A top ally of Nigel Farage, he won election to represent Wales in the European Parliament for six years, then followed his chum into the Brexit Party before running Reform UK’s campaign in 2021 for the Welsh Senedd.
Yet Gill was, in reality, a traitor who betrayed his country, democracy and the cause of freedom by working secretly for Russia’s dictatorship. I first came across him 11 years ago after complaining how Ukip had voted against Ukraine’s association deal with the European Union. This was the core issue sparking the war in Ukraine when the Kremlin – stung by ousting of its patsy president after mass protests by people seeking freedom – attacked Crimea and the Donbas region.
Yet now it has emerged that Gill was not just a naive fool parroting Putin’s propaganda but something far more sinister: a corrupt stooge of the Kremlin who took cash to deliver pro-Russian statements in Europe’s parliament and on television. Last week this greedy charlatan pleaded guilty in court on eight bribery counts, admitting he took money from a Ukrainian man who was identified by Washington as a “pawn” of Russian intelligence and sanctioned by Britain for spreading disinformation.
Yet this unmasking of a close former ally is very embarrassing for Farage at a time when he is well ahead in the polls and setting the political agenda with his hardening line against immigration, as he shifts even further right.
One of the biggest Reform donors owns substantial land holdings in Russia. Another is the mother of his close aide George Cottrell – a convicted fraudster who spent eight months in an American jail facing money laundering accusations and who spends much of his time in Montenegro, a Balkan country that has received a flood of Russian cash.
One US State Department report based on intelligence said Russia gave $300m to parties, officials and politicians in at least two dozen countries in the eight years after 2014. Clearly, across Europe, Gill was far from alone in pocketing blood money while spouting nationalist nonsense and flag-waving.
France’s far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon echoed many of Le Pen’s claims, showing again how the two extremes so often end up in the same foetid swamp. Leaked Russian documents revealed that Moscow sought to unite right- and left-wing populists in Germany into a unified movement opposing support for Ukraine.
Lauren Southern, a prominent Canadian political activist once banned from Britain for distributing racist material, admitted being paid about $100,000 to make videos comparing Canada to the Soviet Union and campaigning against online regulation, although denying she knew the source of the money.Meanwhile, Trump is viciously targeting the former FBI chief James Comey, who led the investigation into Russian election interference and any links between Russia and his campaign.
Gill is a selfish charlatan, guilty of hideous deception and hypocrisy. Yet he demonstrates again how Kremlin tentacles reach deep into the underbellies of our democracies, using cash, populists and electoral despair to promote its destructive creed. Like it or not, we are in a fight for the freedom that this fraud of a politician claimed to espouse.
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