Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours agoCould 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?
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.
This is like if USA Today did a nationwide poll about Mamdani
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.
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 16 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