[politics] I saw all Reform’s weaknesses on display in Makerfield – Farage should be worried … Guardian reporting the aftermath of the Makerfield by-election. ‘I have sometimes found them a bit standoffish about Farage, tending to see him as too macho and full of himself – one should always remember that undying bit of folk-wisdom, “Nobody likes a smartarse” – and also wary of his leaning into the ultra-right. This forms one half of Farage’s essential dilemma: as one Reform MP quoted in the Times reportedly said of Makerfield voters’ reaction on the doorstep: “We were either too racist or not racist enough.”’
“We were either too racist or not racist enough.”
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