Farage built his career calling other people snowflakes. He told the left to stop being offended, stop demanding apologies, stop playing the victim. Then a bank closed his account and he got two CEOs fired. Thirty-four people said he was racist at school and he demanded the BBC apologise for the 1970s. A newspaper exposed his secret £5m gift and he blamed Russian intelligence. He called the UK “North Korea” for prosecuting social media posts — then welcomed the arrests when he was the target. He dishes it out. He cannot take it.

In March 2018, Steve Bannon was texting Jeffrey Epstein with plans to coordinate Farage, Orbán, Le Pen, Salvini and the AfD into a single European populist movement. Epstein offered logistical support. The same crypto billionaire funding Farage — Christopher Harborne — funds an Orbán-linked institution whose endowment includes a stake in a company that refines Russian oil. Farage denies there is a genocide in Gaza, calls the ICC illegitimate, and said he “loves” Trump’s plan to take over Gaza. His foreign policy chief was working for the Israeli president the UN found to have incited genocide. The network is ideological, financial, and global.

Private school. City trading floor. Five properties. A secret £5m gift from a crypto billionaire. Bankrolled by a convicted fraudster and offshore networks he gets paid £40,000 to speak to — the same networks that help the ultra-wealthy avoid the taxes that pay for your NHS. Supported by the same donors that bankrolled the Conservative Party for a decade. He earns more in one hour than the average Clacton worker earns in a year. He has never been on your side.

He stood up in Parliament to make a political point about the murder of three children whose parents begged him to stay silent. He blamed immigrants for riots his own language helped start. He earns more in one hour than the average Clacton worker earns in a year. He has spent decades telling working people their problems are caused by immigrants and foreigners. They are caused by people like Nigel Farage.

Farage voted in just one in three parliamentary divisions — bottom 8% of all MPs. He missed 77 consecutive votes. He held zero surgeries for his Clacton constituents while making eight trips to the United States. He spoke less in Parliament than any other party leader. Reform’s councils raised council tax in every authority they control, despite promising to freeze it. Dozens of their councillors were expelled, jailed or quit within a year. This is what they look like when they actually have to do the job.