Most political parties would have chosen to go quiet, what with it being the middle of August and having next to nothing to say. But Reform are made of stronger stuff. They aren’t bothered that the only interesting thing about them at the moment is that they are fighting like rats in a sack.
They seem to wear that as a badge of honour. A coming of age sophistication. So for the second time in a week they called a press conference.
Obviously there was no sign of Nigel Farage. He is still in hiding, avoiding answering questions on Reform’s unusual funding models and perhaps having therapy to recover from his humiliating byelection adventure. Nor were we to be graced with Zia Yusuf who is now close to becoming a persona non grata in the party having picked fights with almost everyone.
It’s just that no one, least of all Tim Montgomerie, is allowed to say so until Nige works out what to do about him. So that left this presser in the shaky hands of Richard Tice and Suella Braverman. Dicky is ubiquitous these days.
Mainly because he’s too dim not to realise that not all publicity is good publicity. Perhaps he can’t resist the attention or feeling of freedom he gets when not umbilically attached to Nige. It allows him to believe that he is a fully sentient, independent being.
Rather than one of the last clowns standing in the circus. It was Dicky who got us under way, trying not to look too grumpy that the weather had turned and rain was forecast. He seems to prefer the smell of smoke, the thrill of fire-fighters risking their lives to but put wildfires and the threat of drought.
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