Labour Host Tries to AMBUSH Farage Over £5M Gift… It Backfired So Badly Nobody Saw It Coming
So you're going to spend £5 million on security to pay for security until you retire?I have.I have.Until I die, is what I said.
Nigel Farage, live, asked Point Blank what he's doing with a £5 million gift.What you're about to hear is not what you'd expect.I haven't claimed a penny off the taxpayer for any personal expenses since I got elected.Keep that in mind, because in a minute, he connects that directly to the £5 million.
How many Labour voters live in £4 million houses in North London?
And that's the moment he turns the question right back around.Before we roll the full interview, share this with someone who needs to see how this actually played out, smash that like, and hit subscribe if you want more of this unfiltered.Now, let's go back to where it started.
Can I ask you about the, um... the money you received before the election.Not, I mean, you know, it was a five million donation from a...Not donation, no, gift.Gift from...Very different.From Mr Christopher Harbone.
Well, it's being investigated by the parliamentary authorities because they're worrying that it was a donation which you should have declared...
It's not a donation.
It was money which should have been declared in the year before.That's being investigated.I just wondered, you know, I think...I think rather a lot of our viewers will wonder, what's it actually like to receive £5 million as a gift?
Well, you know...
Because most people don't know what that feels like.
No, no, no, I know, and I've made and lost money in my business career over the years.I want to say this to you.I don't believe I've broken any rules of any kind at all, but it is, as you rightly say, under investigation.
What's it like to get a £5 billion gift, though?Do you celebrate?
Well, I tell you what...Is it like winning the lottery?I tell you what...It is, in a way.I tell you what you should ask me.Why is it I'm the only MP with zero public expenses?
Zero.I haven't claimed a penny off the taxpayer for any personal expenses since I got elected.So there you go.
Was that because you had a £5 billion gift?
I chose not to take the money.
Pause for a second.Farage says this money is earmarked for security, untouched so far.Critics will point out there's no independent verification of that claim yet.Worth keeping both things in your head as we continue.
But I would think, I mean, a £5 million gift, how many MPs could that pay for?
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Get started freeOh, there are plenty of MPs that have got more than that.I mean, so...
And what did you spend it on?
I haven't.
You haven't spent a penny of the £5 million?
I have had...I've lived...Big nest egg.I've lived with more physical, attacks on me than any other politician alive in Britain today.The state has consistently refused to provide me with any protection at all.Sadly, given how divisive politics is, I will need that for the rest of my days.
I now don't need to worry about that.So it's like a pension.I will need to be looked after for the rest of my life.Having proper security is very expensive.And if I live to a ripe old age, I will need it.
So you're going to spend £5 million on security to pay for security until you retire?
I have.I have.Until I die, is what I said.
Until you die?
Mm.
OK.And you've spent none of it yet.
But there's a £5 million nest egg to pay for your security until you die.This was given to me as a gift.It's unconditional.I can do with it as I wish.I can spend it on cars if I wish.But I'm not going to.
There's a very specific purpose.You know, I've always been the outsider.in politics.And the fact that for year after year, whilst I was being physically attacked, the state refused to provide me with any support or protection is quite extraordinary.
I just wonder whether, you know, for our viewers, I mean, we have a competition every day, but it's not £5 billion, £100 ,000, £150 ,000.People buy lottery tickets, but their chances of winning are very, very slim.Well, you can say the same.
You can say the same about your salary compared to most of your viewers if you wanted to.Well, you can talk about that.Well, yeah, there you are.And people do win the lottery, and there you are.Look, I'm confident I've done nothing wrong.
just sets you out as being rather different from the people you choose to represent.You could argue that.I mean, how many people in Clacton have ever had a £5 million gift?
And how many Labour voters live in £4 million houses in North London?This argument could go on and on.
Do you think that if you watch the in -game game tonight in a pub, everyone will know you've got £5 million in the bank, all the drinks will be on you?No -one cares.
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Get started freeNo -one cares.You care, but no -one cares.What do they say?
Go on, Nigel, buy them pints.
They might have a lark about it, of course.
And would you buy them pints if you went in?Would it be all on Nigel tonight in the pub?
Well, they'd be very happy if it was, wouldn't they?
You're not that generous, though.
I've always been good at buying my round, I can assure you.And hopefully England win, again, handsomely.It was quite striking.
Nigel and I have been watching England football for 50 plus years.
Too long.
And it's not normal that we win in the first game.We normally struggle.
I was really pessimistic about the whole thing.And they came out for the second half.And it was, whatever was said to them by the manager at halftime, it worked.It was great.
You've got to say, it's such an advert for diverse Britain, isn't it?The England football team.
I mean, you know, just think what migration has done to fuel our football team.They all speak English.They do.And they're proud of the country, and that's great.I know, but quite a lot of them will have had parents or grandparents who came from other parts of the world.Yeah, yeah.
It's amazing what diverse migration can do.And when their parents and grandparents came, net migration was 30 ,000 a year.Under Boris Johnson, it became a million a year.That is a difference.
And all together, we passed the England football test in the cheer of the month.
If that happens...So there it is, Farage's own explanation, live, unedited.The traditional press will frame this their way.We just showed you the tape.Here's the question.If someone handed you £5 million tomorrow, would you spend it or would you sit on it for 20 years like Farage says he's doing?
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