Nigel Farage declared ‘we are skint'. He meant the country, not his party Reform. He said it again. ‘We are skint.' So skint, indeed, that he proposed billions more in public spending, as well as cutting taxes.
A little man from Sky News worked out that his budget was three times madder than Liz Truss's. Mr Farage shrugged. ‘We're radical.'
His sums were so, er, adventurous that it was only apt that the front of Reform's election manifesto had a photograph of an electric-blue-suited Farage reaching for his wallet pocket. Behind him in shot was a doorway just like that of 10 Downing Street.
Not that he liked ‘manifesto'. He argued that when voters hear that noun nowadays, 비아그라처방 ‘the immediate word-association is "lie" '. Hard to argue with that.
We were in South Wales at Merthyr Tydfil, one of the poorer towns in the country. The carpets at this community centre stank of beer.
Benvenuto!
