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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“I'm absolutely gutted. I thought he was going to run the country and everything was going to be lovely." I think if you thought Nigel Farage was going to make everything lovely, you were always destined to be gutted.

BBC headline: 'Now we can't even trust Reform': Clacton residents react to announcement

The BBC has been speaking to people in Clacton, the constituency at the heart of this by-election.

"I'm very disappointed because he's promised all these things and he's gone back on his promise," one woman says.

She adds: "Who can you trust in the government nowadays? You can't trust Labour, you know. We can't trust the Conservatives and now we can't even trust Reform, so I really don't know who l'd vote next time."

One man says: "I'm absolutely gutted. I thought he was going to run the country and everything was going to be lovely. Don't know what to say other than that."

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Some Clacton voters shining in this FT report too. “Where’s the scrutiny on Keir Starmer?” asks one, referring to the prime minister who has been so thoroughly and critically scrutinised from all quarters for the past two years that he recently resigned. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Down the road, another group of locals label the government a "waste of space", asking: "Where's the scrutiny on the others? Where's the scrutiny on Keir
Starmer?"

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