Si L

Magazine Editor and former national newspaper journalist, all round media junkie, bird watcher, nature lover, cat fanatic, petrol head. Views are my own.

[Si L @SimL65]

@KayBurley Surely it is merely a coincidence that six years is exactly the length of time needed before you can return to the UK after having non residential status that exempts you from being liable for Capital Gains Tax

[Si L @SimL65]

@ShippersUnbound It’s Groundhog Day, remember UKIP, made minor electoral gains, led in the polls, started fighting like rats in a sack and briefing against each other. Farage quit and party was left to the zealots and nutters and obscurity followed…

[Si L @SimL65]

@pippaheylings I’m not trying to defend the Tories, far from it, but inflation has hit a Four MONTH high, not years….

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I just ran on this policy in an election and held Farage to a Count. You guys spent the summer on the log flume at Chessington.

[fleetstreetfox @fleetstreetfox]

The health element is paid to the terminally ill, housebound, paraplegic, and others with conditions so bad it stops them from working. It requires a strict DWP assessment and scrapping it would massively increase the costs to the state. This policy is fucking nasty. https://t.co/FqWLCyD6gX

[Si L @SimL65]

@fleetstreetfox Fortunately it’s never going to happen. In the past few weeks, as they slide in the polls, they announce nasty, unworkable policies they know won’t happen. Just look at El Salvador deportation and jailing Vodafone execs. Little Bobby wants to be leader…

[Si L @SimL65]

@pippaheylings @LibDems @andyburnham @EdwardJDavey Start by addressing the climate crisis in S Cambs. Non electrified EWR, mass house building on back of it without water resilience and busway destroying ancient orchard and green belt, all supported by Lib Dems. Hypocrisy

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Sky News legend Jon Craig points out that Nigel Farage is the first by-election winner not to turn up for the count since IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981.

https://t.co/rcHYsPS8ph

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Hugely important and brave critique of Farage from a supporter of his, and an astute political observer.

[Si L @SimL65]

The view from America…. @Nigel_Farage is now an international laughing stock

[CNN @CNN]

UK hard-right populist Nigel Farage wins special election in which his main rival was a trash can. https://t.co/ZoaNaMvS3y

[Si L @SimL65]

@TiceRichard And the votes cast for @CountBinface are way in excess of the 10% needed for a recall petition to succeed should your grifter-in-chief be suspended over the £5m bung…

[Si L @SimL65]

@GoodwinMJ Hilarious, given that the vast majority of the national press have been spouting your version of pound shop fascism for the past few years perhaps it’s finally dawned on them that you are an unelectable bunch of grifters. Btw how did your by-election go?

[John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar]

Well done @CountBinface!

Nigel_Farage skipped the results ceremony, citing police concerns they don’t seem to have. Perhaps he didn’t want to be photographed next to an immigrant from outer space.

Farage returns to Westminster, to scrutiny, to face the Parliamentary Standards Committee.

And my book, out September 10.

[Si L @SimL65]

@campbellclaret Just the first of a long line of “I’m the victim” lies to cover his tracks all the way up to possible suspension. At least the result proves a recall petition will succeed as @CountBinface poll numbers are more than needed for it to pass

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Humiliated by the farcical by-election he called, Nigel Farage petulantly skipping the Clacton count only reinforces how badly the King of Sleaze’s stunt spectacularly backfired.

Might Farage quit to spend more time with other people's money?

https://t.co/WEys27ZKkZ

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

As the Nicotine Stained Manfrog tries to spin his 22000 votes as a win, meet the real winner of this Backfiring Farage Stunt. @CountBinface should make us all feel proud to be British! Farage credibility is shot! As for not turning up to the count … pathetic. And spare us the ‘police warning BS’. Binface I salute you.

[Si L @SimL65]

@IsabelOakeshott @Nigel_Farage I doubt he will show for the next by election either. Good to note the number of votes for @CountBinface is more than enough for a recall petition to succeed. Looking forward to how foolish he looks after standards investigation

[Si L @SimL65]

@ZiaYusufUK Hilarious. “Shadow Home Secretary” has no idea what a strict liability law is. Only applies to food hygiene and motoring offences in criminal law. Total fantasy from a pound shop fascist who will never get elected.

[Si L @SimL65]

@StevenJonMiller I agree. I didn’t share her politics but she had integrity and knew what was morally right. That is why she would want Farage back in Parliament so he could face the standards investigation he attempted to dodge

[Si L @SimL65]

@basedandbougie @reformparty_uk @Nigel_Farage Hilarious. The reality is that today people in Clacton are voting in favour of reopening the standards investigation.
Here is a simple explainer:

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Checkmate, Nige.