Former Reform UK in Wales leader Nathan Gill has today been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes to make positive statements about Russia.

The judge said:

When you say what someone has paid you to say, you are not speaking with sincerity. If it was your genuine opinion, you would not need to be paid for saying it.

Allowing money to corrupt your moral compass constitutes a grave betrayal of the trust vested in you by the electorate.

Your misconduct has ramifications beyond personal honour, which is now irretrievably damaged.

Gill pled guilty to the charges. And, the judge also added:

The offending was persistent, rather an isolated lapse of judgement.

If only those ‘incentivised’ by Israel to defend genocide and apartheid were held to the same standard.

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