The Reuters article is misleading (disappointing as I perceived them to be reasonably decent).
Farage is under investigation by the Westminster ethical standards committee for failing to declare donations. Millions not pennies.
The normally compliant right wing press are asking him hard questions, including the equivalent of Fox (GB news) who normally spin things positively for him. He’s not taking it well.
This by election is a stunt to get himself off the hook: he has attempted to spin the corruption investigation as “the establishment attacking the man of the people”
His logic seems to be when the people of Clacton return him (prob will its a safe Reform seat) he can claim a mandate from the people “see ! The real people dont care about this”
In response all major and minor parties have declared they won’t run against him. Delegitimising his spin when he inevitably wins… Unless he doesnt…the only one running against him is joke candidate Count Bin Face. If Bin Face takes out the rubbish Farage will be mercilessly mocked.
Lastly the ploy is stupid because even if he gets back in the corruption enquiry will almost certainly find him guilty (the facts are open & shut) and he’ll be forced out, it is just his attempt to control the narrative…which might have worked if the consrrvative press hadnt turned on him
He’s running as a candidate in the by-election, so he’ll probably win making the whole thing a waste of time and money.
A waste of money surely.
But since he’s never around in clacking do they perhaps like him less now?
Also does this mean his term would be extended or something if he won? There must be some snivelling and conniving reason for doing this. Some loophole.
If the investigation he’s under is allowed to conclude, it’ll likely trigger a by-election. If he’s already won a by-election since the investigation started, it’s easy for him to claim everyone should vote for him again as they already voted for him while the investigation was ongoing, so there’s no new wrongdoing and no new reason to question whether he’s the right person for the job.
If he wins, the investigations restart. He can’t slime his way out of this one.
Always good to see a fascist flee, but it seems the UK is stuck in a death cycle of just constantly refreshing all their leaders, unable to accomplish anything. Don’t get me wrong, having a facist leader is way worse, but like what is the way out of this?
Farage is the leader of a party with 5 seats in parliament, he’s not the leader of the country, although the party did make significant gains at winning many local councils in May.
The changing of Prime Ministers who are failing is a good thing, Starmer is out because he has the worst approval rating ever seen, and Labour lost a huge number of votes in both national elections in Wales (Labour heartland) & Scotland, as well as a huge swing against them in English council elections. Labour MPs worked out they better do something as this strategy is failing.
Is it better to keep doing something that clearly isnt working, or try something else ?
