The Clacton By-Election Has Entered Peak Binface

With no major parties standing, a standards investigation paused, and Count Binface waiting in Clacton, Farage’s grand reckoning is quickly something much funnier and much dodgier.

Yesterday was… a lot.

It started with Farage losing his rag at the airport on his way back from the States when approached by Sky News, led to his bombshell, somewhat pompous grievance-fest dressed as a press release, and then to that bombshell turning right around and blowing up directly in his face.

The political atmosphere in the country, rather nicel…