Count Binface is refusing to deny that he lives 400 million light years from Clacton

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The Clacton by-election has its first scandal. The only man standing against Farage (Count Binface) is under fire for refusing to relocate to the constituency. His campaign's defence: he has "been entirely transparent — his address is published in light years."
The same finance site that "endorsed" him last week has the full story, including divided residents ("at least the bin's honest about not living here. Some of them pretend") and a costing of his pledge to nationalise Adele: £0, because "she is already a national asset." The regulator would be called Ofdele.
https://trendingsheet.com/article/count-binface-400-million-light-years-clacton
Asked on the Today programme what his appeal to voters was, he replied "I'm not Nigel Farage" — which their fact-checking desk "has examined and found to be accurate."
Ridiculous times. Is anyone else weirdly invested in this by-election now?

Farage behaving like this is quite a sad state of affairs really, but I think the Binface phenomenon is actually the best way for our democracy that this could've turned out. Because there's a playbook for this sort of thing now.

Realistically no sitting MP is going to pull this stunt without a big majority. The bigger parties can simply refuse to stand, safe in the knowledge that some joke candidate will emerge from the internet and the MP attempting to make the point will look a tit having to argue with joke candidates and a few from the loon fringe. This is going to serve to discourage anyone else from copying.

He reminds me of a turtle (sorry turtles)

Binface is probably a far more serious candidate for the job than farage.

More power to Count Binface ✊🏻😄

As a child of the 60s and a huge Stingray fan, I've occasionally thought that Farage resembles one of the Aquaphibians, Troy Tempest's sworn enemies -

No, he said he was on his way back to Sigma 9 after Makerfield when he heard that old Nigel had thrown his toys out of the pram, so he turned the spaceship around and came back.

Having previously had no time for comedy candidates, I actually love this guy and hear him get a lot more trenchant comments in to interviews than is usually the case from his ilk. Doesn't hurt that he's written for news satire shows I guess.

Imagine Nigel losing to an intergalactic immigrant!

I agree I think if he won he would do his very best and probably a very good job too for the people of Clacton

The irony!

Stop the spaceships!

Wouldn't anyone/thing do a better job than the creature currently in post?

No one complained about having a Vulcan in parliament for many years. John Redwood was even knighted.

John Redwood attempting to sing the Welsh anthem in Welsh by flapping his mouth up and down and yawing his head will never not be funny

So I thank him for that.

#TeamBinface

Or Ed Miliband, ‘the Emissary from the Planet Fuck’.

So does William Hague, who after that embarrassing predecessor as Secretary of State for Wales decided when he took the job to ‘dysgu Cymraeg’ and met Ffion, now his wife.

Interesting all that was. An old university friend of mine knew Ffion quite well through SWS and said she thought her very ambitious indeed.

Mr Fishfinger is standing too

Yes, it's an awful load of nonsense, but at least Reform offered to pay the costs. Don't remember Labour or Andy Burnham doing that for the unnecessary by-election they caused.

Offering to pay the costs is worse than not offering.

Because the rules say they can't. Not allowed. So either Reform didn't know that quite basic piece of information, which is worrying. Or they did and they're being disingenuous.

Both of those things mean they're behaving worse than a party that don't offer to cover the costs.

I just hope that there is a "Boaty McBoatface" moment and Binface gets in.

Yes exactly.

Reform relying on people hearing what they want to hear.

Exactly. There’s a reason Thatcher’s government hated Spitting Image and Ben Elton, and Trump hates the late night hosts. Humour sneaks political dissent past our boredom and apathy. Count Binface jokes about being light years away from Clacton, then makes a point about Nigel not being there.

Humour is dangerous to the status quo. It’s been a thing for hundreds if not thousands of years. If you can’t protest, laugh at them.

If I lived in Clacton, I'd be unable to resist Count Binface.

Someone needs to grow up. The man who called a needless by election for the sake of his own ego.

This is exactly how democracy should work.

Out of the £5 million ?