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Nigel Farage resigns - is this the beginning of the end of Reform?

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The Nigel Farage donation scandal reached a breaking point on Tuesday when he took the extreme step of triggering his own by-election. But was this a shrewd move or has it backfired? Ed Balls and George Osborne examine the risks to Reform, how Kemi Badenoch may use it to her advantage, and whether Count Binface could really be Clacton’s next MP.

While some see Farage as future PM, the next man set to lead the country remains Andy Burnham. With nominations opening for Labour leader today, and no other candidate in the race, it’s all set to be a coronation. But is this a good thing? George’s Labour sources have all voiced anxieties about the lack of scrutiny on Burnham, while Ed counters that a heated contest could have boxed in the next Labour leader.

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Please vote for Bin Face

@anncartner3393
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Why is it so complicated?
Harborne owns 12% Tether
Gives Farage 5millio
Farage lobbies Andrew Bailey to avoid BoE CBDC
Which would compete with Tether.
Tether supports Cantor Fitzgerald
Which Lutnick is deeply connected with
And his mate Trump signs the Genius Act
And who is Farage mm ates with?
I should have been a journalist...lol

@scream1t
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Ed very supportive of Burnham, just patriotically supporting Labour or after a job for him or his wife?

@pr5x
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He will “ Bin Back Control “

@ewanwelsh4339
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If you look at this as an exercise in stupidity because you never considered what your adversaries would do in response it's quite easy to compare Nigel's latest stunt with Trumps stupidity in backing Netanyahu in Iran. Good thing Nigel isn't running our foreign policy.

@Kindred-Spirit-Experiences
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Get on with it

@rogeroliver6307
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How this guy shows his face as he started the austerity decline, hes opinion is useless!

@innerpeace9012
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I’d go for binface anytime

@pamlake4724
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Of course Kemi will be the big winner. Odd that George doesn’t make the point but Ed can see it?!

@SW-tn9oc
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❌ Reform

❌ Restore

✅ Refuse



Farage - "Binfamy, binfamy they've got it bin for me"

@KullySingh164
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Posh George (the other one) is a criminal with funds from criminal activity.
Farage knows all about it, he was standing next to him in 2016 in Chicago airport when the feds arrested him.
Posh George provides Farage with fancy houses, minders and goodness knows what else. Farage knows the money is tainted.
He is desperate that the Posh George investigation goes away.
This may look like a stunt but it is a desperate bid to escape his criminal past. After the bye election any new investigation can only go back to August 2025.

@julianlord2697
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Burnham isn’t radical he will simply do what every other post war Prime Minister has done, tinker around the edges while overseeing decline. It’s time for an agenda to make the UK fit for the 21st century. We need to stop tinkering with a post-WWII state bureaucracy that stifles growth, kills innovation, and creates dependency instead of opportunity.

Let’s start by abolishing the DWP and replacing it with a streamlined, cash-based subsistence allowance—saving billions in administrative bloat alone. Couple that with reforming the NHS into a fit-for-purpose healthcare provider, cutting VAT to 15%, and raising the tax-free personal allowance to £20k to get the economy moving. By 2030, Asia alone will have 4 billion people. That reality is unassailable. If we don’t reform we won’t survive the next 50 years as a relevant economy.

@shepherd-b5y
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The people of Clacton don’t know how lucky they are. They will never again get an opportunity to elect a candidate like BinFace. This is once in a life time.

@ZigBeehaviour
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Very disappointing that a female Labour MP will not enter the race and stand against Burnham? Not one of them would get 80 votes? They can have no excuses if they are not happy with a white male biased cabinet?

@andyc6582
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It would be very interesting to know if the leaders in Westminster all got together in a room and collectively agreed not to stand in Clacton? It is the interest of Labour, Tories, Greens and Lib Dems that the process and investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards runs on for months. Why does it take months, not weeks or days for the investigation to be completed? The Conservatives (Giles Watling) won in Clacton in 2019 & 2017 getting 31,438 and then 27,031 votes. George why would the Conservatives not put a candidate up? Kemi very recently said that she and her party have the answers. Why not test the political waters and show that they can beat Reform?

@andyc6582
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Enough of the bullshit rhetoric of the pseudo right. He's not going to become Prime Minister. If this whole fiasco has shown one thing, this petulant child is not Prime Ministerial material. Now everybody can see it. Only the most gammony are clinging to the myth of his legitimacy. They and the shill advocates (who have an agenda, if not at this moment, any political credibility).

@timholder6825
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It will be interesting to see how it all pans out with the by elections, I just think reform at the moment are very much learning a pretty big and valuable lesson in that anything to do with money that comes into your party it will stick to you and it will linger like a bad smell. Whatever happens this will be a big lesson learnt by reform

@TomouskiPlayz
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39:37 a bit hypocritical from a member of the Tory party for the last decade, posh George?

@alan_davis
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Binface v Frogface... bring it on

@andrewhalket4129
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in it to bin it. brilliant

@ivanatickle-notsure
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Everyone needs to get behind binface to get rid of the political ferret farage!

@mattrichardson6629
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21:57 and IIRC he did a good job and was reelected later.

@alan_davis
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Bin-Face in, Duck-Face out! Humour and Light, versus Grift and Hatred.

@ianworley8169
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4:54 well you should. Spell it out. The guy's a grifter and a crook.

@alan_davis
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God, these two has old beens, are just so completely smug and so they can no longer think beyond their tiny minds!

@Simon-d3n
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Because you two are smug uni party types, it has not crossed your mind that all the other parties have not put up candidates because they were too worried that they would lose to Binface!

@Simon-d3n
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It's on, Binface vs Frogface, come on the Bin.

@blurstickle
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I don’t think Clapton voters will desert Farage - and the count binface creation funny tho he is, is not a humour they will follow or understand the wit of..

However deceptive Nigel Farage is, he is tapping into frustration felt by average people who do average work and not receiving enough money to survive. No politicians are supporting your average Roman citizen while the Denarii is being debased and bread costs too much..

@chriswol63
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What about Restore in all this…. Will Rupert’s appearance on Joe Rogan the biggest podcast in the world have any effect…..?

@victoriashirley6416
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You two haven’t been vilified in the press in the same way Nigel has, so not sure you can compare yourselves with this situation

@victoriashirley6416
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Without doubt this is driven more by who Farage is than by the breach.. To an outsider, the fuss looks absurd as he got the money before he even became an MP. It’s discrimination and a stitch-up by Westminster. It is utterly appalling that all means possible are being deployed to deny him power, even though he has had a commanding position in the polls for eighteen months now. It is Westminster that needs investigation, not Farage.

@genty1011
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Two sides of the same self satisfied/important arse!

@Hypogamy
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We must take the "P" out of politics and the "F" out of farage.
Politics should be taken with a little "p."
I saw Faragee the other day in Clacton arguing with a bunch of green wheely bins.
Ban shredded cheese and make Britain grate again.
The people of Clacton must vote, but make sure your vote counts.

@nigelballard-m7h
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The people of Clacton are using reverse psychology. They will vote Farage in so he can’t dodge accountability 😂😂😂😂😂

@henriettaraphael4368
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Build a flake factory on the local industrial estate near Clacton. Boosting jobs and the economy.... Flake sales will go mental... Binface is smart... 😂

@MatthewForman-b9o
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I assume that if he believes in the "court of the people" rather than the court of the land that this is good news for Sharia Law. A man of the people.

@Dog_Biscuit
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In Bin we trust.

@CravingBeer
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Osborne pontificating about dodgy financial relationships? Really? Nauseating.

@snork2458