With Reform leader Nigel Farage finally admitting he received £5 million from a foreign/not-foreign billionaire donor, the betting industry is putting the odds to what reason will stick when the story eventually gets oxygen.
'Obviously he forgot he was paid £5 million,' said a betting expert, 'or he remembered but forgot that he was obliged to declare the donation,' he added. 'He might have remembered to forget, but that's at 300/1,' he added.
'Nonsense,' declared another betting expert, 'it was obviously an inadvertent oversight,' he said. 'Not like Starmer's glasses. Anyone could see through them,' he pointed out.
'I think you'll find he has no case to answer, everybody gets gifts all the time. Most people don't declare them,' said a Reform spokesman, while admitting he didn't know the first thing about betting. 'By betting, is that the same as saying certain things that people have paid you to say?' he asked, 'like Nathan Gill, who none of us actually knew, those photos are clearly fake,' he added..
'It was clearly an oversight and all taxes will be paid eventually, if they have to,' declared Richard Tice before retracting the statement. 'Sorry, I thought you were asking about my finances. Obviously I won't pay my taxes, but I'm sure something else will distract from them, like Nigel's bribe,' he said.
