Dr. Richie Howard

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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast · 184: Coup What A Scorcher · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

cast your minds back to the um the scandal about all the freebies that you were getting remember this is also mean yeah yeah but the thing is you think he looked snappy i mean you know what the duds were beautiful um but no i think it was a good thing because it once again shone the spotlight on donations to political figures and the possible benefits they can know and when we were talking about this earlier um adam very musically said um the star war so farage could run

And, you know, whilst obviously the 5 billion crypto donation story would have been one anyway, you do think that possibly there is... Did you say 5 billion?

That's interesting.

Just to be very clear, it was one level of magnitude less than that, a mere million.

It's a year.

They've kind of been bubbling around.

As so many have before him.

So, I mean, there's a couple of things.

So firstly, yes, reform spent significantly less than Labour, who outspent everybody, as you can imagine, because, you know, they have a lot of vested interest in winning that seat.

Reform have got a lot of cash on hand.

But it's also worth remembering that they spent a genuinely huge amount of money in the run-up to the local elections, the council elections.

It's also worth remembering that, you know, there is the cap on local election spend, on by-election spend, sorry, is 180k.

Like, it's not a lot, and that's everything, and that includes advertising.

There's a few things.

I mean, I think their internal polling would have told them that it was very unlikely that they were going to win the seat.

So, there's no point committing the cash.

Secondly, they had a candidate who had become toxic as a result of social media posts and his fundamentally appalling performances in a variety of broadcast situations.

He didn't do himself any favors.

That didn't help.

And then the Farage brand, which is obviously what you would be using traditionally for this as well, has also suffered something.

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