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

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Unfortunately, this is a national poll. AFAIK, there is currently no specific poll with only Clayton voters, and some projections expect Farage to win with an even higher margin than last time.

Fun fact about the national poll: Count binface didn’t just beat Farage, he also beat “neither” as a response option. So the overall public doesn’t just want Farage to lose but to be humiliated by losing to a walking trash can.

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m sure every letterbox in the area has now been stuffed with propaganda that Count Binface is a lefty woke terrorist who personally beat Ann Widdecombe to death with a dildo.

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- M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  So there is now a chance?
  
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SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Interesting. Jeremy Corbyn has a “conspiracy theorist” brother who is running in Clacton and apparently was a councillor for Labour in Southwark some decades ago.

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sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Could you explain to a USian how a local representative is elected by the whole state?

Are people in northern Ireland and Scotland also voting on this?

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- SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They’re not, only registered voters in Clacton will be voting in the actual by-election. Someone just conducted a national poll to see what the consensus was over the entirety of the UK, and the results of that poll aren’t exactly surprising
  
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- fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The poll was just a quiz, for information or fun.
  
  The actual vote is local only, for the people who live in Clacton.
  
  However, though only a local election, because Farage is also the leader of a political party, the result will also be used politically, to say whether people generally support or reject him and his views, and those of his party.
  
  Because he’s a… let’s say “controversial figure”, then there’s some degree of national hope that he’ll be defeated and ideally, embarrassed.
  
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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is like if USA Today did a nationwide poll about Mamdani
  
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  - sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I get that now. When I read:
    
    Unfortunately, this is a national poll
    
    I took that to mean the upcoming election was national.
    
    In the US at least we sometimes use poll to refer to election, e.g., “Pokemon GO to the Polls”, “Immoral Poll Tax”, etc. It is unfortunate.
    
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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why do people vote Farage over Bin face? Can’t they see how satirists make far better leaders than any politician or business leader?

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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
But Clacton has a very high concentration of fuckwits, so Farage is fine. He will build a new parking structure, the Farage Garage.

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