‘Let’s Unite & hit far-right in the ballots’
Brexit leader’s firm coining it in
UNITE channels Winston Churchill’s spirit in a rallying cry to halt the rise of the far-right in the European elections.
The ad, which references our wartime PM’s rousing “We shall fight on the beaches” line about the Nazis, is part of a campaign in the North West, where extremist Tommy Robinson, right, is standing as an independent.
The union fears a low turnout on EXTREMIST Tommy Robinson Thursday could allow the EDL founder, 36, (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) and his ilk to clinch seats. Its adverts urge people to vote, and vote Labour. In 2009, turnout in the region was 32% and ex-BNP leader Nick Griffin was elected on little more than 8%. Unite chief Len McCluskey said: “Stop those seeking to spread their message of fear and hate.”
NIGEL Farage’s firm pocketed nearly half a million pounds in two years, as he portrayed himself as a man of the people and wooed working-class voters. The anti-EU leader also pleaded for cash for his Brexit Party during afternoon tea at The Ritz, we can reveal. Mr Farage is touring the country hosting rallies for Leave supporters, Farage ahead of Thursday’s EU election, a poll his party is favourite to top.
Part of his appeal is a carefully crafted image contrasting him with Westminster politicians and the “metropolitan elite”.
But research by the anti-Brexit People’s Vote campaign paints a revealing picture of the former UKIP leader.
Publicly available Companies House records show assets held by Mr Farage’s company, Thorn in the Side, soared from £77,893 according to accounts up to date in May 2016, to £548,573 in May last year.
A declaration to the European Parliament in 2017 revealed he trousers €30,000 a month for “broadcast contracts”. He also gets €8,757 a month as an MEP.
Pro-EU Labour MP Ian Murray said: “Nigel Farage has made himself rich as a snake oil salesman for Brexit. You don’t get more metropolitan elite than Farage. He’s strolling casually in London, left, with Georgia, 24.
It is believed he is recapping his former role as an expert at finding cash, this time for Mr Farage’s latest political venture.
An insider told The Sunday Times: “He knows people.
“We’re not going to not use him, are we?”
A Brexit Party spokesman insisted: “He has no position with the party.”
Cottrell, reportedly worth £250million, grew up in the Caribbean and left school after being caught gambling. no more a man of the people than he’s a teetotal vegetarian.”
Anti-Brexit campaigners also found a video, apparently from April, of Mr Farage asking selfstyled “Ritz rebels” to fund his party.
In it he says: “Any support – whether it’s verbal, getting your friends involved, giving us money – we need all the help we can get.”
A party spokesman hit back at Mr Farage’s critics saying: “People of this country do not hate success, they applaud success. They hate hypocrisy, and he is no hypocrite.”