With Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch engaged in an unseemly Yuletide rumpus over whose party has more members, the Reform leader laid down the gauntlet to his Tory rival. “We will gladly invite one of the Big 4 firms in to audit our membership numbers as long as you do the same,” he said on social media hellsite X.
Quite why Farage would put his faith in the ‘big four’ auditing firms, however, is unclear. All four are partners of the World Economic Forum – Deloitte describes itself as “a long-standing strategic partner”, PricewaterhouseCoopers “a strategic partner”, Ernst & Young “a longtime strategic partner” and KPMG a, er, “long-standing strategic partner”.
Might this be the same World Economic Forum which conspiracy theorist Farage earlier this year said Reform would “reject the influence of” and “cancel Britain’s membership of”, despite Britain not actually being a member? It most certainly is – making Farage’s keenness for its partners to sift through Reform’s books all the more mystifying.
Meanwhile his MPs have been busy on social media. “The Political Tsunami Continues,” posted Lee Anderson on Boxing Day. “The People’s Army is on the march.”
That tasteful post came on the 20th anniversary of the actual Boxing Day Tsunami, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century so far, which killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. The language may seem like poor judgement – but does lovely Lee care when most of them were foreigners and he just wants his country back?
