The weather is warming up and i feel the heat is getting to the forum's favourite grifter...
Last night, in
a statement to the Daily Express, Farage claimed he was the victim of “establishment hit job”. He also said:
I have done no wrongdoing, followed the rules and I am now considering legal action against The Sunday Times. It’s now clear the establishment will stop at nothing to hurt Reform – we want to smash their cosy consensus.
(In the past, when Farage has threatened to sue newspapers over negative stories, those threats have normally turned out to be empty.)
On the Today programme this morning Harriet Harman, the
Labour peer and a former chair of the Commons standards committee, said that it was a mistake for Farage to respond to the allegations in the way he did. She said that while the parliamentary commissioner and the standards committee were willing to be lenient where MPs make an honest mistake, attacking the system could be seen as an aggravating factor that could lead to a higher punishment.
There is no precedent for an MP wrongly failing to declare a donation worth as much as £5m and, if the commissioner
does find against Farage, it is possible that the committee
could decide to suspend him from parliament for more than 10 days – which would allow the voters in Clacton to trigger a recall byelection.
www.diynot.com
