UK elections

Money talks louder than any underlying principle of racism. He’s clearly got more money than sense, so they deserve each other.

Farage is apparently going to be spreading his poison to Scotland.

September 2024 Nigel Farage to visit Scotland and campaign for Holyrood Reform seats

Nigel Farage insists he will be campaigning in Scotland ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election.

The Reform UK leader’s comments came as a recent poll put the party on 9% in the constituency vote in less than two years’ time, just two percentage points behind the Scottish Conservatives. …

June 2024 Reform: Nigel Farage ‘won’t come to Scotland because it’s too dangerous’

NIGEL Farage will not visit Scotland during the General Election campaign because it is “dangerous”, the chair of Reform UK has said.

Richard Tice, who was the nominal leader of the party until Farage officially took the title earlier in June, made the comments as he held a press conference at Grangemouth.

He claimed that Farage’s “safety and security” would be at risk if he visited north of the Border. …

In 2013, while Ukip leader, Farage faced protests in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh and was forced to leave a pub in the Scottish capital under police escort. [Channel 4, The Guardian]

In April 2023, Farage broadcast an episode of his GB News show from Aberdeen without incident. …

Private Eye has been reporting on Farage’s absence from Clacton. He apparently has still not set up a constituency office there and constituents therefore can’t raise local issues with him. PE also writes that the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and the Yeti were all on holiday in Clacton recently and didn’t spot him.

There’s apparently a rats-in-a-sack spat going on in Reform UK at the moment.