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    Exclusive: Farage reported to police over ‘election fraud’

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    1. qwerty_1965 on

      Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses.

      Mr Farage, the Reform UK leader, is accused of falsely reporting local campaign expenses in Clacton as national party spending in what would amount to a breach of electoral law.

      Richard Everett, a former Reform councillor and member of the campaign team that won Mr Farage his first parliamentary seat, has submitted documents to the Metropolitan Police that he claims show an overspend.

    5. Visa5e on

      Farage who takes donations in crypto? Farage who always says whatever is most pleasing to the Kremlin? Garage who got fined for cheating his expenses?

      And it turns out he might be guilty of electoral fraud?

      Well this simply must be a case of deep state smearing, right?

    6. ARookwood on

      The UK doesn’t seem to want to do what the USA did.

      I was hoping we weren’t as stupid, I wasn’t counting on it because we had a brexit, I guess there’s only so far we’ll go.

    7. HotMachine9 on

      Here’s the thing I’ve never got.

      Farage bailed on UKIP as soon as he got what he wanted.

      He left the mess for someone else, May and Boris, to fix. He then abandoned the party, and it went to crap very quickly thereafter.

      Why does anyone have any confidence that he would actually want to serve and make meaningful change? He absolutely would make change like UKIP did, but never for the publics benefit.

      If it was anyone else in charge of Reform id understand the appeal. But Farage? It doesnt make sense to me

    8. Not_Alpha_Centaurian on

      If Nigel Farage finally goes down for something and it’s “election fraud” I wonder if people will start looking at the other elections he’s been involved in…

    10. Sensitive_Echo5058 on

      “In total, he told The Telegraph, he believes Reform exceeded the spending limit by around £9,000, but that Mr Farage was “blissfully unaware” of the omissions.

      In response, a Reform spokesman denied that any laws had been broken, described Mr Everett as a “disgruntled former councillor” and claimed he was expelled from Reform in August for alleged sexually inappropriate behaviour in the party’s Clacton office. Mr Everett denies the claims.”

      Would he not be implicating himself in the overspend? Was this not part of his duties to monitor if he was managing campaign finances, or would this be the role of the treasurer?

      If I understand the article correctly, he’s bascially whistleblowing to distance himself from blame for anything illegal actions that may have occurred.

      This would mean Farage won’t face any legal liability for the overspend.

    11. InterestingSky8986 on

      Crikey they’re really gunning for Farage lately, it’s almost as if everyone’s suddenly woken up, smelt the cocoa and realised that his popularity surge finally has to be taken seriously, interesting times….

    14. Bright_Software_5747 on

      I’m wondering who Farage pissed off. Him and Reform has had the easiest ride from the media up until a few weeks ago, does feel like someone has decided to put an end to it all lol.

    15. Bruno241221 on

      Grasping at straws.

      Can’t wait for next weeks episode in the “Derail Reform because we can’t stop him” show.

      Probably some sketchy sexual assault accusations. Maybe get him jailed. Probably a gun shot in the dark.

      A novel idea would be if the Labour Party and the Conservatives actually do as they’re told and follow through on it.

    16. red_nick on

      > Electoral offences are usually subject to a one-year statute of limitations

      That’s the kind of dumbass statute of limitations I expect from the US, not here.

    17. bupid_stitch on

      the headline should more accurately read “Farage to be investigated by his base”

      The outcome is absolutely impossible to predict *rolleyes*

      Watch him get paid for the inconvenience and the faux outrage of anything even bginning to approcimate accountability.