Reform’s national conference takes place at Birmingham’s NEC at the start of September – and they won’t be the only cartoonish characters there.
The same event is also hosting, at the same time, Vexpo, “a non-profit convention centred on streaming culture and all things Vtuber” (something to do with Japanese cartoons, M’lud). It means that Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Richard Tice et al will be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Nichole Goodnight, Vexoria The Sun Eater and Penny Puffball.
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Incredibly, it’s not the first time such a thing has happened. In 2017 Toronto’s Congress Center double-booked both the Canadian Conservatives’ annual conference and Anime North, a celebration of anime.
But they should be easy to tell apart. Vexpo’s website is at pains to state that it is “dedicated to providing the best experience regardless of age, race, gender, expression, sexual orientation, appearance, disability, religion, ethnicity or personal choices”. Reform’s, er, isn’t.
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