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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told a right-wing US podcast that there is “no money in politics” before running to be a Member of Parliament last year.
In newly-resurfaced comments from June 2024, while he was still reportedly weighing up whether to stand in the July election, Farage appeared on a pro-Trump online show, ‘Ash Wednesday’ with MAGA pundit Steven Crowder.
Crowder’s platform has been repeatedly sanctioned by YouTube for use of racist and homophobic slurs (2019), false claims about the 2020 election (2021), and for violating the platform’s harassment, threats and cyberbullying policy (2022).
Speaking freely to Crowder, Farage explains that as a broadcaster with GB News he’s been earning ‘good money’ for the first time in 30 years. He is paid around £2,300 per hour with the controversial channel, according to his current register of interests.
Farage adds that “people laugh when you tell them this”: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]…There’s no money in politics.”
“[I] had four kids to bring up, dependents etc…So for the first time in 30 years, right, I’m earning good money [and] I’m enjoying life”.
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While most the rest of the media seems to happy to give the handful of Reform MPs undue prominence, Byline Times is committed to tracking the activities of Nigel Farage’s party when actually in power
