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#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesFraserNelson[Muckrack] "To understand Reform UK, follow the money
Local elections will prove the potency of Nigel Farage's crypto-funded populism - but it's more elite than insurrection
How did Nigel Farage manage to rustle up £215,000 to invest in Kwasi Kwarteng's crypto company? When I was investigating Reform's financial ties a few months ago, drawing up a map of who was connected to whom, this was the biggest mystery. Nine years ago, aged 53, he declared himself 'skint' because 'there's no money in politics'. Only two years ago he was telling friends that he could not afford to run in the coming election. Then suddenly, his fortunes seemed to change and change utterly. How?
The likely explanation emerged this week: he was given £5 million by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and Reform UK donor. The money, Farage says, was a personal gift-so, not disclosable. It was to pay for bodyguards, he said, making him 'safe and secure for the rest of my life'. But such protection costs are, at most, £300,000 a year. Farage was given a lifetime of financial security, clearing the way for his return to the political arena. Albeit with a lifelong feeling of debt to Harborne, who sits in a web of interlocking global financial interests.
The world of donors is one of sharks and angels. Many donors want to support causes (or people) they believe in, with no ulterior motive. But then there are the CRiSPers-cash-rich, status-poor -who've often made their money using murky means. They usually seek a return on their investment: often a knighthood, peerage, reputation laundering or policy favours. So how to separate honest donations from attempted corruption? The British model has always been simple: insist on full disclosure. Let voters judge.
Harborne says he wants nothing in return for his donations. Perhaps. But it just so happens that Farage proposes a new 'Big Bang' that could add tens of billions to crypto companies' market value. A Reform government would order HM Treasury to stop work on its own digital currency apparatus, which could threaten the current crypto elite. The Bank of England would instead be told to hold Bitcoin, elevating it from a cowboy currency to a UK-approved official asset class. Tax on crypto trades and only crypto trades would be cut from 24 to 10 per cent.
All this would greatly help Tether, a crypto giant in which Harborne holds a 12 per cent stake. Farage says the company is worth $500 billion. If he's right, then Harborne could afford to give away £5 million a day, each day, for the next two years and barely eat into I per cent of his fortune. By the standards of UK politics, Harborne's donations are enormous: no living man has ever given as much to any party. Two thirds of all the money Reform spends is wired from Thailand. But in crypto world, it's a bar tip.
This is perhaps the hardest thing to appreciate about crypto: the sheer size. A wall of money stands ready to flood our politics, having already done so in America. Wall Street banks, Big Pharma, trade unions: no one has donated more to campaigns than crypto did in the 2024 election. We know this because US transparency laws are strong. But the Farage case exposes a loophole in the UK system: donations can be secret if the money is framed as a 'personal gift' with 'no expectation'. And if you're not an MP-like Zia Yusuf, Reform's hyperactive 'shadow' home secretary no financial transparency at all.
The next UK general election looks set to usher in hundreds of Reform MPs to join the governing party (or coalition). How many more life-changing sums are being passed on right now on a purely personal basis, of course? Are any of Reform's higher-profile converts being paid? No shame if so, but transparency matters. Farage proposes an unelected cabinet, allowing allow him to parachute in whoever he likes. Who would scrutinise them? How much would we know about their 'personal' benefactors?
'Politics is no longer about right versus left,' Yusuf declared last weekend. 'It's establishment versus anti-establishment. The establishment must be smashed.' He means 'replaced'. As each month passes, we see that Reform is not an insurgency; it's more of a counter-elite. It is using the language of popular grievance while advancing the interests of its own patronage networks.
Yusuf knows the absurdly rich very well, having made his fortune entertaining them. The company he sold, Velocity Black, offered jaunts such as tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas, flying fighter jets or training with ninjas in Japan. 'A life without limits,' was its motto. Now Yusuf's own bespoke elite experience beckons: a stint as home secretary and deporter-in-chief. There is something ironic in seeing someone climb out of a golden Land Rover to demand the smashing of the establishment, but it's instructive. It shows us what's really going on.
The left have champagne socialists, the right have plutocrat populists. As next week's local election results will certainly show, it's a very effective formula. Farage's voters don't care if money comes from Bangkok with love: he's offering genuine hope to people who feel betrayed by the established parties. Effective border control and a decent economic model is hardly a radical demand. Failure to provide it has had huge consequences, most of them felt by Reform's core voters.
And yes, Farage is using unorthodox ways to finance all this. But there has never been anything orthodox about him or the movement that is still leading in the opinion polls. Under this new model there is, it seems, money in politics. Harborne says he'll find ways to get around any curb on overseas donations. Ben Delo, a crypto billionaire recently pardoned by Trump for flouting US money-laundering rules, has said he'll move to Britain to keep his cash flowing to Farage. He recently gave £4 million.
So a new model of politics is meeting an old model of donation transparency a dangerous mix. Farage dislikes being grilled on questions such as how his partner managed to buy a £885,000 house in his Clacton constituency for cash, but this matters. A single register, updated in real time by the Electoral Commission, could treat a £5 million 'personal gift' exactly as it treats a £50,000 cheque to party headquarters: as something the public has a right to know about Major party figures should be subject to MP-style transparency. A new era needs new transparency rules.
Short of a lifetime cap on donations, which would also have to apply to trade unions, there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash. His best way of fighting Reform is to govern better. But if he wants to be clearer about the choice at the next election - and the new elite that is preparing to govern then we will need more of what Farage seems to dislike most: daylight on the money." https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/understand-reform-uk-follow-money-crypto-kbzh5zbrj
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@ChantelArjun [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Siri, show me what incels look like - and what kind of friends Andrew Tate has?
@BestForBritain @OpenBritainHQ @RebootGb @99PercentRising @BLMUK @UKLabour #woke #smalldickenergy [URL redacted]
@AliyahDaniells [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @Nigel_Farage Nigel you do realise #apartheid was a white supremacist policy.
just in case ' #woke' is an african american term that shouldn't ever be used w/out respecting its sensitive historic context, centuries of barbaric slavery, racial murder, discrimination against black people [URL redacted]
@GilbertSayle [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: @EchoFarage @Nigel_Farage Can you explain how being "Woke" relates to supporting the far-right Ukrainian regime that has been condemned by human rights organisations of colluding with neo-Nazis in crimes against minority groups (you probably don't care about the women) ?
#Woke #Fascism #Ukraine #Nazis [URL redacted]
#OrgIntlHumanRightsWatchHughWilliamson,
#OrgIntlAmnestyInternationalMarieStruthers,
#OrgIEFrontLineDefendersAndrewAnderson[Wikipedia],
#OrgUSFreedomHouseMarcBehrendt[Wikipedia] "We are writing on behalf of Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House to ask that Ukrainian authorities urgently take steps to strongly condemn and effectively address attacks and intimidation by radical groups that are promoting hatred and discrimination. While Ukrainian authorities have responded in a few instances to such attacks, the authorities have so far failed in recent months to respond to most incidents, which has created an atmosphere of near total impunity that cannot but embolden these groups to commit more attacks. It is no surprise that the number of violent attacks and threats by such groups is growing, as the inadequate response from the authorities sends a message that such acts are tolerated. We urge you to take effective action to prevent and stop acts that promote hatred and discrimination and hold those responsible to account.
Hiding under a veneer of patriotism and what they describe as 'traditional values', members of these groups have been vocal about their contempt for and intent to harm women's rights activists, ethnic minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people, and others who hold views that differ from their own. These acts are restricting the peaceful exercise of their human rights and is further shrinking the space for civil society for groups that they believe do not have a right to public representation or participation in civic life." https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/14/joint-letter-ukraines-minister-interior-affairs-and-prosecutor-general-concerning
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@AliceKanyuck [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : 😝🇬🇧😝🇬🇧😝🇬🇧😝🇬🇧
“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty”. Shakespeare. Lady Macbeth
#SuellaBraverman #LizTruss #tories #harpies #notwomen #woke #CivilService #Refugees [URL redacted]
@PriscillaJervis [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: #Woke:
Rosa Parks
Arthur Ashe
Jesus Christ
Albert Einstein
The Dalai Lama
Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr
Anti-woke:
Priti Patel
Paul Dacre
Adolf Hitler
Nigel Farage
Steve Bannon
Boris Johnson
Donald Trump
Jacob Rees-Mogg
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#IRLPhilosopherFriedrichNietzscheContext "This sounds like a loose paraphrase of the sense of Daybreak aph. 329 (see also the first half of aph. 542, and the parallel passage in Genealogy of Morals). The necessity of illusions is also the major theme of 'Truth and Lie'.
I agree with the earlier comment that, if it has any relation to a particular passage at all, it is a bad paraphrase! It's hard to explain exactly but if you even just skim the relevant passages in Morgenröthe or 'Truth and Lie' you'll see that when he's discussing the sturdiness of illusions he is often discussing the important functions they serve and when he is discussing the pursuit of truth he is often treating it as the product of illusions! So both halves of this quotation sound like something Nietzsche would say (except not in his style...) but not when combined." https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/56290
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@GageRotherham [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : The #Swamp is truly desperate. It's game over for #Left #Woke #ScumMedia and #Remain if #Boris stays. This year #BritishBillofRights #FreeSpeech #RwandaPlan #EU out of #NorthernIreland #DefundTheBBC All #EUlaws stripped out. #StayStrong #BackBoris #BrexitRevolution #TraitorsOut [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
@WyattAndreottola [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Let the #woke idiocy behind you. No #Wokeflix and no #GreatReset. Become a citizen of #Rhodesia. The transglobal #nation which never abolished any of the good old morality laws.
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@AlishaFogan [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [59]: The #NWO/#NewWokeOrder/#Woke/#HateWarrior FigureHead #GretaThunberg manages to #Cancel @Nigel_Farage's #NetZero Party Rally ??
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They HATE! #FreeSpeech and make the #West look like #Pussies 🥴🥺😳
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@PeggyCallaghan [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Putins, kurš iebrūk kaimiņvalstīs un draud ar atomieročiem visai pasaulei ir prīma čalis, atzīst Stīvs Banons, tuvs Trampa sabiedrotais. Jo Putins nav #woke un neieredz LBGTQ.
Latvju trampampamiņi! Kad Putins iebruks, jums velti cerēt uz ASV palīdzību, ja WH būs Tramps. [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
"Kölnin tapahtumissa samanlaisia piirteitä kuin Tahririn aukiolla* Puolustusministeri Niinistön perjantainen rinnastus Tahririn aukion, Kölnin ja Suomen välillä on ymmärrettävä, arvioi vanhempi tutkija Toni Alaranta Ulkopoliittisesta instituutista.
- Sen lisäksi, että Tahririn aukio muodostui vallankumousliikehdinnän keskukseksi, siellä raportoitiin huomattava määrä sellaisia andistelutapauksia, joissa suuri miesjoukko ympäröi tai saartoi yksittäisen naisen. Oli koudmista ja seksuaalista häirintää.
- Ei tämä ihan käsittämätön rinnastus ole. Kölnin tapahtumissa näyttää olevan selvästi samanlaisia piirteitä kuin Tahririn aukiolla, Alaranta sanoo. [Cologne events have similar features to Tahrir Square* Minister of Defense Niinistö's comparison between Tahrir Square, Cologne and Finland on Friday is understandable, says senior researcher Toni Alaranta from the Foreign Policy Institute.
- In addition to becoming the centre of the revolutionary movement, Tahrir Square reported a significant number of cases of extradition in which a large number of men surrounded or besieged an individual woman. There was bullying and sexual harassment.
- This is not an incomprehensible analogy. The events in Cologne seem to have clearly similar features to those in Tahrir Square, Alaranta says.]" #ToponymEuropeGermanyCologne #ToponymAfricaNorthEgyptCairoTahrirSquare #PhenomnHarassmentSexual #PhenomnImmigration #OrgClassifPPFISininenTulevaisuusSINJussiNiinisto #OrgFIFinnishInstituteOfInternationalAffairsFIIAToniAlarantahttps://www.fiia.fi/en/expert/toni-alarantaSupplementaryhttps://lobbyfacts.eu/representative/8034498518774e868d5ee200a82edfb2/finnish-institute-of-international-affairs
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@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @RutlandRon @Elizabe04647609 @GretaThunberg @GBNEWS @Nigel_Farage As the muppet ISN'T grown up, perhaps we could summon the #Swedish Truant-Officer-cum-Swedish-chef. We should also recall #MontyPython @JohnCleese @EricIdle @TerryGilliam to satire duty - there is no-one else in the whole #woke world who could (dare) parody the prima donna of pap [URL redacted]
@DevanteWulforst [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: IT'S SIMPLE #BorisJohnson BEHAVE LIKE #Conservative YOU WERE ELECTED TO BE, OR JOIN #LabourParty AND QUIT #woke #soft #socialist
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@ChristinHalbrooks [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [17]: (2/3) It's alright to compare a merely-forthright right-wing politician like Nigel Farage to the fascist Oswald Mosley;
But it's "hateful conduct" to mock footballers for glorifying the killing of a black man in America.
@Twitter #FreedomOfSpeech #woke #wokeness @LozzaFox [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: Please reproach your MPs for the tacit acceptance of the #woke #cancelling culture of #leftwaffe #Fascism. My example (sent to @jamesowild MP) shown with the attachments I added. Retweet virally, God Save the Queen @KensingtonRoyal @RoyalFamily [URL redacted]
@HenryMoranville [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Dans 50 ans, on parlera de #Blanquer comme on parle aujourd'hui de Joseph de Maistre ou de Louis de Bonald, comme on parle de ceux qui au XIXe siècle pensèrent "le progrès comme catastrophe".
#IslamoGauchistes #woke #CancelCulture
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@AlisonHem [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Neil, Wootton,Dewberry,Oliver, McCaffery, Halligan Farage,Sugar and Harwood. Deffo not #woke. More ⬇️ - and that’s my first and last ever word on the matter. [URL redacted]
@RaymondPeto [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Wie of wat vinden de Britten #woke volgens onderzoek @YouGov? Bij de #media worden vooral @BBC en @guardian als zodanig gezien. [URL redacted]
@ChristinHalbrooks [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [17]: (1/4) Writing in the "Daily Express" on 10th April, Macer Hall pointed out that, according to an analysis by OnBuy, politicians regarded as right-wing suffer the most abuse from Twitter users.
I certainly see this all the time.
#politics #woke #wokeness #hate [URL redacted]
@BelindaKipley [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #PMQs #woke
The #BREXITER ignored the warnings & risked their livelihoods by choosing to listen to Farage a known liar. Zero Sympathy and yet they are not regretful. Please listen to the warning this time and vote wisely. [URL redacted].
@LeighAmento [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [07]: @Ben_Jolly_9 Cozy little arrangement isn't it?
Allison organised the party according to Rod.
-And they wave it in our faces
-what a gift it is to be #Woke eh?😫😠
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@RandolphBrzuchalski [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: Why is Piers Morgan using the term populist? instead of typical terminologies associated with the following: Boris Johnson / Nigel Farage / Donald Trump and Fox News Tucker Carlson oh and don't forget Daily Mail / Rupert Murdoch papers. #PiersMorgan #Brazil #COVID19 #woke [URL redacted]
@UnnamedRapozo [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: Nigel Farage: Piers Morgan Harry and Meghan row shows “cowardice of ITV” [URL redacted] via @YouTube #wokewarrior #woke #superstraight
@DonnellBlackhawk [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Churchill
thing is ... Churchill was horrible
misogynist racist drunk rather like Boris Johnson
imagine having a bust of Boris LOL
@MrHarryCole @toadmeister @toryboypierce
@BBCNews @Nigel_Farage @Telegraph #woke #resign [URL redacted]
@JulioMoulding [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [14]: Boris Beat EU, Now Let's Beat COVID!
Now give @Nigel_Farage
knighthood or peerage.Then let's sort immigration, #woke culture, #DefundTheBBC replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights and build new Great Britain. Agree? Please retweet. [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
@ArnoldLayaou [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @BBCNews #panicbuying #COVIDー19 #news #woke @LeaveEUOfficial @BBCPolitics @BbcHys
@Nigel_Farage @DefundBBC Apparently my comment was deemed it broke BBC HYS house rules why? Does it incite violence or are the bbc his team are all left woke knee bending flossers. [URL redacted]
@BrianTroland [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: “They look like a bunch of metro-liberals. How can it be Churchill’s statue’s been vandalised, public statues being chucked in the dock in Bristol?... & the gov't says nothing..."
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