It looks like it’s going to be a straight fight between Nigel Farage and Count Binface to be the next MP for Clacton. That may be the most bizarre sentence I have ever written. Although this one may be even more so: it’s possible that some fringe candidates will also run, but to all intents and purposes it’s a two-way fight. (Imagine just 24 hours ago living in a world in which Count Binface is seen as a mainstream voting choice.)
This is all a giant hissy fit by a man who is rattled by the scrutiny his financial affairs are now receiving
According to Farage, the by-election will be “a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment, to frankly tell them where to go”. I’m assuming that by “the establishment” the Dulwich College-educated ex-commodities broker, whose billionaire friends think nothing of gifting him £5 million, doesn’t mean himself.
In reality, this is all a giant hissy fit by a man who is rattled by the scrutiny his financial affairs are now receiving. Whether it’s that £5 million “lottery win”, as Farage describes it (and which is, he told voters, “none of their business”) or the gifts of staff, security and accommodation from a convicted fraudster, it’s clear that Farage is rattled.
