Count Binface has a genuine chance against Nigel Farage!

[Justveryveryangry]

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.

The older you are, the more likely you are to get off your arse and vote.

The older you are, the more likely you are to vote Reform.

Remember when people thought that 'the youth' were super excited and newly motivated to vote because of Corbyn 'connecting with them' in 2017 and then it turned out they largely didn't get off their arses and vote after all?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-myth-of-the-2017-youthquake-election/

Is voting for a joke candidate because it would be funny if the serious candidate lost enough of a motivator?

For many, the motivation won’t be primarily to do this for a laugh (though I’m sure they’d find it funny), but rather to end Nigel Farage’s career once and for all…. That’s a pretty big motivation I’d have thought for a significant proportion of the 54% who didn’t vote for him in 2024.

Oh dear, Reform are now accusing BinFace of being a lefty elitist and want to know who’s funding him. This is too funny.
Agree that it’s less about voting for BF and more about ending NF. And if Reform make themselves look a laughing stock in the process, all the better.

27.9% (so more than half) of those people voted for the Tory, who had previously won Clacton with 72.3% of the vote. I don't think it's a given that a large enough proportion of those were making an anti-Farage vote that they'd switch to voting Binface rather than switching to Farage or staying at home. Another 0.3% of the vote went to UKIP. Are they Binface or Farage?

It's not a buzzword, it's an accurate description based on the fact that both Fox and Farage* have said racist things. If they don't want to be thought racist they... shouldn't do that sort of thing.

(*The Fox and Farage - worst pub name ever?)

Is there a particular way that a racist walks or a particular way that they talk?

I know that left handedness is associated with witchcraft- is it similar to that?

OK - exactly what racist things has Farage said on record? Or is it simply third party allegations with no evidence?

I mean I heard from a bloke in the pub who heard it from his hairdresser who heard from his cousin that Farage is in cahoots with Satan himself so it must be true.

Another hat thrown into the ring.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BWAfUgq6F/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Will he be able to fill in the forms correctly this time?
Is Lawrence Fox🙄 the establishment Nigel Farage is challenging?
Is Count Binface part of the establishment?
Is it because he has a European title?🤔
Has Nigel Farage made a total tit of himself to distract from his dodgy dealings?🙈
Has it worked?
Has he fixed anything for the people of Clacton in his time as an MP?

So many questions!🤯🤯🤯

On the BBC news last night they interviewed a resident who said Farage has done a great job with the potholes 🤦‍♀️

Exactly what would you call evidence? More than 20 people with the same first hand accounts over the anti semitism?

This concept of what is establishment is quite interesting
So if you went to Private school but didn't go to Oxford does that mean you qualify as anti establishment? I mean just the fact of not attending Oxford? Sounds more like a posh version of a chip

Especially when the response from those who faced the brunt of this and recall what happened is not one of apology and recognition for what was done. Implying those views are not repudiated and ones you still hold.

Obviously a Binface win would be unlikely. I'd love it, but its a bit of a pipe dream.
So I'm just going to make the most of where we are. Because the tide has turned.
We've gone from 'that's your next prime minister, deal with it" with a real fear of where our country could end up, to a clear demonstration of just how much will and effort there is to prevent that.
I'm vastly heartened by Binface, led by donkeys, the fact that people from all shades of the political spectrum are rooting for BF, the unified response of the other parties, the fact that Reform are in crisis, many think Farage needs ditching, but know without him there's no Reform.
Plus the sheer humiliation for Farage and his supporters with their aggressive blustering, of having to direct it at a bin.
It will be impossible for Farage to present seriously in debate or be listened to, when everyone is laughing at the comedian with a bin on his head.
Reform supporters love to laugh at people. They can't seem to post without a laugh emoji. I'm really enjoying the tables turning and am torn between a laugh emoji of my own, or the smug face.

There was an odd chap called Farage
Whose voice sounded great in his garage
He wanted the fame
But the work was so lame
That he kept whinging and whining and wouldn’t shut the f up and has done his best to destroy this country and all the ethics, kindness, tolerance and inclusion that goes with being a decent democracy.

Yes. It's a very British response to the farce that is now Parliament.

First Binface MP, then a GE.

A bin had a face
He entered the race
To oust a twat and a c*
He spoke on Newsnight
About the fight
To bring Ceefax back to everyone one.

I also do weddings and bar mitzvahs.

My favourite is "a vote for count binface is a vote to bin cunt face"

A space raider whose head was a bin,
Had a manifesto sure to win.
"I don't know about pre-tax,
But I'll bring back Ceefax,
Get Nigel out, then I'll get in!"

If I had to place a bet, I’d put it on Farage winning. But I think there’s a reasonable prospect of a (very funny) shock outcome in this peculiar by-election, including a close enough result that a Farage win would look feeble.

It is at least a little presumptuous to say that you’re not the Clacton demographic and they’ll generally not vote against Farage. For one thing they might rightly be pissed off that they have had this election forced on them by him.

I must say I’m enjoying this by election thoroughly. This is going to make the next few weeks great fun. X is already having a brilliant time, and the poetic endeavours on this thread can only be admired in slack jawed appreciation. When people as what I love about the U.K. this ability to laugh at ourselves and the foibles of politicians is right up there. All the fist waving fury and apoplectic rage never sits well with me.

Someone on X was saying when the public are angry you can manage as politician but when they laugh at you you’re done.

Having an election forced upon them didn’t seem to trouble the people of Makerfield.

I guess it was a slightly more normal election with actual candidates and an arguable reason for taking place though. I would suggest that the pissed off will stay at home rather than vote for someone who the right are now going all-in to point out would not support Farage-type policies were he to be elected as their MP.

Nope, that's not how the numbers work. Turnout in Clacton was 58.7%, and 46% OF THOSE voted for Farage. That means it's actually only 27% of those eligible to vote, who voted for him.

And while your point about the unlikelihood of the entire non-Farage vote getting behind Binface is valid, one could equally point out that we don't know the entire Pro-Farage vote from 2024 will vote for him again. Particularly given how completely useless he's been as a constituency MP.

Farage said to Yusef over gin
"Would it help if i too wore a bin?"
Zia thought with all his might (a pitiful sight)
"Nige, do you think that your head would fit in?"