Announces that he will no longer attend Prime Minister's question time and sat in the press gallery to protest against the "most unrepresentative parliament ever".
The cause of his complaint? Despite his funny little sidekick Richard Tice bobbing up and down to catch the Speaker's attention, Reform UK are rarely called upon to ask a question. The reason being that they hold just 5 seats in the House of Commons. Out of 650.
But they do have a very popular TikTok account, which in Farage's eyes counts for more than parliamentary representation.
It's a good job that he announced he was going on strike on national TV as his Clacton-on-Sea constituents probably would not have noticed the difference otherwise.
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@SunshineGirl I don't think he could get anymore upset than he is now, no doubt he'll be back there in six months time contesting Caerphilly again, and we'll have another laugh.
@FreddieUK The Labour Party is in shock mode, it's the biggest shock they have ever seen in my opinion Caerphilly was one of the strongest seats in the country.
If Labour's red wall collapses in the forthcoming Senedd election Plaid Cymru could quite easily take control of the Senedd I think that's what will now happen.
@senghenydd You could well be right. It will be interesting to see in the wider UK elections whether similar tactical voting will take place to stop Reform UK taking power.
@FreddieUK I am quite sure that Labour's "Red Wall" in South Wales is over it seems according to yesterday's By-election Labour voters defected to Reform the numbers add up.
Plaid Cymru will rule Wales (what a shock this is) Wales overnight will be like Scotland the Nationalist will take over.
@senghenydd It seems to me he did remarkably well. And I recall your saying, on the day of the election, that it was a two-horse race between Plaid Cymru and Labour!
@MartinII For the last Hundred years Labour has dominated Caerphilly in fact South Wales the previous election was between Labour and Plaid Cymru with Reform only polling 496 votes as a follower of these elections I didn't think it was possible for Reform to come second, I was so wrong.
I some how missed you reply and only noticed it now.
