Nigel Farage has made one of his rare interventions in British politics. Last we heard from the member for – hang on, he never actually won a seat did he? Oh well, “member” still works – he was on a plane to the United States to witness the Republicans’ “red wave” crash over the midterms. Said wave turned out to be little more than a dribble. Farage blamed “massive early voting”, or to put it another way, voting.
Anyway, after a long, three-week exile in which, we are left to assume, he’s been thinking hard about how it was he got everything so wrong, he’s back. This time the thing that grabbed his attention was the latest tranche of census data, released on Tuesday 29 November.
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