Dominic Frisby vows: 'If people vote for something, it must happen'

Comedian Dominic Frisby is to stand as a  candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in the next general election.

He has been selected to fight the parliamentary seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup – which former Tory Housing Minister James Brokenshire holds with a huge 15,466 majority. 

However he is a Remainer and the South-East London constituency, bordering Kent, overwhelmingly voted to leave the EU in the referendum, 62 per cent to 38.

Frisby, who is also a financial writer, said: ‘We’re in the midst of a global political revolution, in which the hegemony of bland, Third-Way, centrists in unravelling. The distinction is no longer between left versus right, but authoritarian versus libertarian. 

‘In the UK, our glorious leaders are struggling to come to terms with this groundbreaking new concept called democracy. If the people vote for something, then it must be implemented, not subverted. 

‘Brexit has caught the British establishment with its trousers down, and exposed our system of rule for the sham that it is. There is something so much better to be had. I’d like to help in some way to make it happen.’

Boris Johnson says he has no plans to call a general election, at least not before Britain’s planned EU departure day of October 31, although his hand could be forced if the Commons passes a vote of no-confidence. The Tories with their DUP partners have a majority of just one in the chamber,.

Frisby is currently at the Edinburgh Fringe performing a show entitled Libertarian Love Songs.

Published: 5 Aug 2019