At the Bickershaw Village Community Club to the east of the Makerfield constituency, a group of women are gathered over tea and Mr Kipling’s French Fancies. Flanked by embroidery machines, buttons and pieces of fabric, the MissPlaces women’s group are chatting about an election which has brought a cavalcade of canvassers, campaigners and TV crews to their once quiet corner of England. Regardless of their political views, they all agree on one thing. The Reform candidate, Robert Kenyon – who has