Gabriel Pogrund tweets:
Where are we this morning?
George Cottrell’s lawyers acknowledged he paid for Nigel Farage’s staff and security. He did so via electronic transfer from bank accounts in his name.
On the townhouse, they said their client “does, and did” let Farage stay there.
Farage has sought to dismiss both.
On failing to declare funding for operation, he said he didn’t need to: he wasn’t a politician at the time.
On failing to declare use of house, he said he didn’t need to: Cottrell is a friend, so it is exempt.
Sources close to him are also downplaying this dimension generally, saying stays extremely infrequent.
The parliamentary rules say any benefit exceeding £300 in value that is not “purely personal” — i.e., romantic partner or family — and is in any way related to an MP’s “political activities” must be declared. This includes the 12 months before a new MP’s election.
Please read our article but also Reform’s statement, in which we are described as having a pro-Labour government bias and seeking to promote our podcast.
If Cottrell pays for Farage's security, what was Harborne's five million for?
ReplyDeleteWe shall find out either soon or never.
DeleteThe polls show the electorate sees straight through this and Reform remains far out in front-as with the current court case to try and stop poll-leading Marine Le Pen standing for election, and the German security services politically-motivated persecution of the popular AfD (which they attempted to proscribe as an “extremist” group), we all know what this is about. Unpopular leftwing regimes desperate to prevent a challenge to their monopolies from the populist Right.
ReplyDeleteThey know we’re coming for them, and they don’t like it. Diddums.
Farage would no longer thank you for comparing him to Le Pen or the AfD, and they never would have thanked you for the comparison.
DeleteWhat do they have in common with each other either?
DeleteSecularism, primarily.
DeleteMedia will spend the next week convincing the public taking money from fraudsters is completely normal. Sky News are already calling it 'scandal fatigue'. Blatant isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOver on GB News, of all channels, Camilla Tominey did well against Robert Jenrick, who ended up ranting that the Telegraph was part of the pro-Labour media plot against Reform.
DeleteIt’s game for Nigel Farage. When GBeebies turn on him, he must know he’s finished.
DeleteThe right-wing papers are now running what they have known for years. A plan is coming together.
DeleteBraverman has had to slap down Jenrick, Braverman and the rest because they've been trying to go back to the Tories.
DeleteBadenoch, I assume that you mean. And yes, she has. Either Jenrick or Braverman will stand for Leader of Reform in the very near future. The supporters of whoever had lost that election will leave the party.
DeleteHow does Reform have a leadership election?
DeleteCan it, even? It is a limited company controlled by Nigel Farage.
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