On his eighth try to become a U.K. lawmaker, anti-immigration campaigner Nigel Farage is running in a struggling town that voted to leave the European Union.
CLACTON-ON-SEA, England — This is a little Brexit town, straining against stubborn poverty, alarmed by rising immigration. It’s a faded seaside resort filled with empty arcades and shuttered shops. Ask the locals to describe their home and they often use the word “forgotten,” or an expletive.. About 70 percent of people here wanted to get out of the European Union and “take back control” of their laws and borders. Their member of Parliament was a co-founder of the Vote Leave campaign.
The last time Britain went to the polls in a general election, Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to a landslide under the banner “— Prime Minister Rishi Sunak nor his challenger Keir Starmer — use the “B-word” much. For Conservative Brexit backers, there isn’t much to boast about. For Labour, comfortably
Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May pledged that Brexit would reduce immigration to “the tens of thousands.” Johnson, too, said “the overall number would come down,” and Sunak vowed to “stop the boats” trying to illegally cross the English Channel.On the side of the Farage campaign bus is the promise to “slash immigration.
Andrew Clemmit and Linda Blackwell, a middle-aged couple with a holiday home in Clacton, got a selfie with a beaming Farage and their two dogs.“Nigel will win Clacton, I am sure,” said Clemmit, who runs a home heating service. He said he was disappointed in Johnson, “who became all ‘woke’ and green” and let Brexit “get stopped by the politicians.” He had nothing good to say about Sunak.
The couple praised Farage for his campaign kickoff speech at Clacton Pier, where he said Sunak and the Conservatives had betrayed the hopes of Brexit. “They’ve opened up the borders to mass immigration like we’ve never seen before,” Farage said. “And they deserve to pay a price for that, a big price for that.”in Normandy, France, early to get back on the campaign trail, Farage said the prime minister “doesn’t understand” Britain.
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