Count Binface has a genuine chance against Nigel Farage!

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Sounds crazy but…

None of the major parties are competing…

Farage won Clacton with 46% of the vote…

If the 54% united together to vote for Binface, we could have the most preposterous election outcome of all time!

I reckon this could get some genuine momentum… all the other parties would LOVE this result, and even if they didn’t actively campaign for it, would surely quietly be gunning for Binface to win.

I think you might not realise the purpose of Binface standing against anyone!

I've just had a glance at his Makerfield manifesto and he promised that people who use speakerphones on public transport will be conscripted.

That would actually improve my quality of life, he'd have my vote!

He clarified his manifesto on the Today Programme on R4: he's not Nigel Farage.

He clarified his manifesto on the Today Programme on R4: he's not Nigel Farage.

Yes, candidates like Binface are actually an important part of our democracy.

It's interesting that, when Farage is the one who's now costing the electorate large sums of money solely because he's thrown a tantrum because he doesn't want his dodgy dealings looked into, that you think it's the other parties who have contempt for the electorate.

Burnham held his first constituency surgery the week after he was elected.

Who is Count Binface-when you look him up, it says comedian, but has he had a previous career? He might be quite good!

Is it that you just don't realise that it is more than likely that there will be another by election?

Do you not think that Farage's lack of transparency shows contempt for the democratic process?

All he is being asked to do is comply with the rules of parliament. What could be more democratic?

And in this particular case, the situation is:

FARAGE: What, my dishonest practice has been exposed? I shall resign and immediately re-stand! Call a by election! Throw loads of money and time and column inches at this performance! Spotlight on me!

TORIES, LABOUR, LIB DEMS ET AL: Oh fuck off, knobhead.

MAN WHO WEARS A BIN ON HIS HEAD: I shall fight the noble fight!!!

It was already a farce, but now it's openly a farce and it really does make him look ridiculous.

Farage has demonstrated absolute contempt for the rules that state that all newly elected MPs have to declare any donation of over £300 made in the 12 months preceeding their election. He did not declare the £5 million donated by Christopher Harborne
He then demonstrated absolute contempt for the Select Committe's investigation of said £5 million by resigning and putting himself forward for re-election. If he has nothing to hide why is he doing all he can to postone or circumvent the investigation?

Just demonstrates what an inept politician Farage is. The media should be fully focused on Burnham at the moment, cabinet picks, policies etc. I support Burnham but realises he needs to be scrutinised, but no Nigel has gifted AB a couple of weeks where the focus is elsewhere.
This is just bad politics.

Given what has happened in every by-election Reform have stood in lately, what is likely to happen is tactical voting on a scale never seen before. Reform have maxxed out their demographic. Most people in the UK are not racists, bigots or unfashionable. Makersfield and Gorton and Denton have shown an electorate willing to cross parry lines to keep Reform out. I don't think you realise the extent to which they are loathed outside their base.

Improving public transport and improving defense - win win.

But at the same time there is something honourable about it. The mainstream parties refusing to get involved and not to give the temper tantrum any attention, and the citizen doing what needs to be done.

Reform are really tying themselves in knots with this stunt and its fucking hilarious.

Sarah Pochin having an absolute horror show on LBC just now. I genuinely don't know how anyone can get so routinely humiliated and still come back for more a week later 🙈

Also worth pointing out that if anyone feels particularly strongly that the electors of Clacton are being denied a proper choice, nothing to stop you standing as an independent but pledging to vote with a particular party if elected.

You can't make, say, the Lib Dems run you as a candidate but you can say you'll run on their 2024 manifesto and follow their whip in Parliament. They can't stop you doing either of those things. All you need is 10 constituent signatures and a few hundred quid, both easily obtainable if you make enough fuss on social media. You don't even need to campaign if you don't want to.

Not that at all

They are making a point that they won't join in his farce

You're letting facts get in the way of a good froth...

Why doesn't Farage declare his funding and apologise for not declaring it before? I'm sure the people of Clacton would forgive him and we wouldn't have to go through this expensive rigmarole.

Instead he has lost his temper and is behaving like a prima donna.

I can only see the headline, but the Telegraph seems to be reporting that Kemi Badenoch is calling Binface "the People's Candidate".

I'm interested in whether Reform voters genuinely care or don't care about Farage's extra jobs and all the donations.

Farage has just demonstrated his own contempt for the democratic process and for most people.

Fixed it

I'm sorry. I'll make sure it happens again. 🤣

I wonder how much notice of this he gave his colleagues. They can't be very pleased having to go out and defend this!