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Anybody afford any credibility at all to Farage’s ludicrous claims that his family were being harassed ?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2026 8:04 pm Anybody afford any credibility at all to Farage’s ludicrous claims that his family were being harassed ?

As I understand it (from LBC), The Sunday Times published photos of each of Farage's properties, including one occupied by his adult daughter. Sky News then sent a team round to film there.
That's it.
That's all he's got.
That's harassment, laying siege and threatening Farage's daughter.

Binface, unless we can locate the original Dolphin.

Shame, screaming Lord Sutch isn't around.

Screw the establishment!

I'm gonna have my own election

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:44 pmWhat is FFC?

Frog Faced Cunt

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Binface or Frogface.

The Green Party was less certain, with a spokesman saying it was a decision for members in Clacton whether to put up a candidate “but we are a political party – we contest elections”.

No matter which party they're in this week, they're always right and the rest of the world's always wrong.

For all the faults of Kemi and there are a lot she and Rupert Lowe have both stated the fact this is a hissy fit and that we wait for any procedural by election to take place once the review has been concluded.

If Bin face faces him with a couple of other no marks it demostrates it for what it is, a joke contest.

If the Greens run they are fucking dumb by legitimatising a hissy fit.

Reform sent out Laila Cunningham to bat for Farage on Newsnight and she was utterly vile. I really can't see how politicians like Cunningham are going to win over floating voters to Reform.

Greens aren't standing confirmed Hannah Spencer on Newsnight. Who was unfortunate enough to have to sit next to Reform ranty mad woman Laila Cunningham. And Bob Jenrick is becoming more unhinged by the day. I think Reform are being trained up by a Trump comms team person, when in a tight corner shout your way out and play the victim of your accuser. Not a good look to attract grown-ups.

Edit: Great minds satnav

I’m glad Greens aren’t standing. Sensible heads prevail now it’s just the deranged mind of the likes of Owen Jones who I thought would know better but then since Corbyn he’s never had a good take.

Well done, the Greens.

Last night ITV news interviewed 4 people in Clacton, including a couple, to find out if they'd vote for him. They all loved him. No idea if that's what ITV wanted us to see, or whether other people they interviewed all used language to describe him not fit for broadcast, or what. It does raise the possibilty of a Trump-like cult, his supporters are so far gone psychologically that they see no wrong. They believe his BS about never holding surgeries, infrequent Commons visits etc. You only seem to get this in religion and extremist political figures supporters, you don't get it in mainstream politics, sport or celebrity, people will alter opinions on those when presented with evidence, whether that's operational as part of their jobs (eg once they were good now not so good) or criminal, and even just merely dodgy. But religionists and extremists rarely change minds. Look at Yaxley- Lennon fanboys, he's funded by a trillionaire, there's plenty of photographic evidence he does not live a lifestyle anything like them, yet they think he is one of them. He sets up crowd funding and they oblige, they are his tools that he uses for his own ends yet they just won't or can't see it.

AOB wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:02 am He sets up crowd funding and they oblige, they are his tools that he uses for his own ends yet they just won't or can't see it.

By contrast, I know of someone trying to raise £200k to attempt to purchase and preserve the former booking office of Little Bytham station - near to where Mallard set the world speed record for a steam locomotive. So far, he has raised just £1705.

But... be a fash or have a weepy-waily story and the coins just roll in.

Problem with Clacton as a constituency is that it covers Frinton and Walton, and also Jaywick. Frinton is full of absolute lunatics - it is essentially a gated community of elderly curtain twitchers, retired colonels, busybodies and jobsworths. If Alf Garnett had won the pools, he’d have retired to Frinton, and probably have been seen as a cosmopolitan city type with fancy views. They love Farage because they expect him to bring back some sort of 1950s utopia that never existed.

Clacton, Walton and Jaywick are, by contrast, incredibly poor and very, very low educationally. And so they get the other Farage fan - the one who isn’t after some half-remembered bollocks, but rather just thinks their dire straits are the fault of too many [insert minority here] taking their jobs/cheap houses/right to be casually racist and so on.

The people who like him there will be particularly rabid because they have either self-selected to live in such an area or have had the misfortune to be born there and as such have had a much higher chance of being indoctrinated into a mentality where they are led to believe he is their way out.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:31 am Clacton, Walton and Jaywick are, by contrast, incredibly poor and very, very low educationally.

I am sure I heard a trailer for a R4 programme only last week where the presenter visits Jaywick.

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