Clacton Showdown - Nigel v Binface

Nigel Farage’s plan to go to the good burghers of Clacton in a by election to rage against the establishment machine faces falling into farce.

All major parties claim they will boycott what they call a stunt with only Count Binface confirming he will stand against the Reform leader.

It was just last week that we considered Nigel Farage's levels of stress, capacity to absorb the blows and whether he had the will to fight on. Lo and behold he's just demanded a dramatic Back Me or Sack Me from the good seaside folk of Clacton who now face their lucrative summer season being cancelled as the world's press descend on the Essex seaside for a shock by election. The first person declared to stand is its ex MP Nigel Farage. . Like Andy Burnham before him, Nigel is arguably abusing the democratic reason for local parliamentary elections, they are neither for overthrowing a sitting PM nor for diverting attention from an MP investigated for improper use of funds.

Meanwhile, England has proper royalty once again in the form of a Harry, not Prince Harry but Harry Kane! Kane is a nailed on winner, Harry Windsor is a sore loser. He's now facing a lawyer's bill for millions having lost at the High Court against the publishers of the Mail titles found to have used lawful journalistic methods to write royal stories, albeit without his consent. It's just not going well for Harry, literally an ' Heir BnB' after his dad refused him a room at the Palace. Where does he go from here?