[Yug]

What is FFC?

Frog-faced cunt

[Crabcakes]

No one is standing anyone - not even Restore.

Spectacular backfire.

[Youngian]

I'm announcing my candidture dressed as a wizard. Vote for magic.

[Crabcakes]

Come on, Binface. It would be the most spectacular and most deserved downfall imaginable.

[Oboogie]

What is FFC?

Fulchester Football Club according to Viz*.

* A humorous periodical popular in the 1980s M'lud.

[soulboy]

Indeed: see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c892npw2jkvo

Isn't Frinton the place that wants to live in the 1950s?

Memmzy Ozy, a barber in Frinton, said: "He's alright, you know. I trust Nigel. Hopefully he'll be the winner."

That's one vote in the bag for the Leopard Face Eating Party.

[soulboy]

Come on, Binface. It would be the most spectacular and most deserved downfall imaginable.

Would he have to renounce his title if he is elected to the Commons?

[Boiler]

What is FFC?

Frog-faced cunt

Maybe we should be more cultured and refer to Farage as The Ranine One instead.

[Boiler]

Come on, Binface. It would be the most spectacular and most deserved downfall imaginable.

I believe he's standing...

[Abernathy]

The Tories, the Lib Dems, and Restore have all said they won’t be standing by-election candidates in Clacton. Labour’s NEC is meeting this evening and is bound to decide to follow suit. Looks like Fargle’s stunt is going to backfire spectacularly on him. I feel this is without doubt the right thing to do.

[Youngian]

Dare to dream. Poor Nige's cunning plan is falling apart quicker than a leper in a wind tunnel. "Its me or Binface," wasn't what Nige planned.

[mattomac]

Yup I agree. Don’t bother attempting to legitimise it. Wouldn’t win anyhow.

Play tik tok politics with Tik tok politics and let Count Binface have a clean run.

As for Reform paying for the by election… yeah that’s a way to stop accusations of corruption.

[satnav]

I would have like to see Martin Bell don his white suit for one last rodeo.

[mattomac]

I would have like to see Martin Bell don his white suit for one last rodeo.

Is he even still alive?

[satnav]

He is 87 which is probably quite young in Clacton.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Any word from The Greens?

[Abernathy]

Right. So, Farage’s stunt backfires and is exposed as the desperate waste of time it is.

He stands against Binface (because Binface just always stands in by-elections), and is returned, discredited, to parliament.

The parliamentary standards committee resumes its investigation, and there is then a second Clacton by-election, which other candidates this time will contest. I suppose there is an outside chance that Carol Vorderman might be persuaded to be the Martin Bell de nos jours, with the non-Reform candidates giving her a clear run. But more probably, it’ll be a normal by-election. But either way, I think it is highly probable that Makerfield-style tactical voting will bring about the end of Farage’s parliamentary career.

[Youngian]

Any word from The Greens?

Owen offers his sage advice

[davidjay]

Luckily the comments are showing Owen up for the political ignoramus he is.

[Crabcakes]

I suspect Farage didn’t have himself vs Count Binface in mind when he framed this election as people vs establishment