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Post by arethuza »

extasia wrote: post #10

> Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12] Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.[13] Nationalising model railways.[14] Holding a referendum on holding a seco…

Clearly Count Binface not being in the House of Lords is some kind of administrative oversight?

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Post by jsheard »

Binface getting more votes than the neo-fascist Britain First in the recent mayoral elections was cathartic. They tried to play it off that they weren't really trying to win so it doesn't count, and they're definitely not mad, please don't put in the newspaper that they got mad.

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Post by WJW »

extasia wrote: post #10

> Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12] Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.[13] Nationalising model railways.[14] Holding a referendum on holding a seco…

> Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".[14]

Finally!

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Post by thih9 »

Voting in the UK has its own flavor. Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tobin_(astronomer)

> In the 2019 United Kingdom general election he stood as an independent candidate against Boris Johnson in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. As he had not resided in Britain for more than 15 years he was ineligible to vote but eligible to stand as a candidate. He focused his campaign on voting rights using the slogan "Don't vote for Tobin, let Tobin vote". He gained five votes.

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Post by tobylane »

WJW wrote: post #13
extasia wrote: post #10

> Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12] Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.[13] Nationalising model railways.[14] Holding a referendum on holding a seco…

> Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".[14] Finally!

This was achieved before the Uxbridge by-election. Which is pretty good going for a pub [1] built at the same time as the first European settlement in the interior of the continental US [2].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_San_Juan_(Joara)

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Post by thih9 »

extasia wrote: post #10

> Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12] Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.[13] Nationalising model railways.[14] Holding a referendum on holding a seco…

My favorites are the ones from 2024 London mayoral election[1]:

> The Binface manifesto called for the abolition of VAR [video assisted referee] (presumably in football matches) and promised to force Thames Water managers to "take a dip in the Thames... see how they like it", in reference to the recent sewage discharge controversy; also to "build at least one affordable house", referring to the housing crisis in London.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface#2024_London_mayo...

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Post by mhh__ »

ianpurton wrote: post #3

> All government ministers' pay, including that of the mayors, should be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years. A brilliant policy.

People like this kind of stuff but it's unthinking populism.
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