Nigel Farage’s defence for appearing to agree to accept an illegal donation is that he ‘wasn’t listening’, and not even Laura Kuenssberg was buying it – 27 highly sceptical responses
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“I was not listening when my team was discussing the crime” https://t.co/FoUhakMyL5
— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) September 5, 2026
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“I know donation law better than anybody” says the man currently under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Committee for failing to declare a £5m ‘gift’ from a foreign-based billionaire https://t.co/Z060MIQZ4a
— David (@Zero_4) September 5, 2026
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“Whilst trying to explain being filmed sitting in a group discussing secret donations, the best excuse I managed to come up with was ‘I wasn’t listening’ https://t.co/ibi2T1vtE0 pic.twitter.com/Y1luBu4Olo
— Rob B (@RobBfromDerby) September 5, 2026
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This is the man we are supposed to believe is PM material 🤣
— OldishBird (@oldishbird1) September 5, 2026
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“I know donation law better than anybody.”
Also Nigel, same scandal: “I frankly wasn’t even listening.”
You don’t get to be the expert and the man who wandered in to say hello. One of those is a lie. The other is why he can’t be trusted with the country.
— 🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 (@King0243_PJC) September 5, 2026
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Breaking:following criticism of Nigel Farage’s extravagant eating tastes and it clashing with his man of the people image, Farage explained that he wasn’t listening to what was ordered and thought he was having pie and mash. pic.twitter.com/bNMqQlBlvO
— Mark Hammond (@MarkHam80780803) September 6, 2026
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“Sorry, can you repeat the question? I wasn’t listening”#bbclaurak pic.twitter.com/3kyuBWBlir
— David (@Zero_4) September 6, 2026
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“I see Farage has gone for the I wasn’t even listening defence, Fletch.”
“Yep, be seeing him shortly.” pic.twitter.com/BRveFT1lix— Mark Hammond (@MarkHam80780803) September 6, 2026
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Farage is one interview away from saying he was at Pizza Express in Woking
— John Petrie #European (@Petrie_JohnC) September 6, 2026
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First it was a hoax
Then entrapment
Then just ‘contractors’ mouthing off
Now: ‘I wasn’t listening’He was there. He was on camera. He was part of the conversation. He knew https://t.co/VBAgFnHaOC
— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) September 5, 2026
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"What money? I didn't hear anyone say anything about money." pic.twitter.com/DQjp4gQN1H
— Colin the Dachshund (@DachshundColin) September 6, 2026
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Sure, Nigel. https://t.co/7BoclFG4LX
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 6, 2026
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For someone who says he knows electoral law “better than anybody”, this really doesn’t look good. https://t.co/6jpo0s2qmN
— David Gauke (@DavidGauke) September 6, 2026
We’ll just leave this here.
In Elena Gorokhova's 2010 memoir A Mountain of Crumbs, she describes the Soviet-era "game of vranyo" (a ritual of collusive lying) with the line: "They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe… https://t.co/mZE7a97uYN
— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) September 5, 2026
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