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.

Well they voted for that last time… and look where it got them? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think Count Binface will get a lot of support, directly or indirectly.

Led By Donkeys have got lots of material that will help

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=999899042753115

And farage isn’t a joke? He’s a dangerous joke at that.

Not sure where I am saying the right should be removed categorically - but if someone resigns from post - they resign. They should not be able to resign and put themselves back up for immediate re-election. There is no reason why the rules cannot stipulate that a person resigning cannot stand again for a minimum period of three years. There are lots of rules about who is allowed to stand in the House of Commons Disqualification Act of 1975 - I feel that this should be amended to prevent resigning and announcing your intention to stand again immediately. There should be a period of ‘disqualification’ after which an individual may then stand again.

They know election law, they would have known when they made the offer and made the public comments about the offer that it was not possible.

As an MP, Farage has already trousered almost £200,000 as his parliamentary salary for the last 2 years, in addition to all of the expenses that he can claim. What have the taxpayers of Clacton seen for this money?

The taxpayers also paid him hundreds of thousands of pounds when he was an MEP when he seemingly spent the time there doing very little.

All money already spaffed on this man's ego trip.

They should be allowed. They should not abuse the rights afforded by the system.

It would be undemocratic to disqualify for your arbitrary fixed period.

We haven't seen Binface's arse, we have seen Farage's

I think he'd do a great job.

Let's not forget that President Zelensky was elected on the back of being a popular actor and people said that was a joke.

#BinForTheWin

Oh I hope so. I’d donate.

Yes - but he is wasting another £250k on a now uncontested and thus performative by-election - that will not involve him being removed or prevent him ‘trousering’ further money will it? There won’t be a second by-election, unless he is going to resign and call for a reelection every time he gets media criticism - which he [and now the precedent has been set, any other MP] could happily do. It makes a farce of the process and it is tax payers who are funding this pantomime.

Farage has no policies and has brought chaos, but only people living in Clacton can vote, and nobody is stopping them from voting from Farage.

why not - it's what we've become used to.

Lots of arbitrary fixed periods of disqualification - one of those standing for election in a london borough council had been disqualified from standing for a period. I forget what for now, but there was a brouhaha over the fact that the disqualification period had now completed he could stand again, and was duly re-elected.

I mean at this point in the political cycle, I'd take a joke over a neo-fascist any day of the week

There will be a second by-election if he is re-elected and the parliamentary standards authority suspend him for 10 days and 10% of Clacton constituents sign a recall petition.

Other MPs are unlikely to follow suit because he is making himself look like a fool and ensuring that the story of his finances runs and runs.

I had a little chuckle watching him on BBC Breakfast this morning when he shoehorned 'reverse 69' into the conversation.

I forget what for now Well it won't have been for standing down!

It matters what the disqualification was for, obviously.

We have disqualifications for serious reasons, such as bankruptcy and criminal record.

So did I - never expected to hear that on BBC Breakfast.

The potential second by-election would follow any recall petition, if the parliamentary standards investigation goes that way.

That by-election, if it happens, WOULD be contested.

Yes Farage is wasting taxpayer money. The system is fine, it is Farage's actions that are at fault but should be dealt with at the ballot box in due course - either through recall or at the next GE.

I am hoping this is Farage's final, and monumental, moment of hubris.

Remember his March to Leave in 2019?

Well, this seems to still be law so......

A Statute forbidding Bearing of Armour (1313)
You are here:
Acts of the English Parliament

You can find it under the timeline in the 1310s. Hope taking his armour off won't mean he can't breathe earth air.

Yeh I was surprised with these interviews. Count Binface is clearly no idiot. Not sure he seriously wants the job but he’d be a better than average MP!

Here is info on disqualifications:

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-candidates-and-agents-uk-parliamentary-elections-great-britain/what-you-need-know-you-stand-a-candidate/qualifications-and-disqualifications-standing-election/disqualifications

We couldn't add 'resigned previously', as it could deny the electorate of a preferred candidate without legitimate cause.

I’d donate to Count Binface but Clacton being Clacton I think the only likely competitor would be Restore. His attendance at Westminster has been as good as his attendance in the EU parliament where he failed to turn of and vote on any of his big issues.

Its quite possible Farage has had enough of the type of politics which involves actual work and scrutiny - he has always been a one man band, now they have seats and a larger party it can’t be quite that way. He may see this as a way out of working politics in favour of a return to shit posting politics.

Or its just a stunt to get the standards people off his back for a few months whilst he sorts out his next grift.