ICYMI: A BBC Essex exclusive: @Arron_banks says he “knows nothing about #Clacton” as he prepares to take on @DouglasCarswell to be town’s MP pic.twitter.com/4DOId4toTp

— BBC Essex (@BBCEssex) 19 April 2017

Arron Banks, who will stand against Douglas Carswell in Clacton, has admitted in an interview with BBC Radio Essex that he “knows nothing about Clacton at all.” Strong start for the Patriotic Alliance…

Arron Banks and his sidekick Andy Wigmore have tweeted the above image – remember Banks has previously talked about setting up a new movement called “The Patriotic Alliance” based on the model of Italy’s Five Star Movement, to gather Leave voters across traditional party lines. Banks says: “No nonsense policies that will knock the skin off a rice pudding”. The Patriotic Alliance shares its name with a South African political party founded by a convicted bank robber turned motivational speaker…