Didn't that guy punch Corbyn in the head but was also holding a egg. Its a bit different.
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Electoral Commission to visit Brexit party offices over funding concerns
The Electoral Commission has said it will attend the offices of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party to “review its systems” after Gordon Brown urged them to investigate concerns over the legality of the party’s funding.
The former prime minister told a Labour rally in Glasgow the commission had the powers to carry out live investigations during elections, and issue interim statements on whether it believes there are unanswered legal questions about party funding.
Brown said there were clear risks democracy was being damaged if the Brexit party was allowed to accept foreign and untraceable donations via the online payments service Paypal. Political gifts of under £500, whether made via Paypal or another route, do not have to be declared.
Farage “is not going to be remembered, as he wants, as the man of the people. He’s going to be remembered as the man of the Paypal, because that is where the money is coming from,” Brown declared.
Following the speech, the Electoral Commission issued a statement, saying they planned to attend the party’s offices on Tuesday. A spokesperson said: “The Brexit Party, like all registered political parties, has to comply with laws that require any donation it accepts of over £500 to be from a permissible source.
“It is also subject to rules for reporting donations, loans, campaign spending and end of year accounts. We have already been talking to the party about these issues.
“As part of our active oversight and regulation of these rules, we are attending the Brexit Party’s office tomorrow to conduct a review of the systems it has in place to receive funds, including donations over £500 that have to be from the UK only. If there’s evidence that the law may have been broken, we will consider that in line with our enforcement policy.”
Brown said the European parliament should be investigating the disclosures last week that Farage had received about £450,000 in financial support from Arron Banks, the Eurosceptic businessman who funded Farage’s Leave.EU Brexit campaign during the 2016 referendum. That could be a clear conflict of interest with Farage’s duties as an MEP, he added.
“The Electoral Commission and the European parliament should now investigate the finances of Nigel Farage and the Brexit party,” he said.
“Democracy is undermined. [Farage] says the election is about democracy. Democracy is undermined if we’ve undeclared, unreported, untraceable payments being made to the Brexit party. If we’ve the potential for underhand and under-the-counter payments being made.
“[If] this election is about trust in democracy the Electoral Commission has the power before Thursday to tell us if they have had questions answered about where the money is coming from, who is giving the money; whether the money is coming from foreign sources including American and Russia and whether rules are being broken,” Brown added.
Farage accused Brown of an “absolutely disgusting smear” against his party. “This from the man who was part of a Labour party who, through Lord Levy, were making a lot of big donors members of the House of Lords,” Farage said on a campaign visit to Exeter.
Richard Tice, the Brexit party’s chairman and co-founder, insisted on Twitter on Monday morning the allegations of illicit foreign funding via Paypal were unfounded.
He tweeted: “The Brexit Party only receives money in sterling. The offer stands to send a BBC journalist to come and look at our PayPal account.”
Richard Tice
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The Brexit Party only receives money in sterling. The offer stands to send a BBC journalist to come and look at our PayPal account.
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The Chairman of @brexitparty_uk @TiceRichard admits on @BBCr4today that they may be getting donations in foreign currencies. Not illegal if under £500 but Gordon Brown says democracy is "fatally undermined" if parties get "unexplained, unreported &s thus undeclared" donations
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Farage said he was indignant about Brown’s allegations: “How dare he? Most of our money has been raised by people giving £25 to become registered supporters and nearly 110,000 of them now have done that. Frankly, this smacks of jealousy because the other parties simply can’t do this.
“How open can we be? What you have got here are the conspiracy theorists doing their utmost to try and delegitimise what is the fastest-growing political movement this country has ever seen.”
Brown alleged there was precedent for these questions over the Brexit party’s funding. He said there were already three criminal investigations into Leave.EU, by the National Crime Agency, the Metropolitan police and by the Information Commissioner.
“Aaron Banks, the lead funder of Leave.EU and the friend of Nigel Farage, has been under investigation. He has big contacts with Russia,” Brown said.
“We don’t know where his money comes from and yet we found out last week he has given £450,000 in payments to support Nigel Farage while Nigel Farage was in a public office in the European parliament who should have been declaring the payments to avoid any conflict of interest.”
The former Labour leader added that if, as the polls suggest, the Brexit party wins the largest number of seats in Thursday’s election, the Conservative MPs vying to replace Theresa May as party leader and prime minister would immediately shift ground to back a no deal Brexit.
He said only Labour had the strength in numbers across the UK to stand up to Farage and the Brexit party at this election, since there was currently only one Liberal Democrat MEP and two Scottish National party MEPs.
The milkshake thing is fecking great.
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Well he definitely got arrested. So we’ll have to wait and see. I guess it’s technically assault?
I love how angry he is at his security
He's right like. As if they weren't on the lookout for guys stood there holding a milkshake in the most suspicious way possible.
I wouldn’t condone this for normal politicians (including those I vehemently disagree with) but I think a populist, bile-fuelled, foreign-funded charlatan like Farage is fair game. With all those mysterious Paypal contributions, he can afford the dry cleaning bill.
“I was quite looking forward to it, but I think it went on a better purpose.”
Worth mentioning the sacrifice the thrower had to go through.
Banana and salted caramel sounds amazing as well.
It’s impossible to watch shit-heads like Farage and Robinson drenched in milkshake and not think it’s a brilliantly innovative piece of political criticism.
You do wonder if we’re going to see different types of liquids flung over left-leaning politicians soon enough. There’s definitely a possibility that there are cans of worms being opened here...
You do wonder if we’re going to see different types of liquids flung over left-leaning politicians soon enough. There’s definitely a possibility that there are cans of worms being opened here...
If nothing else, it marks the moment at which society reached peak salted caramel.
New flavours please!
I really want one now. It's a great ad for Five Guys.
Flinging a can of worms over someone just wouldn't work, you'd have to get too close
Well I guess if the far right start throwing milkshakes at people it's better than their usual modus operandi of trying to shoot and stab them.
It's not JFK's assassination, for gawd's sake.Dramatic Reporter said:
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This is quite funny. Love the way she gives a long list as though you’d be torn between a few different options for “the line” to go.
Imagine having a bullet thrown at you.
Good to know that Hopkins deems it less funny than - in order of hilarity - assault with brick, knife and acid.
Farage and Robinson will use it in their favour, a 'them against us' mentality
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You'd draw the line after the top 3, common sense.
Really?!?
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The top 3 are humiliations so quite different from intending someone serious harm as in the bottom 4.
Jaysus. I posted the list to take the piss out of how ridiculously obvious it is where line should go. Which is just above (not below) “any liquid”. Can’t believe this ended up being a topic of debate. Unless you’d find someone having piss, blood or bleach thrown on them funny?
Anyone sure this isn't a pre- EU election stunt?
If not then some security guys are going to be out of work. Bet they will be pleased, their company USP ruined in a second, "sorry mate can protect against bullet/knife attacks … but milkshakes that's a really tough one!"
If not then some security guys are going to be out of work. Bet they will be pleased, their company USP ruined in a second, "sorry mate can protect against bullet/knife attacks … but milkshakes that's a really tough one!"
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Harmless
Embarassing
A bit wet
NO FACE
WOUNDED
DEATH
Probably around no face for me
Nah, technically "any liquid" could be acid or lava or some shit like that.
I see
, definitely not. I was assuming much more harmless liquids, my bad.Someone needs to milk that prick too....wait
It can't be real, bragging about spending lots of time in a pub.
Exibit A M'lud. What a waste of a milkshake.
EDIT: It was a Five Guys Banana and Salted Caramel Milkshake
"Brexit all the way"
Or acidlava (banana and salted caramel flavour)
Transporting a cup of lava to a UKIP rally would be damn tricky, come to think of it.
Acidlava sounds like what I experience the morning after spicy food.
Has nobody edited 'Kelis - Milkshake' over these videos yet? It's only right
Or the 'this shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S' part of Hollaback girl
He looks quite spritely for an 80 year old.