Reform UK’s former Wales leader Nathan Gill is being sentenced over pro-Russia bribes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c891403eddet
Posted by topotaul
Reform UK’s former Wales leader Nathan Gill is being sentenced over pro-Russia bribes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c891403eddet
Posted by topotaul
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Highly recommend people listen to the judge’s sentencing – very insightful.
10.5 years of not seeing your children. Hope it was worth it!
This is all you need to know about Reform. The UK version of MAGA funded by Putin.
Completely surprised a Reform leader would be guilty of such charges. Jokes aside, this is absolutely terrifying we have a Pro Russian party leading the polls.
Please don’t lecture me how “bad” this government is when considering the consequences of the 14yrs Tory reign.
10.5 years. Which is probably as big a sentence as could ever have been expected. Powerful signal sent to the rest of Reform and their fellow travellers.
GB News have given it coverage, though they didn’t show the sentencing hearing.
The current main headline on dailymail.co.uk has been “BBC loses £1.1billion as millions of homes refuse to pay the licence fee amid ‘bias’ storm”. thesun.co.uk has “PEACE AT A PRICE” about Trump’s secret peace plan with Russia and Ukraine–and the main headline has just changed to something about a fire.
[I didn’t check The Guardian and The Mirror for patterns. The Guardian has this in the main headline spot, and The Mirror has it tucked underneath.]
[I checked The Express again and there was a breaking news ticker saying “Rachel Reeves finds a new excuse for her mistakes – this one is the weakest yet”. The more important piece of news is significantly below it.]
Good to see that being a traitor to your country still sometimes has consequences.
Farage: “Didn’t know the fellow. He… made tea at a local branch or something? In any case I wish him well, and hope he learns to hide the payments better next time.”
Fucking Reform traitor.
This is what you’re voting for, lads. Because you hate brown people. Hope you’re all proud.
Good, traitorous scum. Reform poses a serious threat to national security and should be kept far from power.
Aren’t Reform in favour of bringing back the death sentence? Would be the sort of thing for a traitor.
The lack of reporting on this in the mainstream news says it all.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: a vote for Reform is a vote for Russia.
If we don’t give whole life sentences for betraying your country to a hostile state then what’s the point in having them at all?
C’mon Nigel & Richard, spin your way out of this one.
And I bet GB News doesn’t even mention it
There’s some serious suggestions linking farage with Bannon and trump and Russia
Gill got it wrong by taking the cash instead of making the bribes look like legitimate earnings such as frequent appearances on Russian state media to push pro Kremlin antiEU talking points.
Watching sky news, not once have they mentioned his link to Nigel Farage… Almost like they’re trying to help him distance himself from this…
And the thickos in society will still vote for this treasonous scumbag party
Traitor.
Wonder who else in Reform are, and whilst we’re at it, Labour and the Tories as well.
Right, get this addressed in Parliament and make it a legal requirement for MPs to disclose their finances in full including any and all donations, as well as a full KYC/disclosure of any donating companies.
Anything less is corruption. Let’s treat corruption in Parliament just as we do in the finance sector.
e.g.
– 7 years in prison for financial sanctions breach(es): [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-enforcement-and-monetary-penalties-guidance/financial-sanctions-enforcement-and-monetary-penalties-guidance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-enforcement-and-monetary-penalties-guidance/financial-sanctions-enforcement-and-monetary-penalties-guidance)
– Misleading statements: [https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/misleading-statements-offence](https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/misleading-statements-offence)
Time we brought the political parties (all of them) to heel.
Huh. Reform UK are quite literally traitors, who would have thought?
My mindset is that we are at war and the idea that war needs a physical battlefield with soldiers dying daily is outdated.
War should be recognized by the impact another nation has on its economy and by the pressure put on its security services.
Gill would be on trial as a traitor if it were up to me.
From BBC
> Armed Forces minister Alistair Carns has called for Reform to “conduct a full investigation” to “weed out any Russian influence whatsoever in the party”.
> Speaking to broadcasters, he says: “I’ve been in the marines for 24 years and to find out that someone has taken money from Russia, I think is an absolute disgrace.”
> He adds: “To find out someone has taken bribes from the Russian state is absolutely… it’s despicable, and I genuinely believe that we need Reform to conduct a full investigation to… weed out any Russian influence whatsoever in the party.”
Forget an internal investigation, the police need to look very closely at Reform’s funding in general.
I’d like to see ONE journalist ask the government to publish the Russia report that Johnson suppressed when he was PM. We have a fundamental issue with Russian influence in UK politics.
I wonder if he pled guilty to avoid further scrutiny of others in his party, such as a certain Nigel Farage.❓🤔
It’s no surprise. But then again, the Tories have installed Russian oligarchs in the House of Lords. Tories and Reform are just two cheeks of the same arse.
They’re giving people so many opportunities to see them for what they are.
If you vote for them then no shocked pikachu faces in a few years time, please. You know what you’re voting for.
Never forget that Nigel Farage and Gill made a nearly identical pro-Russian statement to the EU parliament after Russia annexed Ukraine in 2014.
In that session he also said “In the war against Islamic extremism, Vladimir Putin is on our side.” He then suggested the EU halt military exercises in Ukraine to help the Middle East and Africa deal with Islamic extremism instead.
Haha, ten and a half years. What an idiot. Hope it was worth being a traitor.
Genuinely surprised he wasn’t charged with treason.
The definition of treason being the criminal offense of violating one’s duty of allegiance to the sovereign or the state. His crimes amount to assisting an enemy state during wartime. Russia began invading Ukraine as far back as 2014, when this fuck started shilling for Putin’s roubles.
[Ukraine crisis: Russian troops crossed border, Nato says – BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30025138)
Gill being eligible for release after 5 years is a kick in the teeth to anyone who has suffered at the hands of Putin’s dictatorship.
No doubt Trump will plead for his release…
I’m genuinely afraid of what happens to this country should Reform gain a majority. They’re clearly compromised by our literal enemies.
Democracy is not a default. It’s a hard-won, fragile thing. If we throw it away with some laissez-faire “can’t be worse” attitude, we may never get it back and to everyone who says it’s hyperbole to think as such, just look at the US. They had a codified consitution, we don’t.
Given a majority they could weaken independent oversight, the judiciary, enact electoral reforms, curtail rights, rollback devolution, centralise power.
Say what you will about the tories, i’ve never voted for them but they could at least be trusted with democracy. Can we honestly say the same about Reform..? Do we understand the irreversible costs of getting it wrong?
Wow, a political crime with an actual custodial sentence. That’s surprising to me.
Be curious to see if it’ll be described as political persecution by any factions here or abroad.
Imagine being a traitor and risking getting into serious trouble for £40k.
What an idiot. Thankfully his career is now over, but Reform voters probably won’t even hear much about this so they’ll still vote them anyway.
Makes you wonder what (if any) vetting the security services do on politicians and prospective politicians.
For all the invasive security monitoring the government does on us, there seems to be surprisingly little done on them.
Once he’s completed his sentence, this traitor should be stripped of his citizenship and sent to live with Shermina.
The fact that the government aren’t mentioning this more when attacking Reform is missing an easy target