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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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MyKittyKatty · 17/08/2026 12:06

Darker · 17/08/2026 12:00

It came from Count Binface on X. I don’t use X but saw it quoted elsewhere.

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Someone else says it was Nadhim Zahawi, so it seems no-one is too sure.

MyKittyKatty · 17/08/2026 12:04

BIossomtoes · 17/08/2026 12:00

Nadhim Zahawi, a prominent Reform supporter. It says so in the post.

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So has he been challenged on it and has that been reported?

If not we can only assume that it's true.

BIossomtoes · 17/08/2026 12:00

MyKittyKatty · 17/08/2026 11:56

It would be helpful to know where that quote came from if we are to judge it's veracity.

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Nadhim Zahawi, a prominent Reform supporter. It says so in the post.

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Darker · 17/08/2026 12:00

MyKittyKatty · 17/08/2026 11:56

It would be helpful to know where that quote came from if we are to judge it's veracity.

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It came from Count Binface on X. I don’t use X but saw it quoted elsewhere.

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MyKittyKatty · 17/08/2026 11:59

Darker · 17/08/2026 11:52

I am convinced the festival was laid on specifically to incentivise the loyal door-knockers to spend their free time in Clacton, rounding up the vote.

Farage’s lack of grace and manners at the count confirms my fears of the kind of PM he would make if Reform were to win the next GE. An angry man who has the ability to campaign but fails dismally at diplomacy.

Attending the "count" is an invitation not a legal summons.

And I think we would all be angry if we were subjects to a plethora of death threats on a regular basis.

MyKittyKatty · 17/08/2026 11:56

Darker · 17/08/2026 10:13

Reform spreading misinformation about Count Binface.

It would be helpful to know where that quote came from if we are to judge it's veracity.

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Darker · 17/08/2026 11:52

I am convinced the festival was laid on specifically to incentivise the loyal door-knockers to spend their free time in Clacton, rounding up the vote.

Farage’s lack of grace and manners at the count confirms my fears of the kind of PM he would make if Reform were to win the next GE. An angry man who has the ability to campaign but fails dismally at diplomacy.

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Uricon2 · 17/08/2026 11:38

Darker · 17/08/2026 10:42

I love it that they have supporters while other parties have ‘activists’.

The absolute cheek of them, when they basically had a 3 line whip to get all their people to Clacton to aid Farage, abandoning the Manchester Mayoral campaign.

I reckon some of them were the guests at that dreary looking 'Festival'. The Press seemed as surprised by it as the rest of us, so I doubt it was well publicised.

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Darker · 17/08/2026 11:36

Darker · 17/08/2026 10:42

I love it that they have supporters while other parties have ‘activists’.

Apologies for quoting myself.

Activists aren’t really an “Establishment” thing, are they?

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BIossomtoes · 17/08/2026 11:10

hedgeknight · 17/08/2026 11:01

Remember Lee Anderson's fake door knocking?

"Pretend you don't know me"

I’d forgotten that. It was excruciating.

hedgeknight · 17/08/2026 11:01

Remember Lee Anderson's fake door knocking?

"Pretend you don't know me"

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Darker · 17/08/2026 10:42

I love it that they have supporters while other parties have ‘activists’.

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PerkingFaintly · 17/08/2026 10:38

Tell us Reform are scared of Count Binface without telling us Reform are scared of Count Binface.Grin

The fact they feel the need to make stuff up about him – even now the election is over – speaks volumes!

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Darker · 17/08/2026 10:13

Reform spreading misinformation about Count Binface.

To think Count Binface is doing a great job in the Clacton by-election?
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ClarkeandNewman · 16/08/2026 23:26

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 23:05

'No' and 'yes' but someone has to subside this laudable aim.

Rural transport demands in seaside and farming areas is seasonal and needs to be flexible.

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I wouldn't say it was laudable. I'd say it was essential and inevitable, given climate change. Maybe it's time to stop thinking of everything in terms of balance sheets.

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 23:05

ClarkeandNewman · 16/08/2026 23:00

Do you think public transport is adequate in the UK, outside large towns and cities? Are not "old dears" as entitled as anyone else to be able to travel around and socialise?

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'No' and 'yes' but someone has to subside this laudable aim.

Rural transport demands in seaside and farming areas is seasonal and needs to be flexible.

ClarkeandNewman · 16/08/2026 23:00

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:47

It's unlikely that the rural bus subsidy was designed solely with you in mind.

I agree

Since it was successful, I imagine other people found it useful.

That depends on how you measure "sucessful".
Taking 2 regular old dears to the bingo and back on a Sunday in a double-decker isn't the height of efficiecy IMO.

Some people did use it for a day out to Skeggy in the summer, but in the winter it was empty. Even the aforementioned ladies didn't risk it.

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Do you think public transport is adequate in the UK, outside large towns and cities? Are not "old dears" as entitled as anyone else to be able to travel around and socialise?

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:47

ClarkeandNewman · 16/08/2026 22:38

It's unlikely that the rural bus subsidy was designed solely with you in mind. Since it was successful, I imagine other people found it useful.

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It's unlikely that the rural bus subsidy was designed solely with you in mind.

I agree

Since it was successful, I imagine other people found it useful.

That depends on how you measure "sucessful".
Taking 2 regular old dears to the bingo and back on a Sunday in a double-decker isn't the height of efficiecy IMO.

Some people did use it for a day out to Skeggy in the summer, but in the winter it was empty. Even the aforementioned ladies didn't risk it.

ClarkeandNewman · 16/08/2026 22:38

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:23

@ClarkeandNewman I can remember it meant we got 6 buses each way between Skegness and Lincoln on a Sunday instead of 3, hardly 'ripping up trees'.
They were not used much, so so much for people who were previously isolated to participate in work and leisure.
No-one wanted to go cauli-cutting or digging tates in the boondocks on a Sunday.
Two people used them to go to Skeggy on a Sunday to play bingo

The weekly service stayed an hourly one.

I no longer live in the area, fortunately.

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It's unlikely that the rural bus subsidy was designed solely with you in mind. Since it was successful, I imagine other people found it useful.

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:33

hedgeknight · 16/08/2026 22:17

Do you think Tice can?

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I don't know, I don't read minds and as he isn't my MP I can't ask him.

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:24

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MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:23

ClarkeandNewman · 16/08/2026 22:10

The money spent on subsidising rural transport was never supposed to be a profit making scheme, it was a social one and successful at that. It enabled, as such non-profit making schemes often do, people who were previously isolated to participate in work and leisure. Obviously the ring fenced money for the rural bus subsidy scheme was withdrawn under the coalition government who knew the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

So, a little more nuanced than your version of money being thrown around and still no profit!

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@ClarkeandNewman I can remember it meant we got 6 buses each way between Skegness and Lincoln on a Sunday instead of 3, hardly 'ripping up trees'.
They were not used much, so so much for people who were previously isolated to participate in work and leisure.
No-one wanted to go cauli-cutting or digging tates in the boondocks on a Sunday.
Two people used them to go to Skeggy on a Sunday to play bingo

The weekly service stayed an hourly one.

I no longer live in the area, fortunately.

Uricon2 · 16/08/2026 22:18

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:13

I can't answer that question.

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I can. They won't

hedgeknight · 16/08/2026 22:17

MyKittyKatty · 16/08/2026 22:13

I can't answer that question.

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Do you think Tice can?

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