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The Clacton by-election is hotting up ...

All the Reform groupies who spent the Makerfield by election complaining that it was terrible and was dividing the right and handing victory to Andy Burnham that the Conservatives and Restore put up candidates in that by election ...

are now screaming at the top of their voices accusing the Conservatives and Restore of being "Terrified Spineless Chickens" and part of an establishment plot to stop Reform by NOT standing candidates in the Clacton by-election.

It is rare, but there are several precedents for major parties deciding not to contest an election.

  • If the Speaker of the House is seeking re-election to that position he or she is not usually opposed.
  • It's a comparatively recent practice which was not in effect at the time the late Ian Gow MP was murdered, but on the last two occasions when an MP was assassinated, (Jo Cox and David Amess) the major parties other than that to which the murdered MP belonged did not stand.
  • Far more relevant to the current Clacton by-election was the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election, when David David resigned his seat and fought a by-election on the issue of Civil Liberties. The Labour and Lib/Dem parties declined to be framed as opposing civil liberties and neither put up a candidate.

And to be fair to David Davis, although he attracted quite a lot of the same sorts of criticism currently being levelled at Nigel Farage, his by-election was called, not in an attempt to pre-empt a standards inquiry. but on an important point of principle - the then government's proposals to limit habeas corpus and detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge.

The Lib Dems - who came second in 2005 - chose not to run because they also opposed the government's plans to extend the time limit on holding terrorism suspects.

Labour refused to stand, describing the by-election as a farce and a waste of more than £80,000 of public money.


Returning to Clacton and 2026, while referring to the parties who are not putting up candidates as "Terrified Spineless Chickens," Reform UK are also busy denouncing the guy who is standing against them, Jonathan David Harvey a.k.a. "Count Binface" as "a tool of the deep state."

Yes, they're going to spend the next few weeks denouncing a man with a bin on his head.

Only in Britain ...

Natedaleymusic summed it up perfectly ...






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