I don’t think this would be a good move for Farage, he’s always made hay from being the furthest right ‘respectable’ voters will go for. I don’t like the man at all but one of his talents as a political operator is toeing that line uncommonly well, you can see this historically with UKIP; as soon as Farage was gone the party shifted to the football hooligan and ethnic cleansing (ah sorry, remigration it’s called now) crowd and were punished severely for it at the ballot box.

Farage is on a lee shore but getting into bed with Rupert Lowe’s party will only drive him onto the rocks faster in my view. There’s a hard ceiling in the UK of people who’ll support the kind of policies Lowe advocates and its lower than numbers Farage needs for a majority of the Commons. If Burnham has a brain he’ll push hard for electoral reform, I’m cynical enough to believe parties who benefit from the unfairness of FPTP will have a change of heart when it’s no longer a structural benefit to the old duopoly. His only route to power now I think is a corruption scandal coming out which dwarfs his own, I reckon he might be a busted flush in general whether he forms an alliance or not. Then again he has had a habit of coming back from things usually considered terminal to political careers.