And so this by-election circus happens tomorrow on the Essex coast eh?

I'm hoping beyond hope that there's an upset, but whatever the outcome, Farage will not emerge from this smelling of roses!

VOTE BINFACE!!!!!!!!!

Spelly.

BBC News reporting that the turnout was 43%, which I freely admit, I'm surprised at.

Result due between 5.00 and 7.00am and..............

No, I'm not staying up for it! 🤣 

Spelly.

£250,000 of taxpayer's money spent on a pointless circus!

He didn't even attend the declaration!

The other "main" parties said "Shove it Nigel!"

The £5,000,000 gift is still hanging over him, and not going away!

9,000+ for Binface!

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooo glad I don't live in Clacton!

Spelly.

This country is f******, what a waste of everyone's time and money. The sooner this pleb disappears off the face of the Earth, the better.

It's absolutely stupid, but it was the same for Burnham not that long ago, along with the £5m for the Mayoral race.

This has to be the worst group of politicians collectively in my lifetime, and the last 10 years have had some candidates.

In terms of salary, politics isn't particularly lucrative. That's why most MPs are useless (they'd be doing something more rewarding if they were any good) and on the take. It is a doorway to corruption and what we've seen over the past decade and a half is that exploited to its maximum; they don't even bother hiding it these days.

I think decision-making needs uncoupling from party politics. How can you manage an economy long-term when political ideology means key strategies shift every 5 years? Like the BoE manage interest rates, I think we need a non-political body to manage the country's finance, like they would any other business. All we've been doing for a long time is applying a sticking plaster to this country's problems and giving people handouts to help them survive; it's pathetic. Our political system breeds short-term thinking which is why the country is stagnated, and probably will be for ever.