If there are smoking guns, Channel 4 and Verbatim’s undercover sting on Reform UK is a slow motion video of the bullet exiting the barrel and hitting its target. If you haven’t seen the report it’s available on catch up or YouTube. It is very, very bad for Farage who was already in deep trouble due to the on-going Commons investigations into his undeclared donations/bungs/ backhanders. His problems have just got exponentially worse. Perhaps the most shocking part of this video was that Farage was actually in Clacton (it seems to have been filmed in part during his recent vanity by-election) but he’ll only meet up with members of the public if there’s the prospect of a six figure sum in it for him. Nigel doesn’t like foreigners, but he loves their money.
The video details how Reform took money from a foreign, inadmissible, donor then used the cash to pay for opinion polls from a polling company set up by former Conservative advisors to Theresa May.
The full 40 minutes long video from Verbatim is here
These polls were then duly splashed on the front pages of The Telegraph and The Times without Reform’s involvement being disclosed. When the fake donor told Farage he’d picked up the tab for the polls, Farage said: “That was great… It worked. Boom.” Today Farage is insisting he knew nothing about something he was caught on video clearly knowing all about. Boom, Nigel.
The video also details a sting operation in which one of Verbatim’s activists poses as a potential Reform donor who proposes to the party to have his wealthy American father – an impermissible donor – transfer money to him with the express purpose of donating it to Reform. This is illegal. Nigel Farage is shown in the video apparently having full knowledge of this illegal scheme and having no problem with it. Throughout the video Reform activists express contempt for the rules and for the Electoral Commission. It’s damning stuff.
Reform UK has insisted that they have done nothing wrong. It’s all an unfortunate misunderstanding. Nigel Farage didn’t know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was filmed discussing it. A spokesgoon for Reform rushed out a statement insisting that no laws were broken, but if any laws were broken Nigel knew nothing about it, and if he did know about it it was only because his very top lawyers had told him it was all above board and if it wasn’t above board it was only forgetting to sign a form, and anyway it’s all an establishment plot to stop Nigel enjoying oysters and champagne in an exclusive and expensive gentleman’s club that proves he’s a man of the people. And did you know this was all a hoax perpetrated by woke Marxist green haired transgender climate activists who are part of this establishment plot.
The Lib Dems, the Labour party and the Electoral Commission have all now called for a police investigation into the allegations against Reform UK contained in the video broadcast last night by Channel 4 News, allegations which directly implicate Nigel Farage in an apparent plot to break the law. The party is so convinced it has done nothing wrong it has announced that the two officials heavily featured in the video, hard right Christian nationalist Cambridge professor James Orr, Reform UK’s Head of Policy, and Farage’s right hand man Dan Jukes, have stepped down from the party pending an internal investigation. Nothing says innocent like swiftly booting out the two guys who were central to the scandal, but during the video the pair make clear their closeness to Farage and heavily imply that they are operating with his knowledge and consent.
Serious questions remain for Cambridge University, where Orr remains an Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. A six-month investigation by Byline Times revealed that with the support of Palantir’s openly fascist Peter Thiel, Reform’s policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at infiltrating Reform and transforming it into an overtly far right Christian nationalist party. There have also been allegations about bullying. However we all know there won’t now be hundreds of attack articles in the press about Orr and his life don’t we. Kevin McKenna won’t publish a snide wee piece in the Herald about Orr as his contribution to the dog pile. His next article for The Herald will be about how Orr’s sacking proves Christians are being demonised.
According to the BBC this story matters because it distracts from the Reform party conference. Eh no, it matters because it is important that the leaders of political parties, especially parties which hope to form the next government, are not involved in a conspiracy to break the law and are not seen to be treating the funding rules which all parties must adhere to with such flagrant contempt. The thing is, if this is how Reform’s senior figures behave behind closed doors with people they barely know then just what do they get up to with those they know and trust.
And while we’re on the topic of Reform and its money. Why has no one (we’re looking at you, BBC) thought to ask Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice why he feels the need to head a company – Britain Means Business – although it has no employees, produces and sells nothing, and its business appears to consist solely of receiving large amounts of money which it then swiftly transfers to the accounts of Reform Ltd.
It should be clear to everyone by now that Reform is not even a real political party, it’s a front for millionaires to buy political representation in parliament.
Reform lurches from one scandal to another, each worse than the one before. It is a truly damning indictment of the media in the UK that it has taken this long for the truth about Reform’s finances to come out and that even yesterday the BBC was broadcasting a softball interview with Farage in which the whiniest complainer in the UK was allowed to whine about the complaint culture of the UK and paint himself as the victim of an establishment stitch up.
For all the expected bluster, Farage knows he’s in trouble. He knows this is landing with the public. On top of the other allegations already hanging over him, it represents an existential threat to him and his party. He harrumph in denial all he wants, but he was in that meeting and he’s not stupid. This will drag on, and it has already completely overshadowed Reform’s party conference. The self-proclaimed party of law and order puts itself above the law. This is definitely not the last story on Reform’s rampant corruption. It stinks, and for years Farage has been preferentially platformed by the BBC. We don’t just need an investigation into Reform’s finances, we need an investigation into how the BBC has normalised and promoted the far right.
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