IN May 1381, the furious villagers of Fobbing, Essex, started the Peasants’ Revolt by marching to London in a protest over poll tax. Now, 643 years later, might the residents of its cohort of Clacton be about to deliver an equally stark message to Parliament by voting in Nigel Farage as their next MP? For years, this professional disrupter has been throwing bottles at mainstream politicians from the back of the room and, fresh from a successful stint in the TV jungle, the prospect of him lobbing political grenades from inside the House of Commons is a tempting one. I’m A Celebrity .
. . Get Me In There.
Whatever your party persuasion, politics has just got interesting again. He even got splattered with milkshake yesterday. With the nation sedated into a virtual coma by the “blah blah blah” droning of the two mainstream parties, Farage is a one-man defibrillator who will deliver a much-needed high-energy shock to political debate over the next month.
He fired the first salvo on Monday with his Trump-like promise to “make Britain great again” — a deliberate dog whistle to the disaffected millions who feel abandoned by the Tories and Labour . The question is: Will Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer rise to the challenge ? For as it stands, we have a man whose party has been in power for 14 years, and done little to resonate with voters, frittering away an 80-plus majority gained by Boris Johnson in 2019. And a man whose party has had 14 years to come up with some hum.
