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Re: Count Binface

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Post by bluehatbrit »

robin_reala wrote: post #69
stingraycharles wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I find interesting is that he seems to be the only candidate? Aren’t there actual political parties that could have produced legitimate candidates?

The election was triggered because a populist politician being investigated for corruption decided to step down, triggering an election so that he could run again to theoretically prove that he was who the people wanted regardless of the corruption investigation. This backfired when every other party refused to field a candidate (that is, to go along with his plan), apart from Binface. So Farage’s “me vs the establis…

It's also worth noting that he's being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Committee. Now that he has stepped down as an MP, that investigation would ordinarily be paused (and is from what I can tell). It would be resumed if he won but he gets a while to organise things before he has to face them again.

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Post by flopsamjetsam »

unfitted2545 wrote: post #46
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #9

"Harvey previously stood as a similar character, Lord Buckethead, but was forced to create a new character due to a dispute with the filmmaker Todd Durham, who owns the Buckethead character" [1]. (The videos on this website are worth the watch. Hilarious, of course. But also...Binface conjugates Latin to Sky News , and not just as a bit. I don't know how I feel about the British comedy candidate outclassing half of t…

I think it's so interesting he was a scriptwriter for "The Thick of It", a satirical comedy about British politics

That is excellent, and explains much!

Re: Count Binface

#93

Post by deanc »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #60
deanc wrote: post #47

Farage is polarising. I think there is a genuine chance that tactical voters can rally behind a candidate who feasibly can get the votes. However, you have to remember this is an election for a representative of a constituency. The people in Clacton are voting for a candidate that will represent their needs in parliament. I don't think the left are going to vote for Binface as although it would be the biggest FU in h…

Farage has not given them a voice in parliament. He’s barely been in the country. He’s spoken 41 times in parliament in 2 years, almost entirely on national issues. My own back bench opposition MP (lib dem) has spoken over 400 times. The next constituency over (Tory) has spoken 1000 times, both raising local issues. Binface would give Clacton a far higher profile. A literal bin would. There’s no other candidate those…

I just want to preface this by saying he's a repugnant, awful human being and potentially is going to be one of the worst things that ever happens to the UK.

But... that's exactly what people in Clacton voted him in for. He was never going to represent their local interests - I think a lot of the locals realise that now. They care more about "immigration" and race-baiting than they care about the pot holes on their roads. This is the reality of modern politics.

My comment was more about the people who will never vote Reform, than the people that did.

Re: Count Binface

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Post by hdgvhicv »

deanc wrote: post #93
hdgvhicv wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Farage has not given them a voice in parliament. He’s barely been in the country. He’s spoken 41 times in parliament in 2 years, almost entirely on national issues. My own back bench opposition MP (lib dem) has spoken over 400 times. The next constituency over (Tory) has spoken 1000 times, both raising local issues. Binface would give Clacton a far higher profile. A literal bin would. There’s no other candidate those…

I just want to preface this by saying he's a repugnant, awful human being and potentially is going to be one of the worst things that ever happens to the UK. But... that's exactly what people in Clacton voted him in for. He was never going to represent their local interests - I think a lot of the locals realise that now. They care more about "immigration" and race-baiting than they care about the pot holes on their r…

Except 55% of these that voted in 2024 did not vote for him

Re: Count Binface

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Post by teamonkey »

taran_narat wrote: post #44

This person is hilarious, for non-UK people who are wondering what this is, this is a joke candidate for an MP who is getting a lot of attention because of the political system in the UK not working very well. This YouTube video has sort of started this off recently and made him go viral https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCVt8IhJkA&pp=ygUHQmluZmFjZQ%...

> This person is hilarious, for non-UK people who are wondering what this is, this is a joke candidate for an MP who is getting a lot of attention because of the political system in the UK not working very well.

Yes and he’s running against Count Binface

(sorry)

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Post by jayflux »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #56
Havoc wrote: post #52

I hope he wins the upcoming election. Won’t but one can hope… The actual politician he’s standing against is an asshole

There is at least some concern within their camp that they could lose the election to a guy with a bin on his head. That for me is a win.

He’s very popular in clacton and his odds to win are like 90%, I doubt anyone in his team are genuinely worried about losing.

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Post by TomK32 »

stingraycharles wrote: post #62
taran_narat wrote: post #44

This person is hilarious, for non-UK people who are wondering what this is, this is a joke candidate for an MP who is getting a lot of attention because of the political system in the UK not working very well. This YouTube video has sort of started this off recently and made him go viral https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCVt8IhJkA&pp=ygUHQmluZmFjZQ%...

What I find interesting is that he seems to be the only candidate? Aren’t there actual political parties that could have produced legitimate candidates?

Other interested candidates can submit their nomination from tomorrow to Friday and I think one needs the support of only 10 constituents and a hundred quid

More info should follow here today:

https://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/content/13-august-2026-electio...

Re: Count Binface

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Post by dofm »

teamonkey wrote: post #90
dofm wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't know how I feel about the British comedy candidate outclassing half of the American elected leadership–and a good fraction of its industrial leadership–on IQ.) Your entire political system has flirted with anti-intellectualism for over a century; it used to pretend to be uneducated simpletons to appeal to the electorate (witness, e.g. the folksy “ahhm just a simple mayynn” gurning schtick of Senator John Ke…

I went looking for stats saying the UK has declining literacy rates but could only find ones that said that literacy was improving. https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/indicators/e...

There has apparently been a little bounce in the last few years, a sort of long term consequence of changes made to education policy by New Labour and the consequent movement of teachers from selective education into comprehensive education, but for example here is an article from twelve years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/08/england-yo...

We were, for decades, a country in considerable literacy decline, and the only one of its kind. Some of this might have been a consequence of scrapping the grammar school system without giving the comprehensive system access to the same resources.

I tend to think that when Americans observe that British politicians and actors speak with a larger vocabulary or more eloquently, the people they are observing are products of the tail end of the grammar school system and the growth of a bias towards private education that emerged in its wake; the school system that turned out men and women of letters used to be available to all and now is available only to those with money.

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#99

Post by [deleted] »

onion2k wrote: post #75
hdgvhicv wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be prime minister you have to have support of 50%+1 of the MPs. This means either having them in your party, or having a deal with another party. You also have to be an MP. Currently Kier Starmer is a Labour mp in an area of London. He’s resigning and is being replaced by someone (Burnham) who was Labour Mayor for Manchester, but stood as MP in an area of Manchester last month after another Labour MP resigned. Bur…

You also have to be an MP. I don't think that's strictly true. You definitely don't have to be an MP in order to hold a cabinet office. I think that extends to the PM as well. It's never been tried obviously.

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Re: Count Binface

#100

Post by D_Alex »

wxw wrote: post #6

> I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX. Ok you have my vote.

>Policies include building one affordable house.

Mine too.

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