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.

Hardly. Not a serious opponent in sight and more than a quarter of the votes cast went to the bin.

Oh no, I forgot you can't mention crap toe.

Thankyou for correcting me. Binface is a satirist. 😎

Care workers? Classed as low skill, certainly poorly paid yet entirely essential. In my experience the people who sign up for training in care are without exception migrants.

I think you are missing the point.

The man wears a bin of his head and is a comedian. He is not concerned about 'making an idiot of himself'...

But the comedy act did have the decency of turning up to the vote result while Farage, the supposedly serious politician, bottled it.

How much actual work has Farage done as a politician?

Wouldn’t social workers have applied for a visa and entered the U.K. via legal routes? Doubt if many rocked up in small boats !

Oh hardly a resounding success by any conventional definition of the term! A resounding humiliation perhaps, since people saw through his ploy and refused to play his game. Less than 25% of the total electorate of Clacton voted for him. He was caught out lying about being told by the police not to attend the count. Then the mask well and truly slipped with his contemptuous remarks about "nobodies". Not to mention his reliance on old 30p Lee who predictably looked like rent a gob.

How does that constitute even a minor triumph?

Immigrants come in through legal channels, they are a great support to our country.
Migrants on the other hand, leave their native country either for financial reasons or because of war, most leaving behind their family members to cope alone.

He's turned up to Parliament at least once! Shame it was to capitalise on the murder of a teenager and smirk as if it was funny...

MPs outraged at Farage's Nowak comments during PMQs | Politics News | Sky News https://share.google/ZVoa04sPf5RqVEUxg

I like how Farage has been talking to his constituents today, showing up for work and showing what he will be doing for them as their MP. Oh surprise, surprise he hasn’t. He’s talked about himself, from a distance.

OneAmberFinch said she has more of an issue with legal low skilled immigrants, than the small boats.
so yes the care workers that have applied and are here legally…. Im just asking her how she thinks social care and the NHS will function when Reform ‘sort immigration out ‘

Have you ever spoken to someone who's escaped a war torn country, forced to leave family members behind and had to spend months and years desperately trying to be reunited?

I'm going to guess at no, because if you had, you wouldn't be able to be so casually cruel.

"No, it isn’t, they decided jointly that it was their one chance to remove him before he became a threat to the establishment".
Eer I don't think so. They decided jointly that they wanted nothing to do with his machinations and they were right. Sometimes it's important to provide a lead no matter if it falls on some deaf ears. 9000 people heard.

What a pointless, expensive, and egotistical exercise that makes fuck all difference to anybody. He could have run a focus group if he was that bothered. The only reason he did it was because he wanted to stop the investigation into the £5m bung he took but didn’t declare. He was poorly advised and wasn’t told that the investigation would restart if he was reelected.

He’ll be a laughing stock in the commons if he ever actually shows up. To barely increase his majority when no other parties were standing, and to see his nearest competitor, a man with a bin on his head, get a quarter of the vote share and almost half the number of votes he got, must be galling.

Yes, I think the care worker visa was one of the worst visas in terms of bringing in people who will be long-term state dependents (the main applicants and their dependents) and who have no obligation to be care workers after they get ILR.

Personalised round-the-clock care is an expensive luxury which we've decided to grant as a right to everyone in Britain. Fine, but we'll pay the cost one way or the other - either directly as wages today, or by the increased long-term costs of supporting migrant workers in a generous welfare state.

Legal immigration numbers broadly (not just care workers) dwarf illegal/irregular; in every sector there has been mass low-skilled migration which is not to the long-term benefit of the UK (e.g., visas for minimart/vape/kebab shops, visas for commodity IT body-shops, family visas for chain migration etc).

Have you ever spoken to someone who lived in an impoverished country, who's watched multiple children die from malnutrition and diseases easily preventable with tablets? Who lives in unhygienic squalor with no access to fresh water and with stitched-together supermarket plastic bags as the "walls" of their "house"?

I have, I've lived in such countries. As a mother I can't imagine what that would be like to have to raise my children like that. I would do literally anything to escape it. I'd break immigration law a hundred times a day for a chance at a better life.

I have complete sympathy for even "economic migrants" who aren't fleeing war. Is it more terrible to watch a child slowly starve, or to watch them blown up by a bomb?

But there are millions, billions even of people who live in conditions like this.

There is no way the UK can take them all. There's just no way.

Am I cruel?

Where do you get your numbers from?

No, you're sensible.

We don't have a "generous welfare state".

The UK doesn't have to take everyone. Why are we accepting that things have to be this way and the only solution is migration? Perhaps not cutting foreign aid would be a start. And another helpful thing would be not accepting baseless anti-migrant rhetoric of the type normalised by Farage's Reform and carried even further by self styled "vigilantes".

In other news, Laurence Fox is demanding a recount.

https://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/26463595.laurence-fox-demands-recount-clacton-by-election/

What a tit.

He needs his deposit back.

Of course. So he thinks there are another 150 odd votes down the back of a ballot box somewhere. All for him.