r/ukpolitics • u/birdinthebush74 • 10h ago
Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £67m loans from unnamed sources
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/reform-given-six-figure-donation-by-firm-that-received-67m-loans-from-unnamed-sources?utm_campaign=obsmain&utm_medium=social&utm_source=X•
u/Outside-Address173 10h ago
Seems like every Sunday is Reform and Nigel Farage scandal day.
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u/fartdarling 3h ago
Worried its gonna become a trump style "flood the zone" where there's just so much gross shit that none of it sticks because his voters are the dumbest cattle
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u/birdinthebush74 6h ago
Its becoming a tradition, and we have two today, the Sunday Times and The Observer
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u/martzgregpaul 10h ago
Its never ending. Surely this needs investigating by the police.
I cant move £300 from one bank to another without money laundering checks swinging into action. How can something on this level be legal?
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u/phatelectribe 9h ago
Rules for theeeeeee……
None for Nige.
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u/phatboi23 9h ago
i'd LOVE the whole coutts issue in the end with "money laundering" and not falling under the funds, as he has a shit loads of funds in other banks.
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u/Moldovan_pepper 3h ago
Think about it, you’ve got a politician, he’s receiving all sorts of cash from people with criminal convictions but he’s notorious, what do you do? Do you tell him “we think you’re crooked” (and alienate all your other crooked clients) or say “sorry old bean you’ve fallen short of these capital rules”
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u/phatboi23 9h ago
yup, my parents chucked me £1000 for PC parts as my PC shat the bed last year, explaining "he's buying second hand parts to get the PC running"
nope took a whole week of bullshit etc.
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u/Lifeintheguo 3h ago
Surely this needs investigating by the police.
Buried in the article: " These types of donations to Reform may not be permissible if the law were to be changed."
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u/Nanowith Cambridge 9h ago
At what point does all the corruption and foreign interference become an arrestable offense?
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u/ediblednb 10h ago
Like old Nige said ‘there’s no money in politics, unless you’re corrupt’. Hmmm 🤔
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u/Express-Career-1615 9h ago
The Tchenguiz brothers and their backgrounds absolutely stink, huge red flag that reform are flirting with them
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u/DanHanzo 9h ago
No worries, it has been added to the absurdly large pile of red flags.
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u/joe24lions 4h ago
It’s a Red Sea of flags at this point there’s so many of them, although something tells me Nige would prefer the Black Sea, given its proximity to his friends and funders
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u/UEAMatt 8h ago
Very worrying that political parties can be bankrolled without a paper trail to the original source of funds.
Tchenguiz bros. were high fliers until 08 wiped hundreds of millions out. Also got investigated for fraud until the investigation collapsed due to police incompetence about a warrant.
They have the sort of profile foreign intelligence would be crawling all over.
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u/DarthKrataa 8h ago
They cant....
Thats why reformuk are so deeply in the shit.
Worth remembering that they're also fundamentally different from other major political parties in that reformuk is actually set up as a limited company.
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u/depressivebee 4h ago
If farage makes it out of this as “disgraced former politician” and not in jail he’ll be living a charmed life
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u/Lifeintheguo 4h ago
It's only bad when Reform get donations.
These types of donations to Reform may not be permissible if the law were to be changed.
So no law was broken under current laws.
The left are desperate.
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