Nigel Farage stay: Clacton voters blast Reform chief’s ‘bizarre’ by-election plot as Count Binface unmasked

Locals in Clacton have blasted Nigel Farage for “wasting money” on a by-election which could set back the taxpayer around £200,000.

Few things can steer chat away from the weather during a heatwave in a UK seaside town but Mr Farage’s antics has certainly turned up the heat in his Essex constituency.

Mr Farage has been an MP for just over two years but the people of Clacton could soon hit the polls again to pick between the leader of Reform UK and Count Binface – a comedian who has been the only person to announce they’ll run against Farage.

Some locals in Clacton accused Farage’s move as being a “waste of money” while complaining the hundreds of thousands it could cost for a by-election could be better spent on the area instead.

With visitors hitting the pier with ice cream dripping down their hands and tucking into fish and chips and a drink on a hot July day, it could be easy to miss Clacton-on-Sea, and the rest of Farage’s Essex constituency, have been pulled into an uncertain political tussle.

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