Supporting the accusations that he’s in the pocket of big business, Nigel Farage has posted a video to social media announcing a donation from a wealthy backer:

Thank you to @JCBmachines for their donation to Reform UK.

They know our party backs small business. pic.twitter.com/pYonR3FxVJ

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) November 11, 2025

This isn’t just any backer, either – it’s JCB – the company which provides equipment to the Israeli forces demolishing Palestinian homes.

Demolished

In the video above, Farage says:

The first thing I want to do is say a big thank you, a very big public thank you to Lord Bamford and JCB Excavators for their recent donation to us of £200,000 and I’m really, I’m very thankful indeed for that.

And they’ve given a lot of money, over £10m to the Conservatives over the years, but they’re giving us some money because they know that we are pro-entrepreneurship. They know that we are pro-start-up. They know that we are pro-small business.

“Pro-small business”, he says, with a giant banner behind him which reads ‘SMALL BUSINESS FOR REFORM’.

Activist Harry Eccles pointed out the irony of this:

JCB has an annual turnover of £6,500,000,000 pounds and the owners (the Bamford Family) have a net worth of £9,450,000,000.

Thanks for clarifying what you mean by small business Nigel.

(NB – the owner is being investigated and could owe HMRC £500,000,000)

(NB2 – the firm…

— Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) November 11, 2025

Clearly, this is not a ‘small business’ – it’s a ‘whopping great big business’.

It gets worse, too, as we reported in September:

In January 2025, the Stop JCB campaign published a report. It detailed JCB’s role in ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine, India, and Kashmir.

In Palestine, JCB operates through its sole dealer, the Israeli company Comasco. The corporation holds contracts with Israel’s Ministry of Defence for the same model of JCB machines the Zionist settler state uses in the demolitions and construction of settlements.

From as early as 2006, the Israeli military has been photographed demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank with JCB bulldozers.

Currently, JCB is also complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese listed JCB in her July report. This was among numerous companies directly aiding and profiting from the genocide. Israel has long used armoured, unbranded JCB High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE) machines, known as ‘Ami’ in Hebrew, and is now using them in Gaza.

And it gets worse again:

lol pic.twitter.com/6bAxKQ5Mpe

— Thanos Angelopoulos (@Th_Angelopoulos) November 11, 2025

And again:

Tax-avoiders sticking together, eh Farage? Quite the ‘Patriots’ you all are#ReformSpivshttps://t.co/tj12scjsiA

— ¡No Pasarán! Andrew Rait – Allotmenteer Wokeratti (@RaitAndrew) November 11, 2025

For sale?

So what’s the deal with Farage posting this grovelling ‘thank you’ to social media?

We can understand him thanking JCB, and we can understand him posting about the Small Business presentation, but publicising the donation like this comes across like he’s been told to make it crystal clear he’s in lord Bamford’s pocket.

It’s especially weird given that Farage said the following this very same week:

What about your comments on how Big Business is controlling the political arena?

Surely this cash is an example of that very thing that you say is wrong?

Hypocrisy? Surely not. pic.twitter.com/gFuFlo37F8

— Market Square Hero (@square_her36337) November 11, 2025

Still, the announcement has pleased some people – namely Farage’s other wealthy backers:

Brilliant news … https://t.co/CAFrTFlmdr

— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) November 11, 2025

Some people see Reform as an alternative to the Tories, but the billionaires of Great Britain seemingly have reassurances that it will be business as usual under Farage.

Featured image via B’Tselem (YouTube) / Owain.Davies (Wikimedia)

By Willem Moore

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