“Do I want to be an MP. Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?"

The man who retired from front line politics in 2016 having delivered the 52% vote for Brexit, and when asked a few years back if he was going try to be an MP again, replied:

“Do I want to be an MP. Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?"

Yesterday, announced he is taking back chairmanship of Reform and entering the race to become MP for.....

Clacton.

That quote has been repeated some times yesterday.

Reform is not like any other party, in that it is a limited company with Farrage the majority shareholder. He decides on MPs, policy, etc. Thisis because UKIP members once voted him out of leadership of the party

Farrage is a shrill. He sits on the sidelines and carps, complains but offers no solutions.

This will be the 8th time he has tried to be an MP, he has failed the seven previous times.

It will, however, split the rump Conservative vote even more, and coming 9 years after Cameron announced a vote on leaving the EU in order to head off Farrage and UKIP, Farrage will be dancing on the corpse of the Conservative Party. There is no real difference between Reform and Conservative policy and rhetoric.

In the two weeks since the election started proper, and wave after wave of attacks on Labour, by mostly made up shit social media posts, Sunak has lost 3% more of the vote. The Party seems to think it is Sunak that is the problem rather than the Party and its policies.

In one moth's time, the UK electorate will deliver it's verdict on four and a half years of Conservative Government: Brexit, Austerity, collapsing social services, galloping inflation, COVID, Partygate, Sleaze, corruption, Johnson, Truss and now Sunak.

It will be a punishment vote.