To think Count Binface is doing a great job in the Clacton by-election?

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Count down to Bin Day!

Count Binface has been out bigging-up Clacton and drawing attention to its potential.

It’s a really positive campaign.

I don’t think he’ll win but I’d love it if he did. I think he’d be brilliant.

And if he doesn’t, I think other candidates could learn a lot from his approach.

I’d be embarrassed if I’d exercised my hard won democratic vote to cast it for Farage yes. That’s what it explains.

Well I don't think it's done Farage much good across the country and we'll have to wait and see if it all ends up in another by-election.

He was always likely to win though given the amount of resouces thrown at it by reform not sure they thought that despite main parties not standing.

Farage has - once again - made himself look like a fucking arse.

He resigned to avoid his finances being scrutinised, framing it as "people vs the establishment" test. Instead, it turned into a ridiculous farce where reform - and let's take a bit of time to savour this sentence - were genuinely worried that Farage would lose to a man with a bin on his head.

Rather than being a walk in a park like he assumed, reform had to chuck real resource at the bi-election. Against a man with a bin on his head and a bunch of other reform members standing solely to split the protest vote.

And now he does have to face up to the Parliamentary Commissioner after all, and let's hope that he loses his seat as a result.

So what's he achieved? Fuck all, other than looking like a complete wanker. Again.

If I was a reform voter I'd be fucking furious with him. But I'm not, because I'm not stupid.

And here we go 🍿

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y40d11zewt

He hardly attends Parliament.

He's made no speeches.

He hardly votes in Parliament.

He's been to Clacton 3 times since being elected, only meeting business owners. He has not held a single constituency surgery.

He's got in on just over 20% of the electorate, a figure which he said meant that Labour under Starmer had no legitimate right to rule.

Will he apply that same standard to himself?

This hasn't made Farage look good, especially calling the other candidates 'nobodies' which says a lot about him.

I believe this is called The Streisand Effect 😂😂😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

That said, I am so bored of Farage now. He’s completely overexposed. Can he not just fuck off and do some actual work for a change?

No, because I don't let other voters sway me.

Or facts

You wouldn't be voting for him to get to the point of embarrassment, so not sure why you raised it in the first place. Oh yes, I forgot, to try and make other people feel inferior.

Yes, refusing to appear next to other candidates and calling them nobodies wasn't a good look at all.

So OP, i like the fact you are a 'Disrupter' showing your hand but in a kid glove.

I posted on Wednesday about the one sided vitriol of mumsnet on this subject.

As i have said previously I'm not standing with any Party but it was obvious from the start Farage called this by-election in order to prove his constituents still wanted him to represent them.

Is it coincidence that all other parties decided as one to not put up candidates? No, it isn’t, they decided jointly that it was their one chance to remove him before he became a threat to the establishment. This is not democratic behaviour.

This has been a stitch up.

As adults with a modicum of intelligence it must be obvious to all of you that the population of this country have every right to vote as they think fit.
While you are all typing away, deriding the constituents of Clacton most of them are on the shop floor wondering what is going to happen next. Which tax will go up, how will they cover the cost of childcare. Who is defending the Realm, what to do about the NHS.

And you, most of you prefer to joke and laugh and become vitriolic.
Count Binface stood for reducing bus fares from £2 to £1.99 and for selling a 99 ice cream for 99p.
The other parties stood back because they are scared.
This is silly, childish behaviour.

For the record I've never voted Reform, I've voted Tory.

For someone who is supposedly all about "British values", he seems not to understand the British sense of humour, British eccentricity, nor value British election traditions.

Desperate incoherent thrashing around by the poster above me.

Farage removed himself. He resigned.

What "chance to remove him before he became a threat to the establishment"?

Why wasn't he already a "threat to the establishment"? What with his decades' long career as a politician and ACTUAL SEAT IN PARLIAMENT. Which he gave up.

All this thrashing around just sounds panic-stricken...

@lollylimejuice Please give me an example of where the voters of Clacton have been derided? You said:

While you are all typing away, deriding the constituents of Clacton most of them are on the shop floor wondering what is going to happen next. Which tax will go up, how will they cover the cost of childcare. Who is defending the Realm, what to do about the NHS

But Farage isn’t interested in those things. His Brexit campaign has cost the less well- off people dearly. And has increased immigration. He will destroy the NHS.

I am very much interested in developing thriving communities.

We don’t get those by spouting empty rhetoric about small boats, while advising rich people how to pay less tax and trousering large amounts of money for personal use.

What are you actually talking about? It was you who asked if I would be embarrassed to exercise my democratic vote? To which I replied that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to vote but I would be embarrassed if I’d voted for Farage. If that makes you feel inferior that’s up to you. It shouldn’t should it, if he is as you say, the great hope of the nation? As it goes I’ve voted for all four mainstream parties (I include Green) in my time at various level elections. I’ve voted for those that make sense to me, that align with my views, (which have changed over time on some things), that campaign on specific local issues, and that keep others out variously. And yet never once have I ever felt close to voting for Reform.

These sort of word salad, slightly aggressive responses that you keep giving seem typical of, to paraphrase you, ‘the mindset’ of Reform voters when anyone questions them or their leader.
Which is unfortunate as it makes people less likely to be persuaded by you, not more.

I didn't ask whether you'd be influenced. I asked if there's a party with policies that you'd be ashamed to vote for. Say if the National Front or British National Party made a resurgence or a Keep Women Barefoot and Pregnant Party were to emerge, would you freely and proudly lay claim to voting for them?

Regardless of what any of us think of Farage and his actions, it’s not his fault a man dressed as a bin decided to enter. The responsibility for that and its ridiculousness lies entirely with someone else.

Why would I be embarrassed about my beliefs and principles? A grown woman doesn't allow herself to feel shamed or embarrassed, so I don't know where you think you're going with this.

Give over!

When someone jumps on to say another poster's facts-all incidentally gleaned from the BBC News website is wrong, thenit is entirely reasonable for the 'accused' to ask what is wrong, how it is wrong and why it is wrong.

You can't do that. Instead you pop back on-twice-to say that you haven't got time to do that.

Now I puzzle. If you know that my facts are wrong and can contradict me-and the BBC-then why not do so with facts from another quoted source?

It's a real head scratcher, is that and an unkind critic would say that you are simply enraged and stamping your foot.

That's understandable.

Although why you have taken it upon yourself-as just another poster-to say I shouldn't post is of course, an example of immaturity.

Also, don't use metaphors that don't make sense.

Calling something a "sea" implies a huge amount. I do find that people generally show their arse and lack of education the more head that they are given, as you have so generously demonstrated.

Enjoy your day! I will.

I'd be embarassed to vote for Farage too.

You speak of a modicum of intelligence but also claim that the main parties didn't oppose Farage because they thought it "was their one chance to remove him before he became a threat to the establishment.". I sense a disconnect here. How would allowing Mr Farage to run unopposed be the main parties' chance to get rid of him? What is "the establishment"? Why do you think they want to get rid of him? Would his own greed and corruption not ultimately do that job anyway? Mr Farage is going to end with a whimper rather than a bang, I feel, brought down by his own hubris.

I was never sure if the other parties not putting a candidate forward was the right thing to do, at first I did but. I heard a number of voters complain that they felt the byelection had become a laughing matter and this was abotu their lives and I understand how they feel.

It is not a surprise that Farage won, he is popular there the £5 million gift will not bother his true supporter, they will sand by him not matter what. It is those floating supporters that the Tories and Labour have lost/losing to Reform that both parties need to win back and keeping the discussion going about his finances and questionable links needs to continue

As i have said previously I'm not standing with any Party but it was obvious from the start Farage called this by-election in order to prove his constituents still wanted him to represent them.

@lollylimejuice he's said he wants to be "judged" by his constituents (I suppose they are useful to him when he wants something) but even if they voted unanimously for him (they didn't of course) and carried him through the streets of Clacton on a golden litter, scattering roses in his path, it has ZERO to do with the legal remit of the Parliamentary Standards Committee or indeed, the investigations of the Metropolitan police.

All he did was waste a load of public money kicking the probe into his finances down the road a few weeks. That is the sum total of his 'achievement'.

What I liked about Binface was his humour and refusal to get drawn into fruitless debate.…