RE: Farage Caught Concealing Foreign Political Gifts18 Oct 2024 20:39
Re Farage and various Lab MPs and staffers campaigning in the States.
I consider this a complete non-story.
If Rep and Dems are providing accommodation and PR training, thats fine too.
Given the significance of the election, its easy to see why each side might feel it wise to do what they can to elicit their preferred result over there.
If Farage, or anyone else, has not declared part of the associated expenditure, either by mistake or design, then they should be taken to task in the normal way.
However, this is not the same as a sitting Gov, with all of its associated power and influence, accepting gifts from institutions directly affected by its policy decisions.
Nor is this the same as a Front Bench indulging themselves in unnecessary luxury by dint of their office, whilst using that same office to inflict severe hardship on some of the most vulnerable people in society.
The former is known as a bribe, and the latter just stinks. The same can be said for the cronyism and nepotism on display as regards their appointments to positions of power.
For a Gov elected to stop such practices, they appear to be of the view thats its only wrong if the other side does it!