[Malcolm Armsteen]

Half an hour to go... my breath is bated...

[Oboogie]

He'll be off to the States, meanwhile Reform will tear itself apart and it's voters will scatter to the Tories, Restore and the Greens.

Maybe it'll be health grounds?: galloping knob-rot? terminal spite?
I wonder if he'll blame the Jews?

[The Weeping Angel]

[Abernathy]

Maybe it'll be health grounds?: galloping knob-rot? terminal spite?
I wonder if he'll blame the Jews?

Maybe his remaining bollock has fallen off ?

[Abernathy]

Typically, the cunt is late. Lots of speculation on Sky News that he is perhaps going to announce a “back me or sack me” by-election in Clacton.

[Abernathy]

He is speaking now. A load of self-justifying shite.

[Boiler]

At the moment it's "ain't I brilliant?"

It's heading towards "I'm going nowhere".

[RedSparrows]

'I naturally attract money, man of the people me. You get random gifts from admirers, I bet - don't you hate it when that happens? What's that? A question? HOW FUCKING DARE YOU.'

Edit: I see he's gone with the 'most attacked' line again. People have died.

[Abernathy]

Yup. He’s decided to stage an un-necessary by-election in Clacton.

Should be good. Rupert Lowe is going to throw the kitchen sink at him in that by-election. Expect Labour to field a strong candidate too (Miliband Snr, perhaps ?) .

I can see this stunt backfiring on him, big time.

[Bones McCoy]

Yup. He’s decided to stage an un-necessary by-election in Clacton.

Should be good. Rupert Lowe is going to throw the kitchen sink at him in that by-election. Expect Labour to field a strong candidate too (Miliband Snr, perhaps ?) .

I can see this stunt backfiring on him, big time.

He imagines the scrutiny will end if he temporarily steps down.

[Andy McDandy]

If he gets shirty over a few reporters asking a handful of questions, how will he fare over 4 weeks at the top of the news agenda?

[Samanfur]

A tidy few of the hard-of-thinking who voted for him the first time will stick with him, because "They're all the same, innit?", or their friend's mother's cousin's wife saw a brown person five miles away two days after the election.

Some people just like the taste of snake oil.

[Dalem Lake]

Expect Labour to field a strong candidate too (Miliband Snr, perhaps ?) .

Nah, Labour and others should just ignore it like the stunt that it is and let the right duke it out for themselves.

[Boiler]

A by-election? Well, I'm sure the superannuated arseholes of Clacton in their council house go-karts will vote for him again.

Question, though: could he still stand if the Standards Committee rule against him, or is he trying to pre-empt them?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'd go for Miliband Major. Then as PM.

[Samanfur]

Letting the right's narrative continue unopposed would be a mistake in my view. That's partly how we got here.

But any challenger to the left of Mussolini should accept that if the constituency could vote in an obvious clown like Farage on the back of their prejudices, they'll probably still vote for a candidate who's the same or worse.

[Crabcakes]

Because nothing says national mandate like the right-wing incumbent winning re-election in a notoriously right-wing constituency.

He wants weeks of playing the victim, followed by a triumphant return to Parliament, to rake in some more cash and get the schemers like Jenrick in line.

So transparent and weak, it makes a sheet of glass look like a mile thick slab of tungsten.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha.
This seems very badly advised. Has Jenrick advised it? Spectacular lies about London, I see. And quite incredible definition of obvious political corruption too. I don’t know who Rupert Lowe’s number two is. Lowe is much worse than Farage but he knows how to work a constituency. Farage has openly disdained his.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well where he we are, all talking about him. But this may be a stunt too far.

[Boiler]

Is this true?

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