Nigel Farage tells friends he’s been ‘taking stock’ of his political future as two top Reform aides are forced out over latest funding row

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1. >Two family members have had their bank accounts frozen because of their association with him. 

   And not at all because they were laundering money on his behalf.

2. Hmm. Piece in the Daily Mail claiming Nigel was totally considering leaving anyway, like well before all this recent stuff. He must be going! 

3. Well he’s got his 5 houses, 3 of which are undeclared. Oh, and there’s the £5 million bribe for services rendered, and the donations from foreigners and dodgy dealers. That should see him well.

   He can also continue his grift on Cameo saying any offensive rubbish he clearly knows the meaning of because he lacks integrity, principles and morals.

   He’s also got his pension from the EU and the UK, despite being AWOL or uninterested in doing any actual work like including simply turning up, other than for the money.

   He could ask his sugar daddy, Aaron Banks, for more. Unless he’s deemed no longer of use like some aging songstress in a silent, sepia film which is a time Farage wants to take us back to.

   And that’s not even everything.

   The Chode of Chode Hall is frustratingly well sorted for a workshy grifter.

4. Typical daily mail lying in the headline, he doesn’t have any friends

5. Blokes like Teflon. His cult say it’s the establishment

6. Taking stock ?

   It sounds like he’s been taking everything he can get his hands on. But it was ever thus.

7. That’s what happens when you’re caught out for being a corrupt little weasel. Repeatedly.

8. So what’s the end result of taking stock? He’s got to keep the shady money coming in somehow

9. Not the first time he’s done this act. He’s probably just fishing for another gift.

10. It’s not going to stop.

    This is very much like Boris Johnson. At first there were a few stories. But people liked him. There was this idea Boris was the guy who could get stuff done, but he’s also the guy you could have a pint with.

    Then the scandals began. COVID threw it all into stark relief of course, but the scandals occured because of who he was. Partygate. patterson.

    The straw that broke it was supporting Pincher. His arrogance and personal failings made it worse, but it was his lax standards (moral and otherwise) that fundamentally doomed him before any of it.

    Getting past one scandal didn’t matter because it was in his nature to generate more. He didn’t give a fuck about the rules. He never did.

    Farage has also got a long time crafted public persona that has been refined over time to appeal to his supporters and make him seem ‘different’ to the usual politicians. He claims he will make it all better. Same as Johnson.

    But farage also has the same sort of issue. Not identical flaws, but flaws that lead to these problems. Constant grifting. Willingness to skirt the rules. A belief that if he can deny things loud enough and do that annoying smirk laugh he does that they will all go away.

    But they won’t because he cannot help himself. Labour still have years to go if they want. Over that time we are going to keep hearing story after story just like these. New scandals he can’t help but get into and old ones like how he was an unrepentant bigot and racist at school.

    Hes going to quit because being on the outside will let him piss into the tent and he can keep playing victim and claiming to have all the answers without needing them to be tested.