Bosh! New Reform recruit Thomas Skinner sets out his stall

Thomas Skinner, the TV personality best known for saying “Bosh!” a lot, has joined Nigel Farage’s Reform, much to the joy of the party leadership.

The serial reality contestant was unveiled by Farage with an inevitable X post. It featured a picture of the pair together, thumbs aloft, with Farage captioning it “Bosh!” Skinner responded with “Good to see ya Nigel. Bosh”, because Skinner is best known for saying “Bosh.”

Now Skinner has outlined his thinking as to why he has joined the party, delivering an oral essay on GB News on the sources of his patriotism that drove him into the arms of Farage and his colleagues.

Asked by host Patrick Christys why he loved Britain – the hard questioning of the right for which the channel is famed – Skinner said: “It’s the best place in the world, innit?

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“Like, there’s no other country like England. You wake up, it’s beautiful. The people are great and the weather’s… I’ll tell you what, right, I go on holiday, we like going to Tenerife, we love going to Portugal, but you have a week, you have 10 days, you can’t wait to get home, know what I mean, right?

“And I just love… it’s the grit in the people. I’ve worked on the markets since I was 14 years old. And there’s nothing better than in the weeks running up to Christmas, the buzz of a market getting set up at half five in the morning when it’s dark, when everyone’s grafting, cheering each other on, that you can smell the bacon and the burgers going on the burger vans and it’s just a wonderful place and I think, you know, we put the kettle on in a crisis.

“We are the best country in the world and we’ve sort of lost our identity a little bit and there’s so many great people that make us what we are.”

Truly a Gettysburg Address for our time! What a coup for Reform, and what a credit to Brentwood School, Essex, the £18,786-a-term boarding school where Skinner presumably honed his oratorical skills. Bosh!