In a total shock to absolutely no-one, Nigel ‘two jobs on the side’ Farage has failed to declare hundreds of thousands of pounds in earnings before parliament.
Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, ruled that the Reform leader breached MPs’ rules 17 times. There’s a 28-day limit on MPs declaring their financial interests, which Farage missed for over £380,000 worth of earnings.
Farage has often had these ‘administrative issues’
Following his investigation, Greenberg concluded that Farage’s fuckups were down to “staffing and other administrative issues”, ultimately ruling them “inadvertent” breaches.
The Reform leader breached rule five of the parliamentary code of conduct. This stated that any new MP must register their financial interests – e.g. money from other jobs – in the 12 months before their election. Likewise, sitting MPs:
must register any change in those registrable interests within 28 days.
Farage missed those cutoff dates 17 times – sometimes by as much as 120 days over the limit. However, because of a lack of intent to deceive parliament, the watchdog declared that he wouldn’t escalate the case to the Committee on Standards.
The commissioner can now decide whether to recommend a sanction or close the case. In his report, Greenberg called the decision on closing the case “finely balanced”. This was particularly true given the high value of the undeclared earnings, which totaled an eye-watering £384,000.
Side-hustling
So, where exactly did Farage find £384k that he just forgot to mention to parliament? From his numerous side-hustles, of course: appearances on *GB News,*speeches for Google, and – of all things – making videos on the Cameo app.
But, all is well – the commissioner also reported that Farage has said that he’s very sorry and he won’t do it again, honest. So that’s nice. Replying to Greenberg, the professional selfie-taker and sometime-MP-for-Clacton said there’d been “no malicious intent”. He also wrote that:
The late declarations, which were set out in your letter to me, fall short of what you expect and indeed what I expect from public figures.
In his defence, Farage also offered that he’d been:
extremely let down by a very senior member of staff.
And then, of course, there’s the fact that his work as a TV presenter and a businessman constitute:
a very complicated and complex set of interests.
Poor guy, even the ruling elite are having to work four jobs these days so that they have enough money to forget about.
‘Lining his pockets’
Of course, this latest code-violation is hardly the first time the pack of grifters in Reform UK have happened to forget their finances. Back in October 2025, it emerged that the party had neglected to pay VAT on hundreds of thousands’ worth of branded tat and ticket sales.
Likewise, in 2024 the Good Law Project revealed that Reform’s Richard Tice had millions squirrelled away in a Jersey tax haven. And, again, Farage himself uses a private company to dodge taxes on his various lucrative non-MP jobs.
Never a party to miss an own-goal, a spokesperson for the Labour Party said:
Nigel Farage is so distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party that he can’t even get the basics right. He isn’t on the side of working people – he’s just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents.
He boasts about making money ‘because I’m Nigel Farage’, raking in millions through various outside jobs. But he neglects to do the important work that hard-pressed taxpayers fork out for him to do.
Labour will tighten the rules on MPs’ second jobs to make sure the public get the attention they expect and deserve from their elected representatives.
Hypocrites
Unfortunately, it turns out that the voting public have memories. As such, we should probably point out that Starmer broke the same rule as Farage back in 2022. Eight times, the Labour leader missed the deadline to register interests including the sale of a plot of land and gifts from football teams.
That being said – and in a rare break from recent tradition – Labour does actually have a point here. Our MPs are meant to work as our representatives in parliament. For that task, they’re paid £93,904 plus expenses – more than twice the average salary in the UK.
However, if they’re running around grifting other jobs, we’ve got some important questions to ask. Namely – what the fuck are we paying these people for? Is being a representative of the people not a full-time job? Are these out-of-touch toffs incapable of getting by on a measly £100k?
No MP needs a second job, and no MP should have a second job. And, while we’re at it, maybe we should have a conversation about tying MPs’ wages to the average earnings across the country. That might finally provide an incentive to improve life for everybody – not just the people on top.
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