Reform claimed they needed a big venue to accommodate all of their support and allow everyone in.
So they picked the NEC in Birmingham. Which has a capacity of 15,000.
And either everyone as a massive prank decided to come dressed as empty chairs, of they had at most 4,000 people in the main hall for Farage's keynote speech.
Nowhere close to the 10,000 tickets that organisers claimed.
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