Seems Farage has an announcement to make at 4pm today.

karmalady

Urmstongran

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

I completely agree

That has decided me, I will be voting reform. We need change and we need a charismatic leader who will stand up for Great Britain

Can you explain to me which of their policies have led to your decision?

Farage is smug and self righteous in his own right. 🤷‍♀️

Urmstongran

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

I completely agree

That has decided me, I will be voting reform. We need change and we need a charismatic leader who will stand up for Great Britain

My iPad has a mind of its own 😡

through should have been throw

It’s a ghastly place with ghastly inhabitants.

Freya5

GrannyGravy13

Siope

Candidate for Clacton.

I hope they have dolphins.

No Dolphins, but Jaywick is part of the constituency. Lots of rather colourful characters there, if you are brave enough to take a trip…

What a snob. Bet there's some colourful characters living near you too.

My parents met there just after the second world war.

I suggest you Google Jaywick, along with the documentary made about its inhabitants, before you through your insults around.

He’s tried 7/8 times to get a seat in various areas, And failed every time.

I wouldn’t get too excited.

I reckon that if he does get a seat, he will almost immediately do a deal with the Tory party and then he will be up for leadership.

Then you are back to supporting a party that you have rejected, and goodness knows what will happen to the Tory party then.

If it splits the Tory vote Hoorah! I think the whole of Essex is currently Tory.

There have been a lot of boundary changes made for this election, so check your constituency.

Where I live the part that is represented by Labour councillors has been shifted into the next constituency and a chunk of big houses added.

Urmstongran

Casdon

Urmstongran

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

That won’t be Reform though.

All to play for Casdon! Look how well Reform have done on FB - apparently. I don’t use it but it has been reported so. There is a momentum gathering now that wants a good shake up of the Westminster bubble, SPADs, media luvvies.

Vote Reform.

It’s not going to happen Urmstongran, unless you think Farage is so popular that suddenly people who are in safe Tory constituencies decide to vote Reform instead. I just can’t see it.

Urmstongran

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

You don’t think Farage is smug and self righteous?

Ok.

Farage Facts - x.com/ByDonkeys/status/1797651718852804923

Why not call the party The BNP and have done. Horrid little man. Richard Tice is standing in my area (Boston & Skegness) and there's a lot of support for him on FB. Not from me! Connections to the KKK, I mean, you couldn't make this up!

He’s going to stand for the Clacton seat, currently held by a Tory.

The Tories are going nuts, because they think this will hand Labour the seat.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69082668

GrannyGravy13

Siope

Candidate for Clacton.

I hope they have dolphins.

No Dolphins, but Jaywick is part of the constituency. Lots of rather colourful characters there, if you are brave enough to take a trip…

What a snob. Bet there's some colourful characters living near you too.

Casdon

Urmstongran

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

That won’t be Reform though.

All to play for Casdon! Look how well Reform have done on FB - apparently. I don’t use it but it has been reported so. There is a momentum gathering now that wants a good shake up of the Westminster bubble, SPADs, media luvvies.

Vote Reform.

The Tory MP for Clacton was Giles Watling who played the Vicar in the sitcom Bread. He took the seat when Douglas Carswell retired in 2017.

It was Carswell who left the Conservatives for UKIP in 2014. He was the first MP for Clacton as the constituency was only formed in 2010. So I think people were voting for Carswell, who was MP for the previous constituency, rather than for the party.

zakouma66

Urmstongran

He got us the Brexit referendum. Thank you.

Really?

And the racism? How does that sit with his fans?

If its rascist to disagree with immigration numbers, well you've lost the real meaning of the word.
If you disagree with thousands of undocumented migrants entering the U K, you're racist,
I do wonder why he's not been arrested.

Cossy - I don’t know what you are on about. I said I liked marmite. I could really care less who your Mother voted for and who she ‘couldn’t stand’. 🙄

The Tories thought it was all over. Well it is now. 👍

Urmstongran

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

That won’t be Reform though.

Cossy

Rockyroad In the “real world” he’s just as unpopular as he is on Gransnet.

My mother was as Tory as they come and she simply couldn’t stand Farage.

Sorry that was for Nicenanny3

Farage is right: we need a rebellion against the self righteous, smug establishment. He said Labour are going to win. Of course they are. But we need an opposition to hold their feet to the fire!

Casdon

Urmstongran

Casdon

Urmstongran

Maybe he’s standing against Yvette Cooper in her Leave voting marginal constituency!

I hope he does, she will trounce him. I suspect though that if he does stand it will be in a current Tory seat with a dodgy MP, as he’s got more chance of winning that than any red wall seat. I’d be surprised if he wins any seat though, he is, as keepingquiet said, a chancer.

Yvette Cooper has a very slim majority c.2k votes. Plus it was a Leave constituency and she was rubbishing those who voted for it. Put Farage in there to set the cat amongst the pigeons maybe as voters have long memories when they feel they’ve been diddled.

I know, but that was the 2019 election, the YouGov/Sky seat by seat poll coming out later today will I’m sure show she has increased her majority substantially. Hers is not a target seat for Reform, they are going for seats where UKIP did well in 2019, which is where there are suspect Tory MPs. With a big swing to Labour, going for seats which Labour already hold would be pointless.
Survation did a piece of work showing which seats they are most likely to win, although probably none.
www.survation.com/will-reform-uk-win-any-seats/

Just for completeness, if the poll is correct Yvette Cooper will get 54% of the total vote, and Reform will get 20% in her constituency.

Rockyroad In the “real world” he’s just as unpopular as he is on Gransnet.

My mother was as Tory as they come and she simply couldn’t stand Farage.

Urmstongran

The turnip from the Mirror asks "Was Tice bullied?" 🤣

What was wrong with that question?