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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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ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 20:54

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:57

Yeah, them and their quick wits, excellent education and egalitarian beliefs. Shocking. 😂

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🤣🤣🤣

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Darker · 14/08/2026 20:34

As well as cheering up a tired electorate, Count Binface has almost certainly made politics interesting and accessible to children and young people. Total star. 🌟

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Darker · 14/08/2026 20:18

What Harvey has achieved with Binface is to bring his satire out of the TV shows (that generally preach to the converted) and to reach a much wider audience of anyone that is interested in politics, even if only at election time. Genius.

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Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 20:12

Viviennemary · 14/08/2026 20:03

Bit too complicated for most folk. Including me.

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It's not really. It involves taking the piss out of the pompous, it is on the side of ordinary people rather than Gods (or the self appointed human type) and it celebrates humour and silliness. CB has done all those things and you don't need to be impressed by his grasp of Homeric Greek to appreciate it.

ETA it is predicated on actually having a sense of humour and I've seen little evidence of such from NF et al. It starts with not taking yourself terribly seriously, for a start.

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Viviennemary · 14/08/2026 20:03

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:52

I think what a lot of the naysayers miss is that Count Binface really, really supports democracy. I've read that he considers every single vote cast for him an honour.

He's a satirist and a Classicist and will be very much aware of the satyr play (the very origin of satire) that closed the great Greek tragedies and pricked the minds of the audience.

All a bit too complex for Nige I imagine.

Bit too complicated for most folk. Including me.

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Darker · 14/08/2026 20:02

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:52

I think what a lot of the naysayers miss is that Count Binface really, really supports democracy. I've read that he considers every single vote cast for him an honour.

He's a satirist and a Classicist and will be very much aware of the satyr play (the very origin of satire) that closed the great Greek tragedies and pricked the minds of the audience.

All a bit too complex for Nige I imagine.

Excellent post.

I agree that he supports democracy. He’s been consistent and making his points brilliantly.

He has shown huge appreciation for the people who voted for Binface.

Like I said in my OP, I think others could learn a lot from him.

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Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:57

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 19:55

Bloody liberal elitists!

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Yeah, them and their quick wits, excellent education and egalitarian beliefs. Shocking. 😂

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 19:55

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:52

I think what a lot of the naysayers miss is that Count Binface really, really supports democracy. I've read that he considers every single vote cast for him an honour.

He's a satirist and a Classicist and will be very much aware of the satyr play (the very origin of satire) that closed the great Greek tragedies and pricked the minds of the audience.

All a bit too complex for Nige I imagine.

Bloody liberal elitists!

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:52

I think what a lot of the naysayers miss is that Count Binface really, really supports democracy. I've read that he considers every single vote cast for him an honour.

He's a satirist and a Classicist and will be very much aware of the satyr play (the very origin of satire) that closed the great Greek tragedies and pricked the minds of the audience.

All a bit too complex for Nige I imagine.

Uricon2 · 14/08/2026 19:41

Darker · 14/08/2026 15:55

In other news, Laurence Fox is demanding a recount.

https://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/26463595.laurence-fox-demands-recount-clacton-by-election/

I do wish he'd stuck to acting.

Was half expecting the British Democrat (think National Socialist) candidate in the green jacket 2 to the right of Binny to break into "Tomorrow Belongs to Me". Interesting history, that one.

AImportantMermaid · 14/08/2026 19:40

Viviennemary · 14/08/2026 19:34

No. He made a complete mockery of the system. Aided and abetted by the main parties who refused to put forward a candidate. Everything is being done to discredit Nigel Farage. Media too is on board. This can backfire as it did with Trump.

The other parties are not Farage’s puppets. This was a vanity project to stop the investigation into him hiding five million quid - the man is bought and gift wrapped for crapto billionaires - he’s nothing more than a Temu Trump.

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Darker · 14/08/2026 19:38

Poor Nige. 🙄

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Viviennemary · 14/08/2026 19:34

No. He made a complete mockery of the system. Aided and abetted by the main parties who refused to put forward a candidate. Everything is being done to discredit Nigel Farage. Media too is on board. This can backfire as it did with Trump.

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 19:32

A lot of us are constantly striving for better versions of Britain.

It's my country. Of course I do. 🤷‍♀️

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 19:30

OneAmberFinch · 14/08/2026 19:25

I'm not South African, if that's what you're hinting at.

I do think a better version of Britain is possible than the one that exists today.

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No, I'm not hinting or asking where you're from.

I'm just saying that this mentality is a real thing and giving an example of where I've seen it in the wild.

ClarkeandNewman · 14/08/2026 19:26

OneAmberFinch · 14/08/2026 19:25

I'm not South African, if that's what you're hinting at.

I do think a better version of Britain is possible than the one that exists today.

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It's probably not your version though.

OneAmberFinch · 14/08/2026 19:25

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 19:08

I'm not asking where you're from, but I have white South African family and I get the same vibe from you of an intense sense of entitlement to all things pertaining to the mother country, despite them being literally foreigners.

They also have a very strong fairytale notion of what Britain should be.

They tend to undergo a hefty readjustment when they actually come here and discover it's not the-fantasy-theme-park-Britain that lives in their imagination.Grin

I'm not South African, if that's what you're hinting at.

I do think a better version of Britain is possible than the one that exists today.

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Darker · 14/08/2026 19:22

If we wanted the overall number of refugees from the Middle East we could perhaps refrain from bombing them and Farage could ask his best mate ask Mr Trump very nicely if him and Israel would stop bombing there too. But weirdly that's never put forward as an option by Farage and Trump supporters.

Well, quite.

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Persephonia1966 · 14/08/2026 19:18

About 0.7% of the global population are refugees living outside their country of origin (if you include internally displaced people it's about 1.4% of the world population). Refugees and asylum seekers (waiting for their claims to be processed) make up 0.7% of the UK population. So we are exactly average for the world. Compared to say Jordan who have about 30% of their population being refugees from Syria.

The point really being, I am not in favour of open borders, and if course we can't "take everyone" but frankly no-one is demanding we take everyone and neither is 0.7% of the population (much less if you just count people coming by small boat) an invasion or being swamped. If we wanted the overall number of refugees from the Middle East we could perhaps refrain from bombing them and Farage could ask his best mate ask Mr Trump very nicely if him and Israel would stop bombing there too. But weirdly that's never put forward as an option by Farage and Trump supporters.

tilypu · 14/08/2026 19:17

Noodledog · 14/08/2026 12:19

And in the meantime they are stuck with Farage because the election was not taken seriously- which isn't until 2029.

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Same as most of the rest of us then - we are mostly all 'stuck' with the representative elected at the last general election. Why should Clacton be any different?

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 19:08

I'm not asking where you're from, but I have white South African family and I get the same vibe from you of an intense sense of entitlement to all things pertaining to the mother country, despite them being literally foreigners.

They also have a very strong fairytale notion of what Britain should be.

They tend to undergo a hefty readjustment when they actually come here and discover it's not the-fantasy-theme-park-Britain that lives in their imagination.Grin

OneAmberFinch · 14/08/2026 19:04

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 18:57

And, you know, it's fine that you're an immigrant. I'm not going to refuse to speak to you or try to take away the rights we've given you.

But it does seem rather relevant to the posts that you're making on this thread, where you "we" this and "we" that.

How do you get to decide that you are "we", and other immigrants are "them"?

There isn't any other country I feel I have more rights to say "we" about. You're right though, sometimes I say we and sometimes I say they, identity is complicated, this is one area where I agree with the diversity is our strength types.

OneAmberFinch · 14/08/2026 18:57

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 18:53

I'm a near single-issue voter.

And, an immigrant.

IIRC?

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Correct :)

PerkingFaintly · 14/08/2026 18:57

And, you know, it's fine that you're an immigrant. I'm not going to refuse to speak to you or try to take away the rights we've given you.

But it does seem rather relevant to the posts that you're making on this thread, where you "we" this and "we" that.

How do you get to decide that you are "we", and other immigrants are "them"?