Backed by Bias: Farage's £5m Donations, Reform, & the Role the Media Plays

Añadido: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hello team. Welcome to another ATP Geopolitics video with myself Jonathan MS Pierce. This is a UK political update. Lots of political chaos going on in the UK at the moment with leadership contests on the horizon concerning Kharma and Andy Bernham, the former or the present mayor of Manchester running in the Makerfield election in order tocome become a member of parliament so that he can challenge Karmama for the prime minister uh prime minister's position.

[00:00:32]But he has quite a job Andy Bernham of overcoming reform UK who are going to challenge in Makerfield as well. And we know the Green Party is also going to properly challenge there. So Labour and Labour's Andy Bernham will have a difficult path to that position. But I want to just go back to look at the 5 million pound controversy concerning Nigel Farage. I want to look at the local elections to a degree. I want to just look at the role that the media has been playing in supporting Farage and being very very denigrating of the present government and making it very difficult for anyone really but uh reform to do well. Um before we go there though, please remember to like, subscribe and share. Keep yourselves in the loop as to what is going on in the world. Uh right, let's get to the details.

[00:01:36]Here we have uh the BBC reporting on this and the criticism as you can see from this quote and this is or the comment here.

[00:01:47]This is one of many comments talking about this particular clip and this segment where the BBC are reporting on Nigel Farage's very controversial £5 million donation from the Christo crypto currency billionaire Christopher Harborn who is based in Thailand and operates under a Thai name saying this isn't AI.

[00:02:07]The BBC are actually covering Farrage in his latest lie over how he purchased a 1.4 million pound house. But what happened is he receives5 million uh pounds from Christopher Harbour then changes his mind and start and decides to run to be the MP of Clton and to join in the electoral race if you like when he said he just two weeks before that 6 weeks before the election was too short a time to get involved. I think it's more important that I go and support Trump in America. He receives £5 million, then decides to run, and then this £5 million is not declared, and it was only found out due to a hacking um event that happened later uh according to Farage. And now we know that he received 5 million pounds, but he said it was an unconditional gift that was just for his security. But then after changing his mind, running for uh parliament and also introducing policies that benefit cryptocurrency billionaires such as cryptocurrency deregulation, he also bought a house. So then he then he has now claimed that he bought the house not using the money he was given from Christopher Harborn. So then because his his uh excuse if you like or his explanation for this money is that it was a gift unconditional gift not a donation not a political donation definitely would have to declare it then he's trying to make this difference between a gift and donation which I think is is problematic anyway and he's saying it was unconditional and it was for his security because hey he's he's his far his property has been threatened with being firebombed previously except that happened a year after he received this money. So, his excuses don't really add up. And he bought a house worth 1.4 million shortly after receiving this money and then claimed since this has now come up in investigations that he bought that house with money that he got from being on uh who um not Who Wants to be a Millionaire, I met a celebrity Get Me Out of Here, which an ITV show based in Australia where you put these celebrities in in a kind of camp. and uh last one standing basically wins uh after they're all voted out and blah blah blah. It's quite a big show in the UK and he was on that to earn himself some extra cash except investigation show that he didn't use that money to pay for the house. So he is lying all over the shop. This investigation is making Farage look worse and worse and worse.

[00:04:35]So as uh as Narenda here says buys a 1.4 million pound house for cash with money he got from I'm a celebrity but the money doesn't move out of his account.

[00:04:44]His girlfriend buys a house that they both share for £800,000 cash, £885,000, I think, but refuses to say how she could afford it and then claim that her parents helped pay for it, but then investigations into her parents show that they don't have the money. Both after Harbborne hands over £5 million.

[00:05:02]Perhaps now he will resign from Clactton and run in Makerfields instead to really uh wet the pants of the mainstream media. So, this is what the BBC have just said. Another party leader who is under a different kind of pressure today is Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK. This is about a 1.4 million pound house in Surrey that he bought in cash back in 2024. And it got a lot of attention because he completed the purchase of the house shortly after he received that5 million pound gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborn. Now, last week, Nigel Farage's team told the BBC and others that he had bought the house without a mortgage using the appearance fee he got for I'm a celebrity Get Me Out of Here. But his company accounts suggest that things are a bit more complicated because that appearance fee seems to have stayed in his company after the purchase, >> which is the BBC's way of saying he's lying. It seems it's a bit more complicated. He is lying.

[00:05:57]>> Reformer adamant that none of the£5 million gift went on that house. They say that was for security and they say that the checks, the moneyaundering checks and so on for the property purchase were conducted before he received the gift from Christopher Harborn. Another Okay, so that's a rough summary. Now, the Financial Times have done an article on this uh showing that he you know that his accounts challenge the claim that he paid for the 1.4 million pound house with that TV fee.

[00:06:27]Indeed, here you can look at his accounts. Nigel Faraj's claim that he paid for a 1.4 million pound house with his fee from reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show the income remained on his company's balance sheet after the property purchase. So, literally, he didn't use that money to pay for the house. Uh, so here we have a breakdown from someone for anyone interested in a technical breakdown. Farage confirmed in an interview with the Financial Times that his I'm a celebrity fee was paid for by his company accounts. The account showed no significant increase in fixed assets. Uh so we know the house was not purchased via the company. This means the only possible way Farage could have paid for the house with I'm a celebrity fee would have been to take a dividend from the company and use it to pay for the house. In order to take home 1.4 million, Farage would have had to take a dividend of more than 2.2 million before income tax. See the workings below.

[00:07:16]Please note this amount could be different depending on his personal circumstances or tax arrangements. But even if he somehow paid no tax, which is impossible, that's still 1.4 4 million.

[00:07:25]We can see from the accounts that profits retained in the company increased by 1.25 million. So he would have needed to make enough to pay the dividend on top of the 1.25 million.

[00:07:35]This means his company would have needed to make a profit of at least 2.65 million after expenses and corporation tax. This seems extremely unlikely based on analysis of the monthly income declared on his register of interest completed by uh one finance guy. Uh also in the financial times interview far shared about the high profit in a year was mainly attributable to his I'm a celebrity fee not other earnings. So again this would contradict his own statements. What's more when the financial times asked about this directly reform refused to comment. Uh essentially he is lying right that there is no two ways about this. He did not cover the cost of the house with the money he got from the I'm a celebrity fee. which means that then it's looking like it's even more likely that he paid for it with the money that he received from Christopher Harbornne which which he didn't declare and this is against the rules of running as as an MP or at least or indeed being an MP just in general. Now Isabel and this is where we come on to the biased media. So Isabel Okashot now she's super biased, right?

[00:08:39]She's Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GB News, right?

[00:08:42]But she's also the partner and she lives in Dubai by the way. Oh, all this British patriotism but lives in Dubai so she doesn't have to pay tax into into Britain. Uh she is the partner of Richard Ty who is essentially well he was in charge of reform UK until Nigel Farage came back and he had to step down. He's essentially the number two now. He is a an MP. Now Isabel Okashot here says this on talk TV. So, let me just be very plain about this. I smell a massive rat.

[00:09:16]>> Well, she sent out about Nigel Farage.

[00:09:17]No, she's saying about Angela Raina, who has been exonerated by HMRC, by our tax um service and the ethics committee for getting her tax wrong on the acquisition of a property in Hoveve and underpaid £40,000 of stamp duty, which as soon as she found out that she had made a mistake, she herself she committed herself to the ethics uh committee and then, you know, went through the processes. She had 30 front page newspaper articles about her. uh she was handed out of office basically. She was a deputy prime minister, deputy leader of the Labour party and I think she was housing secretary as well. She wasounded out of those positions. Nigel Farage has done something 217 times worse and gets one front page headline on in the Daily Mirror. Right. And Isabel Okashot is saying I smell a rat about Angela Raina >> with the purchase of this property. And I don't think it stops at the stamp duty uh wriggle that she has apparently performed. How on earth has she raised the money to buy an 800 grand apartment?

[00:10:23]So >> So here we got talk TV. So the right-wing uh news as well with bloody is that oh what's his name? Um from that TV show I forget his name. Uh and uh you Isabelle Okashot, right-wing journalist.

[00:10:42]Yeah, he's applauding her for saying this. I you know, where's this money come from?

[00:10:48]And yet, what does she say about Nigel Farage and 1.4 million pound house paid in cash? She says, I honestly don't see why it's anyone's business. Why should people know how he paid? And this talk TV post, TV segment was titled total hypocrisy, right? But the hypoxy on show here from the right-wing media in the UK is absolutely obscene.

[00:11:15]And it doesn't stop with Nigel Farage.

[00:11:17]Robert GMI, a recent convert from uh a defector from the Conservative Party, now this big shot reform MP, says, "Well, he's now involved in a uh controversy himself." Another day, another reform Tory scandal. Robert Generick's 2024 Tory leadership campaign accepted a £40,000 donation linked to convicted US fraud fraudster Gary Kloppenstein. Generick's wife, Solicitor Michelle Burkner, was reportedly warned about the source of the money. The donation was rooted through a UK company and police are now investigating potential breaches of foreign donation rules. Generick says he had no knowledge, but he's now involved. And we've got Nigel Farage in further hot water. Goodness me says Narinda is never ending. Now Farage is facing another other questions arising from undeclared helicopter trips to travel around Britain for rallies. Um as reported in the Guardian uh most re recently just just the other day uh Grifter the guy's lifestyle really drove him mad about money says the finance guy Farage outside Donor's Chopper in Chsford uh last week. So he is in trouble for all sorts of financial issues. And then there was the other million pounds he was given alongside uh Boris Johnson and then looks like it was connected to him withdrawing all of the when he was in charge of the Brexit party the Brexit party candidates so that Boris Johnson could go unchallenged into Downing Street. Um right so how come all of this is is happening so easily? Uh this is Krishna Guru Murphy on uh on Channel 4 News.

[00:13:00]>> A week after the local elections which exposed the public's loss of faith in the government, today's king's speech should have been about the plan to address that. Instead, it was a somewhat surreal spectacle. King Charles announcing the government's agenda to parliament while more than 80 of the MPs sitting behind the prime minister had made clear they have little faith in his authority to okay so all of this then uh all of this controversy to do with the leadership and the local elections shifts all the focus from Nigel Farage onto Karma and Kama is basically well it looks like he's being unseated by the media. Well, we've got David Yellen here who is a former um this is this is the bold chap here is a for former editor for the Sun which is a right-wing tabloid newspaper.

[00:13:49]>> He's got to quit.

[00:13:50]>> I think we've got a bigger problem than that. Um I think the media has become like an anger factory. There's I mean there's a huge amount of anger in the country and I I suspect that that has been created by >> people who are not friendly to this country and we're going to and that's a whole other issue and certain >> the media or social media. I mean >> look I I think I think we can no longer we can no longer blame Rupert Murdoch and Jonathan Rothermir. Those those days have gone. We're all angry. It's not just the media, but the media feeds that anger and and I think we need to What worries me is whoever becomes prime minister in a year's time, we're going to be sat in this studio again having this type of conversation and then again and again and again. Something fundamentally fundamental has changed in the system and we need to we need to we need to have a national conversation about that.

[00:14:39]I mean, as editor of The Sun, he would have been somewhat complicit in this when he The Sun's always been like that, very polarizing, uh, and very much about getting people angry. Uh, and that is how our media works in the UK, our right-wing media works in the UK, and it's how social media works in its polarizing algorithms >> and and Theo, do I mean, do you agree with that? And, and might that be why populism is advancing? I think populism, like content creators on social media, thrives on polarization. That's how you get the clicks. It's how you get attention. And I think if you're whether you're a someone in the media or whether you're a politician, if your attitude is one of sort of dampening down the energy or the situation rather than amplifying it, you're going to get flu fewer clicks and less attention. So I think I think that is a factor and I think it's become much harder to control the media if you're working in site number 10 than 101 15 years ago when there were moments in the day where you could talk to an editor or a broadcaster.

[00:15:42]>> I mean do do you think it's >> is absolutely the point here that social media and mainstream media are content creation drivers of polarization in order to get the clicks. Here we have um Times Radio, Tom Baldwin talking on Times Radio about a similar scenario.

[00:16:08]>> But we're in an era where everybody appears to be criticized. And I don't think anyone is above criticism, whether that's prime ministers or journalists.

[00:16:16]And I do think journalists need to take some responsibility and have a good look at themselves about where they behaved in the last few weeks. Whenever there's a change of prime minister, government grinds to a halt. We saw it three times under the tourism last parliament. We're now talking about having our fifth prime minister in 5 years and we're beginning to look like a very unserious country. We're beginning to look like Italy in the 1980s. And this sort of habit, this addiction that people have in politics and indeed the media to the idea that yeah, every couple of years if prime minister gets a bit unpopular, we're going to boot them out again. That's not how our system is meant to work.

[00:16:50]But what really depresses me is that actually we should be holding someone like Nigel Farage to massive account because he's he's not like Farage took the Mickey out of Kestama for accepting some freebie glasses right from some donor and declaring it like nothing wrong but he took the Mickey out of him at a conference and Nigel Farage has taken at least 5 million but looking like millions more and not declared this money and then quidd proquo has done things in order to satisfy the donor. I that is outright corruption. Now that's the sort of stuff our media should be going after. But they hound our governments and elected officials in ways that I think you know in government that I think are completely unjustified.

[00:17:40]>> And it means that you can't take long-term decisions as this government is actually trying to do and it will get little credit for it. you can't take these long-term decisions because everything's just thrown into turmoil again. And so I think there's deep frustration, not just, you know, on Karma's behalf, but actually anyone who cares about stable long-term government for this country.

[00:17:58]>> I mean, ironically, in order to be more stable, there could be an argument, I'm not sure he'd accept this one, is that the thing to do is to step down now because there's a kind of inevitability about it and a better thing to do it now and then let the chips fall rather than delay over the next six months.

[00:18:12]>> Well, stepping down now immediately would Andy Burton wouldn't be able to be a candidate.

[00:18:19]>> Yeah.

[00:18:20]>> I mean, you're going to leave a lot of people very, very angry. And you the danger of doing it in a hurry in that sort of hell to skeleton wacky races way is we'll be back here in 18 months when the media decided that this prime minister, the next prime minister, the seventh, >> it's not just the media. I I know >> and you know the um the host says, "Hey, it's not just the media. it's, you know, society and this and that and, you know, there's genuine anger and this and that.

[00:18:47]But actually, the media does have an awful lot to answer for uh in terms of what it doesn't focus on, who it doesn't focus on. I mean, there is a natural massive right-wing skew to big moneyed uh media corporations or privately owned companies or whatever. We've got your I mean, you've heard the mention of Lord Rothermir earlier. So, this is Lord Rothermir. He owns a Daily Mail, right?

[00:19:15]And it this is an absolute Brexit, pro-rexit, anti-EU, anti- Europe nationalistic newspaper. And where does Paul Lord Rothermir live? He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax there because he identifies as French. While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere. That is his patriotism. and his long-erving editor, no more at the moment, Paul Daker. He lived in a mansion in France whilst getting his teams to write about how horrific the EU was.

[00:19:52]How did reform win votes from Swansea to Sunderland? Asked the BBC. Well, for a start, they're the only party with their own lossmaking news channel dedicated 24/7 to pushing their narrative and lies, even if it is subsidized by foreign oil billionaires. That is GB news.

[00:20:08]Paul Marshall and money coming from abroad funding faux patriotic pig swill.

[00:20:20]It is the propag I mean Najaf has shares in GBS. He has a show on GB news. It is the reform UK propaganda arm to the point where as a by line times reports reform UK councilors have told to speak only to GB news as party shuns the party shuns the local press. Local news editor Nipitch says reform party chair instructed his counselors to shut out the press in favor of only speaking to the right-wing news channel.

[00:20:51]It should absolutely worry the hell out of anyone interested in free and fair elections, freedom of speech. And uh if if you are worried about creeping authoritarianism, well, you are justified in that concern.

[00:21:10]You know, as soon as the whole um the local elections thing happened, # general election now was trending on Twitter to any Labour MP thinking of challenging Saki Starama says Paul Mason Farage Maga Putin bots are driving this right now. It's all part of their strategy of tension. Don't be naive.

[00:21:29]Like as soon as the elections happened, it was in a non-organic fashion, I think. So I do believe that foreign influence plays a part as we've already heard earlier but we've also made a rod for our own back or at least pre the previous government has made a rod for the BBC's back. So why has the BBC been so pro-reform voters to try and attract them back because they're losing those voters from their viewership. Uh but also they have two people involved in their newsroom who are GB news editors.

[00:22:01]uh they have always been politically more aligned to the conservatives in their political programming. I'm not talking about the general drama programming. I've spoken to you about this many many times. But you look at whether it's Nick Robinson, John Humphre, Laura Kunberg, Chris Mason.

[00:22:19]These are all people who are e if not overtly like Nick Robinson, the former conservative student conservative um leader at Oxford or Cambridge University or wherever he was, you know, if if not overtly connected to the conservatives previously um but um then you know seemingly aligned when you got James O'Brien briefly on News Night who is a pretty liberal guy.

[00:22:50]He was kicked off News Night for being liberal, right? But you don't kick off right-wing people like Andrew Neil and others uh on the BBC. So, a reminder of how Johnson's government secured unprecedented right-wing influence within the BBC. Accusations of elitism and leftwing bias as a Trojan horse for extreme right-wing direction of ed editorial policy. We need a corrective before it's too late, says Alan Lester.

[00:23:12]So Nadine Doris was the Conservative Party culture secretary who came in and said the BBC needs real change. Put people in in in there that were very much uh skewing to the right. And then she's now since hopped ship to reform.

[00:23:27]So she's now a reform MP Nadine Doris. I do not like her one iota. But um but she has the a lot to say. I mean there's she has a lot of responsibility for moving the BBC in the people on in in the chart in the um in the director roles uh you know people like Gibb Robin Gibb and others uh and uh Robbie Gibb uh and and others you know there's a lot of responsibility that lies with Nadine Doris and here's an example of how it translates.

[00:24:00]So when Bridget Phillipsson the Labour MP was on Laura Kunsburg which is she's one of the Laura Kinsburg is the political editor or was the political editor she's now not the political editor it's Chris Mason now I think but she still has political shows on the BBC she has a Sunday morning show uh and she interviewed Bridget Philipsson the Labour MP recently just after the whole sort of um uh local elections Frackar 9 minute 40 interview and Laura Kensberg interrupted or talked over her 31 times and in an 8 minute 23 so broadly the same length of time Richard Ty on the same show so he is your big wig in reform was interrupted by Laura Kunsburg or talked over only nine times so it looks like three times Laura Kinsburg interrupts or talks over a Labour MP more than three times, three times more than she does to a reform MP. And that's that kind of structural kind of very uh insidious bias that that appears to be at play in our mainstream media. Here's Sam Coats, right? Sam Coats is is I've long not liked Sam Coats, but he's a very pro-reform anti-government Sky News and Sky News is generally all right.

[00:25:31]Right. But there are still issues and Sam Coats is one of them now. He had this section on these pictures that were released shortly after the local election results and the challenges to Karma's leadership and whatnot. And he said this >> we got some pictures of Karma in the last couple of hours.

[00:25:49]>> That's not Sam Coats. Are those no video interestingly um just some stills of him looking pretty happy s we have to say about these stills with a huge health warning on them these are government propaganda photographs right they'll have taken a hundred of them and they'll only pick the ones of him smiling so do not take these as concrete proof that he is happy if they would have done a lot of stats and I know the team that do it inside and they will only have given us the pictures that tell us the story this is this This is as close to fake news as you can get.

[00:26:25]>> So you got Sam Coats claiming, if you couldn't hear there, the audio is not as good. But you've got Sam Coat saying these pictures have been provided by the government and they're of him smiling and they're propaganda. This is Orwellian. This is fake news. This is as close to fake news as you can get was his words, right?

[00:26:40]>> Would normally be just explain they would normally be our cameras and our journalist.

[00:26:44]>> At an event like this, you can trust pictures when they come from Sky News or accredited uh news. like >> an accredited news. You can trust the pictures if they come from an accredited news agency like press association like PA. Remember that >> taking the pictures you're looking at fake news pictures. If they try to tell you a story, don't believe it because these pictures come from from number 10.

[00:27:10]>> So he's saying distrust anything that comes from number 10. These are fake news. This is they're trying to tell you a story. This is fake news propaganda from the government. story that you're looking at on that screen.

[00:27:22]>> Okay. And a couple of minutes later, >> PA association photographs, not photographs, as we uh said earlier.

[00:27:33]>> Oh, don't get Sam Coats coming on. So, it turns out that they weren't provided by the government and they were press association photos. Do you know the organization that Sam coach just said was really responsible and reliable and they and they wouldn't produce pictures just cherrypicked of of Kama smiling. Actually, he's not even smiling there. He's talking. But Sam Coach just goes on a rant about fake news which is is entirely based on nothing. He just made up. And anyway, this caused quite a ruckus. By the way, there were a lot of people who complained to Sky News directly. There were people sharing email addresses and pro-former letters that you sent to Sky News to reprimand Sam Coats for overt bias, right? Um Domcan here saying this is freaking insane. Sam Coat should be forced to resign live on Sky live on Sky News. That's despicable and dangerous disinformation. Um what the f Sam Coats warning the public that photos released by number 10 of Star are government propaganda and fake news. He repeatedly tells people to not trust the photos. No broadcaster could show this level of overt bias. It is beyond effed up. And but this is a result of Sam Coats doing stuff like this for like the last year if you follow this kind of stuff. So my point is you need to be careful of the algorithms on social media that are skewed to the right wing. We know that with there's evidence of that, plenty of evidence of that on Twitter on X from leaked code uh from three sets of uh investigations done by Sky. Actually, Sky ran an investigation on the political bias on Twitter algorithmically um set in stone type thing. Um and one investigation from Germany looking at how AFD benefit from the algorithm and an American investigation. So all of that shows that X is biased. We know that um same sort of situation on Facebook. Facebook famously um biased for the right wing.

[00:29:27]Certainly previously, now it's very much biased towards polarization, but there's a lot of money swelling around uh that go to right-wing uh influencers. I was listening to Ashley St. Keller being interviewed by David Pacman the other day talking about how the right-wing influencer Cadra, how this whole group of people operate and how they're working in concert with the um Trump administration.

[00:29:50]I want to actually play you some of that at some point. Uh so you've got social media structurally um benefiting the rights. You've got mainstream media in the UK particularly benefiting the right. Even those kind of centrist ones that you would expect like Sky News I mean yes GB News and Talk TV but even Sky News and the BBC they have serious issues and then you there's nothing on the left that those are the four channels four news channels in the UK just yeah and then you get AI thrown in as well. We had the Unite the Kingdom marches the other day. Here are some images from them. And you'd think, "Oh my goodness, this this makes it look like you've got a happy bunch of uh pro uh British people marching in the streets, blah blah blah blah." But actually, when you look closely at these images, they're clearly AI generated because none of it makes any sense. Uh stand voytor and make great again so on and so forth.

[00:30:49]Uh, stop UK great again. Uh, just none none of it makes much sense. So, some incredibly powerful messages coming from the United Kingdom march. Millions of people all asking the same thing. Stan Foy Ja make great again and stop UK great again. So, just you got to be worried as well that we can't even trust what we're watching too. And there's this Americanization of politics in the UK. Farage is just taking MAGA and trying to import that into the UK. Uh Darren Grimes is this is this counselor up in um up in the north somewhere who's big online now as a reform guy. Uh and talking about um so he said so this is Darren Grimes saying since when was Essex part of Ukraine? So the Ukrainian flag was taken down by the reform council that's taken over in Essex and this has caused I did a video on this cause some ruckus. He said it's really that simple. Since when is Essex part of Ukraine? Right. And in 2024 here he's wearing a make America great again. So when is I don't know whatever constituency you're a part of when or when when are you part of the United States? So the the rank hypocrisy that goes on but watch that importing of American political uh values over here which I think is is really really uh challenging and you know we need to remember that um that reform UK are not acting on behalf of the working class like many people think. Mistakenly, here is someone so brilliantly putting this across on News Night recently.

[00:32:22]>> Danny mentioned two parties, one for capital, one for Labor. Your party is a party of billionaires. And that's all you're interested in, the rich people, not the working man. And that's it.

[00:32:36]>> All right. Um, >> and it's absolutely true. like 5 million quid from a crypto billionaire. Reform have taken more money um than any other political party and they've taken it from insanely rich donors predominantly.

[00:32:53]Uh and he gets he gets a big applause for that and and that's absolutely right. Uh here's another example. Reform UK's well James our here who is um a pro-life Christo nationalist Christian nationalist who is now the policy guy in reform. So, expect loads of stuff on anti-abortion. Uh, again, importing American MAGA policies over to the UK.

[00:33:17]Thrilled to announce that James Graham has joined Reform UK as policy adviser.

[00:33:21]James come to us from comes to us from Prosperity Institute where he establishes himself as one of the most incisive analysts of financial regulation. He's a striking um he has a strikingly broad range of policy interests and his record speaks for itself. Uh so okay so we got some guy from the prosperity institute come to be the policy guide for reform. Okay well reform UK's policy team is basically a transplant from the prosperity institute which was rebranded from the legatum institute to avoid its toxic past. The Garten group was founded by New Zealand businessman Christopher Chandler and is a Dubai based only is Dubai based only one of its four directors is based in the UK and every inch of power you give them you give to an overseas owned and run organization like the the money that is is involved with the reform party is I think fairly problematic especially when they're trying to mobilize all these working-class people to vote on behalf of reform due to worries is about immigration and they go, "Look, shiny things, shiny things. Immigration, immigration, immigration. Oh, by the way, we're going to reduce uh we're going to reduce your taxes because we're going to um reduce tax for really rich people, but by the way, we'll slash welfare. We'll slash all the services.

[00:34:35]We'll slash this. We'll slash that." And it's MAGA. It's MAGA all over again. And all the working-class people are like, "Yeah, screw these immigrants coming and ruining." Oh my god, I voted for a party that seems to have shot me in the face.

[00:34:47]It's ridiculous. Here's another kind of example of this this this kind of approach.

[00:34:54]>> Reform have made it clear they they voted against every part of the Employment Rights Act. They want to repeal the Equalities Act. They've talked about this great repeal act. They are in charge of local authorities that are already attacking our members terms and conditions. They want to attack the um pensions of local authority workers.

[00:35:12]Now what we need to be instead of being silent on it and there's a feeling that the current general secretary has been silent on it >> and this is a unite general secretary so a big union um uh sorry no this is uh Simon Dubbins attacking general secretary Sharon Graham uh he's the international director forite the union um but he's attacking the the general secretary of for being silent on reform because they know the people in the unions know that they represent ma mainly the working class and the working class is generally supporting re or supporting reform more than other parties or there's a big movement towards reform and so that a lot of their members would be intuitively supporting reform. So there's that tension between slagging off reform but actually having all of your union many of your union members supporting reform and then what do you do with that? So, do you lose them from the union because they have a greater affinity to the anti-immigration of Farage? I mean, here you've got someone saying, you know, I I criticize the general secretary for for not talking about how reform is going to damage our members futures by repealing all the things that unions have done.

[00:36:30]You know, you're members of these unions to get yourselves better workers rights.

[00:36:34]And one of the few things that we know the reform will do other than deport gajillions of immigrants um you know as as they claim. The other thing they want to do that we know is is repeal workers rights and employment legislation because it's all about you know free market capitalism. It's not about supporting the working class >> far far too long probably knowing that members some members are drifting in that direction not wanting them. We need to call it out. We need to give our reps and most of our reps, the vast majority do not support reform. It's the membership on the shop floor. Some of them that have been drifting, particularly in the north of England and the classic areas. We need to support them, arm them, and equip them with the um arguments they need, the tools they need to get that message across that reform is not on the side of working people and never will be. Reform >> 100%. And what really annoys me is when I see the working class drift towards reform o on account of anti-immigration stance without recognizing that that's the sheep in wolf's clothing. The wolf in sheep's clothing, sorry. Really, really uh frustrating. Anyway, that's essentially uh all I have for you in this video. Just just be wary about how much the media and social media, how much these entities are platforming reform.

[00:37:59]But and how dangerous reform are for I think society you know outside okay let's just forget discussions of of immigration you know the conservative party would want to be as hard on immigration as reform these days but the conservative party would hopefully be a little bit more reluctant to go fullon in terms of completely well maybe I don't know degrees really isn't it they want to rip up the welfare state too to some degree.

[00:38:30]It's just not as much as as reform. But reform are not the friends of the working class. It's that simple. Reform are owned and run by moneyed moneyed individuals funded by overseas moneyed individuals and supported by the media entities that also align themselves with that kind of agenda. Um, it just really really um gets my goat. Anyway, that's enough for me. Um, really appreciate your support.

[00:39:07]Take care and uh I'll speak to you soon.

[00:39:10]Todd pips.