Harborne

So these are not new relationships with the party.

But then there's the also unresolved issue about the other five million connected to Harborne and Nigel Farage personally.

And that is being examined because of questions about whether it should have been declared under parliamentary rules.

Reform is currently undergoing scrutiny over its fundraising practices following the Channel 4 excellent undercover investigation.

Uh.

I said to Harborne, I said, "What you got?" And he said, "36 million." I said, "Well, I'll have it."

Oh.

Oh, um-

And they were even, before the announcement of the £72 million, they were talking about a £100,000 cap on donations from expats and backdating it to March 25th, right? So Farage was asked, well, if the law is changed, he was asked, and if they backdated it to the 25th of March, would the donations given to your party over the weekend be legal? And if not, would you have to give some of the money back? And Farage obfuscated a bit and he said, "No, that simply cannot be," he said.

So if you don't know, over the weekend, Christopher Harborne, who's already given £5 million, apparently he's given more to Reform, he announced £36 million donation.

This was after a guy called Ben Delo.

Both of them made their money in cryptocurrency.

I mean, it's difficult to process it, to be honest with you, the vast sums of money involved, you know, £72 million from two donors.

You know, it's difficult to conclude that it's anything other than buying a political party.

I mean, Harborne had previously given £25 million, so we've got to add his 36 onto the 25 that he's already given

Jesus, I, I, I didn't realize that until today.

And I was like, okay, how do I manage this? And at the time I was a single parent.

And so we moved back to Harborne where I grew up, nice leafy suburbs.

The school was two minute walk.

And I just thought, actually, I'm fully booked out of clients.

the donation the direct donation to reform didn't happen no so he says thank you in advance right

right but it shows that he's kind of got prior knowledge of something untoward happening right yeah so then if you get rid of war and jukes it's kind of you admit that they've done something wrong and you knew about it so if you knew about it then surely it's time for you to go too i mean he's not going to you know the reform party is the night of farage party without him they're nothing basically But it's kind of surprised me because this is a kind of a departure from the way they dealt with the Harborne donation, the sort of separate story that was going on about the five million no strings attached donation he got from this crypto billionaire that was resident in Thailand.

Because he just came back and said, I'm not I'm not answering any questions I can do.

You know, I could I could have bet all that money on the horse, as he said.

Um, let me know in the comments if you wanna hear more about that or if you want, or if you're saying, "What's, why aren't you railing against, um, the Tories or Farage or Burnham?" Don't worry, that's coming.

[gentle music] Nigel Farage has never looked less comfortable than when he's defending the £5 million gift he accepted from the crypto billionaire, Christopher Harborne.

That's Farage.

You haven't spent any of it.

I, I, well, I, no, I'm not gonna answer that deliberately, willfully.

Obviously, instead of answering those questions, Nigel Farage called that stupid by-election, which he's now won, but the parliamentary investigation has now resumed.

Um, that is probably going to focus on the timing of his 5 billion, £5 million gift, sorry, not 5 billion, £5 million gift from Christopher Harborne.

Um, and the issue is whether or not he could be considered a public or private individual when he received the money.

These were handmade.

These were made especially for us in Harborne.

These are plant, uh, machines.

Are you telling me there's no other machine like this in the world?