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I've got to ask you a question about this £5 million gift from this crypto billionaire
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You know better than most politicians how LBC works. I'm getting comments as you and I are speaking
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This man needs to tell us what has he done with the £5 million. Get him to be truthful
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Nigel Farage, please, what has happened to this £5 million gift? With all due respect, what's it going to do with you
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Well, because it speaks to the position of what you hold in office. Initially, we were told that it was because of your personal security
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and it would pay for that for the rest of your life. Then apparently it was some kind of reward for campaigning for Brexit
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I am told we have two different stories, which is the truth. I think you're contradicting yourself there, aren't you
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Well, if you tell me what happened with the £5 million, then we're solved. It's an unconditional gift. I can spend it on Ferraris if I want
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That would be entirely up to me. Why did you say it was for personal security then? Because it was given as an unconditional gift, right
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The understanding is, and you know very well, you know very well
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I've been physically more attacked over many years than any other policy
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I've been with you when you've been abused, I've seen that but I just, my listeners want to know
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Mr. Farah, how much has been spent I can deal with it, Nick, I can deal with it as I want
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I can do what I want with it I can put it on the horses Yes you are under review though by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Well and maybe we shouldn be discussing it in that case But what I will say to you is I know I know that I will need protection until I die
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I've no idea how long that will be. None of us do. But I know that it's damned expensive
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And I now don't have to worry or even think about that
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because repeatedly over the years, while I've asked for help from the state, I've been refused
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So it was a reward for personal security? Sorry, Nick, you're confusing two things
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One is the money comes in, the other is where it goes, right? I can do with it as I wish, but I know myself what it's for
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How much has been spent? I bought a cup of coffee this morning. Was that from that money or from what I earned from GB News
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These are ridiculous questions. But do you not, I remind you, you used to sit in this very chair, listeners are concerned
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about the probity here. Well the probity would be if it was a political donation, right
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If it's personal. No, I know it was in a personal capacity, I want to make plain, you were not an MP when
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funds were received. Exactly. Has it as some newspapers have suggested been used to purchase property No And look they can lie all they like As I say if I seen buying a round of drinks in a pub they will say it came from
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that. It's irrelevant. So just lastly, it's not bought a property, it's not done
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renovations on property, it will only ever be spent because of the campaigning you
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did, which resulted in the vote ten years ago today, you have concerns over
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your personal security for the rest of your days. I do, and as for the property thing
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that was completed that was agreed and the money was checked well before
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But look, Nick, but as I say, this is ridiculous because you can ask me this for the next 10 years
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You know, as I say, you brought around drinks. Where did that money come from? It isn't like that, is it
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Well, no, but I mean, if you just came out and said, you're saying now that there's nothing to see here
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as regards to purchase of houses, renovations of houses, we can finally put this to bed
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And even if there was, it would be irrelevant. But you did have two stories
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No, there are not two stories. One is I was given the money unconditionally
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I believe it was a reward for giving up a quarter of a century of my life, giving up a huge income in the City of London
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putting up with lots of abuse I believe that was the motive Whether it was or not that is that side of the equation The other side of the equation is what I intend to do with that I made that perfectly clear Right OK Andrew what do you take from that Good morning With regards to Farage Farage I am a Farage supporter but I don like the way that he
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is avoiding the questions on where the £5 million went. What do you need to hear from him? Because initially he told me it was none of his business
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and then I spoke to him, told him it speaks to his very credibility as a senior politician
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What do you need to hear from him now? A straightforward answer which he normally gives, which is his trait
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He is avoiding the question, he is moving the question around, and I don't like that
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Any other questions you ask him, he has direct answers for except that
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Andrew, thank you for your view on the two men. Ian in Waterloo. Ian, your take on either one of the two, whoever you want to go for first
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Good morning. Good morning, Nick. Yeah, Andrew's completely right. Obfuscation, changing the subject
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answering a different question. Classic Farage. Also, he seems to have developed some sort of chuckle
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every time he tells a porky. A little bit like when Boris Johnson used to smirk
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just before he told one. This fella is nothing, like I said to you the other day, Nick
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nothing but a fake and a fraud. And the sooner he's exposed for what he is, the better
