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

[MyCyanBear]

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?

There’s a little matter of the legislation; Representation of the People Act 1983. This is to ensure independence and impartiality. This way it is considered that if (only if 🤣) there is a wealthy individual, maybe someone with £5m in their back pocket, they cannot be seen to influence the vote.

Edited to correct typo.

Typical reform that, offering to do things they can't actually do. It gets them a good story because most people don't dig any deeper than headlines. It's illegal to pay for elections. So no, none of the serious parties or candidates have offered to break the law oddly.

Satire and comedy are protest.

Farage is a seasoned politician. He knows full well he can’t buy an election. He only says stupid shit like that so the gullible will think him principled and selfless (even through the £5m just resting in his account and being besties with ‘The Establishment 🙄’ even as he tries to paint them as the baddies 😂).

Andy Burnham didn’t do it as he’s also a seasoned politician and also knows he can’t offer to buy an election as the electorate would see it as a manipulative stunt. The by-election was considered necessary to deliver the leadership to enable the Labour Party to deliver its 2024 manifesto in the face of the (often undeserved) vitriol pointed at Starmer which undermined his credibility and trust.

The by-election was considered necessary to deliver the leadership to enable the Labour Party to deliver its 2024 manifesto in the face of the (often undeserved) vitriol pointed at Starmer which undermined his credibility and trust.

“Necessary”, really? There was no-one else among the huge number of Labour MPs who could ‘deliver’ the manifesto? They must all be as hopeless as Starmer. Good to know.

As for the “vitriol”, Starmer would have been more liked and appreciated if he wasn’t so unpleasant and scapegoated everyone around him, hadn’t taken grubby freebies, hadn’t u-turned constantly and been so timid in the face of his backbenchers, hadn’t driven through Mandelson’s appointment, hadn’t hobbled the economy, hadn’t misled the commons, and on and on.

Sounds a lot like Farage, who has managed to scapegoat immigrants, the EU, the ‘Establishment’ (I have no fucking clue what context he’s trying to sneak that in under as it’s plain to anyone that he’s as ‘establishment’ as Suella, Robert, and the rest of his ex-Tory colleagues (but no by-election even though they’ve committed to delivering a different manifesto that nobody in their constituency voted for), ‘wokeness’, whatever the fuck that means, and variously, May, Johnson, Sunak, the police, the BBC…basically anything that’s not nailed down.

You’re very brave to mention grubby freebies when Farage has had free flights and accommodation in the USA, free use of a house next to Buckingham Palace, the £5m just resting in his account (cough), helicopter rides, boxing tickets, tickets to Davos…the list is endless. It’s no wonder he has no time to do his day job…and as for lies - jeez - how long have you got? It’s harder to find a truth. Needless to say, £350m a week did not go to the EU, he sold fisherman down the river when he was in a unique position to lobby on their behalf, he’s changed his story 3 times about the £5m. Every time he opens his mouth a lie comes out. Still, at least he’ll show up in Clacton for the next few weeks, drinking pints in Wetherspoons for photo ops (paid for by Posh George no doubt) before he fucks off again to lick Trump’s backside and drink Petrus with Christopher Harborne.

Why do you think I support Farage and Reform? I can’t stand him or his party. By all means lay into them.

Anyway, I take it that you accept that Starmer was a useless PM who fucked up; and that the PLP is a talent vacuum; and that Burnham wasted a great deal of taxpayers’ money on a vanity by-election that also costs us all the price of a mayoral election in Manchester.

I don’t see how Count Binface saying he lives on another planet is the ‘first scandal’ on the by-election!