Nigel Farage facing a long, hot summer as the Count Binface jokes begin
Reform UK party leader will need to brace himself for weeks of teasing over the Clacton by-election
Yesterday, we suggested Nigel Farage might look a bit silly if he ends up competing against only Count Binface after resigning to force a by-election in his Clacton seat.
Now the Reform UK leader finds himself the butt of jokes from even our dependably dry Chancellor, Rachel Reeves. Responding to Farage’s request to become the steward or bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Manor of Northstead – the spectacularly odd way that MPs ‘resign’ – she said: “... if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him.”
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When announcing his resignation on Tuesday, in a state of highest dudgeon, Farage said he had “never been angrier in my life”. As some of us may know, there’s nothing worse when you are genuinely angry and everyone else finds it tremendously funny.
As for Count Binface, he appears to be loving it. Might he be thinking the unthinkable (like relinquishing his title to enter the Commons)? In 2024, Farage won Clacton after 46.2 per cent of voters backed him, which means that 53.8 per cent didn’t...
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