Moneybags Farage & Sunak top ‘outside income’ scrounger chart in MP declarations

In a surprise to exactly no one, Nigel Farage is topping a chart of scrounger MPs. Searching the Accountability Tracker on UKGovScan reveals some interesting things. Among them, the MPs with the highest ‘outside incomes’ are ex-PM Rishi Sunak and wannabe-next-PM Nigel Farage:

Farage is not a man of the people

First things first, it’s alarming that MPs have any outside income.

Being a Member of Parliament should be hard, gruelling work that takes a person’s full attention; it should also be considered an honour. If a politician feels like they have time to spend on side hustles, they’re not taking the job seriously.

Outside income also opens politicians up to outside influence.

Clicking on Nigel Farage, we can see that his money comes from sources including the following:

Do we really want a politician who has two hundred thousand reasons to put the interests of the bullion boys over our own?

Farage is also raking it in from GB News – a blatant propaganda outfit.

We imagine that the wants of GB News and Farage are mostly in alignment, making them perfect partners. But what happens when they’re not?

Does Farage speak his own mind, or does he speak the mind of his benefactors?

We probably don’t need to explain why it’s an issue to have politicians in the pockets of billionaire-backed media organisations, and yet here we are.

Gifts

The Top 10 gifts list also presents some interesting data:

God damn, dame McDonagh – what did you do to deserve that £1.2m?

Looking into it, we can see she declared the following:

Lord Waheed Alli is the same guy who was bankrolling a bunch of Labour bigwigs, leading to Starmer’s first big scandal in office.

Lord Alli? Is that the Lord Alli who gave @Keir_Starmer £16,000 'for his office' (cough), which he then spent on designer clothes? £16,000. For freebies? That Lord Alli?

That right, @UKLabour? https://t.co/A4WIPWcnoV

— Raphael Dogg (@raphaeldogg) September 12, 2025

We see that Starmer is in the Top 10 gifts list himself, despite his previous scandal. The value of his gifts is significantly below that of dame McDonagh, but how has he not learned his lesson yet?

Starmer’s ‘Gifts & Hospitality’ list contains 129 entries, and you’ll notice the value jumps to £356.7k with hospitality added:

We all like getting free gifts and hospitality; it’s just not the best look when you’re on the British public’s naughty list:

Out for themselves

When it comes to Farage, we can see he’s more than happy to take money from whoever’s offering it. We also know he’s a big fan of Donald Trump, whose regime has taken governmental corruption to whole new levels of dodgy:

Suspiciously timed trades betting on the future price of oil — concurrent with Trump's announcements on his moves in Iran — have caught the attention of market regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

They're investigating whether insider trading was at… pic.twitter.com/9hLNKENFiX

— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) April 15, 2026

The signs are there that “scrounger” Farage wants power to enrich himself first and foremost.

Let’s hope he doesn’t have the opportunity to prove what we all suspect.

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