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To think Count Binface is doing a great job in the Clacton by-election?

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Darker · 10/08/2026 11:43

Count down to Bin Day!

Count Binface has been out bigging-up Clacton and drawing attention to its potential.

It’s a really positive campaign.

I don’t think he’ll win but I’d love it if he did. I think he’d be brilliant.

And if he doesn’t, I think other candidates could learn a lot from his approach.

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Persephonia1966 · 15/08/2026 02:11

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:16

Maybe they do, but that picture says a lot.

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I'm sorry but as a British person what's so intimidating about the Union Jack?

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Darker · 15/08/2026 00:20

Well this is a tour of Farage Fest, with GB News, once again courtesy of the Clacton Gazette.

https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/2088038865348993481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2088038865348993481%7Ctwgr%5E1fa0d54fb07feb7b9ebe731b6cc7e9c43ce234e5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2F26464152.nigel-farage-reform-uk-celebrate-essex-estate%2F

GB News (@GBNEWS) on X

'This is a political Glastonbury in the middle of Essex!' GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope is live from 'Farage-Fest', saying it is 'unlike any political event he has ever been to', as he takes viewers on a walkabout of the venue while counti...

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MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 23:05

@ClarkeandNewman Yeah sounds reasonable.

Glad you agree 🙂

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 22:59

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:46

Are you having a larf ?
When Farage's house was fire-bombed the police really didn't take it seriously. They only stepped up enquiries after poor Ann Widdicombe was murdered.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-firebomb-met-police-b3030503.html

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Farage's house was fire bombed? Terrible! Where did he stay while it was being rebuilt? Were his neighbours' properties damaged in the explosion?

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 22:56

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:41

@ClarkeandNewman Mr Farage didn't want the security,
because he considered it "inadequate".

"He had already been receiving publicly funded protection but felt that the package was being downgraded, the i Paper reports.
The security level would have been similar to that of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, and other high-profile Cabinet ministers, the newspaper reports.
The offer allegedly came from private contractors and came after he asked for similar security levels to what the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood receives."

He didn't want the fully funded security offered after a risk assessment had taken place because he didn't think it was good enough for him (and nor was the security provided to him by Reform plc, financed by who knows who) so he needed a bung of five million quid instead.

Yeah sounds reasonable.

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:46

Darker · 14/08/2026 22:33

If the threat to Farage justified a bullet proof car I’m sure the security would have been provided.

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Are you having a larf ?
When Farage's house was fire-bombed the police really didn't take it seriously. They only stepped up enquiries after poor Ann Widdicombe was murdered.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-firebomb-met-police-b3030503.html

BIossomtoes · 14/08/2026 22:42

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:19

Does that apply to Sadiq Khan who is being driven around in a £300,000 bullet-proof landrover at taxpayers' expense?

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Khan trusts the police to protect him. Farage had made up a threat which Essex police says didn’t exist. They’re hardly comparable.

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:41

@ClarkeandNewman Mr Farage didn't want the security,
because he considered it "inadequate".

"He had already been receiving publicly funded protection but felt that the package was being downgraded, the i Paper reports.
The security level would have been similar to that of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, and other high-profile Cabinet ministers, the newspaper reports.
The offer allegedly came from private contractors and came after he asked for similar security levels to what the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood receives."

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 22:34

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:19

Does that apply to Sadiq Khan who is being driven around in a £300,000 bullet-proof landrover at taxpayers' expense?

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Oh you mean the police protection vehicle? Mr Khan has asked the Met to reconsider using that since it doesn't tie in with his criticism of other large and SUV vehicles.

Senior politicians in the UK have the security they need but Mr Farage didn't want the security, he wanted the money. Hence telling the crap toe billionaire that in order to be an MP he'd need a million a year. And as if by magic...

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Darker · 14/08/2026 22:33

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:19

Does that apply to Sadiq Khan who is being driven around in a £300,000 bullet-proof landrover at taxpayers' expense?

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If the threat to Farage justified a bullet proof car I’m sure the security would have been provided.

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MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 22:19

BIossomtoes · 14/08/2026 21:32

“Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” as Harry Truman famously said.

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Does that apply to Sadiq Khan who is being driven around in a £300,000 bullet-proof landrover at taxpayers' expense?

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:48

Darker · 14/08/2026 21:37

So, as I asked upthread, what was the security like at Farage Fest?

Or the pub?

No idea, I went to bed.

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:47

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 21:35

There was an Asst Chief Constable overseeing security arrangements. Essex police were taking the whole thing seriously and I believe them over the known liar Farage.

You can have your own opinion, that's OK.

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 21:38

And as for "Farage Fest", I wonder how many attending were the people of Clacton and how many the veritable army of Reform activists commandeered to his by-election campaign?

Answers on a postcard...

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Darker · 14/08/2026 21:37

So, as I asked upthread, what was the security like at Farage Fest?

Or the pub?

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Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 21:35

There was an Asst Chief Constable overseeing security arrangements. Essex police were taking the whole thing seriously and I believe them over the known liar Farage.

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 21:33

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:29

@Darker but it didn’t look like a violent or dangerous mob,

maybe to you it doesn't, but to someone who gets regular death threats and has had his house fire-bombed (which is now being taken seriously BTW since poor Anne Widdicombe was murdered) it would be enough to make them feel twitchy.

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Oh bollocks, he was at a festival set up to glorify him. As if he was going to swap that for a leisure centre and a bin.

If Farage told me today was Friday I wouldn't believe him.

BIossomtoes · 14/08/2026 21:32

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:29

@Darker but it didn’t look like a violent or dangerous mob,

maybe to you it doesn't, but to someone who gets regular death threats and has had his house fire-bombed (which is now being taken seriously BTW since poor Anne Widdicombe was murdered) it would be enough to make them feel twitchy.

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“Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” as Harry Truman famously said.

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:29

Darker · 14/08/2026 21:24

The crowd was organised by an artist? Ok - not necessarily nice if you are the target, but it didn’t look like a violent or dangerous mob, and the security would have stopped them getting into the centre.

@Darker but it didn’t look like a violent or dangerous mob,

maybe to you it doesn't, but to someone who gets regular death threats and has had his house fire-bombed (which is now being taken seriously BTW since poor Anne Widdicombe was murdered) it would be enough to make them feel twitchy.

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Darker · 14/08/2026 21:24

The crowd was organised by an artist? Ok - not necessarily nice if you are the target, but it didn’t look like a violent or dangerous mob, and the security would have stopped them getting into the centre.

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NervousSheepy · 14/08/2026 21:23

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:02

@AImportantMermaid I do think it’s an absolute disgrace that Farage couldn’t even be bothered to do his voters the courtesy of turning up for the vote announcement.

Farage was warned about a protest about to take place so he left.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/more-than-50-masked-protesters-gathered-in-clacton-just-before-nigel-farage-by-election-result/ar-AA2a6sgO

The police have said there absolutely was no threat or protest.

BIossomtoes · 14/08/2026 21:21

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:16

Maybe they do, but that picture says a lot.

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Pictures can be faked. Or imported from elsewhere.

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:16

BIossomtoes · 14/08/2026 21:13

Essex police say otherwise.

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Maybe they do, but that picture says a lot.

BIossomtoes · 14/08/2026 21:13

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:02

@AImportantMermaid I do think it’s an absolute disgrace that Farage couldn’t even be bothered to do his voters the courtesy of turning up for the vote announcement.

Farage was warned about a protest about to take place so he left.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/more-than-50-masked-protesters-gathered-in-clacton-just-before-nigel-farage-by-election-result/ar-AA2a6sgO

Essex police say otherwise.

MyKittyKatty · 14/08/2026 21:02

@AImportantMermaid I do think it’s an absolute disgrace that Farage couldn’t even be bothered to do his voters the courtesy of turning up for the vote announcement.

Farage was warned about a protest about to take place so he left.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/more-than-50-masked-protesters-gathered-in-clacton-just-before-nigel-farage-by-election-result/ar-AA2a6sgO

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