Nigel Farage has won

Casdon

I’ll bet you a virtual glass of champagne FriedGreenTomatoes2🥂

Okay Casdon you’re on! Verve Cliquot please 😁

I think it’s very amusing that the Farage haters are scrabbling around like rats in a bin looking for any scraps that they can use to discredit his resounding win. He won - just let it go. The people of Clacton have decided!

I think it was so he could declare a moral victory ‘My people love me regardless of what misdeeds I carry out’

Perhaps the tax payer should sue him for wasting everyone’s time?

At our cost?

To delay the inevitable re the £5m

Does anyone know what the point of this was?

I’ll bet you a virtual glass of champagne FriedGreenTomatoes2🥂

I do not think for one minute NF will stand down. And furthermore I think the inquiry (which is taking a heck of a long time - on purpose? - surely not!) will exonerate him.

Time will tell.

Sorry, my comment was in response to GrannyGravy13.

Yes, but that was with no other parties standing, and the full weight of Reform canvassers from all over the country thrown into one constituency. The pundits were saying he would be disappointed if he got anything less than 80% of the vote.

Yet only 25% turned out to vote for mayor of Manchester so maybe Burnham should forget his devolution plans and number 10 north and get down to some serious business.

He was always going to win the seat, all that it’s accomplished is to kick the financial inquiries down the road a bit.
A gigantic waste of time and money.

Casdon

Farage won the battle, not the war. I think he will actually be disappointed that Binface polled so well. It seems a huge waste of money to spend £350,00 of our money on an election to prove what, that he isn’t quite as popular as he hoped, even in the most ‘Reform’ constituency in the UK?

I have a feeling that he will now claim that he is the moral victor, and will stand down rather than face the inquiries into his and Reform’s finances.

NF got 1,000 more votes this time than in 2024, despite there being a lower turn out…

I think he will be pleased with the result.
Because I am watching less news and politics lately, I have forgotten why he resigned and then went for re-election.
Or was that never properly established?

Farage won the battle, not the war. I think he will actually be disappointed that Binface polled so well. It seems a huge waste of money to spend £350,00 of our money on an election to prove what, that he isn’t quite as popular as he hoped, even in the most ‘Reform’ constituency in the UK?

I have a feeling that he will now claim that he is the moral victor, and will stand down rather than face the inquiries into his and Reform’s finances.

Exactly FGT.
It is obviously who the people of Clacton want, whatever anyone else thinks, you can't argue with that.
People obviously want change, unless you think the people of Clacton are not of sound mind.

Well he let the people of Clacton decide his fate and they have, with more votes than before.

He did a lot better than Burnham did in Makersfield.

This from Count Binface:
""In Makerfield eight weeks ago I got 95 votes," he continues. So against Nigel Farage compared to Andy Burnham, I am 1,000 times more popular."
"Does that have anything to do with why he isn't here tonight?" he asks."

Oh FGT to continue resolutely defending the indefensible you do need to read up more about the £5m.

Another thread on same, full details in the O/P
www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/a1360840-Clacton-results?msgid=31744876#31744876
either or both...

The Essex police haven’t denied that.
They just haven’t confirmed it.

NF secured a thousand more votes in Clacton’s by election than he did at the GE. And that’s with a much lower turnout.

I’m pleased for him.

Now let’s await the findings of the investigation concerning the £5million donation given to him personally by a benefactor. I think this was given to him before he became an MP? I’ll have to check that.

X posts but worth repeating his lies anyway

Well he’s lied again. He said the police had advised him not to turn up, the police have flatly denied this. Colour me amazed