Congratulations are of course in order, but it would have been harder for Nigel Farage to have lost at Clacton. This time. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has reopened his investigation.
Lee Anderson has given a car crash interview to the BBC’s Charlie Stayt, and Richard Tice has given another to LBC’s Nick Ferrari, yet Farage’s and Anderson’s GB News colleague, Christopher Hope, has just tweeted: “I can confirm Essex Police were in touch with Nigel Farage’s office yesterday about a threat to him at the count but did NOT say he should not attend. That decision was taken by him.”
Still, Farage Fest or Clactonbury was a sign of times, and the surprise would have been if Farage had not intended to make it an annual event, since he never misses an opportunity to cash in. His following is becoming its own parallel popular culture. But while it had much closer ties to the main one, very largely so did Corbynism. Where is that now?
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