Reuters tries to out-do the NYT in going out and talking to the downtrodden masses about their need for a right-wing nut case:

‘Normal’ Nigel Farage resonates with UK seaside voters

Nigel Farage’s brand of politics has found a home in the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, where voters described the right-wing party leader as a straight talker who, unlike other candidates, understands their problems and wants to solve them.

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Farage is an expensively educated former financial trader. But decades of railing against the establishment have earned him the trust of supporters who say they feel other politicians talk down to them.

“I feel like he’s more normal. He understands us,” Venetia Maynard, 29, a cleaner, said while out shopping on Monday.

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Interviewed on the day Farage launched his Reform UK’s plan for government, Maynard said she was going to vote for him although she didn’t know that much about his policies.

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“I think he represents the working class a lot more than general politicians do. I mean, they’re so out of touch with the working class. How can they represent a labourer or a cleaner or a bus driver?” said Michael Chaplin, 32, a roofer, as he strolled along the seafront. Clacton is a place where many people feel left behind, he said.

All of those little people who have been “left behind” all over the UK… feel an elitist con-man is going to be their guy.

It’s just about not wanting to be left behind (whatever that means), right?

Well…

Kevin Ives, 63, a carer, said Farage was “brilliant” and he would vote for him. “Because he says what’s totally obvious. If we keep bringing people into this country at the rate we are: eventually disaster.”

Well there goes the mask.

As usual, it really is all about those dirty immigrants.

I suspect some of these people in Clacton are old BNP and UKIP types anyway, but Reuters wants us to think they are just little people who don’t want to be “left behind”.