{"id":369081,"date":"2026-08-11T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-nigel-farage-led-to-the-longest-ballot-in-british-election-history\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:00:44","slug":"how-nigel-farage-led-to-the-longest-ballot-in-british-election-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-nigel-farage-led-to-the-longest-ballot-in-british-election-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nigel Farage led to the longest ballot in British election history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/JLannhpxMvw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How Nigel Farage led to the longest ballot in British election history\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLannhpxMvw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Is the Clacton byelection one of the strangest in British political history?<\/p>\n<p>None of the main parties are taking part, a man with a bin on his head is the best-known candidate after the incumbent, Nigel Farage, and it has so many candidates that the ballot paper is almost a metre long \u2013 so it must come pretty close. <\/p>\n<p>But what does this say about the state of British politics? 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None of the main parties are taking part, a man with a bin on his head is the best-known candidate after the incumbent, Nigel Farage, and it has so many candidates that the ballot paper is almost a metre long \u2013 so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":369082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-369081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Nigel Farage led to the longest ballot in British election history | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How Nigel Farage led to the longest ballot in British election history for free, here on News ISC. 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