{"id":77341,"date":"2026-08-14T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77341\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:08:40","slug":"nigel-farages-clacton-circus-is-over-but-his-financial-reckoning-is-just-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77341\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage&#8217;s Clacton circus is over, but his financial reckoning is just beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Nigel Farage&#039;s Clacton circus is over, but his financial reckoning is just beginning\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ooo3uqKsTKc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNigel Farage&#8217;s Clacton circus is over, but his financial reckoning is just beginning<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cWhat was the point of that?\u201d asks the Guardian political correspondent Aletha Adu, after Nigel Farage declared victory in the Clacton byelection, a vote he called after allegations and questions over his party\u2019s finances.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The Reform UK leader got about 1,000 more votes than he did in the 2024 general election, despite a lower turnout. His closest challenger, Count Binface, an intergalactic space warrior created by the comedian Jon Harvey, who Farage claimed earlier this morning was \u201cthe candidate of the establishment\u201d, won 9,455 \u2013 a career best.<\/p>\n<p>However, while\u200b Farage\u2019s byelection \u200bcircus \u200bis over, the \u200breckoning and investigation into his undeclared finances is just beginning.<\/p>\n<p>#nigelfarage #farage #countbinface #reformuk #georgecottrell #clactonbyelection #christopherharborne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage&#8217;s Clacton circus is over, but his financial reckoning is just beginning \u201cWhat was the point of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,50701,20619,49975,50017,49977,49987,33883,4816,43682,63393,724,49996,37726,13289,63394,49403,240,261,51527,51526,425,31,326,42345,247,49965,361,62656,49901,325,54324,333,51528,53498,341,11780],"class_list":["post-77341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-95","tag-binface","tag-christopher-harborne","tag-clacton","tag-clacton-by-election","tag-clacton-byelection","tag-clacton-on-sea","tag-corrupt","tag-corruption","tag-count-binface","tag-establishment-candidate","tag-farage","tag-farage-clacton","tag-farage-news","tag-farage-reaction","tag-farage-win","tag-george-cottrell","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-john-harvey","tag-jon-harvey","tag-money","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-nigel-farage-latest","tag-politics","tag-posh-george","tag-reform","tag-reform-donors","tag-reform-news","tag-reform-uk","tag-reform-uk-donations","tag-richard-tice","tag-the-establishment","tag-uk-latest","tag-uk-news","tag-zia-yusuf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}