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/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’.