are. Bribes.

Regardless of whether we agree with Nige on any of his policies, or that a woman is a woman or whatever else…

surely it’s clear the man is a crook?

Agree with this. I saw Rupert Lowe had said he was going to ruin his career, no idea if he’s got the power to bring all of this scrutiny though

Recycle

I’d got Tice confused with Lowe and then forgotten Lowe’s name, Since Tice didn’t leave he would also be a good shout.

Leading a political party is probably good craic when you’re a fringe outfit with a couple of MPs. You can say and do what you want, no one puts you under massive scrutiny and you’ll never have to implement anything anyway. When you’re suddenly a potential government in waiting and bigging yourself up as that, the scrutiny ramps up. It’s probably not a whole heap of fun if you’re a bit of a chancer and wholesale grifter.

I wonder if he will resign . I think it is likely . I think he has been “hounded “ but deservedly so . Non R supporters really dislike him , so I would hazard a guess that he is possibly one of the most hated men in the UK . I know there will also be millions that love him and are taken in by his “cheeky chappy “ persona .
I saw Jacob Rees Mogg being interviewed on sky last night and he readily agreed that Brexit would not have gone through without NF .

I think NF has no impetus to serve a public life under any duty to make things better for all .

If he does resign , I do wonder if this had happened months earlier if KS wouldn’t have resigned . Yes the May elections were awful for labour , but one major ( but not the only ) motivating factor for the MPs was the fear of “handing the keys to no 10 to NF “ , if changes in the leadership weren’t made .
Even if NF does resign he does have an uncanny ability of rising like a phoenix from the ashes .

Good summary of affairs from the BBC.

Sounds like it's the George Cottrell stuff which is proving most damaging.

Same with Trump.

And it took long enough for people to see the light with Boris as well.

People will support people while they can feather their own nest.

Isn't it brilliant🥳🥂🍾
So many people were absolutely sure that he would definitely be our next prime minister.
And now the stupid little prick has gone off in a huff ✌️🤣

George is going to be very pissed off, the spotlight will be on him🔦

Robert Jenrick always defends him, but I agree he’ll probably want to lead it if that position is up for grabs.

The most liked comments on the X post are very different to the ones served up by default...

People buying council houses. It’s gone on for years . My parents snd in laws didn’t , but many did and it’s their children that are now sitting on a ton of money because of that leap of faith from renting to owning.
The laws changed and made it possible for working class people to own a house. Whatever your view, you can’t blame people for taking advantage of a change in the law. Money talks, especially around property.

If it’s a philosophical debate, all legal theory and applied law takes into account proportionality and materiality. Which is why stealing a mars bar isn’t the same thing as robbing a bank.

Moreover the law does also consider motive in this context. What might the motive for not declaring glasses be? Who knows. Could be conspiracy could also be not considered material and considered a personal gift (nb I would give a mate some glasses no strings).

But £5m seems a lot to forget? So i think we can say he probably didn’t forget it. And it’s also more than friends usually give to each other. Even rich ones.

I hope this is the beginning of the end of Farage’s political career, it should be. Not holding my breath as that shithead seems to be Teflon so far.

He’s clearly rattled about it, hopefully that’s a genuine reaction.

I don't think this is quite right. Farage is on record as saying that UKIP's strategy in the European parliament was not to vote on more EU legislation so on principle rather than because he's lazy. A bit like Sinn Fein winning seats in Parliament and then not attending.

He's also on record saying he could have stayed in banking and been a lot richer but he chose to go into politics because of his disagreement with the European project.

I think it’s wrong to say most of his followers dont care about him taking money from wherever. He is supposed to be anti establishment and there have been studies showing his support is most vulnerable to appearing to be in the pockets of big business/ bribery

They don’t give a shit. Social media is already full of them decrying this as some “establishment” stitch up. They seem to have forgotten that if he’d not taken the money there wouldn’t be anything to stitch up.

This is a good summary of just how damaging the emerging Cottrell scandal is.

Farage to reporters on the matter earlier today

“You tell your bosses, you harass my family anymore. I’ll take these serious consequences. That’s what your organisation has done this morning. Go away,”

He's going to announce Trump has appointed him head of FIFA and will therefore be standing down from Clacton.

Of course, he may decide to call a by-election and see if the good folk of Clacton back him. Cost: £300k to taxpayer. Then if standards watchdog says he was naughty and suspend him for ten days, he'll say "pointless waste of money, I've just been re-elected", have another by-election costing £300k and get straight back in again as the Clacton Massive will see it's all the establishment trying to remove their democratically elected MP. And it will roll on.

Wouldn't put him past him to play such a game.

I hope he's fucking off. If he is resigning, it's likely because he knows there's more shit still to come that would bury him.

I think it's inherent. It's expressed differently, depending on where you are historically, socially and politically. These are the people who sold all their belongings in anticipation of a rapture, and when it didn't happen blamed themselves for not being pure enough.

A really contentious view would be it's an emergent property of universal suffrage.

The next plot twist will be: babyface takes out a hit on farage

He's not going to be taking questions. What an absolute charlatan. Thatcher would say he's frit.