Money can't buy you happiness

[ellal]

How can you bribe or lobby someone if they are not even an MP?

Maybe you could tell us why rich people bother to make donations to political parties/individuals before elections?

 

[Elsa TLC]

Poor old Nige. He could lose his seat.

Poor Nigel has 5 million + sitting in his bank account.

Poor Nige.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

If I had a spare £5 million I'd give it to Nige. Great bloke, people will be grateful to him eventually when he turns around this mess.

 

[aveatry]

See it, say it.

A spokesman for Reform UK said: "Mr Farage's office is in communications with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

"He has always been clear that this was a personal, unconditional gift and no rules were broken. We look forward to this being put to bed once and for all."

Anyone know what he means when he says the 5m info was gained by illegal means. Did someone hack his account and see it.

 

[Mottie]

Maybe you could tell us why rich people bother to make donations to political parties/individuals before elections?

Because poor people can’t afford to, numpty.

 

[noseall]

Because poor people can’t afford to, numpty.

Poor people are conned out of their hard earned just the same, by grifting politicians.

 

[Mottie]

Strangely after Christopher Harborne (aka Chakrit Sakunkrit) donated to the nasty party previously, one of his companies was awarded a lucrative government contract...

That’s how things work. Good luck to him. It’s how I got a lot of my contracts with my local authority. Look after the right people and they’ll look after you. It’s called 'business'.

Nigel Farage bought a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

So what? It was a personal gift and he could spend it on whatever the feck he wanted to - not unlike the personal gifts I and many others received from the government during covid thankyouverymuch (TM).

 

[Odds]

"A personal gift" is the kind of defence politicians like Netanyahu use when caught with their snout in the trough.

"Have you seen the little piggies crawling in the dirt?"

 

[blup]

Farrage comes up with absurd claim

MSN

 

[blup]

His argument is that his phone was hacked by russsians- by implication working withe guardian - and a private gift wrongly exposed to public scrutiny. Over a year passed between the gift and its disclosure, so plenty of time for security to make his phone safe

 

[Brigadier]

Farrage comes up with absurd claim

MSN

He doesn't like scrutiny.

As some of us have been saying for a long time.

He's a thin - skinned grifting twart.

Here's to him having the titty-babby of all titty-babbies, and stropping off into the sunset

 

[blup]

Scrutiny is the way forward but his argument seems likely to be that the disclosure of the gift was in breach of his right to privacy. It will probably buy him enough time to get tne by election out of the way but it’s extraordinary that he appears to be relying on human rights legislation that was imposed on “his” country by virtue of our EU membership

 

[fillyboy]

it’s extraordinary that he appears to be relying on human rights legislation that was imposed on “his” country by virtue of our EU membership

There are separate UK data protection laws.

 

[King Billy]

There are separate UK data protection laws.

I remember the GDPR being cited as one of the good reasons for Brexit.

Post-Brexit Policy Aims: Proponents of Brexit argued that leaving the EU would free British businesses from "Brussels red tape." Regarding data, some Brexiteers hoped to eventually scrap onerous GDPR requirements to foster a more competitive, pro-innovation environment in the UK.

But in reality:

The Irony of Reality: Despite this rhetoric, the UK government chose to adopt a nearly identical framework to the EU's rules. A main reason for this was trade; the UK required an EU Adequacy Decision—which was successfully granted—to allow personal data to flow seamlessly between the UK and the European Economic Area without expensive legal barriers

Maybe that's why Brexit failed.

 

[blup]

There are separate UK data protection laws.

Which came in to give effect to eu laws. And have been preserved for 10 post brexhit years by the Henry the Eighth laws.