Nigel Farage triggered a £300,000 by-election while facing scrutiny over his finances. Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for a political tantrum. Our “Clacton Clause” would stop MPs under investigation triggering by-elections to escape scrutiny. Lisa Smart MP

@LisaSmartMP Andy Burnham triggered a 5 million by election and mayorship. Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for political tantrum Your Clacton cause is totally irrelevant. How about Burnham Clause instead! You talk utter twaddle.

@LisaSmartMP Ed Davey up to his neck in sleaze & corruption with the Post Office scandal...sit down you dafty

9Ah, the Liberal Democrats. Those plucky little moral accountants of British politics, forever counting other people’s pennies while their own party balance sheet resembles the last will and testament of a particularly careless drunk. How very noble of you to invent a “Clacton Clause” the moment one man dares put his fate to the voters rather than submit to your preferred form of slow, committee-room waterboarding. One almost expects the next clause to ban smiling without a licensed Liberal Democrat present. Three hundred thousand pounds for a by-election? My dear yellow-rosetted Baldricks, that is roughly what it costs to keep one of your press officers in moral superiority for a fortnight. And yet you bleat about “political tantrums” with all the self-awareness of a man who has just set fire to his own trousers and is now complaining about the heat. Do try not to strain yourselves with the heavy lifting of principle. It sits so awkwardly on those slender shoulders.

@LisaSmartMP Reform UK did offer to pay for it but that offer was refused!

@LisaSmartMP He didn't escape scrutiny The investigation has recommenced as you well know If he'd have lost then he would have lost his job Try again, without lying this time

@LisaSmartMP Ed davey pocketed £275, 000 whilst Sub-postmasters committed suicide! What is your point from your deluded high pedastool?

What about stepping down from your £92.000 a year job as MP just to allow the major of Manchester to step down from his job, stand in your constituency so he could then go unchallenging into the position of prime minister, at a cost of around £5 million, then the person who stood down looks like getting a job under Andy Burnham on a salary of £182.000 a year, or is it just more smears against Reform.

@LisaSmartMP What about Makerfield you thick pathetic cunts

@LisaSmartMP Reform have offered to repay, has your joke of a leader offered to repay the £270,000 he disgracefully took during the Post Office scandal, grateful for a answer @LisaSmartMP if you dare ?

@LisaSmartMP Tax payers are funding this criminal, although I´d quite happily help fund his place in jail.

@LisaSmartMP The investigation has restarted, so who exactly is avoiding scrutiny? That would be Andy Burnham who has cost the tax payer thick end of £5M just so he can play PM

@LisaSmartMP What about Makerfield and the Manchester mayor elections reported to be 3m?

I thought so too ,but I find out from grok👉🏽 (Reform UK offered to pay the full ~£250,000 cost of the Clacton by-election, but UK electoral law prohibits parties or candidates from doing so. Costs must come from public funds to keep the process independent.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​) .

@LisaSmartMP You didn’t complain when Burnham did it? You’re just party of the Uniparty

@LisaSmartMP Now do Makerfield. You can explain using hobby horses if that helps.

@LisaSmartMP Spare me the outrage. You participated in the Makerfield and Greater Manchester mayoral elections which cost the taxpayers £5 million. I don't remember hearing a peep from you then. Get in the bin.

@LisaSmartMP Waiting on your noise about the Labour party doing exactly the same at considerably more expense. An elected MP stepping down to allow Andy Burnham to stand AND, the subsequent triggering of the Manchester Mayoral election because he left that post. You are uselessly obsessed.

@LisaSmartMP Sssssshhh quiet now.

Strange, I'm sure Parliamentary Standards restarted the investigation into Farage on the day the Clacton by-election results were delivered. So he hasn't escaped anything. Now it is down to them to decide his fate, not you, nor any other political party harping from the sidelines the loudest. @EdwardJDavey @andyburnham @KemiBadenoch

@LisaSmartMP I look forward to seeing your faux outrage over the Makerfield by-election also.

@LisaSmartMP Labour Party spent £5 million to get Andy Pandy in through the back door to number 10. And little Dave is responsible for the postmasters. You are a little party going nowhere. Just absolutely afraid of Reform.

And what about Andy Burnham? He asked the MP to stand down in return for a £180,000 NGO job. According to ITV News Granada, the combined cost of the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election and the forthcoming Makerfield by-election could “reach £5 million”. The report cited official Greater Manchester Combined Authority figures showing the 2024 mayoral election cost £4,719,754, while the Makerfield by-election has an administrative budget of £226,208 before additional freepost and campaign-related public costs are included.

@LisaSmartMP Meanwhile Ed Davey made innocent postmaster’s lose everything by incorrectly prosecuting & jailing some. They lost out financially & some even committed suicide. Your hypocrites & I haven’t even mentioned your Chinese scandal

@LisaSmartMP The Lib Dems. A deeply unserious party.....

@LisaSmartMP 1/ So you want a new law because you didn’t like Clacton’s democratic choice? The Lib Dems didn’t even respect voters enough to field a candidate. Instead, the establishment parties effectively left the opposition to Count Binface. Farage still won comfortably!

@LisaSmartMP Yet you’ve said nothing about Burnham’s rise to power 🤔 The fact the incumbent MP resigned to make room for Burnham, who then pockets a £180k a year job as a thank you for stepping aside. Then there’s the cost of Burnham’s by election and subsequent Mayoral election, Silence 🤔

@LisaSmartMP Do you ever have any actual policies to talk about or is it just all about attacking Reform?? And Ed Davey isn’t exactly a Saint is he, people in glass houses!!

@LisaSmartMP The voters decide who leads us, not you. The voters decided they wanted to be led by Nigel.

@LisaSmartMP I agree, Farage has already offered to foot the bill but the Government declined his offer...

@LisaSmartMP No mention of the rigged Labour bye election to parachute a Mayor into No10 you irrelevant clowns.

@LisaSmartMP Are you deluded Reform have said they will pay the bill , so what’s your problem , by the way your not what the liberal party stood for when it was set up ,your a bunch of left wing losers cow-tailing to your Labour Party Bosses, so stop spreading lies and insulting the people

@LisaSmartMP How’s it escaped scrutiny? The investigation’s continued

@LisaSmartMP How about Davey paying the Victims of the PO scandal the money he earned from the lawyers.

@LisaSmartMP I am a bit older, so can actually remember when the Liberals were a totally credible political party, with politics somewhere in between the Labour left and the Tory right. Now, we just a joke party, somewhere fairly close to the loony left Greens.

@LisaSmartMP Tell Ed to return the money he privately earned from Post Office Scandal! You thick leftie!