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.

The conservatives who ran the county into the ground for 14 years and then have the gall to say how much better they’ll be.

@Paul2023 you say that but then say you'll vote Reform despite most of their MPs being those self same Tories (Jenrick, Braverman, Anderson) and many of their high profile members (Dorries, Zahawi) and many of their local councillors also being ex-Tories.

My brain hurts at that, even if yours doesn't.

You can't have it both ways. You want an anti-establishment figure in charge, but you want the establishment to protect you from the worst excesses of the new regime.

How do you think this is working out across the Atlantic?

You don't seem to understand a) Reform's policies b) the role/power of unions c) the protections you currently have.

Of course the unions won't have any input - they do not vote on laws.
What benefit is it to know everyone is in an equally shit position?

The NHS is overloaded. If a private company treated me ( still paid for with taxes ) then fine..
Tue private sector has been assisting the NHS for decades. You’ll find your GP works for a partnership if expect.

If Bupa for example can do thing more cost effective than they NHS, is that so bad ?

Tell me exactly what employment right will go though ? I

Again, you appear not to understand Farage's policy statements.

YOU would pay personally, that's the point.

Look up all the employment rights you have now.
Those ones.

Count Binface is bonkers but he does a great parody and sounds just like #fivehomesFarage

He's the biggest mystery since Banksy

I see farage is off in America earning 27,000 for a talk at an anti tax rally.

Nice work if you can get it. Shame he refuses to help his constituents.

If everyone went on strike Reform wouldn’t be able to do it. The right to strike would be at risk in the first place.

I don't get how people have so little understanding of the way things work.

But he’d have to change the way our National insurance and income tax is paid .

He’d have to find private medical companies willing to run the services.

He’d face staunch opposition from probably every NHS doctor.

The doctors could in theory down tools and refuse to be privatised.

I can’t see it happening. And most of the public who are not rich won’t stand for it.

Farage won’t just simply privatise the NHS, it’s too big and complicated and would take years and years of unraveling.

Loved the Count's spoonerism on Radio 4 this morning. Referred to Nigel's "cunning stunt"...

Farage has said he will repeal the Equality Act.

However, I think he is more interested in running a kleptocracy than the ins and outs of employment/equality law.

I would image he would do whatever he thinks will please the people who send him funds.

You are of course free to believe that Harborne just really, really likes Farage as a person.

No he's not, his identity has been known for years. It's even been mentioned in this thread a few times

Look at this simply. If everyone in the UK had their employment rights taken away, everyone could stop working and the country would grind to a halt.

Farages government would collapse and there would be an immediate change of government.

40 odd million people go to work , I can’t see every accepting Dickensian Terry’s and conditions when it comes to work ..

Your naivety is fascinating.

Of course people can't just stop working - they get no money and lose their jobs unless protected by employment laws.

Can people buy food without wages? No. So most people would work rather than strike illegally.

No need to make any overt policy changes. Just make it less and less efficient so that more people turn to private medicine. Any decline in service can be blamed on immigrants.

Today?

Please tell me I'm misunderstanding this. Genuinely.

You would vote Reform, and not worry about their policies because you don't think they can deliver on them?

What?

Where are you getting this stuff from?

No change to tax and NI required to move procedures from NHS funded to private funding only.

Plenty of companies available, USA very keen to 'help'.

You're kidding yourself if you think policies don't matter. Why on earth do you think these people are in politics?

Rachel Reeves:

I will accept Nigel Farage’s request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.

It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better.

But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him.

I think she has finally done something that will draw wide spread public support.

I’ve been on strikes and worked to rule.

Oh boy.... the ground is already very well prepared for most of this.

We have a joke prime minister and another one in waiting. How bad do you want it to be?

How does an MP, even a joke one, bring 'chaos' to their constituency? An MP has nothing to do with how a local area is run - that's down to the local council. MP's aren't in charge of anything locally.