FFS Clacton

[SomaTaim]

You had a chance to put a stop to the dodgy little lying, pathetic twat and you blew it.

Now we have to listen to his bollocks and hate inducing garbage for longer.

9,000 people voted for a bin rather than this swindler.

He can’t even bring himself to come to your town to accept the vote. He is laughing at you.

Real “man of the people’ - why can’t you see that he doesn’t give a crap about you or your problems?

Oh well at least the investigation into the £5mill can resume.

What a fucking waste of time and money. Disgusting. Disappointed in you guys. 🙈

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Agreed. Very well said.

God help us all if Farage becomes PM! 😬

I feel the same way about the people of Makersfield.

He won't. The people of Clacton may have chosen him, but the country as a whole won't.

The investigation has now been reopened. Bring it on!!

It would be good if the mainstream parties could get through to the electorate that immigration is not actually the worst problem facing the UK. Yes, it's a problem that needs to be fixed, but so are the NHS, social care, defence, the criminal justice system, the environment, cost of living and housing.

Do you think he would bother to turn up if he was PM?

Heavy is the head that wears the bin

If Clacton was left to rot it happened under a succession of Conservative and UKIP MPs.

So here they are voting again for Reform - a rag, tag and bobtail made up entirely of ex Tory and UKIP.

Remember Ed Miliband's Ed Stone in 2015? What is point 4 on his list of pledges? Or Rishi's 'Stop the Boats'? Or the Rwanda plan?

I wish Burnham would take note of this. Starmer didn’t, and nor did the Tories before him.

The fact is, a vast number of voters just want immigration to stop. Immigration is seen by many as the cause of all our problems - the state of the NHS, the pressure on housing, overcrowded schools, overflowing prisons, cost of living etc.

It doesn’t matter if you agree with this assessment or not. It’s what a lot of people think. And these people believe that Farage and Reform are the only party that will make it harder for non-UK nationals to come into the UK, and will “stop the boats”.

We are sleep-walking into a Reform government. And if Labour don’t address this issue, Farage will be at Number 10 after the next election, which will be utterly catastrophic.

I don't think we should be compelling people to do anything, really.

There's no way on earth that the right wing media or the people funding Farage will EVER let that happen.

He would hate the idea of being a PM. I suspect if Reform ever did look as if they were going to win he would hand the leadership to Nadeem Zahawi.
He was the top Tory defector not given a ‘ job’ in his proposed cabinet.

These people will tolerate perhaps one of the least active MP for his constituents in UK history, with endless financial controversies, shady donors, Russian links and criminal friends because they just love all the covert racism, the misogyny, the homophobia, the climate change denial, and the vaccine scepticism. They love it and that’s why love him.

It wasn't a real by-election. It was a silly stunt of Nigel's to hog the news agenda and (he thought) get out of the parliamentary inquiry into him receiving a £5m "gift" from a convicted fraudster. He was apparently furious when he realised he'd been badly advised and that the parliamentary inquiry will restart tomorrow. And he might well lose his seat in the real by-election that will be triggered by parliamentary sanctions if he's broken the rules.

I'd be interested to know if anyone who has voted for Farage has contacted him as their MP over the last year?
Has he been in the local papers opening a new hospital unit, business district, environmental project? Meeting school heads? Done anything at all to help those poor people living in Jaywick?

They have been constantly failed by the mainstream parties in the area for decades. The proof is easy to see if they hadn't been failed Clacton would be a nice seaside resort, not a shithole.

I‘m not a Clacton resident but I would hazard a guess it’s about unregulated, unsustainable immigration from groups that appear to be young and male. And probably from cultures that don’t do women any favours.

The landscape of many towns and cities is changing. Lots of people, and ordinary reasonable non-bigoted people are now sick of it. And by ‘it’ I mean the apparent intransigence of anyone in power doing a single thing about it. If they can’t do anything - at least be honest with the British public. But they lie. They say they’re doing A,B and C, but nothing changes.

We absolutely need immigration, we do. But let’s have some good old school British law and order and regulation about it. Not chaos. Not unskilled flotsam and worse, damaged, dangerous men who bring nothing to this country.

Politics in this country went to shit some years ago, this is just a continuation.
What a shame.

Clacton ensured that the investigation was re-opened so, in that context, they played a blinder. I wonder what Farage will come up with next in order to try to stop it.

“Left of centre?” pull the other one.

If people wanted illegal immigration stopped, why are they focussing on boats (a tiny percentage of immigrants - most of whom will be granted asylum after a rigorous process) and not on the real cause of the “illegal” numbers which are in visa overstays? Legal immigration is strictly controlled, what more do you want than our system has?

Immigration has consistently been shown to be a net benefit to the economy. Do you really want less immigration just so our country has fewer non white people?

I'm betting many of them are animal lovers though.

They must be turning a blind eye to his support for blood sports.

... and to tackle this effectively we need a functioning criminal justice system as well as immigration enforcement.

As opposed to Farage who is never there - not even for this vote?

They didn’t do anything to the people of Clacton, they just refused to engage in Farage’s mind games.