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mannycalavera ( mannycalavera@feddit.uk )  to UK Politics@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago

Nigel Farage says he won’t attend count in Clacton byelection against Count Binface

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Nigel Farage says he won’t attend count in Clacton byelection against Count Binface

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mannycalavera ( mannycalavera@feddit.uk )  to UK Politics@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago
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  • TheEmpireStrikesDak ( DakRalter@thelemmy.club ) 
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    Brave Sir Frogface ran away.
    Bravely ran away, away!
    When danger reared its ugly head,
    He bravely turned his tail and fled.
    Yes, brave Sir Frogface turned about
    And gallantly he chickened out.
    Bravely taking to his feet
    He beat a very brave retreat,
    Bravest of the brave, Sir Frogface!

  • BucketBong ( BucketBong@p.hobo.social ) 
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    Yeah, because you’re gonna lose to dude with a trash can on his head…

    • Salvo ( Salvo@aussie.zone ) 
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      I don’t think he will loose the election, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a looser.

      If he wins by a landslide, he will still have the enquiry into his cryptobro bribe. If he almost looses, he almost lost to a bloke with a bin on his head.

      Edit: Results are in: BinFace had just under 1/3rd of the votes, Fascist Scam Artist had just over 2/3rd of the votes, did not attend the count and did not give a victory speech. Utter contempt for his constituents.

      • NoForwadSlashS ( NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ) 
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        Quite disappointing that it was only a 44% voter turnout with all the publicity around it.

        • Salvo ( Salvo@aussie.zone ) 
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          Absolutely. But the good news is that there is no possible way that he can argue that he has a mandate.

          • HM King Charles III DG FD ( Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
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            He’ll do it anyway. The government argued they had a full Brexit mandate when it was literally 52%

          • djdarren ( djdarren@piefed.social ) 
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            But he still will.

        • Aceticon ( Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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          Well, I guess a lot of people couldn’t bring themselves to vote for either the ridiculous joke candidate or for the one with a bin over his head.

      • TheEmpireStrikesDak ( DakRalter@thelemmy.club ) 
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        Almost 9.5k people made the point they’d rather have a novelty candidate in charge than a charlatan. And honestly I think Binface would have been a good MP. Sure, the bar is low compared to Froggie.

        Whatever the result had been, Five Mil Fashy would have lost.

        Let the investigations (re)commence!

      • OwOarchist ( OwOarchist@pawb.social ) BannedBanned
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        BinFace had just under 1/3rd of the votes, Fascist Scam Artist had just over 2/3rd of the votes

        That’s it. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

        • TheEmpireStrikesDak ( DakRalter@thelemmy.club ) 
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          Let’s book our tickets to Sigma IX.

        • Sunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca ) 
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          It’s not over yet, Binface will duel wanker for round 2.

      • BucketBong ( BucketBong@p.hobo.social ) 
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        Well that sucks, I really wanted that to happen.

        • Salvo ( Salvo@aussie.zone ) 
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          This is the highest percentage of the vote that an absurdist candidate has ever captured. I would count that as a win.

        • Sunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca ) 
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          Chad Binface is happy with just one sensible vote.

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) ( flamingos@feddit.uk ) 
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    What a wimp.

  • HM King Charles III DG FD ( Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
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    The establishment: “Count Binface”

    The man could have easily just played it off in good fun and taken selfies with him or something. But no, can’t barrage the farage I guess. Probably wasn’t even in the constituency 🤣

    • mannycalavera ( mannycalavera@feddit.uk ) OP
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      Stayed at home apparently. He was scared he would look bad… 😬

      • Skua ( Skua@kbin.earth ) 
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        £5,000,000 still can’t buy security against that

    • Tiresia ( Tiresia@slrpnk.net ) 
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      One of Count Binface’s campaign managers (StandUpMaths) made a campaign video that showed a bunch of MPs expressing support for Count Binface.

      Count Binface objectively was the establishment candidate in this election, and I honestly think it worked against him.

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        Honestly though, he may not have won, but I wouldn’t necessarily call this a loss, I mean damn near 10,000 votes for a trash bin is impressive.

  • NigelFrobisher ( NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 
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    Clacton must be fuuuucked that they still voted for Baron Greenback, even with no serious competition.

  • Sunshine (she/her) ( Sunshine@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Wanker reform fumbles again.

  • katy ✨ ( cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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    not really any different from how he doesn’t bother to show up in clacton as an mp

  • spud ( like@feddit.uk ) 
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    I read this thing in the guardian about how it’s unfair to call everyone in Clacton credulous fuckwits:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/12/farage-clacton-human-zoo-truth-town

    You’re all thick, racist, gullible, hateful, toothless, jobless old fools, we were told. You deserve him. The worst of the snobbery was, sadly, on my lefty social media platform of choice, Bluesky

    Oh no not bluesky! You musn’t generalise! Some of us are ok!

    Fuck that, nuke Clacton

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