Right, so Nigel Farage has resigned as MP for Clacton.

Except, of course, he’s standing again.

Well nice try sunshine, but you’re kidding nobody.

What he’s doing here, at the expense of all of us, because by-elections cost a mint in and of themselves, is trying to replace one question with another. Instead of "Did you break the rules?" he wants the conversation to become "Can he still win Clacton?" They're not the same thing, it’s just the latest grift.

Farage is trying to turn an investigation into victimisation and thinks he can sell that from the soapbox. He’s not leaving politics. He’s not stepping away. He’s not saying, “Right, let the process run, let the watchdog do its job, let’s get to the bottom of this.”

No, no. He’s saying: let’s have a by-election.

Why?

Because if he wins Clacton again, he ge ...