How is the idea that Nigel Farage might join the ‘broad church’ Conservative party going then? Given that he floated the notion mainly to troll the party’s high-ups and then they breathed life into it mainly to try and keep right-leaning voters on board, it’s going about as well as one might expect. Which is to say terribly.
On Thursday, Farage replied as follows to a tweet by James Cleverly that had sought to claim credit for the lack of small boat Channel crossings over Christmas: ‘You may be called Cleverly but you are clearly a moron. I am close to Dover now, the wind has been gusting 50 mph…That is why there are no migrant crossings. You charlatans and liars all deserve to lose your seats at the election.’
In the absence of a scare, many 2019 Conservative voters are likely to be in the mood for insurrection
So that’s that then.
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