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he will be winning the post uncontested, exposing the theatre play he setting up
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resigning mean only quit the current post he’s holding, basically vacating the seat and trigger a by-election, because a seat cannot be left vacated if the next election is still far away. he’s still eligible as a candidate. It’s very different than quitting a job
Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage
lemmelemmy@feddit.org 1 week ago
So other parties rejected not to enter the election (which is ridiculous- it feels like they’re basically told by tech oligarchs not to) but if binface also didn’t challenged him, what would have happened? Wouldn’t he just ended up resigning? Also how can you be a nominee after resigning?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
These is a tradition that parties don’t stand a candidate in other parties leaders’ electorates.
It’s 100% bullshit.
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That is absolutely provably false, the reason no party put forward a candidate in this by-election was to not legitimise Farage’s publicity stunt.
Farage openly claimed this was going to be a “him vs the establishment” election, so “the establishment” as he calls it refusing to contest him has successfully made him look like a fool and has him crashing out hard in interviews
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 1 week ago
AFAIK this election was triggered by Farage because he’s being investigated for some issues with donations and the outcome would be a sanction and trigger the same election, this way he can present himself like the people chose him and it wouldn’t have the sanction against him in the public opinion.
The thing is that if he is elected now, it doesn’t mean that the investigation is stopped, it would continue and find as he did things wrong and trigger the investigation election.
Not presenting candidates agains him from the major parties don’t give legitimacy to his shenanigans and don’t waste time and resources on a process that will be done again a few months down the road.