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While the Tories’ worst nightmare was busy launching his very own end-of-the-pier show in Clacton this afternoon, the Home Secretary was also taking in the sea air with a campaign stop here on the Kent coast. It’s not often we get the big beasts roaming the streets of Folkestone in the run-up to polling day. Pigs in blue rosettes, and all that. This seat is traditionally as true blue as they come. But James Cleverly was in town to lend his weight to the campaign of Damian Collins, who looks to have a real fight on his hands against the Labour party. The first stop was a new high street ice cre…