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Jacob Rees Mogg has just prayed in Latin for the soul of Charlie Kirk on his GB News show

Quite frankly Rees-Mogg is turning the man's death into a circus. Yes, we know Rees-Mogg knows some Latin. He doesn't have to parade it on this occasion and make it all about him. Poor taste in my opinion.

"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

Matthew 6: 5-6 KJV

If you want to pray in secret, doing so on GB News amounts to almost the same thing.

This isn't entirely surprising, but the numbers are stark.

"Do you think protecting the Second Amendment right to own guns is worth some gun deaths?"

All:
No: 47%
Yes: 30%

Yes Among:
GOP: 55%
IND: 26%
DEM: 10%

YouGov / Sept 11, 2025
https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1966199569810862295

A lot of chat on the last thread on Farage’s other half buying the house in Clacton and “how could she afford the mortgage”/“how could her parents afford the mortgage”.

Slightly playing devil’s advocate it’s potentially very easy. She doesn’t have a mortgage.* this is all bollocks if he’s said she has a mortgage btw.

Funnily enough she doesn’t need a mortgage. I know loads of people who do private lending on property. If it’s someone who might be of use, good potential financially in the future or any other upside it’s very easy if you know the right companies and private lenders for her to have got a lump from her family (more on this later) and then taken out an interest only loan to buy the property without it being secured against the property if, for example Nige, guaranteed it, or another contact guaranteed it.

They likely have no concept of it being their “forever home” so it’s not like they want to buy so that they can retire in their home they have paid off in sunny Clacton, they just need to service it for the period they need it.

Once it’s served it’s use they sell it off and it’s effectively been a rental (possibly more expensive than a mortgage but no long term plans for it).

It allows them to demonstrate “commitment” to the constituency by “buying” but it’s not really a long term purchase.

So, back to her family, there is nothing to have stopped Nigel or a contact to gift her family some money. Then her family decide to give the “deposit” to her and so company x lends her 65/75% ltv and she’s just paying the interest. It doesn’t have to even be her because on a private mortgage or loan as long as the lender knows they will get the interest they aren’t going to care.

So technically she has bought a home in the constituency. Her family has helped her buy it with their money technically, there is likely nothing legally wrong with this and likely legally nothing that is tax avoidance.

It’s an expensive way of doing things but cheap if it allows Nigel to suggest to low IQ voters that he has a home in their community.

He doesn’t need to lie to a lender, he doesn’t have to juggle the first v second home issue, he’s going to make a fortune if not already over the period so very few lenders will see him failing with a guarantee.

It might not sit right with people but the point of this scenario is that he can do this without breaking any laws or rules regardless of his partner’s actual wealth/family wealth and on a technicality he can say “my partner bought this house with the help of family money”.

This is of course a made up situation that might be miles away from the truth but people seem to be trying to equate what Rayner did with his situation and there are so many alternative options that I don’t think that Farage and his background/contacts wouldn’t have the planning help and savvy to make it work.

Rayner failed to take expert legal advice and found herself liable for tax that she could have morally and legally avoided, then tried to cover up her mistake.

What you're outlining is a complicated, and probably entirely unnecessary, arrangement that would be likely to set off money-laundering sirens at all the law firms involved.

You clearly have a higher opinion of expensive law firms than I do.

No you're right, ordinary people who need a mortgage have to account for every penny of their deposit and get any relative who'd gifted them money towards the deposit to put in writing that they don't have a claim on the property. While people buying for cash just leave it up to the law firms' as to whether they're asked to prove source of funds, though Nige is a PEP so they'd be a bit reckless if they didn't ask him*.
Law Society guidance on lack of curiosity
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/Topics/Anti-money-laundering/Guides/source-of-funds-clean-or-consistent-with-risk

*hence a PEP might prefer someone else to make the purchase