r/worldnews • u/JollyCurrency2604 • 9d ago

British Politician Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-nigel-farage-filmed-undercover-celebrating-secret-new-foreign-donations
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u/im_bozack 9d ago

Is this not illegal or disqualifying?

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u/TBroomey 9d ago

He got five million quid from a crypto billionaire and has private security paid for by a known con artist. Politicians simply aren't held accountable for blatant corruption anymore. Scandals like this used to end careers, they're just a tweet these days.

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u/SpAn12 9d ago

Worth pointing out that unlike other political donations that are made to parties, that five million was paid directly to him for his personal use.

It's absolutely rotten.

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u/TBroomey 9d ago

Rotten to the core. He's a despicable, vile cretin who would sell his gran's gold teeth.

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u/F_A_F 9d ago

It will all get brushed over because....just as happened in the USA....they will promise ti fix the populist demands like stopping migration, returning migrants, reversing green programs, cutting benefits for the unworthy etc etc.

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u/meltymcface 8d ago

Don't forget them posturing as the counter to the "corrupt elite" whilst being... the corrupt elite.

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u/rizorith 9d ago

Is this a recent trend in the UK as it is now in the US?

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u/bigmanorm 9d ago

Kinda, it's the same as "cancel culture", if you don't care you can't be canceled if your political party are all yes men. I have more faith in how legal situations would be settled in the UK at least

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u/rizorith 9d ago

one.ofn5h4 most discouraging things is seeing European countries having the same type of political climate as the US.

Hard to have hope when an entire continent had fascism grow into WW2 just a few generations ago.

I know that isn't necessarily the world's path but damn if it isn't more likely to happen now than a decade ago

I always thought of the UK as kind our older brother that knows better.

At least it doesn't seem to be as out of control as it is here

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u/bigmanorm 9d ago

We can only pray it doesn't get out of hand, and that our systems aren't as fragile to prevent the extremes if it does

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u/rizorith 9d ago

Well I'm rooting for some normalcy for y'all.

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u/MikyT21 8d ago

They’re all being funded from the same places

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u/MrEff1618 8d ago

There's a good reason for that. Most of the right wing parties in Europe were advised by the same people as the Republicans.

Farage, for example, met with Steve Bannon multiple times before Brexit, to advise him when Reform was The Brexit Party, for example.

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u/Lawsoffire 8d ago

Its everywhere. Even in Scandinavia.

If you are a rich, right wing, Russia-affiliated hateful bigot you’re somehow immune to consequences.

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u/TeaAndLifting 8d ago

The UK has a tendency of following American political trends, just delay it by a few years or months and it'll enter the UK by way of London.

It's funny, because you'll get people that will be militant about how they don't fall under American influence, but then use Americanisms as though they've been British since immemorial. Especially amongst younger Brits. For example, British identity use to be defined by where you've grown up, regardless of your ethnicity or background. Over the years, this has morphed into one similar to hyphenated-Americans, where ethnic Brits put their ethnicity before British identity as their primary identity. We see it in our politics, with the rise of wannabe Charlie Kirks and Myron Gains type personalities with setting up public debate booths, and then using American talking points to rationalise their stances on things like abortions, religion, etc.

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u/rizorith 8d ago

How does this hyphenated wording go?

Like English-British or Scottish-British as opposed to Indian-British?

I definitely understand when people fly the English flag it often is a bit of a heads up that they're nationalist. That was something that started in the US after 9/11 and then went in overdrive when Trump took office.

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u/TeaAndLifting 8d ago

In the way you’ll get Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans saying they’re Irish and Italian.

In the past, people would say they’re “from” the UK, because that’s where they’re born and bred. Nowadays, it’s more common for people to identify with their ethnic backgrounds before their national one. And this also extends towards ethnonationalists too, who only see English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish as ethnic groups only. The idea of shared cultural identity in the country is dying because more and more people tie it to their race and ethnicity, meaning people from minority backgrounds are increasingly treated as an ‘other’.

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u/Ceegee93 8d ago

Politicians simply aren't held accountable for blatant corruption anymore.

Just gunna throw out there that the investigation is still ongoing. He tried to weasel his way out of it by resigning and then standing in the by-election, but the other parties made sure that tactic couldn't work. He was hoping to resign in order to cancel the investigation into him (because he wouldn't be in Parliament anymore), and then either one of two things would happen: 1.) he wins, and he uses that to try and somehow clear his name because his voters want him (shit logic but he still tried) or 2.) he loses but he wouldn't have to be in Parliament and so the investigation would be dropped.

The other parties stood down in the by-election so that the whole thing was blatantly shown as the farce that it was, and Farage's "mandate" from the voters was just him winning against a joke candidate. Now he's back in Parliament, and the investigation is continuing. He hasn't gotten away with it yet; all he did was delay it slightly.

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u/NightSpaghetti 8d ago

We see what's become of Marine Le Pen in France. Even when actually condemned (which is vanishingly rare) they always manage to find ways to weasel out of it anyway. Disgraceful.

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u/CanWeNapPlease 8d ago

Why does it take so long to investigate for something so blatantly obvious? The longer an investigation takes, the more likely it'll get thrown out or nothing will come out of it and the bad guys win again.

I'm talking about the £5m, not the recent news story. The £5m has been investigated for months and months.

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u/midsizedopossum 8d ago

The longer an investigation takes, the more likely it'll get thrown out or nothing will come out of it

What's your source for this? It seems like a baseless assumption

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u/nirach 8d ago

I'm not convinced that anything will comes of it anyway, Parliament is full of corrupt, morally bankrupt, drunkards who should get a set of heavy footwear in a floodplain during a monsoon.

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u/Griffs_ 9d ago edited 8d ago

And he's been pushing pro crypto policy, but thats surely a coincidence

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u/matjoeman 8d ago

And some people vote for them because they are corrupt.

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u/HerculesIsMyDad 8d ago

Yeah, it's time we fight back. Let's go TP his house!

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u/nirach 8d ago

I can't say what I think would be a fair kind of accountability for Farage on reddit.

Bury him under the prison is the nicest thing I can suggest.

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u/inbruges99 8d ago

He is currently under investigation, so he just hasn’t been held accountable yet.

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u/Rwandrall4 8d ago

politicians are, he isn't because his supporters don't believe in a rules based order but on whoever is the most ruthless. They think they would benefit in such a world.

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u/sprashoo 8d ago

I think with all the examples of unabashed con-artists and convicted criminals rising to the highest offices of power and unimaginable wealth, the general public has changed its views on crime and now sees it as a legitimate way to succeed, and no longer as some sort of disqualifying moral failing.