The Clacton byelection was billed as Farage versus the establishment. Instead, it was an expensive exercise in proving something most of us already knew, writes Ash Sarkar.
Non-brit here. Can someone explain that move? He gets investigated and resigns, so the investigation stops. He then triggers an election that he wins, so the investigation is back on? What did he get from that besides attention?
Not even that, the investigation could continue regardless of him being an MP, it’s more that the consequences of a parliamentary investigation are limited to parliament, so there’s little point if he’s no longer an MP (except they could prevent him from ever being an MP again). And the police can also investigate separately, but they traditionally hold off until a parliamentary investigation is completed.
Non-brit here. Can someone explain that move? He gets investigated and resigns, so the investigation stops. He then triggers an election that he wins, so the investigation is back on? What did he get from that besides attention?
It delayed the investigation by a number of weeks, allowing him, or someone else, to hide something before it got investigated.
Apparently his team told the dumbdumb that resigning would end the investigation, but didn’t know that regaining his seat would reopen it. Whoopsies.
Not even that, the investigation could continue regardless of him being an MP, it’s more that the consequences of a parliamentary investigation are limited to parliament, so there’s little point if he’s no longer an MP (except they could prevent him from ever being an MP again). And the police can also investigate separately, but they traditionally hold off until a parliamentary investigation is completed.
I suspect attention is fuel for this particular knobhead.
Brit here. No fucking idea.
It doesn’t make anymore sense to a brit
It’s a Trump/Orban/Milei move to try and convince voters that he’s being picked on by the Establishment. Sadly, for many it works.