How Nigel Farage Gets Put In the Bin

The Clacton by-election result showed exactly how it's all going to end for the Reform UK leader

You could tell how bad the Clacton by-election result was for Nigel Farage by the fact that he immediately went into hiding after it.

Reform UK cancelled not just one, but two victory speeches by Farage - at the count itself and at a planned rally afterwards.

His non-appearance at the result itself was particularly startling.

After all, this was a by-election that Farage had staked his entire political career upon and yet he couldn’t even face turning up in person to hear the result.

Even his excuses for not appearing quickly fell apart.

After he initially claimed that the police had advised him of a “credible threat” against him, Essex Police immediately released a statement making it clear that this was a lie.

Yet it was his subsequent statement that he didn’t want to be “demeaned and humiliated” by standing alongside all the other candidates that was the most revealing.

So was this by-election really a stunning victory for Farage, as he claimed, or was it actually a demeaning “humiliation” for him, as he then admitted?

Here’s why the Clacton result and his extraordinary response to it has inadvertently shown exactly how Farage’s career is now going to end.