Nigel Farage has won

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.

Upthread, you#ve already revealed your ignorance of what gifts MP's have to reveal, and when... the timing in relation to entering Parliament. Farage was CLEARLY in breach.

The Inquiry by the Parliamentary Standards Office commenced on May 16 2026. Farage resigned on July 5th, which suspended the Inquiry. He's been re-elected, therefore still subject to Parliamentary standards so the Enquiry continues.

Right here on GN, you are demonstrating exactly how a charlatan conman gets away with conning the ignorant and misinformed .

MaizieD

Casdon

From Count Binface: Farage’s vote share went up by 0.08%, taking into account the constituency size increase since 2024.

Interesting that Farage voters comprise about a third of the increase in registered voters. Which is about what many political commentators and analysts reckon is about the ceiling for what we might call far right wing support. Not just here in the UK but also in Europe.

You might call it far right support but that doesnt make it true!

Casdon

From Count Binface: Farage’s vote share went up by 0.08%, taking into account the constituency size increase since 2024.

Interesting that Farage voters comprise about a third of the increase in registered voters. Which is about what many political commentators and analysts reckon is about the ceiling for what we might call far right wing support. Not just here in the UK but also in Europe.

I think what this exercise does show is that support for Reform has peaked and stalled. Previous by-elections were setting the scene.

In 2024, Labour, Tories, Liberal Dems the Greens between them took over 24,000 votes in Clacton, the Tories almost 13,000 of those.

None of them stood this time.

Clacton is not a seat that is ever likely to be won by anyone from a centre left party.

The shift we saw in 2024, especially from the elderly (and Clacton has an older population that the national average) was away from the Tories towards Reform.

Generally, voter flow from red to blue is very low.

In other words, Reform has to attract former Tory voters in seats like this. They have done in local elections with councils which were formerly under Tory control now controlled by Reform. Defectors help too.

This was an opportunity to see that same shift in a Westminster election with a candidate who is a known quantity ... and it simply didn’t happen. Farage’s raw vote has barely moved.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

There is something rather odd about established parties refusing to contest Clacton and then commentators diminishing Reform’s victory because there was little opposition.

You cannot refuse to enter the ring and then complain that the winner had an easy fight.

Love him or loathe him, they still haven’t discovered how to make the bloody man give up - because he will not give up.
Vote Reform! 🇬🇧

I am with you all the way! Vote Reform!

From Count Binface: Farage’s vote share went up by 0.08%, taking into account the constituency size increase since 2024.

Jane43

Kandinsky

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

Which is a ridiculous claim, the people of Clacton are not in a position to decide his fate, they do not have the facts upon which to make a decision. If they want him to continue being their MP despite him having held no surgeries or not having attended one meeting of The Clacton Regeneration Programme that’s the only decision they have made.

That is quite sweeping Jane43. How do you know if the people of Clacton have the facts or not? Have you asked all of them?

Fallingstar

We keep saying that Farage has won, but he had already won. Clacton was his seat already.
Reminds me of Gullivers Travels. Total satire

Good point, Fallingstar It was a total farce but I have to admit I was greatly amused by some of the vids I saw and very little in politics makes me laugh these days. I doubt it's done much for Farage's reputation abroad either as it has been widely covered by both the European and American press. He resigns so he can stage a fight against the "Establishment" and has to beat a rubbish bin that got getting on for half the votes that he did. Hardly a spectacular success!

We keep saying that Farage has won, but he had already won. Clacton was his seat already.
Reminds me of Gullivers Travels. Total satire

Dickens For decades, Clacton's business owners, hospitality workers, and residents have felt completely forgotten by successive mainstream governments in Westminster. High streets are plagued by boarded-up shops, transport infrastructure is poor, and a severe flood risk scares away major supermarket or commercial investment. (BBC News item)

It really does need an MP invested in its future. I am not sure NF is the right man for the job though.

I'm sure NF is absolutely not the right man for the job, he's shown no interest in advocating for the constituency thus far. However it shouldn't require a good MP for any government or any political hue to recognise the deprivation of the area, especially Jaywick, and actually do something to address that. Of course it helps if you have an MP who will lobby and shout from the rooftops what his/her constituents need but successive governments have ignored the area as if those residents and their problems don't matter.

Don't worry about the money Farage has spent on winning back Clacton, which he actually hadn't lost. He has £5 million to use.
Oh and talking about that money...

Farage was always going to win the election, that IMO, was never in doubt but it was always going to be about the scale o44.f the win. Farage and Reform put a huge amount of resource into turning out their supporters to vote, the question surely is, how well did that succeed? The turnout in the 2024 election was 58.7%, for this highly publicised by- election it was 44.37% and Farage got 63% of the vote against a collection of "joke" candidates. TBH I don't see this as a huge success for Farage. I'm sure he'd still win if the main candidates had stood but I think his percentage of the vote would have been significantly reduced. Getting 22K to vote Reform out of an electorate of 78K with the amount of money Reform spent in the constituency and the number of Reform supporters out on the streets, doesn't seem too great to me when there was no real opposition. I would think that he's pretty disappointed and he still has the investigations into his rather murky finances!

It appears that the police did not advise him to stay away from the count. However, I think the most telling thing about that is what the BBC reported that he said
‘Farage says he will not attend the count, saying: "I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory... and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.’ The arrogance of the man. I am sure as well as the comedy candidates, there were a lot of genuine local candidates. Who is Farage to say they are nobodies?

Tuliptree

Apparently he didn’t turn up because of security concerns. Interesting isn’t it that both he and Trump play the security card allbeit in different ways. Well the Parliamentary investigation will resume now

That begs the question of whether it is actually safe for him to continue to be their MP - and I'm not being dismissive about such claims because we all know there are some crackpots roaming around. Witness the late Ann Widdecombe's appalling murder.

But it also makes one wonder - why Clacton? He spends so little time there, does not hold constituency surgeries - tho' does attend business-meetings it's said. Is Clacton his 'media backdrop' as has been suggested by some residents?

For decades, Clacton's business owners, hospitality workers, and residents have felt completely forgotten by successive mainstream governments in Westminster. High streets are plagued by boarded-up shops, transport infrastructure is poor, and a severe flood risk scares away major supermarket or commercial investment. (BBC News item)

It really does need an MP invested in its future. I am not sure NF is the right man for the job though.

Your main parties handed it to Farage on a plate by not turning up

Quite.

And it appears to have backfired big time, going by the angst on here.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 There is something rather odd about established parties refusing to contest Clacton and then commentators diminishing Reform’s victory because there was little opposition.

Not really. The "established parties" and "commentators" are not the same thing.

Your main parties handed it to Farage on a plate by not turning up.
You,d think they like the division this eegit brings with him!
Why are people in an area of deprivation voting for someone who will make life so much worse for them,it beggars belief.
Alllwing all the loony type candidates only made things worse,people obviously have a problem voting with only two or three choices….the 34? Candidates must have caused a meltdown amongst these folk who think Farage is on their side .
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Oreo

Cossy I am fining you £10 for overuse of the exclamation mark😂
My English teacher used to say that’s what they cost so use them sparingly.

Oooops!!!!!

Sorry, you are correct. In future I’ll take more care.

Maremia

Clacton may/will get nothing from Farage but Count Binface's team has produced a video of the seaside places there, that make Clacton look like somewhere to visit.

That’s good xx

There is very little in actual Clacton to draw people to it, BUT within the entire constituency there are some decent pubs, restaurants, beaches and lovely green areas.

Pretty short of decent hotels though as those holidaying here tend to stay in caravans, so the pull towards visiting is pretty limited.

I hope and pray that something is done to improve this area for its residents, but the ingrained attitudes of some of the residents and the very high deprivation in both Jaywick and Pier Ward will certainly not help.

I genuinely wish them well, maybe Farage will actually surprise us all and behave like a half decent MP! 🙏🙏🤞🤞

Cossy I am fining you £10 for overuse of the exclamation mark😂
My English teacher used to say that’s what they cost so use them sparingly.

But he knew that didn’t t he? Maybe he was just hoping time might produce a deus ex machina

Tuliptree

Ah yes Cossy but you’re only saying that because you ( and many of us) are bitter and twisted and distraught because we all thought ( not hoped) CB would win.

Hahaha but of course!

I see the investigation into Farage has already resume!

It’s seems Farage’s little ploy failed!

What a complete and utter waste of public funds and everyone’s time!

Tuliptree

They will when it suits him Lee Anderson says he’s entitled to another maiden speech as a ‘new’MP and that traditionally is all about your constituency. Of course LA could be wrong

Well if LA is correct and NF does - the publicity might put Clacton on Sea on the map for the so-called 'staycationers' and bring some much needed ££ into the economy.

So there is that...

They will when it suits him Lee Anderson says he’s entitled to another maiden speech as a ‘new’MP and that traditionally is all about your constituency. Of course LA could be wrong