> he claims that he is accountable only to the voters in his constituency

To add to this,

* Mr Farage's logic seems to be that if If he is accused of a financial crime then he can pick the jury who will try him, finding the most sympathetic audience. And if this jury goes his way, all future financial crimes can be answered with "the people have spoken!"

A pro-sleaze campaign, a vote to specifically endorse ongoing corruption is not very common. And not strictly speaking admissible in a court of law.

It's gamesmanship to avoid due process. The prosecutors should not play along. Kudos to the political parties who are not playing along.

* Mr Farage made this move shortly before this was reported: "Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns" , and he knew that was coming, as "Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond .. He gave a video address at 2pm"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/07/revealed-fa...

* Mr Farage in this speech claimed that he was "most attacked politician in the country". It's true that he had a milkshake thrown at him. Meanwhile, 2 sitting MPs have been murdered, Jo Cox and David Amiss, among other serious incidents such as arson.

https://news.sky.com/story/victoria-thomas-bowen-avoid-jail-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Cox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amess

* It is quite possible that Mr Farage is in fact taking money by unfriendly foreign governments, to influence UK politics to our detriment. Is there a word for that?