Nigel Farage has won the Clacton byelection on an increased vote count, despite turnout being down 14 per cent, pushing his support locally higher to 22,329 votes. Farage called the election in July by resigning his seat over what he called a 'vexatious' Parliamentary investigation into his finances, which if found against him, could have resulted in him being forced to resign his seat and fight for it again. Confounding that bid to stitch him up with lawfare and Parliamentary process, Farage said then “I’ve decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions” and called a “people versus the establishment by-election”.
One by one, Britain’s other political parties quickly announced they were going to boycott the election to undermine the credibility of the result. Yet they then spoilt their own strategy by then tacitly backing a unified opposition candidate in the form of a BBC satirist “scriptwriter and producer” Jon Harvey, who has worked on shows including Have I Got News For You and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and stood as the comedy alias of ‘Count Binface’.
Now Mr Farage is a Member of Parliament again, the investigation into whether a £5 million gift he received before he became a Member of Parliament should strictly have been declared as a donation under House rules will resume. Indeed, legacy media outlets fell over themselves to propagate this information as quickly and widely as possible on Friday morning, this having been the point for them all along.
Looks to me the opposition didn't take that election very seriously...
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