The Clacton by-election that will see Nigel Farage face off (bin off?) against Count Binface will take place on August 13th. It is not clear if any other candidates will enter the race but all the major parties are boycotting it.

I came across this clip of an Oxford Union debate from two years ago, before the last elections in the UK and US, where Binface was designated the final opposition speaker on the proposition ‘This House will fake it till you make it”. He made some cogent points about UK and US politics.

Meanwhile, Farage continues to be dogged by the £5 million pounds he received from a cryptocurency billionaire Christopher Harbone. He had said before declaring his candidacy that he would need about one million pounds per year to make up for lost earnings if he became an MP and so the timing is highly suspicious.

Nigel Farage told senior figures in Reform UK he would need “a million a year” to cover lost earnings if he stood for parliament in the 2024 general election, sources have told the Guardian, raising further questions about why he was given £5m by a crypto billionaire.

Sources say the discussion took place in March 2024 – shortly before the undeclared gift was made by Christopher Harborne on 5 April, according to the Thailand-based crypto billionaire’s lawyers.
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These discussions about needing “a million a year” took place in March 2024, the Guardian has been told. Lawyers for Harborne have said the gift was made on 5 April 2024.

The Guardian has revealed that, according to financial industry sources, some of the £5m was not received until the end of May, just before Farage announced on 3 June that he would stand as an MP.

A true grifter, making money off public office, just like his hero Trump

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