And who was RT's favourite man in the West? This man. It's not just that Farage was paid by RT - the Russian state - for appearances over years. Though he was. It's that RT - the biggest news channel on YouTube - made him a star. 3/

RT cultivated UKIP from at least 2011. First Gerard Batten. And then Farage. He was paid £2k an appearance, I was told. And as Ben Nimmo explained in our 2018 The Observer investigation. The Kremlin was always explicit. RT was as essential as the Ministry of Defence 4/

In 2018, I had weird eye-popping experience of how this all worked. I went to 'An Entertaining evening with Nigel Farage' in Melbourne. And discovered an audience of almost entirely young men. Jordan Peterson fans!🤯 Who'd found Farage via YouTube's 'Up Next' algo 4/

RT was central to Farage's entire media game. His set appearances in EU parliament were clipped, uploaded & amplified by the most powerful algo on YouTube. It all got fed into the Kremlin's propaganda machine. 5/

The pro-Putin far-right parties of the EU parliament are central to so much of the Kremlin's influence across Europe. And here's the EU staffer who used to upload Farage's videos to YouTube. "A frequent visitor to the Russian embassy." 6/

What's more, emails revealed that same EU staffer who The Guardian had shown linked to Russian embassy was using Farage clips to fuel an entire fake news ecosystem. Mr Farage's spokesman responded to this claim: "Mr Farage has no desire to talk to you under any circumstances" 😂

"All this is out in the open." That's what we said in our 2018 @observerUK investigation. The Russian govt made its intentions clear. And the UK govt sat back & watched it. Why? Because Britain has a Russia problem. And its name is Nigel Farage. theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

Postscript: Where is BBC in this? A good question. And a whole other thread. But here’s one of those famously ‘forensic’ interviews. From 2019, 2 years after reported FBI investigating Trump-Russia ties. His pro-Kremlin voting record never ever discussed

And here's Margarita Simonyan. RT's editor in chief at today's Putin rally in Moscow. She's the one who called RT "a weapon" in Russia's information war. A war she brought to the West. With the UK govt's consent & approval, x.com/KonulRanveeria…

Every country that joined the EU became better off and its citizens gained greater rights. The one that left (that’s the blank bit) got poorer and its citizens lost rights. The rest of Europe gets that

Another one. M'Lord Michael Gove Arrest him! #C4News #CovidContracts

I'm sure you all remember Jo Cox, the MP who was killed in West Yorkshire by a "man" who was a white supremacist. Well, this is how Throbbinson spoke to the husband of Jo Cox. Just when you think you can't despise someone any more.

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney. Never has there been a more important time to remember this heroic event. historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hist…

ANNA TURLEY: 'Nigel Farage’s policies represent a serious threat to Britain’s future' mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

💥 TRUMP’S SHUTDOWN IS A WEAPON — AND BLUE AMERICA IS THE TARGET He’s freezing billions meant for New York’s subways, Chicago’s South Side, and clean-energy jobs across blue America — all while demanding cuts to healthcare for the poor and tax breaks for billionaires. This is

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

Nigel Farage is a "man of the people" who just happens to be backed by some millionaires and billionaires with questionable morals and histories...

So you're not a racist, you're a patriot, you love your country, like I do. So why the fuck would you vote for a party that wants to replace the NHS with an American style healthcare system you won't be able to afford? Farage won't stop the boats, he needs them to keep you angry

The Tories CAUSED the small boat problem with Brexit!! A bunch of hypocrites, economy-destroyers and freedom-stealers.