Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Jan 21 … including payments for promoting gold, presenting on GB News and from his friend George Cottrell, within 28 days. Reform UK leader apologised for what he described as administrative errors by his team.
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Once looks like misfortune...17 looks wilful
Isn’t Cottrell the guy convicted for FRAUD in the States???
Grifter
Why would George Cottrell be giving Nigel Farage £15k? The same George Cottrell who was indicted for money laundering, blackmail and extortion…
Google? Is that just like google payments/wallet? or something more grim?
£15,276.72 is an oddly specific amount to receive from a friend.
If this is anything like Trump in the USA, Farage's supporters will love him for being a bad boy.
but will there be any repercussions? or will "oops, sorry" be sufficient 😡 #1RuleForThem #AnotherRuleForUs
“…but Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer’s glasses, yeah….?” 🙄🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
This can’t be the same Nigel Farage who wanted Rachel Reeves sacked because her husband’s estate agent made a mistake?
Throwing his team under the bus then.
"his team" may well include someone hoping to be chancellor, so not much hope for the economy if the idiot gets into power.
It's a administrative error, it's a vetting error, basically the same excuse.
"When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants." - Dennis Skinner.
question is...did he pay his tax on these?
and his punishment? How about some solid fines? or suspension?
c.£40,000 pcm from GB News (average UK salary) suggests he's gainfully employed? How does he find time to fully discharge his constituency duties and responsibilities 🤔
Payments from George Cottrell? 🧐
That's 'George Cottrell British financier & convicted felon' who 'conspired to launder millions of $$$$ of drug money using offshore accounts. After a plea bargain in December 2016 prosecutors dismissed 20 counts in return for a guilty plea to 1 count of wire fraud'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
You’d think with all that income he could afford to hire a decent “administrator” to ensure that the declarations are made correctly and on time.
And yet Raynor had to resign "on principle" according to him.
It’s entirely *his* responsibility, not that of his ‘team’.
So when Starmer missed a football ticket declare it was headlines and now 330k ? Including massive grifting …
Is that Posh George (Cotrell) the ex con?
Still waiting for this story to break on BBC or Sky News websites but understandably less important than the Beckham soap and doesn’t involve a Labour politician
That’s a Zahawi level of ‘forgetfulness’ Looks like it could be contagious? 😷
Watch the media outrage.... Oh.
He can't get a simple list organised yet people think he can deal with multiple issues at once as a politician? Most of which he is responsible for.
Google?? 🤔 And X just 1k+ ?? 😂
Lisa Nandy? Hello?! Anyone there?? Ofcom? Anyone?
I'm expecting a fat payment from Nadine Zahawi too. "For overlooking that I'm a dirty foreign asylum seeker".
Proof those who haven't already need to delete their Twitter accounts (I'll never call it X)
He blamed someone else!?
Who are, "Imperial Independent Media"? Nigel seems to have a harder time remembering that they paid him?!
My maths might be off but doesn't that mean about 220 people paid for "cameos"? And those people are allowed to vote, get married, use scissors...?
So Reform are allowed to write off administrative errors with an apology while Labour MPs are hounded into resigning.
This should be a resignation offence
Administration errors. We weren’t born yesterday
Why is he getting thousands from a friend? What is it for ?
George Cottrell a convicted felon
Admin errors ma bahookie
Of course if you look into Imperial Independent Media it REEKS of shell corporation... Wonder why he was so slow to declare those ones??
A true leader, blaming someone who works for him
My team's so slack they never even turn up to do my admin in the first place. But then I'm a piss-poor leader.
So he says sorry and that’s it???
2 is a mistake. 3 is a pattern. 17 is complete disgrace
Cottrell is a criminal. He helps get Kremlin-backed funding into traitors in the UK. I wonder why he's donating to his extremely close friend Farage??? Mysterious.
Sure. Blame someone else.
This isn’t even registering in the BBC home page
I'm old enough to remember when the govt was castigated for weeks for actually declaring (correctly) their donations. And those were from legitimate sources. At least one of these donations is from a convicted fraudster, I understand.
I wish the same transparency applied to County Councillors. They can just set up companies to hide the payments.
Grifters gotta grift
Throwing everyone under the bus, always someone else's fault; clerical / admin staff, advisers, the feckin' cleaners, anyone. Reminiscent of the Covid Enquiry - B.J. Sunak, Hancock et al. Happy to throw anyone under the bus, nothing is ever of their own doing. So tired of this.
Angela Rayner had to resign over her “oversight” do the same rules apply to male politicians?
Clearly this is the calibre of politician the UK needs right now. A real 'man of the people'. But, hey, how about that Angela Rayner, eh... #exilefarage
His lack of personal responsibility is disgraceful. Presumably he signs the declaration?
And the penalty for this is...? Oh, that's right, jack shit.
Always someone else’s fault with Farage
What good reason can there be for Farage to accept £15k from convicted money launderer George Cottrill? Also author of the book “How to Launder Money”. No joke.
Farage: Man of the people. One of us. A bloke you could go down the pub with. Not part of the establishment. Straight as a die. Tells it like it is.
In days gone by, this would be way beyond a resignation issue. But today it is shrugged off. For supporters, the thought process is, "why not, I'd get rich quick if I could". Same as in US.
Is Dan Hodges reporting this like he hounded female Labour politicians?
The sort of administrative errors that had him and his backers in the media howling for Angela Rayner to resign.
"administrative errors" yeah right. pull the other one, Nige
Of course, blame his team. He’s the MP. He’s the one responsible for making sure interests are registered on time in accordance with the rules. Perhaps if he spent a little less time on his outside interests and a bit more time on what his meant to be his main job, these mistakes wouldn’t happen…
Farage's administrative errors sure do add up quickly, and are unlike his form as a MEP. I am sure he will receive a strong rebuke
Always someone else's fault.
And his punishment is …?
'Computer illiterate oddball'. Look at where he gets his money. He is playing the standards commission for fools - which they are.
17? You’re going to destroy him for this right? Like you destroyed Angela Rayner and tried to destroy Rachel Reeves? Right? I won’t hold my breath - I know who bribes you.
Could we just rid of this disgusting Trump-sycophant criminal now? He has no business being in any kind of position of power, ever.
With these many 'errors' he's not fit to lead anything!
What are google paying him for
The Trump 'swamp' exported to the U.K. 'Reform'? Only to enrich the already extreme rich.
In fact this is *£380k* - around FOUR times an MP’s salary
Get caught out? Blame the servants...
I imagine HMRC's fraud investigators come across a lot of administration errors