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GWYNNE DYER: What will happen in Britain's upcoming election?

Count Binface could pull off a surprise by-election win and dethrone Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, under scrutiny for financial failings

At the time of writing, there is still hope that Count Binface can pull off a surprise by-election win and dethrone Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, who has led the opinion polls in Britain for the past two years.

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The danger is that the Monster Raving Loony Party may also run, splitting the vote and letting Farage win.

Nigel Farage is what was known in wartime British slang as a ‘spiv’: a flashy, fast-talking petty criminal who always has something shoddy and borderline illegal to sell. Farage is not actually a criminal, my lawyers have instructed me to say, but he has led three political parties — UK Independence Party, Brexit Party, Reform UK — and they all smelled a bit off.

They were all anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist, and shyly racist, and they all used ‘populist’ tactics well before that style went global. Think of him as a Donald Trump who didn’t inherit great wealth but is a lot more coherent. And, in due course, the rest of the world did catch up: his current political vehicle, Reform UK, has led the opinion polls for two years........

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