Yet again, Jaywick is the most deprived place in England. It is in Clacton, where the MP is Nigel Farage. Well, of course. The base of Reform UK and all points populist-right is benefit dependent, chronically sick, and with the criminal records to which we autists and dissidents are prone even if there is absolutely no evidence against us, because, as our persecutors understand, "The jury just won't like you."
Farage and Reform may not have wanted or expected that base, but it is what they have got, to no surprise on many of our parts. Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib could not stand that, even if Habib does seem to be courting it again. So Farage exchanged them for the scores of seats where, if that were one pile, then it would be the largest in 2029.
Outstanding.
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DeleteYes the people Reform thought they were getting are Greens, Lib Dems, residual Tories and residual Labour.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily in that order.
DeleteThey wanted the Coalition country towns and commuter belt but look what they got instead.
ReplyDeleteYet they hoover up minor ornaments of the last Government, and the newspapers that supported it support them. It is all very silly.
DeleteThe people attaching themselves to Reform and the Greens had better be right for their own sakes in 2029, they'll be unemployable as anything middle class otherwise.
ReplyDeleteWon't they just? Matt Goodwin of GB News could never be Professor Matthew Goodwin again, GB News itself wouldn't be a good advertising bet if Farage had lost, the papers would drop everyone who backed him.
DeleteYes. The Left is used to occasional near misses and regular trouncings, but that lot either won this time or, while something in their vein would re-emerge periodically as it always had, those individuals would be out of public life permanently, and many of them would never work again in any capacity.
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