Reform’s procession of Trump-like rallies ahead of May’s Scottish, Welsh and local elections continues apace, on Tuesday night arriving at Leeds’s First Direct Bank Arena.
And what a success it was! The Arena has a capacity of 13,781, meaning that it can play host to such stars as, later this year alone, Louis Tomlinson, Peter Kay and the PDC Premier League Darts. Alas for Farage, he doesn’t have the pull of any of those, drawing just 900 to an event the party’s website plugged as “designed as a high-energy, broadcast-style event, thousands are expected in attendance. This is not one to miss.”
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And then Farage, dressed in his customary mustard cords, delivered much of his speech in front of an enormous sign announcing ‘REFORM WILL FIX IT’.
Unfortunately, there was once someone from Leeds who made his name promising to fix things, only for his star to plummet somewhat once it emerged he was Britain’s most prolific sex offender and his gravestone in the city had to be removed. Perhaps Stephen Hartley, the Oxfordshire Reform candidate suspended from the party for describing Jimmy Savile as a “working class hero” is back in the fold and advising Farage?
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