[arista]

Nigel Farage MP is there today.


Not the PM
he is in Glasgow.


[The current political race in this former
coal mining heartland of west central Scotland
will decide who represents Hamilton,
Larkhall and Stonehouse in the
Scottish Parliament following the death
of the SNP's Christina McKelvie.

It also has wider significance.]





[Driving around what is now the Hamilton,
Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency,
you would be forgiven for thinking the
2025 contest was a two horse race
between the SNP and Reform UK.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn10mpjjlo

[That's only because these are the
parties dominating billboard advertising.

This observation takes no account of the
intensive door knocking, direct mailing
and social media campaigning that's been
going on for weeks.]