Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property after receiving £5m gift from British crypto billionaire

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• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nobody gives a £5m gift without expecting something in return.

  Corrupt to the core and a sign of things to come if he gets into power

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  • imrighthere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think you understand, it’s the poor people taking all the crumbs that’s the problem.

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    • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Me not getting a decent pay rise is the fault of immigrants in boats, surely?

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    • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When am i going to get my trickle down from the crypto balls?

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• DandomRude@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In a world worth living in, there would be no billionaires - let alone crypto billionaires.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Gift”

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• MrPoletki@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s so hilarious listening to people try and defend this.

  “What can he even do of this guy? there’s nothing he can get from him”

  this is the hill some are choosing to die on lol

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• DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He claims that £5m was for security (but only after he got busted, before that, he was saying his life was good and he felt safe).

  But then he can’t do surgeries because it’s “not safe”? Where £5m security fund, Farridge?

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  His defence is that he’d already shown “proof of funds” for the house before receiving the gift. That’s a pretty thin defence given that it’s possible to know of the gift in advance.

  But I think this is a distraction from the main point that his original defence of not declaring the gift is clear and utter bullshit: the rules are that gifts must be registered unless they “could not reasonably be thought by others to be related to membership of the house or to the member’s parliamentary or political activities”. Personal security for someone in politics is clearly related to that person’s political activities. The fact that he wasn’t a candidate at the time of the gift is irrelevant to that relationship.

  What astounds me is that I don’t really think Reform voters give a shit about piddly little things like dodgy gifts - that’s certainly what we see in the US, where Republicans think it’s great that Trump receives jets and contracts and god knows what because it shows “he’s a good businessman.” They don’t understand or believe or care that corruption impoverishes the country because decisions are taken for the personal interests of the ruler.

  I don’t think the media, there or here, realises how big of a threat that is: they’re happy to report on blatant corruption as if the harms of corruption are still obvious to everyone, but they obviously are not.

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• brewery@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was In Clacton right? The area he represents and cases deeply about

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the russian stooge that has been revived from the permafrost in siberia.

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