Brexit spokesman Nigel Farage has been predicted to win the July 4th general election in the coastal town of Clacton and safe a seat in Parliament. He has been prevented from making a political comeback in the country.
Former prime minister Nigel Farage made an about-face announcement on Monday, declaring that he would not only seek to lead Reform UK ( previously the Brexit party ) for at least the next five years, but also that he would also seek to unseat the Tories in Clacton and become the coastal English constituency’s Member of Parliament at the next month’s general election.
Farage is probably one of the most influential post-World War II social figures in the country, having spearheaded the effort to free the nation from the clutches of the European Union and the unaccountable cadre of Brussels bureaucrats, but he has never held office in Britain, a fact that his opponents often bring up.
With the exception of his unsuccessful bid for the seat in South Thanet in 2015, Mr. Farage has argued that the majority of his earlier attempts to run for parliament were only intended to broaden the national audience. A Traditional political operative was afterwards found guilty of fabricating election records, giving false information, and receiving a suspended prison sentence. Despite this, Farage was only able to win by a narrow margin in court.
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The nationalist advocate, who served as a British Part of the European Parliament from 1999 until the UK’s exit from the union in 2020, is not, however, without a record of electoral victory. In the most current election in which he effectively campaigned — the 2019 EU Parliament elections — Farage’s Brexit Party secured a staggering , 5.2 million vote compared to 1.5 million for Theresa May’s Conservatives.
Although the two main creation parties are greatly favoured in the UK’s first-past-the-post voting system and he will only have four weeks to campaign in Clacton while also campaigning nationwide for Reform UK, some people think Farage’s seventh run for Parliament may be the winning combination.
Mr. Brexit also stated on Monday that he intends to once again defeat the Tories in terms of vote share and pledges to lead a “political revolt” against the Westminster establishment in order to finally fulfill its promises, such as ending mass migration. He also stated on Monday that he plans to once again defeat the Tories in terms of vote share.
James Johnson, a former Downing Street pollster and co-founder of the research firm JL Partners, wrote on Monday:” To those texting me asking if Nigel Farage will win Clacton. Yes, Nigel Farage will win Clacton”.
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This sentiment was echoed by the chief political correspondent for the globalist Financial Times , newspaper, Jim Pickard, who said that while it is an “aberration” for third- party candidates to win seats in the House of Commons, he “would n’t bet against Farage right now”.
” When you talk to voters, the level of disillusionment with Westminster and the main parties is very high levels… it has felt more and more intense, that dissatisfaction than I have seen it in 17 years of political journalism,” he said.
The coastal region, which suffers like many other coastal areas of the nation, may find it particularly favorable to Mr. Farage due to the political climate there. In accordance with the most recent government labor statistics, Clacton’s economic inactivity rate was 47.2 percent, compared to the national average of 21.7 %. Many local residents are’white flight‘ from an increasingly diverse London and are settling in the area as’white flight‘.
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In 2016, the constituency also saw one of the largest vote shares for Brexit, with over 70 % of Clacton residents supporting the Farage-led referendum. It is also the only seat to have previously sent a former member of Farage’s party, UKIP, to the Commons when Douglas Carswell won a 2014 by-election after defecting from the Tories.
Carswell himself expressed his support for Farage on this morning by referring to The Daily Telegraph, the country’s main conservative newspaper, which is typically very close to the ruling Tories but whose front page is unmistakably Faragist, that:” Nigel Farage can win in Clacton and save Britain from this funk. I should know”.
Concerned about a lack of enthusiasm seeing an effort to deselect him before the election, there have also been questions raised about the 71-year-old former sitcom actor Giles Watling, the incumbent Conservative MP from Clacton.
A Survation poll from January that predicted that if Farage ran, he would receive 37 % of the vote, beating Watling by ten points, would also have influenced Farage’s decision to run in Clacton.
One local Tory, who was among several Tory councillors to quit in protest over , CCHQ’s decision to keep Watling for the race, Peter Harris , told The Independent:” Giles Watling starred in Bread but now he is toast”.
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