Sometimes bias makes people illogical. He knows the right thing would have been for Farage to wait for the Standards Committee to conclude its findings and present himself to his constituents to judge. By which time, he would most likely get re-elected, and the damage would have been done nationally. But yeah, a stunt by-election is him vs the establishment he is part of.
Politicians' decisions are breaking Britain. Those on benefits get free 30hr childcare, while those who work have to pay extra. What, then, is the incentive to work?
The Government must block Nigel Farage’s resignation until the Standards Commissioner finishes investigating him. The people of Clacton deserve the full facts.
If a by-election does go ahead, all parties should stand aside. We cannot give oxygen to this vanity project.
The Labour Party has just confirmed it will not stand in the Clacton by-election.
Nor are the Tories, Restore or the Lib Dem’s
So the only party standing is Reform.
The by-election is illegitimate.
A media circus because @Nigel_Farage wants to avoid the Parliamentary watch dog.
Well he will not be able to avoid scrutiny. All he can do is delay it.
The correct thing to do is for Farage to resign as leader and have a leadership election. Save Reform and all the work that has gone into it.
Invite @RupertLowe10 to stand in that election.
This is the Sunday Times Insight team investigation which Nigel Farage cited in his resignation/by-election statement and which, he said, had led to a new inquiry by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
We stand by our reporting into his undisclosed financial support from George Cottrell, which both Cottrell and Reform have already repeatedly confirmed.
BREAKING🚨
The Telegraph reports George Cottrell's mother made a ***£1m*** payment to Richard Tice's company, half of which was donated to Reform
And that George Cottrell loaned £80K to Tice
We approached Fiona Cottrell about the above before our piece - she wouldn't comment
If I lose, they win. If they win, you lose.
If you lose, Britain will forever be broken and nothing will change. We will prevail.
My message to the people of Clacton. 👇
BREAKING
Kemi Badenoch says that the Tories will not stand a candidate in 'this fake by-election'. She accuses Farage of 'running away from scrutiny' and having a 'hissy fit'
So the Tories, Lib Dems and Restore Britain won't stand a candidate. Labour is also expected to refrain from joining the contest
Kemi Badenoch: 'We will be standing a candidate in the real by-election, which will follow the standards investigation into Nigel Farage’s fishy finances
'We will not be standing a candidate in the fake by-election that Farage is causing to distract people from what is happening. We need to let that investigation run its course, and I think the reason why Nigel Farage has resigned is because he’s terrified that he's going to be found to have done something wrong.
'The best thing for him to have done would have been to call a press conference and explain what he did with the money, apologise if needs be, and that would have been the end of it. Instead, he has been running away from scrutiny. No one is bigger than parliament. We all have to register our interests.
'We, the Conservative Party, are very focused on uniting the country around sensible policies. We're going to focus on getting Britain working again and showing some common sense, not throwing random by-elections out because we're having a hissy fit.'