PRIVATELY receiving £5 million from a crypto billionaire is the one thing Nigel Farage has done the media has deemed to be a non-story.
The £5m personal gift, which Farage has not declared because he received it while not an MP and is spending on ‘security’, is the first and only event in the Reform leader’s life which does not merit extensive press coverage.
Media insider Norman Steele said: “This isn’t like when he was debanked, which invented the word and demanded a fortnight of headlines. This is just a £5 million gift from a pal.
“The papers dearly wish they could get a story out of it but there’s no public interest, not like their absolute rapt fascination with the Mandelson vetting scandal. It’s a mere cash injection referred to the parliamentary standards commissioner. Yawn.
“How would you spin an article out of that, without some wild claim that his influence has been in some way bought? Which nobody would believe. After all, it’s only £5 million.
“You can tell it’s no big deal because Farage hasn’t popped up to talk about it. He loves to hog the airwaves, so if even Nigel is ducking the limelight it’s as boring a Westminster bubble story as his juvenile racism.
“This isn’t Keir Starmer being bought a pair of glasses or Angela Rayner inadvertently dodging capital gains tax or anything juicy like that. A friend helping a friend? That’s not news unless you’re bitter and cynical which the British press has never been.”
Farage said: “Everyone gets multi-million pound donations all the time, you might as well report on me breathing in and out. Anyway, cameras at the ready, I’m about to drink a pint.”
