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Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Esther Adle, a senior news writer at The Guardian, has been spending a lot of time at

the seaside recently.

I'm standing at the end of Clacton Pier in Essex

where a crowd of several hundred people have been gathering for a little while

waiting for the arrival of Nigel Farage. A couple of weeks ago, Nigel Farage, who just reappointed himself leader of the Reform Party,

came to the coastal town of Clapton-on-Sea in Essex. He was there to stand as an MP, his eighth attempt at getting to Westminster, and's set about trying to woo the locals.

And you know the problem? These people, unlike you in Clacton, they're not genuinely patriotic people. They don't believe in Britain and the British people the way you do.

But am I right and thinking, is this not the most patriotic town in the whole of our country.

Well he talked about immigration.

opened up the borders to mass immigration like you've never seen before.

There was also a more general appeal to a sense of nostalgia and patriotism. He talked about

D.J. He talked about small business and standing up for the little man, standing up for the little woman.

We want to put voices in Westminster

that truly believe in Britain

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