Tuesday 18 August 2026

Free at the gate

Specimen record

The Reform PenReform CrossSpecimen

Nigel Farage

Leader, Reform UK

The farm's most reliable perennial. Flowers every spring, planted or not.

Eight MPs and a national mood. Has been leaving, returning, and leaving again since some of the current cabinet were in short trousers. The Reform Pen is small. The noise is not. In Clacton this month the serious parties stayed home and a bin still took twenty-seven percent of the vote.

Prize card: a navy-suited politician with a pint glances at a crowned wheelie bin on the second-place rostrum. The bin took 27 percent.
Clacton, 14 August 2026. He won. The bin came second, with 9,455 votes, after every serious party refused to show up. See the bin’s own record.
Lot
CF-004
Last sighting
Not at the Clacton count, 14 August 2026
Paddock
The Reform Pen
Official site
reformparty.uk