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šŸ—£ļøĀ ā€They’re absolutely frightened he’ll get into powerā€As Reform UK’s annual conference in Birmingham was hit by allegations of illegal foreign funding, The Standard’s chief political correspondent Rachael Burford asked party supporters what they really think of the scandal.

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00:00Fight the fascist!
00:01Pride! Resist!
00:02Fight the fascist!
00:04As protests erupt outside and hecklers disrupt speeches inside,
00:08with people having to be dragged out of Nigel Farage's keynote address.
00:14Reform's annual party conference here in Birmingham has been somewhat overshadowed
00:18by revelations that senior party officials
00:20plotted to pay foreign donors for off-the-book polling.
00:24Nigel Farage was among the reform leaders secretly filmed by undercover journalists
00:28appearing to accept polls being paid for by a US donor against UK electoral laws.
00:33Two senior reform aides have now stepped down and there are calls for a police investigation.
00:37We asked some of the delegates here in Birmingham what they think of the scandal.
00:41It's the left and the establishment just trying to stop Nigel getting in power,
00:45but you know we've seen it all before. I don't know the ins and outs of it because it's quite
00:50new,
00:50but they're scared because they know he's going to get in power and they'll do anything they can to stop
00:55him.
00:55It's all the mainstream media and the opposition digging up as much as they can against him,
01:01because they're absolutely frightened.
01:04Every scandal bothers me and of course you've got to keep it clean,
01:07but I think things have been over-exaggerated a little bit.
01:09There's been funding scandals all the way through.
01:11Cash for questions back in the 80s, 90s, same thing you know.
01:15Go look at it, Labour up to their neck, up to their neck in terrible things.
01:19I'm probably just as fed up as everybody else about all the lies and all the stuff that's going on.
01:25This is just another bunch of rubbish. I mean, yes, two people have stood down,
01:32and if they are implicit in anything, then I'm glad they've stood down.
01:37I think there's a lot of guilty until proven innocent as well.
01:40The problem is that everything gets thrown at Nigel, everything gets thrown at reform,
01:45and we know it. So until they prove, until there is evidence, until an investigation,
01:52inquiry, or whatever you want to call it, comes to its conclusion, then we can judge from there.
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