00:00It's a ludicrous by-election, it was a fake by-election, it's not a significant result
00:04and the by-election was called by Nigel Farage himself at great cost to the taxpayer and no
00:10other political party, major political party, stood a candidate including Restore and the
00:17other parties because we all knew what this was all about. It was not about a fair by-election,
00:22it was about Nigel Farage avoiding scrutiny for his huge personal donation gift that he
00:29received, whatever it was, £5 million into his personal bank account. There was a parliamentary
00:35standards commissioner that was investigating those matters to see whether he'd broken the
00:40rules and instead of waiting for that judgment to be exonerated or found guilty of an offence,
00:46he decided to call a by-election to try and avoid scrutiny. That's what this is about,
00:51so no, I won't be congratulating Nigel Farage on his result.
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