A surprisingly poor second place for Nigel Farage’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election is but the latest sign that the electorate has seen through the hard-right party’s limited offering, says David Aaronovitch I t wasn’t supposed to happen like this. The Makerfield polls got it badly wrong. Those opinion-pollsters who didn’t weight their raw results towards Reform got much closer than those who did, but none got remotely close to Andy Burnham’s 20-point margin of victory. Reform’s second