Farage to make statement this afternoon …

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Fingers crossed.

Binface and Zack need to both stand in this ! I want to see Nigel having to speak to them both 😂😂😂

Why would it be true? Perhaps they don't want to engage with his grubby little stunt.

Televised debate.....?

That's where he is anyway. If he wins, makes no difference to the investigation whether he were opposed or unopposed.

I see Restore have said they're not going to run against him this time.

Lowe must be terrified he'll split the vote and the seat will go to the Conservatives or an independent.

[Arggh! Edited for SPAG.]

I don’t know, this could go wrong easily. The media could chase him around Clacton asking him what he will do with his 5 million once he gets back into Parliament. Even if he wins he doesn’t really. It would be good fun for them over the summer when there is little news.

Nah you don’t. KS is as close to a real person as British politics gets and that wasn’t good enough for the bootlickers who just want to be fagged by a posh boy

I'd like to think so. I wouldn't want him to have suffered a personal detriment for it. He did a good thing.

Labour tried to cancel elections, some of their most recognized faces tried to "cancel" Brexit, if you don"t get how deep that runs with the public you don"t understand politics.

Because they know Reform is Farage. If they can remove Farage, Reform don't stand a chance at the next election. The only possible logic reason for not standing is that you are scared of losing..

Do two wrongs make a right now? Strange how Reform supports cant bear to criticise Nigel but are quick to whinge about others perceived failings. A good example of deflection / whataboutery.

Oddly getting rid of Starmer and Reeves seems to be the one thing that Labour and Reform voters can agree on!

I think the media made it more of a contest but everything I carefully read was it would be Burnham - polls and interviews. He won by a significant margin with a strong turnout and as you say about the Reform candidate .... In my own experience a constituency likes to have a famous, or infamous in the case of Clacton, MP - it gives people who feel they are overlooked more of a sense of being important. Which is why I would think Farage would win again there.

In hindsight, maybe we should have let them.

There were many issues with Brexit, most of which centred around nobody knowing what the fuck it was. Just “half baked” things, “oven ready” stuff, and some waffle about bananas and fish.

Where it’s actually left us is with less trading power, migration has actually gone up, and less money in all of our pockets.

Cheers Nige 👍🏻

Plus Burnham was going round telling everyone on the ground he was going to be run to be PM and all the benefits that will be to kingmakerfield. He just won't be able to do that a national level.

How is the footage proof? All it shows is a car turning up and someone stood on the driveway. Is this what passes for proof in your mind? There is no suggestion whatsoever that was sky news. It could be been absolutely anybody. Christ, some people are gullible as fuck. No wonder we are where we are.

He had already had a personal detriment - this is the point. Simons had lost his chance to do well in Westminster because of dirty tricks:

The man who gave up his Makerfield seat for Burnham, Simons is said to have been helping Team Burnham on policy, .....
He has been on a rapid political rollercoaster: he worked for and then fell out with Jeremy Corbyn; ran a pro-Starmer think tank; became an MP and quickly a minister, from which he had to resign over accusations about his conduct at the think tank. (BBC)

Starmer is scared of Reform. Badenoch is scared of Reform.

Burnham, Polanski and Lowe are not.

The decision not to stand would just need to be made abundantly clear: this is a stunt, it doesn't serve the electorate, it doesn't remove the necessary scrutiny on Mr Farage's financial affairs, it's a cheap distraction and we're not engaging in it. Farage can bleat on all he likes about the opposition running scared and fighting the establishment. If there is no opposition, and no establishment standing against him, it sucks all the oxygen out of the corrupt cynical self-serving windbag.

Also it’s been confirmed by all media outlets, including GB NEWS that this was a “pool” reporter. This is a journalist who is doing their job for all media outlets signed up to it.

So it was NOT Sky News and even GB News were trying to get the information.

And that’s what journalism is about. It’s obvious Farrage knows he’s about to be found out to be a liar and he’s trying to blame everyone but himself and distract the thick people who will believe his lies and continue to vote for him.

It's a way for him to get out of politics. I've always had the impression he is not remotely interested in being PM as it would involve work. He's only interested in disruption and making money, and imo anyone who cant or wont see that is a bit strange or clueless. The man's a deceiver and always has been. You only need to look at who he associates with and what they are aboit to know this was only ever about him putting money in his bank account. He's old and tired and just wants to live a lucury life. He doesn't want to be PM. And this latest stunt proves it.

The last MP to play this stunt was David Davis. The other parties said they won’t join in with his vanity project and refused to stand, so it they do it again it will not be the first time.

It doesn"t, it just keeps him in the headlines.

Deflect, deflect!

You are admitting farages guilt by trying to avoid talking about it.

Your examples are false equivalence. None of them are close to taking a 5 million quid bribe from a foreign agent.

The electoral commission cleared Starmer for his late declaration.

Answer the question, you think it's ok for an elected official to take an eye watering bribe and then lie about it (more than once) . That's your kind of politician?

What is he supposed to do for the bribe? Don"t smart criminals usually bribe elected officials?

Reform don't stand a chance at the next election WITH Farage. Their support is at saturation point. They've persuaded everyone they're going to persuade, and it's not enough people. Lowe is stealing more of that pot by the day, and the financial scandals surrounding Farage keep on coming. Unless we really have become as turd-thick as MAGA voters, he cannot stand on a ticket of fighting the elite and championing the ordinary man while the man's wealth, property empire and criminal funders crawl out from underneath the carpet.

The best way to conquer Farage is to deny him oxygen. The logical reason not to stand is to deny him the opportunity for the 'fight' he has declared himself.

My son once had a massive hissy fit over some perceived slight and threw an unopened, uneaten Twirl in the kitchen bin to spite us. We just looked at him, ignored his wailing and thrashing and attempts to engage us in his entirely invented, perfectly over the top and ridiculous nonsense, and carried on with our day.

He fished his Twirl out of the bin and silently ate it. It was the most ridiculous thing, and has become family lore.

Farage just stamped his foot and threw his own chocolate bar in the bin. Cool. Now fish it out and eat it, you stupid idiot.

And his £5m and gifts from a convicted criminal