Farage and the convicted fraudster.

 

George Cottrell

Nigel Farage hasn't got a leg to stand on.

Baby Face George Cottrell is a convicted fraudster who has donated money to Reform UK. He's not a fairy godmother. He served time in a U.S. jail when he pleaded guilty to wire fraud in return for other charges being dropped. He was caught in an FBI sting operation and initially charged with 21 offences including conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail and extortion. Undercover agents posed as drug traffickers and Cottrell was caught agreeing to launder money for them.

Farage knew all about this because Cottrell was arrested in the U.S. when he visited America with Farage and others, in 2016. Despite this Cottrell is still hanging around with Farage. They say that a man is known by the company he keeps. Farage is not fit to be the UK Prime Minister.

I'm surprised that the British mainstream press has been so quiet about Cottrell's links to Nigel Farage when this has been well publicised on social media. How George Cottrell makes his money seems to be clouded in mystery but much of it seems to come from speculation and gambling.

British sympathies with fascism.

 

There were many English upper middle-class Conservative types that admired the Italian fascist, Benito Mussolini. 

The English novelist Evelyn Waugh, supported Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia and supported General Franco and the Croation fascist Ante Pavelic, the leader of the Ustase. Winston Churchill called Mussolini the "Roman Genius" and praised him for ridding the world of Bolshevism.The Daily Mail admired Mussolini and supported Oswald Mosley, the leader of the black shirt British Union Fascists, who was financed by Mussolini. Churchill visited Italy in 1927 and declared that had he been an Italian, he would have been a fascist. 

King George V, gave Mussolini an honorary knighthood that was only withdrawn when he declared War on Great Britain. Lady Austen Chamberlain, the sister-in-law of Neville Chamberlain, was a Fascist sympathiser who idealised Mussolini.

Italian fascism in its early days wasn't anti-Semitic and many Italian Jews were fascists. They became fascists out of a sense of patriotism or to get on. The Italian fascists didn't target Jews until they hooked up with Hitler. What they targeted was the left - communists, socialists, anarchists, trades unionists. 

In May 1924, the secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party, Giacomo Matteotti, denounced the Fascist Party and Mussolini to the Chamber of Deputies. He challenged the results of the recent elections and denounced the violence and abuses that had brought the party to power. He declared, "I've said my piece...now get ready for my death." Less than two weeks later, on 10 June, six fascists squadristi kidnapped him as he walked along the banks of the Tiber in Rome. In August, his mutilated body was discovered buried just outside the city, near Riano Flamino.

Mussolini took full responsibility for the murder of Matteotti and dared his critics to prosecute him. After a prolonged judicial inquiry into the murder, the six suspects arrested for the murder, were allowed to walk free. Mussolini established a police state in Italy and suppressed opposition parties and killed lefties. Despite this, many people in Britain, accepted Mussolini and subsequently Hitler, as modernizing reformers.