🔥 Nick Robinson isn’t having it. Asked when the two crypto billionaires actually moved to the UK - potentially crucial to whether Reform can keep their £72 MILLION - Richard Tice says to trust Reform’s compliance team. Robinson: “I don’t trust any statement by politicians wanting to bank tens... of millions of pounds. I need evidence.” 👏 Exactly. £72 million requires evidence, not assurances. Reform’s response to scrutiny increasingly seems to be trust us while distrusting everybody scrutinising us. Robinson turns that neatly on its head: this isn’t about trusting Reform, Labour or anyone else. Show the evidence.show more

Listened to that and it was so refreshing to hear an interviewer actually challenging some of the nonsense uttered by a respondent! 🤣

Not mine but….funnily enough Reform doesn't have anybody to speak on social care.. but it has a very detailed policy on crypto currency.. & it would coincidentally make these billionaires even more money

This the same compliance team that told NF he does not need to declare the £5m? Also the compliance team who told him that resigning and triggering a by-election would wipe the standards inquiry? They have a track record of getting these calls right….. right?

Reform will have to provide evidence when they moved to the UK and if they lie it could have tax implications for the donors. Be funny if they landed them with a big tax bill.

Reform’s donation and compliance record this year raises serious questions: the undisclosed Harborne gift to Farage, the Cottrell/Tisun/Britain Means Business trail, the Channel 4 sting, and scrutiny from the police and the NCA. A party that has already had to justify its funding cannot simply trust that next £72 million will be accepted without question. The straightforward demand? Every party should publish the dates they became UK-resident for donation purposes and clarify the basis for approving these gifts. If their record is clear, the controversy ends. But if not, a simple “trust us” won’t suffice to restore confidence.

Seems to me there is no money. If the cap is to be backdated and Reform know that then they’re just making up promises of cash to start another fake row.

Yes it’s a giant dead cat.

I wonder who the compliance team is ?

Tice also “assured” us, when some very undesirable candidates began to be revealed as full-blown cranks and racists, that Reform has “a very robust vetting process”.

The “ compliance team “ are Contractors with their fingers in the pie !

Anyone who thinks these crypto billionaires are funding a political party to make every UK individual better off really needs to give their head a shake. They're simply doing it to make themselves considerably richer...considerably richer!!...oh and Farage et al 👍🏻

Reform were 100% confident on Farage’s expenses, on his house, on his £5 million. They need to be doing the due diligence and so Tice should know. But I wouldn’t bank on the Reform compliance team being correct and Tice avoiding the question seems very telling.

A man so slimy that a small lateral force applied to him in any particular will cause him to slide in that direction for an infinite period of time.

Isn’t £72 million pounds an odd amount? It sounds like a figure from a foreign currency exchange.

'Reforms compliance team'

This has been their only serious policy since the start.

@sweeterEm Good to hear @bbcnickrobinson doing his job.

This is serious.. we don't trust reform and their dodgy dealings absolutely we need evidence and this needs to be investigated

Let's retrospectively remove voting rights from all but British citizens, even if that changes the composition of parliament. Let's bring true Democracy back to the deserving people.

@TiceRichard face it you are the establishment, now men assaulting women with walking sticks? Discuss?

A man living in Dubai, taking bungs from Hong Kong and Thailand, promising the earth and very clearly, not doing the due dilligence before accepting the money. Shambles.

But I don't recall Robinson querying where the 4 million donations to elect Starmer as Labour leader came from. But he cheered on the anti Semitic smears on Jeremy Corbyn. Funny that.

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