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Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage

But this isn’t a normal by-election this is a by-election caused by someone who is under investigation for parliamentary misconduct and also is simultaneously under police investigation for criminal conspiracy to handle stolen money.

The normal rules don’t apply.

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FishFace@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a candidate with a fucking bin on their head, are you seriously questioning whether they’re a joke candidate?

Look, I get that we all really want Binface to win but that does not mean he is not a joke. That’s the whole bloody point.

And, in context, because he is a joke candidate wearing a bin, there will be lots of people who won’t bother voting for him. (While many of Farage’s faithful will turn out) Sorry to break to you what every sane person with an opinion is predicting…

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Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Don’t they? Do you think they didn’t know exactly who they were voting for last time? And if the only other option is a guy who plays a space alien with a bin on their head do you think they’ll actually show up?

The option isnt necessarily one or the other, its “do I even bother to show up at all?”

If you have two joke candidates, why bother voting for either? Meanwhile the people who have voted for Farage in the past will likely continue to do so.

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