Less than two weeks after launching a scathing attack on Labour activists travelling to the US to campaign for Kamala Harris, Nigel Farage is… in the US campaigning for Donald Trump.
The Reform leader and occasional MP for Clacton claimed at the end of last month that Labour and the Democratic Party had broken federal election law by the former sending staffers to take part in the US election.
Clad in an absurd blue baseball cap, Farage has now posted a number of pictures of him in Pennsylvania gladhanding Trump supporters and basking in his hero claiming Reform had been the “big winner” in July’s general election (the party won five seats, just under 0.8% of those available).
All eyes will be on who paid for Farage’s travel arrangements. He told Times Radio last month that all his flights to support Trump’s re-election had been paid by him personally, despite Parliament’s register of members’ interests showing that a trip to the US in July this year for the Republican convention – a whopping £32,836 for flights and two nights’ accommodation for Farage and a staff member – were paid for by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based British businessman.
Either way, the losers, as ever, are the people of Clacton. Parliament is sitting this week, meaning that once again they are unrepresented. No taxation without representation – wasn’t that once quite a forceful movement in, er, America?
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