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2026 Clacton By-Election

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25 points by petecooper · 12 comments

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crtasm

The election manifesto presented as Ceefax (teletext) pages in space is rather beautiful: https://xcancel.com/CountBinface/status/2087675824640045259

burnt-resistor

"Ich bin ein binliner!"

Garbagé, if he wins, should be fined the amount it costs to hold the next by-election himself after he's convicted of taking a £5M bribe.

  • rvz

    Agreed. We should do the same to all politicians that accept or take such bribes or donations even if they are in office [0].

    Wouldn't you agree?

    [0] https://www.thenational.scot/news/26446742.wes-streeting-den...

    • Natfan

      yes, wes streeting is not my friend. no politicians should be above the law.

    • burnt-resistor

      I think so. Corruption and useless grifters will set us back decades. Punishment for really corrupt ethical lapses must have an independent review mechanism (not peers) and penalties. We should endeavor to push real crooks towards the clink and promote ethical individuals by all manner of social, political, economic, and so on means.

  • quickthrowman

    A once-in-a-generation leader. Kennedy. Obama. Binface.

    Wir sind alle ein binliners!

spwa4

TLDR: this election, if successful for "Count Binface", may remove Nigel Farage from parliament and maybe even remove him from Reform UK.

  • Normal_gaussian

    Farage is favourite to win by nearly all reasonable predictions; success for Count Binface is not just a win - its taking a non-trivial portion of the votes, which seems likely.

    Reform UK is a Ltd. and Farage is its owner; so removing him from the "party" is highly unlikely - the party is him.

    • epihelix

      The sheer delight in watching Farage being brought down to the level of a man wearing a bin on his head, all because of his own stupid actions, has been success enough already.

      Farage has always been pretty good at destroying his own gravitas at unexpected moments, but he's outdone himself this time.

      May the best garbage receptacle win.

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