I don’t think Count Binface could enter Parliament for a number of reasons.
• He isn’t standing under his real name.
• The rules say that members should dress in business-like attire although this need not include a tie.
• Members must not in principle have their face covered while voting in a division since they must identify themselves to the tellers.
AFAIK, Jon Harvey has not indicated that he wants to be an MP.
We shall see. Reform are pretty desperate now, bringing in activists from all around the country to door knock, although they haven’t been given the right script.
When Essex County Councillor for Maldon, Justin Jay door-knocked an elderly gentlemen, he got more than he bargained for.
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The thing that made me laugh most, apart from when the gentleman told Jay he was talking b*llocks, was when he asked what Farage had done for Clacton. Jay replied, That’s something you will have to ask Nigel about.
They have been sent out to campaign and can’t say one thing that he’s done for his constituents in two years ... because the short answer is: Nothing.
I expect Farage will win and, in a way, I hope he does so the investigation into the £5 million bung can continue. There’s no question in my mind that he should have declared the money. If the Standards Committee recommended a suspension of 10 days or more and there’s a successful recall petition, there will be a traditionally contested by-election. I read that Giles Watling, the previous Tory MP for Clacton, is prepared to stand against.
The candidate people need to be very careful about is Pamela Walford. She claims to be independent. However, she stood for Reform in Maldon in the GE on a platform of blaming migrants for everything. She was former Leave.EU and Farage benefactor Arron Banks' election agent in last year’s West of England Mayoral contest. Her social media is all about Reform. Unless she’s had an epiphany, I think she’s a Reform ringer, stalking horse, back up, call it what you will, in case Farage walks away or is arrested before 13th August.
Both the previous and current government have pumped millions into the constituency to improve things and work is being done by the Town Council but Farage takes no interest. has never attended a meeting although invited to do so.
Clacton deserves someone better than him who will do their job.
