Peak Farage? There's a good case to be made

Back in April I mused that we’d perhaps already seen Peak Reform.  Things haven’t gone at all well for them since the May local elections: successive by-election flops; Restore eating their lunch; the Farage Finance scandalette; and the Clacton Binface fiasco.  Etc.  Is anyone listening now to their noisy Ceuta bandwagon as it crashes down the cobbled streets of their target constituencies?

Anyhow, here’s a piece supporting – and personalising – the Peak Reform conjecture:  it reckons we might have seen Peak Farage lui-même.  The GE could be a while yet, and if Farage’s moment has come and gone, who else have they got?  Which is pretty much the main issue: how do you field 600 credible candidates when you can’t muster 6, and when your party leader can’t deal with anyone with half a personality?

Meanwhile, the great charlatan at the head of the Green Party is increasingly looking as silly and irrelevant as we know him to be; and YourParty gets ever more a caricature of itself – see some of the closing paragraphs cited below[1].   And Badenoch’s persistence, stamina and recent sure-footedness (plus or minus a ‘reformed’ neo-N) seem to be quietly paying off, albeit from a catastrophically low baseline.  I have long held that both Labour and Conservative parties have all the hallmarks of genuinely enduring institutions – at least to an extent that needs to be overlaid on pretty outlandish claims that they are both toast.   A large popcorn order is called for, before prices go through the drought-driven roof. 

What do we think?

ND

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[1] See this sad little passage from the Chair’s minutes of the most recent YourParty  ‘central executive committee’ meeting.  

… This isn’t what I want to be writing to you about, but it is unfortunately the case that some members of the CEC took the view that I should be removed as Chair. I don’t agree with them … What disappoints me is that before these [administrative points] could be considered – before we could get on to the agenda – much of the meeting was lost to points of order seeking to remove me.  By the time we finally got going, after a vote to remove me had been defeated, several members had left …

Stop laughing at the back!   She’s a kind, nicely-spoken middle-class white lady, only doing her best to advance the Revolution: