MEMO to the good people of Clacton: Vote for Nigel Farage tomorrow. As I wrote recently, he will be a much-needed and highly entertaining challenge to the main parties in Parliament . But if you’re thinking of voting Reform outside the confines of the Essex seaside town .
. . DON’T because, trust me — you’ll regret it.
There are only two parties with a hope of winning, and if you’re a disgruntled Conservative who puts an “X” next to Reform , you will be splitting the Tory vote and handing victory on a plate to Sir Keir Starmer . A man who, despite trying to distance himself from Jeremy Corbyn , was an integral part of the former Labour leader’s inner circle and very much his champion when it suited his political ambition. So, Scotland aside, which always ploughs its own furrow, where does that leave the voters of Great Britain? The Lib Dems — led by the Right Honourable Member for It’s A Knockout, Ed Davey .
And the Greens, led by double act Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, who, Brighton and Bristol aside, the majority of the electorate couldn’t pick out in an ID parade. Leaving us with Rishi Sunak , the man who has been our unelected Prime Minister since October 2022 and finds himself being slapped on the head, Benny Hill-style, at every political debate with the refrain: “The Tories have been in power for 14 years and done bog all.” Which, considering Boris Johnson handed them an 80+ seat majority in July 2019, is a fair point.
But factor in the glo.
