The chances of the FFC losing the bye-election would be very unlikely, but what would be only slightly less unlikely would be the ideal scenario in that Farage wins but only beats off Count Binface (or any other unserious challenger) by no more than a couple of thousand votes. He would have then technically won the battle but lost the war in just about seeing off Binface and then have no option but return to Westminster, humiliated, where investigations into his dodgy dealings would be unpaused (the only other option would be to resign again, which would finish him off for good). So I'm hoping Binface places an important emphasis on restoring Ceefax, as that might be one way to get the Clacton folk to vote for him!
