Fraudster made undeclared donations to Reform UK

Mainstream outlets have been shining a light on Reform UK and Nigel Farage’s finances over the past month. Last week, this saw the Times covering the criminal aristocrat ‘Posh George’ Cottrell, who was providing Farage with various benefits in the runup to the 2024 election. Now, the Times are reporting Cottrell may also have made undisclosed donations to Reform UK:

EXCL by @ManuMidolo ft me @venetiamenzies @GeorgeGreenwood

The criminal who funded Nigel Farage made undisclosed donations to Reform in apparent breach of electoral law

George Cottrell lawyers at Carter Ruck refuse to say when he became permissible donor https://t.co/yFEalCjDdr

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) July 12, 2026

Posh George

Farage has multiple ongoing scandals right now, including:

The controversies for Farage multiplied over the past week, with the following hitting mainstream attention:

There’s also this:

I've been saying for nearly a year that this was money laundering. https://t.co/mEADwybqWI

— Mr Ethical 🚩 (@nw_nicholas) July 12, 2026

Oh, and this isn’t a scandal per se, but it came out that Posh George refers to Farage as ‘daddy’. Make of that what you will.

Reform UK — Undeclared

In the latest on the Posh George affair, the Times are reporting:

George Cottrell used his own money to cover office costs totalling thousands of pounds for Reform after the last election and as recently as last year, sources have told Insight.

The crypto-gambler repeatedly used his personal bank card to buy computer tools and software to be used by the party’s staff. However, none of the donations were declared to the Electoral Commission as required by legislation.

A party can be fined for failing to disclose such support under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, which stipulates that a donation includes money, goods or services given free or at a discount exceeding £500 in value.

Posh George is a convicted fraudster, and may not have been a permissible donor at the time that he made some of the above donations. This is because Cottrell is a tax resident of Montenegro; the base of the crypto-gambling platform he’s involved with. While he is on the list of registered overseas voters, he’s only been on said since last December.

Reform UK describes Cottrell as a volunteer. Contrary to this, the Times are now reporting that Cottrell has been intimately involved with the party:

However, Insight can now reveal that as well as buying office equipment for the party, Cottrell has long had personal access to Farage’s party email and had his own desk next to the leader’s private office at party headquarters at Millbank, Westminster.

Additionally:

The insiders said he sat either with Farage in his personal office at headquarters or in a quad of desks in a room directly next to it, and claim he was involved in political and fundraising matters at the very highest level.

Mainstream attention

Because of how the right of reply process works, Reform UK knew this raft of stories were coming out. As such, this may explain Farage’s big by-election stunt. It’s unclear why the Reform leader felt a need to step down from his Clacton seat only to run in the race to reclaim it. Such a move could have worked as a distraction; it’s just failing to do so because there are too many scandals to distract from.

This, then, is why Farage panicked last week. He knew it was all about to unravel. This whole stunt was a desperate attempt to get ahead of it.

Remarkable. He's literally self-destructed. https://t.co/yyvUUURpt2

— Tom Bacon (@TomABacon) July 11, 2026

We should note we’re using phrases like ‘mainstream attention’ for a reason, and it’s that independent journalists have been covering this stuff for years. As Don McGowan of No Holds Barred Pod said:

So many people had this story for years before the Times picked it up.@BylineTimes and @carolecadwalla were writing about George Cottrell over five years ago.

The difference is that the Murdochs have made an executive decision that they've finally had enough of Farage. https://t.co/E21vc3i2G1

— Don McGowan (@donmcgowan) July 5, 2026

Carole Cadwalladr speculated that her reporting was ignored for the following reasons:

Reported while female.

Didn’t work for a right-wing newspaper.

Dismissed & ridiculed by men who did.

Gaslit for a decade.

Sued through the courts.

But I’m not the loser here.

This decade of denial has caused Britain irreparable harm.

This isn’t to say the establishment media and their considerable resources aren’t unearthing new information; it’s to say this stuff would have come out years ago if the will had been there.

Reform’s undisclosed money is piling up

If Nigel Farage had a penny for every ongoing scandal, he’d have enough money to stop taking undisclosed lump sums from foreign-based crypto billionaires. Well, maybe not that much, but only because the lump sums in question have been in the millions.

Things aren’t looking good for Reform UK, anyway, as even their voters are noticing the stench of corruption:

Nigel Farage named sleaziest politician in UK in new poll – and even Reform voters think ithttps://t.co/s41LFydTs9

— Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 (@reformexposed) July 11, 2026