Bye By Farage...

[ZedLeg]

The greens deciding not to run a candidate in Clacton has given bluesky leftists something to argue about today

[Gavster]

The greens deciding not to run a candidate in Clacton has given bluesky leftists something to argue about today

They've always got something to argue about

[dinny_g]

Farage probably thinks "Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds" comes with a bigger expenses budget...

Bet he adds it to his Linked In Profile

[MikeHunt]

Looks like a 2 horse race between Binface and Frogface, the grown up parties waiting for the next inevitable by-election.

[IanF]

[Gavster]

Hoping they all vote Binface, just to show what a farce British politics has become.

[Rich B]

“What is your appeal to the people of Clacton?”

“I’m not Nigel Farage.”

[Jobbo]

An awful lot of comments online about Binface being boring now. I like him. He's part of what makes our constitution great and a worthy successor to Screaming Lord Sutch.

[MikeHunt]

I agree, it's about time politicians focused on real issues such as hand dryer placement in pub toilets.

[Explosive Newt]

“What is your appeal to the people of Clacton?”

“I’m not Nigel Farage.”

I heard this live, and the pause after this was great, and hilarious.

And to be fair you would think that might be enough to win for bin.

[Beany]

I'd love it if out of the, what is it, 35,000 voters there (?) that there's a low tunout due to lack of 'competition', and maybe 5000 voted for Binface, and 7000 voted for farage.

Barely scraped keeping yer seat from a man with a bin on his head, eh? Right, lets back to your parliamentary standards investigation then....

It would fucking ruin him and be great fodder for interviews going forward, seeing as no-one seems to ask how a privately educated investment banker who's spent his career near as damn it fraudulently claiming huge expenses and getting multi-million pound "gifts" from dodgy crypto weirdos and convicted fraudsters could possibly style himself 'a man of the people'

[IanF]

[Rich B]

I'd love it if out of the, what is it, 35,000 voters there (?) that there's a low tunout due to lack of 'competition', and maybe 5000 voted for Binface, and 7000 voted for farage.

Barely scraped keeping yer seat from a man with a bin on his head, eh? Right, lets back to your parliamentary standards investigation then....

It would fucking ruin him and be great fodder for interviews going forward, seeing as no-one seems to ask how a privately educated investment banker who's spent his career near as damn it fraudulently claiming huge expenses and getting multi-million pound "gifts" from dodgy crypto weirdos and convicted fraudsters could possibly style himself 'a man of the people'

I looked it up yesterday, 78k total, about 45k voted - 21k reform.

Surely the turn out for 2 candidates (unless more independents stand) when Faragaes popularity is at an all time low is going to be even less - 15k total? less?

[Beany]

It's an unqualified, joke candidate with no real manifesto - versus a man with a bin on his head.

Re turnout, I'd not like to speculate, Reform have a pretty cult following - as in, their leader has formed a cult of personality for the simple minded to go along with - so it might be higher than you think.

[Beany]

Some cracking memes though

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[Delphi]

Given that Farage once lost to a man dressed as a dolphin, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that history could repeat itself. Hell, if I lived in Clacton, I'd vote for Binface.

[Rich B]

Imagine if we went through the whole thing and Count Binface won, then he lifted his helmet to reveal…


….Boris.

[Delphi]

Imagine if we went through the whole thing and Count Binface won, then he lifted his helmet to reveal…


….Boris.

Or even better Jeremy Corbyn!

[Rich B]

Imagine if we went through the whole thing and Count Binface won, then he lifted his helmet to reveal…


….Boris.

Or even better Jeremy Corbyn!

He can’t have two seats!!

[Mito Man]

Surely it should be his own father, the one that abandoned him when he was a young boy.