Farage now rakes in £2m a year while barely showing up to work

According to analysis from the Guardian, the ‘skive minister’ Nigel Farage is raking in £2m a year on top of his MP’s salary. And while the Reform leader is earning millions from his side hustles, he’s barely showing up to his actual job.

REFORM VOTING RECORD IN PARLIAMENT

Farage – 117 / 324 – 36%
Tice – 181 / 324 – 56%
Anderson – 220 / 324 – 68%

Farage has voted approximately 7 times per month since being elected

Remember there are multiple votes on a single day
Farage has voted on 45 days in 16 months pic.twitter.com/5qTgFl9ba9

— dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 (@dave43law) October 22, 2025

Oh, except the above is out of date, isn’t it. Farage’s voting record is actually now worse than this.

Farage: Nowhere Man

As of Thursday 7 May, there have been 515 votes in this sitting of parliament. Of those, Farage bothered to show up for 169. This means his voting record is just 32%, or a third of all possible votes.

On average, there are around 21 work days a month. Do you think you could get away with only showing up for seven days a month?

Farage can’t claim he’s focussing on his constituency, either, because we know that he’s not. As Left Foot Forward reported:

It quickly became apparent after [Farage’s] election… that the interests of Clacton’s residents wouldn’t be a priority for him as he repeatedly jetted off to the U.S. In total, he has made at least eight trips to the US – but not held a single surgery for constituents.

Hope not Hate, meanwhile, said in 2024:

In September, Farage announced that he wouldn’t be holding face-to-face surgeries in his Clacton-on-Sea constituency, as MPs are expected to do. Farage explained that the House of Commons Speaker’s Office had advised him not to hold in-person surgeries due to security concerns.

By early October, however, Farage had backtracked on these comments, after the Press Association reported that the Speaker’s Office hadn’t actually advised Farage against holding in-person surgeries after all.

It’s not just work that Farage is avoiding; it’s also accountability:

Nigel Farage didn't turn up folks.
Knew his story wouldn't stack up over the £5million gift he received.
Knew he would be exposed nationally as the fraud he is and couldn't risk losing votes before May 7th
Guess who did turn up? @ZackPolanski pic.twitter.com/6TnHHIDuia

— Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) May 3, 2026

Cathy Newman "Thailand-based Chris Harborne has given you and your party £17 million.. Interfering in democracy"

Nigel Farage runs away pic.twitter.com/s1K6Sx2Zmb

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) May 6, 2026

Farage is additionally facing questions about a £5m ‘gift’ he failed to declare:

Here are the facts as laid down by Derbyshire:
1) Farage says he won’t run
2) crypto billionaire pays him £5mill
3) Farage U-turns and runs
4) Farage hides the donation
5) Farage announces if he wins the election he will slash capital gains tax for crypto firms

Same old same old https://t.co/ViEIFZkf3A

— Alonso Gurmendi (@Alonso_GD) May 6, 2026

He’s excused this by claiming the £5m handout:

wasn’t political in any sense at all

We’re sorry, but if someone gives £5m to a politician, then that’s political by default. And clearly, if the UK establishment does not see it that way, then said establishment is systemically corrupt itself.

The wrong stuff

So Farage isn’t turning up to Parliament; he isn’t representing his constituents; he isn’t making himself accountable, but he is raking in £2m a year for work he’s favouring over his actual job.

Yeah, so we’re gonna suggest that this guy might not be PM material.

As Kamila Kingstone of Spotlight on Corruption said:

That Farage has amassed £2m from personal earnings and gifts while a sitting member of parliament should concern anyone who thinks an MP’s job is to represent their constituents.

It’s a systemic issue and highlights a wider failure of the rules that are supposed to ensure integrity in public life. It risks blurring the lines between public service and private interests, creating the perception that some politicians are in it for themselves.

Be sure to get out there and vote if you’re reading this on Thursday 7 May (and remember to take your ID with you!).

Featured image via The Canary