Silly season is upon us but politics will get serious soon enoughIt's Farage V Binface in the comedy Clacton contest: Aaron Chown/PA WireIn May, Reform MP Danny Kruger unveiled a substantial piece of work “setting out Reform’s plans for the centre of government, shaped by the research of the Preparation for Government team.” His 5,000 word article went into huge detail about the structural changes his party intends to make to Whitehall and the machinery of government. This was the kind of work aimed at confounding the critics who felt that Nigel Farage’s party was failing to graduate from permanent protest mode. It was an interesting moment in the party’s development, and it seemed possible that the summer would provide space for Reform to talk more about serious policy development. They say August is silly season in news, and while that’s certainly the case in Clacton things will get serious again by September.