Nigel Farage has threatened to take legal action against Tory leader Kemi Badenoch if she does not apologise for accusing him of publishing a “fake” ticker showing Reform UK’s membership increasing to overtake the Conservatives.
The Reform UK leader has reacted furiously to Ms Badenoch’s assertion that he was “manipulating [his] own supporters” with a ticker that is “coded to tick up automatically” after it showed the insurgent right-wing party had gone past 131,680 members - the number of eligible Conservative Party members in its leadership election in the autumn.
He is demanding an apology from Ms Badenoch for the “accusations of fraud and dishonesty” that he labelled “disgraceful”, and said he is “not going to take it lying down”.
Asked by Sky News in a call with journalists if he is going to sue the Tory leader for libel, Mr Farage said: “I’m going to take some action in the next couple of days. I’ve got to decide exactly what it is, but I’m certainly not going to take it lying down.”
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Reform showed Sky News the coding used to link the ticker to the member count within their account on the platform NationBuilder. The demonstration provided strong evidence that the ticker was not automated.
nigel farage is like the floor is clacton and it’s lava
Imagine Nigel Farage calling absolutely anything or anyone else “disgraceful”. The guy belongs head-first in a concrete mixer. Piece of shit.
People who actually like Farage: what’s it like being a huge cunt?
Badenoch is an idiot (shocking I know) because programming it to tick up automatically is the most naive way or faking numbers. It’s very easily disproved.
What’s much more likely is that they are real numbers but they’re from bot accounts. We only have reforms word that everyone was charged £25, showing Sky News the API calls doesn’t really prove anything.
What’s much more likely is that they are real numbers but they’re from bot accounts.
Or they are cover for foreign bad faith actors to pump cash into Reform to influence UK politics. I’d be interested to see if they do due diligence on sign-up or if the “members” are just created by bots scraping public information (or just making shit up).
I hope that it goes ahead and the fascists will need to show the list of members as a part of court disclosure. I can’t wait to see it.
Which fascists? Badenoch’s lot or Farage’s?
Good point. I meant Farage’s though.
Badenoch doesn’t really have any
Apart from most of the Tories?
Out of court settlement before that happens. But if not… 🍿. I’m all here for it 😆.
only likely if she lied.
If her claims of the party having seen the code are true. She has testimony to support her at least. Likely saved code.
So if an out of court settlement is agreed. May as well say fareage was in the right. As her claim was no more then a guess.
If not. Then honestly kemi has grounds to take him to court if he drops the case. As the accusation is the exact crime he is accusing her off.
Unfortunately the claims made were specific. That the reform web site automatically increases numbers.
Weather evidence can be provided by either side to support or falsify that statement will be the direction the case goes.
Also because party membership is personal information. A list of that data would not be public. Only the number of payments made.
Weather evidence can be provided by either side…
I don’t think whether it is raining or not will matter much.
Not necessarily.
Tories may demand the disclosure in order to prove that Farage’s party don’t have as many members as their website says it has. It is up to the judge to decide if such request is granted.
This is what we’ve got to look forward to for the next few years isn’t it? Nigel Farage having a fucking perpetual tantrum until he gets all his own way about everything, standards be damned. He’ll probably tantrum his way right into being PM
I wonder how many of those members will remain members once they realise they have just paid for a fanclub membership and have no power to influence anything other than their bank account.
It’s the meltdown when they fail I’m not looking forward to.
Do it. Mutually Assured Destruction.
Tories and Reform bashing each other is pure viagra
said he is “not going to take it lying down”.
No, he’s usually on his hands and knees.
Reform showed sky news some letter and numbers on a screen
That was probably just a size of Farage’s penis.
XS, 131.68mm
