Reform UK defied expectations at July’s general election by picking up five seats at Westminster and affecting the outcome of dozens of others. But how will that support manifest itself at the Kent County Council elections next May? Simon Finlay looks at the lie of the land… On a sunny August morning eleven years ago, Nigel Farage addressed a couple of dozen of his Ukip supporters in the function room of a Dover seafront hotel. They were of an age – older, but not old. They hovered around the edges like awkward teenagers at a dance as Mr Farage said his piece. It was the usual stuff, delivered…