Why I urge Nigel Farage to hand back that £5million

And it was right in front of us. Being a political leader. It’s not often I’m astonished, but to learn that President Trump had made more than $1billion through crypto bets in the last year made me wonder where I had gone wrong by going into the media.

Not to mention $4.7million that fell into his wallet from Trump-branded watches.

There was $10.7million for Melania from Amazon for the documentary about the First Lady.

You would have thought she would have paid them for that puff piece but that’s America for you.

There’s never been a money-making Presidential machine like Trump.

But we have one over here, on a much smaller scale, but for the little old UK, Nigel Farage is doing just great.

First of all, there was the £5million that came as a gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, who has spent a lot of his time in Thailand, but now wants to rebase in the UK so he can fund Reform.

Then, it’s revealed Farage is being paid £22,500 an hour to promote a company selling gold coins and bars to consumers.

Farage did 12 hours work for the gold dealer Gold Bullion and picked up a handy £27,000.

That was double his fee from last year, proving that he must be doing good business for them.

This is on top of the £18,000 he was paid to host his rather good show on GB News and the £42,000 for recording personalised messages to fans on Cameo.

I’m thinking of doing that myself. Only available to Labour voters who I would tell all on video to f*** off. It would be a Labour of love.

Farage has made £400,000 this year alone and since he was elected as MP for Clacton two years ago he has pocketed £1.3million.

The reality is that there is nothing criminal about what either Trump or Farage are up to. It’s not as though either has parcelled out a government contract and then taken a backhander.

It’s all above board and even if the Parliamentary committee don’t believe that the £5million gift was not intended to allow crypto to be more openly traded in the UK if Farage ever became Prime Minister, the best they can do is suspend him.

If this triggered a by-election, he would win by a bigger majority than in 2024 as the voters would believe the establishment was trying to force him out of office.

The other side effect for Farage is that he would be even more famous and therefore would receive more enticing commercial offers from the gold bar crowd and possibly even watchmakers.

I totally accept that for Reform voters, all this money coming from unexpected sources is not going to damage their view of Farage.

The reality is that he is the only politician (Rupert Lowe simply hasn’t got the following) who will push back the migrants.

He could be caught in bed with 1,000 hookers and the only issue for his voters would be if one of them was born in Somalia. He is the Messiah.

But to me the issue is not the hardcore, but those old Tory voters who need to be lured across to make sure Reform has more than 30 per cent plus.

Will they take the view that £22,500 an hour to plug a gold dealer smells fishy?

Absolutely it isn’t, but somehow, along with the £5million, it doesn’t feel right and Tories unhappy with where their party stands on immigration might still feel they can’t make the move.

I would like Farage to pay back the £5million to stop what I feel is a damaging debate. Farage doesn’t feel the same.

He gets very irritated when the subject is raised by pundits and says it was gift and if he wants to buy a Ferrari with it, he can and he will.

I buy that, I’m just looking at it from a political level.

In business, there is something called the sniff test in relation to a contract or the actions of a colleague.

Personally I think it fails that test.

I recognise Farage won’t take any notice of me but I’m giving my view, not out of malevolence, but concern for Reform.

If one way or the other Farage were forced out, that would a political disaster for our country.

Whoever followed him would drop the best part of 10 per cent – putting Reform at 14 per cent.

At that, migration would carry out on for years or decades. Nobody wants that. Over to you Nigel.