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.

Yes exactly - every leader appoints people.

Yes this is 400 years of political tradition in the UK. It is not new. Politics rewards loyalty.

Yes, I do unfortunately. Well, that's my gut. There's lots of people that have 'drunk the cool-aid" here and think he is answer to their problems.

There's I like about living here, the politics of my neighbours and community isn't one.

Clacton already had a joke MP with Farage. Binface could well be a vast improvement

I'd love to see Binface win. I'd vote for him if I lived in Clacton.

I love how 'man of the people' Nigel Farage thinks that 'I didn't bother with car insurance' is somehow a normal thing to say.

'My car got written off by an angry mob so I just got my crypto billionaire mate to give me a new one'.

Still corrupt cronyism at our expense though. Statiscally it can't possible be true that the best person for the "job" just happens to be Andy's mate who resigned in Makerfield. You'd have thought they have learnt from Mandelson.

Oh interesting, if you refer to the way that his billionaire mate made his money, MN automatically hides your post.

I was just saying that 'man of the people' Nigel Farage thinks that not bothering with car insurance is a normal thing to say.

Because if you've had your car written off by an angry mob you can just get your billionaire mate to give you a new one. Isn't that what everyone does?

I presumed it'd be a no 10 team role also. Which actually would potentially be more power than the typical backbench MP/under secretary to the under secretary has.

He’ll likely be offered a real job rather than a non-job… He’s an ambitious politician who’ll doubtless expect to be in the thick of the action, and not given a sinecure in Bermuda or such like.

That’s just “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” politics. It’s not bribery per se, and essentially a necessity in political life, whether you like it or not.

I did find that strange - considering he takes his security so seriously.. surely anyone would phone the police that’s a high profile figure ?

Depends on the job, surely? If its being part of Burnhams PM team then I'd have thought loyalty was a pretty key element of it.

Politics is about your own team. People don’t get jobs on the basis of strict merit. They get it for merit and loyalty. Thats what politics is. It’s not confined to the Labour Party. All parties do it. You reward your friends and allies. Sometimes your enemies. It’s not like a regular job.

You seem extraordinarily naive as to how things work in politics.

Can you really not conceive of a Labour party member and MP doing what they thought necessary to keep the Labour party in power? Have you met many staunch Labour people? We give our time, our money, some of us would walk over coals to keep them in.
I'm inagine Josh knew he'd have an alternative job offer. As he should.

People are a product of their experiences, environment, culture, education, opportunities, community and society. All things that can be influenced. An MP has the chance to support the infrastructure that would influence the things that impact who, why and what 'people are'

No it’s purity done for the sake of performance. You’d have to have lived on another planet not to have seen this in the UK

Which is the very definition of cronyism.

It’s politics. Get over it. You want to say it’s exclusive to Labour. Unless you live under a rock or in another country then you will have seen many times before

Yeap we have seen it over and over again. Matthew Doyle, Peter Mandelson, he is just another in a long line of Labour cronies. Worked out well before.

I wouldn't, no. Relevance?

Have you had a look at Trump?

Your last sentence proved my point…. He knew he’d be rewarded…. Of course he will be. And this is politics and that just how it works - I have no problem with it.

Interesting moves from Count Binface. He has confirmed he will actively campaign and is seeking funds. Usually he just puts out videos and turns up to the count.

So an actual challenge, which is more than most would have expected.

You seem very accepting of taxpayer being used to "reward" someone.

I hope they did they some vetting this time. I seem to recall Simons was already in trouble with the Ministerial Standards Commissioner who said he caused "distraction and potential reputational damage" to the Government.

yada yada. This thread is about Binface and Farage. Sidetracking to take a swing at Burnham is distracting people from the important issues relating to 50p croissants and bringing back Ceefax.