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| 41. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 09:05 Bamba daft, pro independence parties hold 73 seats in Holyrood. Unionist parties hold 56 seats. As for the snp being `a helluva lot more corrupt` any wrongdoing by the snp pales into insignificance when compared to the £5m given, and then undeclared, to Farage by some cryptocurrency billionaire. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 42. Author: ipswichpar Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 09:07 Where did that come from GG? That looks like complete AI slop to me. Reply |
| 43. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 11:13 The One Who Knocks, Mon 11 May 09:05 Farage is probably as corrupt as the SNP but does that make the SNP better? No is my opinion. And it still doesn’t detract from my point that the SNP being corrupted makes an independence referendum more difficult for the yes campaign to succeed. COYP Reply |
| 44. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 11:30 What do these accusations of the SNP being `corrupt` relate to? Are they the allegations against Peter Murrell (who isn`t a politician) which have still to be tried in court? Media reports have suggested the party itself is skint after all the bad piublicity stemming from these allegations. I unfderstand the £5m donated to Nigel Farage was to cover his personal protection for life and had nothing to do with politics. It seems a very odd basis on which to gift money to someone and you have to wonder how it was calculated. Reply |
| 45. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 11:44 The One Who Knocks, Mon 11 May 09:05 I’d suggest the main ones are to do with Operation Branchform and the Alex Salmond affair but it’s not like there aren’t list of other things that would make someone think a political party is corrupt. From the “stamp fairy is very useful when it comes to campaigns” to ferries having windows painted on them for press conferences. Not to mention all the SA cover ups. COYP Post Edited (Mon 11 May 11:44) Reply |
| 46. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 12:27 Wee Eck , it almost doesn`t matter why the money was given. It was undeclared. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 47. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 12:32 The One Who Knocks, Mon 11 May 12:27 Farage used to claim to not be like other politicians - that cover is severely blown. COYP Reply |
| 48. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 12:54 He also used to say he had no permanent residence and was dependent on friends to provide him with accommodation. Now he seems to be a millionaire with at least two homes and is more likely to be out on speaking engagements, promoting cryptocurrency or hosting programmes on GB News rather than attending to business in the House of Commons. Uniquely, his political party is a private company he controls. Everybody knows politics is a dirty business and all parties `spin` stories for political advantage but there`s a difference between spin and corruption. Reply |
| 49. Author: GG Riva Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 14:16 ipswichpar, Mon 11 May 09:07 There are always various articles which appear when I open Google Chrome, Ipswich. Most of them are related to my browsing history, but I`ve never heard of the Britain Decides programme before. Does it not exist? I took it as genuine. Sounds just like the sort of thing that pompous, arrogant, racist, xenophobic oaf would spout.  Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 50. Author: ipswichpar Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 14:54 Looks like it isn`t real to me GG. It seems to be linked to a website which was also pushing a BBC News branded story about Farage having a huge row on Question Time with Andrew Bailey which the BBC has confirmed as fake. I believe it is associated with a website called silent-voyage.com or similar. Frightening to think how much fake stuff is out there and just being shovelled into folk`s feeds. Reply |
| 51. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 15:09 With outrageous characters like Farage and Trump it`s hard for folk to distinguish between fact and fiction. Reply |
| 52. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 15:34 wee eck, Mon 11 May 12:54 Dirty as in being made to pay legal fees by a court because you didn’t follow the guidelines? Your very own guidelines that you created? Or corrupt because you delete messages that aren’t meant to be deleted and only remember about them after other copies are found? That’s just some of the stuff that’s known about. There’s loads of it. How much isn’t known about them? There’s no defending the SNP’s culture anymore. They’ve not even tried to answer the one monetary question that would make independence much more viable 🤷🏻♂️ they’d rather avoid the question than come up with the solution. COYP Reply |
| 53. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 15:50 They get criticised for spending all their time talking about independence then they get criticised for not answering questions about it! Nobody knows the democratic process to achieve a referendum so what`s the point of discussing the nuts and bolts of it? We have politicians happy to protect the sovereignty of Palestine or Ukraine or Greenland but they turn a deaf ear when asked the democratic route for Scotland to leave the union if its people want it. How much money have Westminster governments wasted on legal fees fighting cases they knew they`d lose but pursued just to delay decisions? On the question of deleted messages the Westminster government was doing that too, Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary in particular, but nobody seemed to bat an eyelid. Reply |
| 54. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 15:59 wee eck, Mon 11 May 15:50 I never said anything about the democratic process of achieving a referendum. I said they need to have a clear answer for the monetary system. That’s the biggest reason we lost the first referendum. If Scottish businesses and companies that operated in Scotland thought they would be better off in an independent country, we’d have an independence referendum. COYP Reply |
| 55. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 16:36 `I never said anything about the democratic process of achieving a referendum.` Neither do any of the unionist parties! So it`s businesses that decide rather than the people? If business confidence is so crucial in these decisions why did the UK leave the EU? I don`t remember much detailed economic argument in favour of leaving other than something scrawled on the side of a bus. Reply |
| 56. Author: NMCmassive Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 17:03 wee eck, Mon 11 May 16:36 Do you not think that money has huge influence? Do you not think that a feasible plan for the economy would have tipped the referendum in our favour? If someone like Sir Tom Hunter comes out and says we’d be better off as a nation if we were independent rather than saying we’re overtaxed and before independence could work financially we’d need a competent government. Something like that would be a massive step towards independence. COYP Reply |
| 57. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 11th May 2026. 18:00 Yeah, money has infliuence. some would say too much. I`m not sure people trust businessmen any more than they trust politicians. Reply |
| 58. Author: GG Riva Date: Tue 12th May 2026. 06:08 ipswichpar, Mon 11 May 14:54 Yeah, apologies if I unthinkingly presented that as factual. Ironically, the BBC branded story you refer to also appeared in my news feed recently. My first thought was that it must be true, but I had no recollection of it, so I googled "When did Farage last appear on Question Time?" I think the answer was 2 or 3 years ago, so I knew the article was fake. I remember the BBC news led a news programme with the news that the volume of fake news doing the rounds had overtaken the genuine stuff. Apologies again if I`ve misled anyone. I`ll be more careful in future. Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 59. Author: ipswichpar Date: Tue 12th May 2026. 06:26 Certainly not your fault GG. There are folk out there promoting this nonsense to generate money, and social media firms not checking enough what`s on their platforms. The BBC social media team itself had to look into this itself (it was mentioned on one of their podcasts....might have been Top Comment but not sure) so it clearly isn`t always obvious. Reply |
| 60. Author: wee eck Date: Fri 15th May 2026. 18:41 There was a suggestion that Nigel Farage had used part of the £5m `donation` towards his personal security to buy a house for £1.4m. But fear not! The house was actually paid for out of the £1.5m fee he received for appearing in `I`m a Celebrity...Get me out of here!` Reply |
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