i finally get to post this

Hahaha I genuinely forgot about Al Carns much in the same way Andy has when it comes to handing out jobs in the Cabinet. news.sky.com/liveblog-web...

Marcus Rashford: English. Harry Kane: English. Nat Scrivner-Blunt: English. My Dad: English. Mo Ali: English. Maro Itoje: English. Alex Goode: English. Ben Stokes: English. That's all

Update: Reeves is not going to stop Farage standing down, and I am here for the shade she throws

I thought this was a piss take on what Mason had written... but no he's actually written these words . Can someone get him a cold drink? Or just chuck a bucket of cold water over him maybe.

Lol well done everyone Reform voters are crying now cos the left won't come out and play.

Remember this guy from Twitter days and this whole post of his is just 'X brained'. Really? We hate Kemi as much as white nationalists and it's wrong to think the tories are screwed.....because.....why, exactly?

Also POSSIBLY the prime seat for Kemi’s message “Reform are right in everything they say about the last government (but Farage is a meanie)”

Even when his up to his neck in scandals, is losing the plot on national TV and is crashing and burning in every interview he is giving the tories still don't fancy a go at beating Farage? And the consensus seems to be 'smart move'? Hmmm

I just think the 'ah, but the *second* by-election' stuff is daft. Ah, yes, what will change the reality on the ground in Clacton is a parliamentary committee with a funny name!

Not on there anymore but there are a couple of people who I followed over there who are on here and....my god what have you done to yourself!?

By a ratio of almost 2 to 1, people oppose Nigel Farage’s decision to call a by-election in Clacton. Data from YouGov, released this morning.

Two by-elections in short order could favour the tories on the 2nd round? Can imagine Clacton voters will be getting sick of the game playing for a start. Hope the tories think about a candidate who is bland enough to attract all the 'no to Farage' voters there.

One reason why it is insane that neither the departing prime minister nor his replacement seem to want to leave X is that it is obviously bad for UK plc that so much of the global conversation takes place in places where people talk about our only global city as if it were a dangerous crimehole.

I'm sure the by-election will turn this around for Farage 🫠

I suspect this, and that they'd have been asked to comment on it, rather explains the hurried and ill thought through nature of todays Farage implosion. The walls are closing in

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social

My gripe with how Reform is covered by the media has always been with the beeb, but it is worth remembering the reason Farage is in the trouble he clearly is is because 'the media' (specifically the guardian and the ST) have actually done their jobs.

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When I see polls like this my initial reaction is 'just how many members *have* we lost!'.

A Labour spokesperson said: "Nigel Farage is engulfed in a sleaze scandal and he's desperately trying to change the subject. It's pathetic and the Labour party is not going to indulge it." The party's ruling NEC held a meeting earlier this evening and decided not to stand a candidate.

Maybe he should just call it off if he can blame it all on a senior moment. His support base would relate.

I can reveal that Labour isn't putting forward a candidate for the Clacton by-election....

I think it’s a mistake on the part of the Conservatives not to stand, because it’s an excuse to spend the summer going at Farage with all the questions Kevin Hollinrake has been hurling at him but with a national spotlight, and otherwise what’s their summer story?

Confirmed: the Tories aren't running a candidate. It's over. Farage's ruse has failed.

Whatever happens in the by-election(s) as a Labour member with a new PM incoming and watching Farage's *bizarre* performance today and his absolute determination not to shut up about what he can spend his free 5 million quid on I'm feeling a bit more hopeful than I was after the locals tbh.

The single most damaging scandal to Starmer's personal authority when it came to the parliamentary party was one where all the key facts had been reported by the Financial Times in the summer of 2023. This by way of saying: the damage to Farage over this stuff is not yet done in my view.

Genuinely can't believe people are posting on here ' just let him win it he's got it in the bag whatever we do'. Um, the guy has taken 5 million quid and the rest, just done a rant on telly about him definitely not being a crook and you just think - "nah let's not try"!

Voters are suddenly going to get wall-to-wall coverage and commentary regarding Nigel Farage's financial conduct. I'm not sure that is going to play out quite as well for him as he thinks...

People saying this will be like Makerfield seem to be missing that Andy Burnham didn’t have scandal and investigations hanging over him.

Now this would, oddly, be very good news for Labour who need the right vote to split, and so the Conservatives to be a viable right-bloc option. It could all backfire for Farage. Potentially….

Fair play this is funny.

What is staggering is how poorly positioned the Tories currently are to beat him

I hope everyone saying the other parties shouldn’t stand against Farage is doing it as a sort of reverse psychology to make sure Kemi does stand a candidate, and not because they think the other parties should genuinely pass up the chance to kick him while he’s down

Tories should pick a candidate the left could hold their nose and vote for and attack Farage and only Farage throughout the campaign. Might actually have a chance 🤷‍♂️

New meme just dropped

so this incident in the pub, in which a "mob" bashed Nigel's car up so badly it was written off, but it seems no-one filmed it? for socials? and he didn't tell his insurer or the police or the media? gee whizz, i wanna know more about this, sounds terrible

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Gosh I didn't realise Nigel Farage was from such a poor background I feel really bad now.

Have checked and parliamentary prodecure nerds seem pretty sure: if Farage resigned, triggered a by-election, and won, the old investigations could all resume. So unless they're wrong (and I don't think they are), there's no procedural get-out-of-jail card here.

If Farage does resign today I'm sure Keir will be over the moon for Andy taking over at such a fortuitous time ☺️

Threatening us with a good time when it's just as likely to be a whinge about how badly he is treated by the media.

A rather astonishing article for the editior of ConservativeHome to write. Remember when they were the party of law and order? And that was their strongest suit?

Farage isn't going to make it another three years...

Lol let's not get lazy before we've even started, lad...

The total disdain for Jenrick is fabulous