
Following Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election, Reform leader Nigel Farage has hit out at Restore Britain for “splitting the gammon vote”.
“I know Britain has a lot of irascible boneheads with a vague sense of discontent they’re not intelligent enough to process,” he told reporters today. “But it’s not an infinite number, and we have to beware of Johnny-come-latelies like Restore splitting their vote.
”Frankly, it’s bad enough some of them are still voting Reform-lite... I mean Conservative. I would have thought ‘one of them’ leading the party would be the last straw, but apparently not.”
But the leader of Restore, Rupert Lowe, hit back, saying it was entirely possible to be even madder than Farage, and he and his friends the dancing pink giraffes fully intended to exercise that right. However, he was then outflanked by a new party called Refresh, at which point the next ballot paper risks looking like a list of air fresheners.
For his part, Andy Burnham pointed out that splitting the vote was irrelevant as his tally was more than Reform and Restore put together. “Though to be honest I got that from Diane Abbott, so you’d probably better check it.”





