I have a question. How come when someone like Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez funds themselves through small donations it’s a sign of how engaged and democratic they are, but when the Brexit Party does the same thing it’s proof of how sinister and shady that party is?
I think we all know the answer to this question. It’s because the liberal elite is staggeringly hypocritical and now applies a double standard to everyone in politics. If you’re on their side, you’re pure and clean; if you’re on the opposite side, you’re dirty and ‘dark’.
This is the news that the Brexitphobic sections of the political and chattering classes have this morning managed to turn one of the most positive things about Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party — the fact that it is winning political, moral and financial support from thousands of people — into something dodgy.
Gordon Brown used a speech in Glasgow this morning to call for an Electoral Commission investigation into the Brexit Party’s funding.
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