Farage, the Kremlin's man in Westminster
One good point about Nigel Farage being elected as an MP at the recent UK general election is that he now has to officially register and declare his financial interests.
While getting paid a whopping £91,346 a year to represent the people of his constituency of Clacton, he makes more than this every single month working for a "news" channel that is funded by Kremlin-linked money.
According to The Independent:
"Nigel Farage's astonishing salary has been revealed as he's named the highest-earning MP. The Reform UK leader has a number of side-projects outside of politics, including as a GB News presenter, and in total, it's thought he's raking in over £1.2 million a year. As seen in data from the Register Of Members' Financial Interests, Mr Farage's salary as a sitting MP is £91,346 a year, with the TV channel adding a further £97,000 to his bank every month."
GB News loses around £30 million a year and is mainly funded by the Legatum Group, a Dubai-based investment vehicle owned by Christopher and Richard Chandler, who formerly boasted of being best business buddies of Vladimir Putin, when this was thought to be a good look:
"The Goodness of Business, a pamphlet published last month by Richard Chandler’s Clermont Group, states that after he and Christopher placed their own director on the board, they teamed up with Putin to launch a management coup at Gazprom. A separate document, an investor profile of Gazprom, tells how [the Chandlers' company Sovereign] ‘assured the Presidential administration’ it could rely on its support to reform the energy giant. It led to a modernising drive which turned the company into the £37 billion energy giant it is today. The revelation is a further embarrassment for Christopher Chandler..."
Farage has a long history of pushing points that serve the interests of the Kremlin. Despite being an anti-immigration populist, at one point he even advocated for allowing in a flood of Syrian refugees, as this would have benefited Putin's main Middle Eastern ally at the time, President Assad of Syria.
The difference between a democracy and a tyranny, it seems. is that a tyranny kills suspected "foreign shills," while a democracy allows them to sit in its parliament on a pile of Kremlin cash.
The difference between a democracy and a tyranny, it seems. is that a tyranny kills suspected "foreign shills," while a democracy allows them to sit in its parliament on a pile of Kremlin cash.
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