CLACTON-ON-SEA, England – Long-time readers of The National Pulse, as well as followers of my work over the past decade, will have noted my historic animosity towards Britain’s governing Conservative Party. I was a member from my time at university until around 2012 after David Cameron (now Lord Cameron, Foreign Secretary) had entered into a governing coalition with Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (now Global Affairs President, Meta).
Shortly after this moment, I realized there would be no “conservative” government, as Cameron gladly handed Clegg anything the Liberals wanted, and Clegg gladly undermined anything close to conservative policy at a national level.
Enter Nigel Farage, who I first met “properly” outside the birthday party of a BBC producer at a swanky restaurant in Parliament Square. He seemed alright to me, and sounded like he was putting together a team of actual right-wing patriots who would stand against ‘the Cameroons’, as they came to be known.
With some hitches and blips along the way, that moment is currently being fully realized in England, where I write for you from the coastline of Clacton-on-Sea, a ‘Conservative’-held seat where Farage is making his stand.
A deprived though proud town, parts of Clacton have even found fame in the United States, having been pictured in a Republican Party leaflet in 2018.
‘COME ON, ENGLAND!’
As the England team made their way onto the pitch for yesterday’s Euro 2024 match against Denmark, the political throes within which Clacton has found itself of late ebbed away, if only for 90 minutes.
Farage wasn’t at the The Moon & Starfish pub yesterday. He was in the north of England, campaigning alongside other candidates he was supporting across the country. But members of his Reform Party staff were present and cognizant of the potential of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party splitting local votes in an attempt to keep Farage out of Parliament.
As we discussed it, a local Labour canvasser walked by in a red, high-visibility jacket, clearly out campaigning during the England match. Tone deaf as ever from Britain’s once-proud working-class political party turned globalist shell.
Reform Party campaigners expressed both optimism and leeriness – noting that Farage’s time is now, more than ever, but fearful over the “dirty tricks” the establishment may pull in the intervening period. Most notably, they fear for his safety. We were standing on the steps of the very pub he was assaulted at just weeks ago when discussing it.
I’ve spoken to Farage about this a number of times. It frustrates him because retail politics is really his brand. He doesn’t want to be cowed from meeting with the public, or walking down the street, or knocking on doors himself. And he doesn’t want to be seen to do all of these things with a huge security entourage.
He’ll be campaigning in Clacton this weekend, and The National Pulse will be your eyes and ears on the ground.
