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Nigel Farage ‘thought resigning would end the Parliamentary Standards investigation’, and there’s not enough facepalm in the world – 17 top takedowns

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 10th, 2026

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Clacton is just days away from going to the polls in the by-election made necessary by the resignation of Nigel Farage from the job he’d barely bothered to do for two years. It’s a good thing he made a big song and dance about leaving, or nobody would have noticed he’d gone.

In fact, he’s spent more time in Clacton since resigning – costing the taxpayers a quarter of a million pounds – than he has in the past two years.

Miraculously, the extreme peril that prevented him from holding in-person surgeries seems to have temporarily melted away, as he wanders the streets being showered with affection, rather than milkshakes.

It appears, according to The Times, that the whole thing was triggered on a false premise …that the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner would permanently halt the investigation into whether Farage should have declared the five million pounds given to him by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

“One senior source said they believed Farage had been poorly advised over calling the by-election in Clacton. They said that “young advisers” around Farage had not checked whether the standards’ commissioner’s investigation would continue in the event of the by-election and they had incorrectly assumed it would not.”

The Sgt from It ain't half hot, Mum, saying Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

The allegation spread across media and social media, accompanied by a chorus of facepalms and schadenfreude.

In his defence, he can’t be expected to understand the rules of the workplace he’s barely visited. It’s not a good defence, but still.

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