Nigel Farage has won

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.

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

Does anyone know what the point of this was?

To delay the inevitable re the £5m

At our cost?

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

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

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!

Casdon

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

Okay Casdon you’re on! Verve Cliquot please 😁

No surprise really. Count Binface was fun but not going to win as much as some gnetters were hoping he would.

The point was ……for the people of Clacton to decide if they still want NF as their MP despite the 5M debate.
And they clearly do!
I know that will annoy many of you.

Less than 28% of the total electorate of 79,785 wanted Farage.

Let’s see what happens next. If he’s suspended for 10 days or more, then only 10% of the electorate need to sign a petition to trigger a recall and another by-election.

10% is 7,978. Count Binface won 9,455 votes. The momentum is there.

I look forward to hearing about the improvements Farage is making to Clacton. The real improvements.

The whole episode has been a farce, it hasn't changed my opinion of Farage, he's a "spoiler" not taking government seriously and spoiling it for those that do.

Primrose53

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!

But what was the point?

He was already the MP for Clacton, not that he takes his role very seriously, and I suspect the good people of clacton would be a tad surprised about what he really thinks of them, but they seem happy enough with the second rate or even third rate service they are getting.

But that is what the poor in this country are having to put up with in their day to day life, so I suppose they expect no more.

They aren’t getting it either!

Kandinsky

The point was ……for the people of Clacton to decide if they still want NF as their MP despite the 5M debate.
And they clearly do!
I know that will annoy many of you.

Just a few inconsistencies here - the inquiry hasn’t reported yet and he was still their MP without this farce, So what exactly was the point? Oh yes wasting public money on a vanity project

Just out of interest what would Farage supporters be saying if a Labour MP had won against a dustbin?

I was not in the least surprised that Nigel Farage won.

Nor am I surprised at the way the voters of Clacton are being portrayed on GN.

We all have a chance at the ballot box in our own constituencies, it’s called democracy.

Deriding the decision of where voters put their X’s is neither clever nor nice.

Mamie

Just out of interest what would Farage supporters be saying if a Labour MP had won against a dustbin?

No idea, I am not a Reform supporter.

I do think it was petty of the other main parties to not put forward candidates in this by-election, despite the entire thing being rather farcical.

I think it’s high time the £500 a candidate has to put up in an election is raised much higher. Maybe £2,500? It would put an end to the 30 or so ‘vanity’ or comedic candidates vying for their 15 minutes of fame tgat this by election generated.

Tuliptree

To delay the inevitable re the £5m

What would be the point of that?

I think you are correct FGT2 it does make a mockery of our electoral process.

A higher deposit should weed out the five minutes of fame wannabes

Casdon

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

Maybe. But again, rather pointless.
He knows they like him already.

NF definitely has the attention of GN members, three threads on this election, all started this morning…

GrannyGravy13

I think you are correct FGT2 it does make a mockery of our electoral process.

A higher deposit should weed out the five minutes of fame wannabes

Even I could afford that! Hmm…. 😁