Police are investigating Tice’s company for donations made to reform UK

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Well well well

More corruption from “not the establishment”

Police investigate donations by Tice company to Reform UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yv4r5g55do

What have you actually contributed to this thread? All the two of you have done is cheer each other on while providing no evidence for your assertions, nor making any case to defend Farage or Tice. What is the point? If you actually tried to defend them I would understand. All you have contributed is whataboutery? And your whataboutery isn't even relevant to the topic at hand.

yesterday

It’s hidden because it refers to crapto currency.
MN flags any posts with the correctly spelled word.

Oddly Reform withdrew it when the investigation in to the £5 million payment was launched.

Yes! That was a strange way to behave if there was no link between Reform's crapto policy and the £5 million donation to Reform by a crapto tycoon.

This thread is an excellent representation of the current voting public - many people just vote on 'feelings'. Many people don't have critical thinking skills, they are not bothered about even taking a cursory glance at policy or any evidence based fact

That's what Nigel excels at - selling bull shit & snake oil.
Every single robust study pre Brexit said we would poorer as a nation, logistics would be harder, slower and more expensive and that our standing in the world would take a huge step back. That is exactly what has happened.

But Nigel and his tribe are happy because they have made more money in the interim and they tell the plebs public that everything is great because we have our 'sovrinty' back.

All the reform supporters please have a think about what Nigel has actually done to make this country better - nothing.
He's richer, You're poorer.
He's a shit MP
He wants to defund the NHS
He politicises tragedies for his own gain and incites violence - Stockport
He actively wants division - it's us against the establishment trope
He's a complete dickhead

Thanks, @DuncinToffee .

He politicises tragedies for his own gain and incites violence - Stockport

At least have the respect / decency to get the town name right. Especially so close to the anniversary. It's Southport.

I have no clue how people get this wrong.

There are plenty. And you appear not to understand what lobbying is. Yes, sometimes money or some benefit in kind changes hands and that is wrong. However it is often MPs drawing attention to issues on behalf of their constituents.

Any thoughts on the substantive points made? Or are you going to focus on the typo?

Apologies @NoWordForFluffy you are absolutely correct. No excuse.

I live in the south east and visited Stockport the other week, predictive text and my perimenopausal brain made the mistake.

My point on how Farage used the Southport tragedy for political gain and incite violence still stands

I don't agree with the Metropolitan Police telling the press before anyone in Reform (if that was the case). Though Richard Tice may have been in Dubai so uncontactable.

Other than that, if the law has been broken, I hope it leads to prosecution.

In other news, it seems Putins 3 day special military Operation is less closer to prevailing than before it started. I wonder if there is a new strategy that doesn't involve Farage and his Kremlin cloak of cash has been kyboshed. Spending a lot of money and effort over the next 3 years to maybe get a Reform PM doesn't seem such a great use of Russian resources.

It's hard not to imagine a film where the Gods on Olympus have taken the protective glass jar off one of the players who is a little Farage piece on the game board of mortals.

"Now," said Zeus, his face inscrutable as ever as he put the shell of scrutiny on the side of the board and looked at Hera,

"Now," he continued, "let us see him perform his miracles without help".

@LlynTegid have the Met followed an established process or have they treated Reform differently?

Richard Tice is now threatening legal action against both the BBC and NCA and accusing the Met Police of briefing against him.

https://bsky.app/profile/parodypm.bsky.social/post/3mrjtvag2522a

He truly is pathetic isn’t he?

Poor Tricky Dicky.

Hasn't he rolled out the "hearing from my lawyers" line before? He won't sue anyone for obvious reasons.

“The Establishment” - has he not looked in the mirror recently? Privately educated grandson of a multimillionaire property developer - when was that not establishment?

I rather suspect the leak is internal to Reform.
A lot of the Cottrell information seems to point to it.
More worrying for them but easier to blame external sources.

See also: Donald Trump.

You said the magic words. It's a shame that pasting this image into this tread will cause a lot of AI LLMs to now have it as a parameter for "Tice"

#HiGemini !

It's not clear that the "the Met Police [was] briefing the BBC before contacting interested parties", as Tice suggests.

According to the BBC article in the OP, the BBC were following up a Guardian report on two payments by Tice's Britain Means Business company to Reform in 2024, when Tice was Reform chairman.

The Guardian reported that the two payments from Britain Means Britain were among four flagged to the National Crime Agency as part of its Suspicious Activity Reports programme. (The other two flagged payments were made to Reform directly by Fiona Cottrell and were reported on by The Times.)

The BBC then approached the Met and asked for comment:

Asked about the donations from Britain Means Business, the Met repeated a statement originally issued earlier this month after The Times's investigation.

A spokesperson said: "An investigation was launched in February 2025 after a referral was made to the Metropolitan Police by the Electoral Commission relating to donations made to a political party ahead of the 2024 UK General Election."

They added: "Detectives from the Met's Special Enquiry Team are investigating alleged offences under Section 61 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

"Early investigative advice has been sought from the Crown Prosecution Service and two people have so far been interviewed under caution. No arrests have been made.

"An offence under this section is not one that the Electoral Commission can investigate and, as such, it is a matter for the police."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yv4r5g55do

So (1) it seems the Met haven't gone out and briefed the BBC, merely responded to the BBC's query.

And (2), if the Met interviewed two people under caution several weeks ago, for large donations made by Richard Tice's company Britain Means Britain to the political party Reform of which Richard Tice was chairman, how likely is it that Richard Tice hadn't even heard of the investigation until asked by the BBC yesterday?

And (2), if the Met interviewed two people under caution several weeks ago, for large donations made by Richard Tice's company Britain Means Britain to the political party Reform of which Richard Tice was chairman, how likely is it that Richard Tice hadn't even heard of the investigation until asked by the BBC yesterday?

Well if you are merely a front for something, then you may be unaware of all the intricacies. I mean personally I wouldn't feel comfortable telling the world I wasn't a great businessman, but heigh ho, I'm not a slimy tax exile who wants to see Sharia law in the UK.

It was neither of those places but rather Southampton - Henry Nowak.

@Bromptotoo to be fair on @NoWordForFluffy I was referring to the murders of those beautiful girls in Southport.

But you do raise a very good point, the murder of Henry Nowak was also politicised and used to incite violence. He uses the same tropes repeatedly.
He wants division. He wants violence. Any chance he can get, he will sow his malicious seeds and pretend he is a 'man of the people'

He is busy weaponising the terrorist attack in Berlin yesterday. Vile.