Sarah Elizabeth Cox looks out of the sea-view window of her flat in Clacton. In one direction , the sun sets over Jaywick Sands. In the other, it rises over the North Sea.
“I look out at the sea at all times of the day. A sea view is one of the amazing things about living in Clacton. But I’ve never ever seen a single boat with any migrants,” says charity worker Sarah Elizabeth, who is on maternity leave.
“In fact, I don’t think there have ever been any recorded landing anywhere near Clacton. The area doesn’t have much immigration at all – it’s 95.3% white for a start.
” She pauses. “Which makes it strange that Nigel Farage is fighting his entire election on immigration.” Sarah, 37, moved from London to Clacton in Essex over a year ago to be near family and raise her baby son, Jack.
Now she feels the area is being tarred as “a den of racism” by the Reform UK leader’s decision to stand . “The thing is, I can’t tell you a single thing Nigel Farage is going to do for Clacton,” she says. “And I don’t think Nigel Farage can tell you either.
The other local candidates all engage with local issues.” This time next week, Clacton may make history by returning Nigel Farage – and Reform UK’s first ever MP – to Parliament. After 14 years of wrecking communities and allowing the hard right to infiltrate the higher echelons of their party, the Tories have let the poison flood over the sea wall.
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