Nigel Farage has launched a scathing attack on the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after she accused the Reform UK leader of “fabricating” their membership numbers.
Farage said her accusation of fraud is “absolutely disgusting” and he said that he will have Reform’s membership numbers independently verified.
Speaking to GB News Farage said, “The idea that the leader of His Majesty’s loyal opposition is accusing me of fraud is absolutely disgusting.
“She may be used to being in a party that lies to the British public. We are not we put that digital tracker up a few days ago. Showing every single person that goes online gives us their postcode and pays us £25.
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“We, even since we went through that number yesterday morning, the numbers are rocketing where another five or six thousand higher than we were when we went past the Conservative Party.
“I know that Kemi Badenoch is well known for her aggression and for lashing out, but to accuse me of not understanding the digital age when I’ve got 5.5 million followers on social media and she’s got fewer than a third of a million, frankly, was a bit rich.
“I’m sorry, the truth is there is a massive shift going on in British politics.”
He added, “If the Conservative Party want us to call in one of the big four auditors to check the validity of our numbers against the ballot papers that were sent out at the leadership contest, thousands of which went to lapsed Conservatives.”
Badenoch hit out at Reform UK saying their membership milestone is “fake” and that “It’s not real.”
Farage said that Badenoch is “bitter” and that Reform UK has not been “manipulating” the figures and that they have taken over the Conservatives membership numbers.
Badenoch wrote on X, “Manipulating your own supporters at Xmas, Nigel? It’s not real. It’s a fake…coded to tick up automatically.
“We’ve been watching the back end for days and can also see they’ve just changed the code to link to a different site as people point this out.
“Farage doesn’t understand the digital age. This kind of fakery gets found out pretty quickly, although not before many are fooled…like many of you, I am sick of the endless lies, smoke and mirrors, stuff and nonsense politics.”
Farage hit back saying, “Kemi says I don’t understand the digital age. I have 5.4 million followers and she has 320k.
“We understand you are bitter, upset and angry that we are now the second biggest party in British politics, and that the Conservative brand is dying under your leadership.
“However, this not an excuse to accuse us of committing fraud. We will gladly invite one of the Big Four firms in to audit our membership numbers as long as you do the same.
“We have heard from many whistleblowers that will swear under affidavits that ballots were sent out to long expired or resigned ex-members. It’s an open secret at CCHQ that your membership numbers are fake.”
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