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.

If the by-election is on August 6th, it will get a lot more publicity than most, because there is little other news at that time of the summer.

That’s true. And I wouldn’t suppose any party to be better than another. But Labour does like to trumpet its ethical credentials, so all this stuff looks very hypocritical from them.

And to be fair to Farage his vanity by-election is only following Burnham’s, who has after all cost the taxpayer the Makerfield by-election and the Manchester mayoral election.

None of this takes away from Farage’s grubby antics.

Go Binface!

And how is that working out for him? It is sad so many people think senior civil servants shouldn't be appointed via a proper recruitment process. I would have thought we would have learnt from Starmer and Johnson.

They already have one.

Indeed. It's almost like they don't want the spotlight on Farage (and his worthy opponent)

Who else should do the job, who else would choose them? What is your alternative model?

Obviously civil service roles should be recruited but political appointments are political appointments.

Senior civil servants ARE appointed through a recruitment process.

You're talking about political appointments. These are political appointments, the clue is in the name.

It's hard to comment at the moment though as Binface said he hasn't decided on his Clacton manifesto yet. He did say in Makerfield that he would move there if he won. I suspect he would want to go and visit Clacton first, to see if it as bad as everyone says, before making a similar commitment.

There's a difference between reward and preventing detriment though, isn't there? I don't know the man's personal circumstances, but assuming he needs to earn a living, it would be understandable that he would want an alternative job. However, a job isn't a reward.
A reward suggests that he was offered something significantly better that he could have achieved had he not taken the action.
We don't know if this happened and never will, as whatever job Josh gets, we can't say he wouldn't have otherwise recieved it on merit.
People will of course, as whatever the man goes on to do, however able for his role he proves to be, people will claim its his 'reward'.

I donated and the £3 were and are coming in thick and fast.

I fail to see if he was a actual bin he would be worse for the people of Clacton and Jaywick, because the carpetbagger they elected last time seems to spend much time in the US sucking up to Trump and very little fighting for their interests.

And of course, there was the possibility Andy B might not have won. Reform seemed to think they'd got it in the bag, until they hadn't.

I mean if you want to complain about vetting and cronyism and the first and only party you look at is Labour, then you either aren't looking, don't want to look or both.

Lets not forget this is this guy we are talking about.

Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network | Labour | The Guardian

If even the Guardian lay into you - we can be pretty sure he wasn't appointed on merit.

I'd appoint Binface over him anyday.

It would undermine the seriousness of politics and the issues the British public face. Sometimes im ashamed to be British and im ashamed for all the people who fought for this country

The thing is that Labour said that they would do better. Johnson was terrible for it - just take Cummings.

Now we seem to have Labour supporters falling over each other to say,. Don't worry, no need for standards, everyone does it. Then try and shift attention away from their corruption to Farage who is obviously worse. It's like "well, as long as we aren't as bad a him, its all good".

Martin Bell stood as an independent in 1997 on a platform to remove Neil Hamilton who was mired in allegations of sleaze, and the other parties stood aside for him. Bell did a good job for one term then stepped down, as he'd promised to do in when he was elected. I see this as a very similar situation in effect, if not in intent.
Jonathan Harvey (Count Binface) has promised to do his best for the constituents if elected; he can't be much worse than the incumbent at any rate.

I agree. From the footage I've seen Clacton has a bit of a litter problem which I'm sure all of the residents and local businesses would like rid of.

Vote Count Binface to take out the trash in Clacton.
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Farage's attempt to avoid scrutiny undermines the seriousness of politics and the issues the British public face.

If, as a result of his actions, binface is elected, then it's difficult to see how Clacton would be worse off.

I think NF with his ridiculous fake by election which was called by him to try to save his skin has done more to undermine the seriousness of politics than almost anyone else that comes to mind.

FAFO, Nigel.

Also, I can think of a few people who fought for this country who would have found this absolutely hilarious, my grandfather (WW1) for a start. He'd have voted Binface.

There was nothing wrong with how Cummings was appointed - he was a political appointment.There was a lot wrong with what happened in Downing Street after he was in post!!

Who do you imagine should be appointed to political roles?

It was Farage created this situation. Not labour. They are right to want nothing to do with it. He can explain himself to the electorate.

Oh mine too. He was part of the liberation of Bergen Belsen, and knew all too well what men like Farage are capable of. He'd seen it first hand.

Bin face is saying that he is going save £350,000 by not needing another bi-election. That's a familar number - he should put it on a bus!

Now that would be the most ironic bus in the world.

The relevance is any constituency would be lucky to get her.

My bloke fought for this country and he thinks it’s hilarious and wants Binface to win. 🤷‍♀️