Personal Gift? He owned the party

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Crypto, peerages, or political self-sacrifice – why did Farage gift Boris the 2019 election?

The quid pro quo allegation

Two weeks ago, the Nerve published its first story in this series, in which we forensically examined how the pattern of Harborne’s donations closely tracked Farage and Johnson’s public statements about cryptocurrency policy reform, specifically so-called stablecoins. Harborne’s wealth derives in large part from Tether, a stablecoin.

This week, the Nerve’s new evidence shines a new light on the sequence of events that preceded Britain’s exit from the EU, and Harborne’s relationship with Farage and later Johnson.  

But those relationships with Farage and Johnson are now a matter of both intense public interest and legal jeopardy. Mr Harborne’s lawyers, Schillings, repeatedly declined to answer any of our questions or requests for comment. 

We are publishing these new revelations two weeks after Harborne filed a defamation claim in the High Court against a former leading member of Reform, Ben Habib.

In an interview last month with the YouTuber Maximilien Robespierre, Habib claimed that Harborne’s £5m gift to Farage had been part of a deal that saw the 2019 election “sewn up between Nigel Farage, Christopher Harborne and Boris Johnson”. He alleged that the election that led to Brexit was “a monetary deal” and that individual £1m payments were made to both Johnson and Farage to secure a Brexit pact.

Harborne did gift £1m to Johnson but not until three years later, in 2022, after Johnson had left office. There is no evidence to suggest any connection to Habib’s claim. It has also now been revealed that Farage received £5m from Harborne. Farage initially claimed it was to pay for a lifetime’s security but subsequently said it had been a “reward for campaigning for Brexit”. He denies Habib’s claim and wrote on X last month that his lawyers had written to him to demand an apology. Neither Farage nor Johnson responded to our requests for comment.

We have carefully weighed the public interest but believe that fresh evidence raises new questions about the events of November 2019, contemporaneous reporting of a possible pact between Johnson and Farage, and the relevance of Harborne’s donations to Britain’s departure from the EU. 

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Starmer succeeded in shedding blood and destroying our rights – good riddance!

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.

This article is republished from the Skwawkbox because they say it so well.

As expected, Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as the worst prime minister in modern British history.

One whose only ‘successes’ have been on behalf of billionaires and the genocidal colony. Who waged war on our rights and helped spill the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents. All to serve the interests of Israel and a club of billionaires who want each of us at their mercy.

We come to bury Starmer’s legacy, not to praise it, because it deserves no praise. Meanwhile, the state-corporate media is now busy nauseatingly whitewashing it.

Starmer’s ‘achievement’ of worst-ever comes after a decade in which each prime minister was awful and worse than his or her predecessor. Starmer was worse than the comically dire Liz Truss and more dishonest than toxic, murderous buffoon, Boris Johnson. That takes some doing and Starmer only had to be his awful self to manage it.

Starmer’s ‘success’

Starmer announced his departure still boasting that he had “changed our party” and ripped out the “poison of antisemitism”. That he had rescued Labour’s credibility.

In fact he has destroyed it, undoing two successive general elections under Corbyn where Labour exceeded Starmer’s vote share, one of them achieving Labour’s best result since the second world war. He also boasted of his eagerness for war.

But Starmer’s real focus has been to destroy hard-won and deeply-cherished British rights: freedom of speechfreedom of assembly, the right to speak out against the worst crimes of imperialism. Those rights are now constrained more tightly than an animal awaiting slaughter.

Resisting mass murder is ‘terrorism‘. Not just that, but holding a sign opposing the terror classification is ‘terrorism’ too.

Our judicial system, which is always biased to support the rich and powerful, has been utterly corrupted. If the state doesn’t get the result it wants, it demands another trial. It replaces judges with stooges prepared to destroy their own reputations to support the state’s oppression.

Starmer has made the UK an authoritarian plague island in which doing right is punished and doing wrong is rewarded or ignored.

And even on the ‘bread and butter’ of power — protecting vulnerable people and the nation — Starmer has done nothing but ill.

He wanted to keep poor children in poverty and hunger. He waged war on disabled people and those with poor mental health. He promoted bigotry and hate despite knowing it would win him no fascist votes and would lose him those of sentient human beings. A disease left by a noxious, poisonous figure.

Now, will his likely replacement be any better or is Andy Burnham also too weak, compromised or corrupted?

This article is republished from the Skwawkbox because they say it so well.

Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves - the very poorest and most vulnerable.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves – the very poorest and most vulnerable.
Keir Starmer explains that UK is actively supporting Israel's genocidal expansion and repeats his previous quotation that he supports Zionism "without qualification". Keir Starmer said “I said it loud and clear – and meant it – that I support Zionism without qualification.” here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/
Keir Starmer explains that UK is actively supporting Israel’s genocidal expansion and repeats his previous quotation that he supports Zionism “without qualification”. Keir Starmer said “I said it loud and clear – and meant it – that I support Zionism without qualification.” here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/

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George Monbiot: The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security

Lake Titicaca in South America. Its water levels are receding, partly due to shifts in rainfall caused by Amazon deforestation. Photograph: Benjamin Swift/The Guardian

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication

When the report at last appeared, thanks to an FoI request lodged by the Green Alliance, The Times reported that it had been significantly “abridged”, I expect by the same goons. Some of its starkest conclusions had been omitted. Even so, the assessment – believed to have been compiled by the joint intelligence committee (on which the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ sit) – is not exactly reassuring.

It echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists. It tells us that “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” This presents a threat to “UK national security and prosperity”. It says “the world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation and intensify with collapse.” The results will include geopolitical and economic instability, increased conflict and competition for resources. “It is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.” It also warns that “conflict and military escalation will become more likely, both within and between states, as groups compete for arable land and food and water resources”.

But what was cut from the report is, according to The Times, even graver, including a warning that the shrinkage of glaciers in the Himalayas, causing declining river flow, would “almost certainly escalate tensions” between China, India and Pakistan, leading to the possibility of nuclear war. Again, some of us have been trying to persuade governments to focus on this threat with little success.

The report, notably shorter than most of its kind, gives every appearance of having been hastily and crudely truncated.

I know this government exists only to disappoint us. But its environmental failures are even more striking than its failures on other issues. When the ruling party compares unfavourably with the one that brought us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, it’s worse than a betrayal. It’s a threat to our survival.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security

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Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
Donald Trump urges you to be a Climate Science denier like him. He says that he makes millions and millions for destroying the planet, Burn, Baby, Burn and Flood, Baby, Flood.
Donald Trump urges you to be a Climate Science denier like him. He says that he makes millions and millions for destroying the planet, Burn, Baby, Burn and Flood, Baby, Flood.
Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
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Baroness Mone allowed to collect rent on property after freeze order amended

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/baroness-mone-allowed-collect-rent-property-after-freeze-order-amended

Entrepreneur Michelle Mone is admiited to the House of Lords as Baroness Mone of Mayfair, after being made a Tory peer, October 2015

A FORMER Conservative peer under investigation for her alleged role in a £148 million Covid equipment scandal was allowed to continue collecting an estimated £15,000 a week in rent.

A court amended a previous order to freeze £75m of British assets belonging to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband after one of his companies received £122m in government contracts for unsuitable medical gowns.

Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman will now be allowed to keep the estimated £15,000-a-week in rent from a £25m mansion in Belgravia, central London, as the inquiry continues.

The National Crime Agency opened an investigation into the Covid-era deal, which supplied 25 million defective surgical gowns to the government, which Mr Barrowman’s firm imported from China.

A court first ordered the couple’s assets to be frozen two years ago, while the NCA looked into the deal with PPE Medpro.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/baroness-mone-allowed-collect-rent-property-after-freeze-order-amended

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‘Too little, too late’

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/too-little-too-late

Covid-19 signage at the entrance to Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, May 5, 2020

Tens of thousands of lives were lost as PM embraced a ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture in No 10, Covid inquiry finds

BRITAIN’S pandemic response was “too little, too late” with tens of thousands of lives were lost as absent PM Boris Johnson embraced a “toxic and chaotic” culture in No 10, a damning Covid inquiry report found today.

More than 23,000 lives could have been saved if ministers imposed a lockdown just a week earlier in March 2020, Baroness Heather Hallett found.

She said that by the end of January 2020 it “should have been clear that the virus posed a serious and immediate threat” but all four British governments failed to act until it was “too late.”

Baroness Hallett described February 2020 as “a lost month” involving an “inexcusable” lack of urgency overall in government as Mr Johnson was too optimistic in his outlook in the early months of 2020.

By failing to tackle the “toxic and chaotic culture” in No 10 throughout the pandemic “and, at times, actively encouraging it — Mr Johnson reinforced a culture in which the loudest voices prevailed and the views of other colleagues, particularly women, often went ignored, to the detriment of good decision-making,” the retired judge and cross-bench peer said.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/too-little-too-late

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Image of Elmo (left) and former Prime Minister Tory idiot Boris Johnson (right)

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