In Furness to him Farrage will have to interrupt his visit to America and GBNews show to go door to door so I could see it being a quiet summer for the voters

350 million a week. That was the lie they sold.

Another take away line, after being asked if the count was worried about the monster raving looney party running in Clacton, there were words to the effect: "If anything, the monster raving looney party will split the Reform vote"

You're assuming that the "same showing" would see every person who voted for someone other than Farage vote for a joke candidate.

The premise of the "same showing" is already clearly implausible, without adding that on top

The last election Clayton had a 58% turnout. So there might be some potential Binface supporters who didn’t vote last time.

I don’t think Clacton is likely to flip, but there is an outside chance.

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

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'm already voting for him, you don't have to sell it to me any more

The one thing I don't understand is how can count bin face "choose" to run anywhere. He doesn't have to run where he lives?

We sort of had this where one of our trolls, Majorie Taylor Greene (not to be confused with Magic The Gathering) had to rent a sham residence and "live" in the district that she wanted to elect her for a certain minimum period to be eligible.

Some references:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260214082722/https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/hopeful-move-into-congressional-district-divides-georgia-voters/OoP2sM8pQFe8vGB90u2ogI/

https://georgiarecorder.com/2021/02/15/how-marjorie-taylor-greene-ascended-from-atlanta-suburbs-to-d-c-spotlight/

TLDR, Farage is corrupt and got caught, but he's a populist and in a riding of idiots who will re elect him as "anti establishment". This must sound familiar to Americans.

Thanks! This is a really good explanation (although I'm sure there's someone that will say you oversimplified it or find some obscure irrelevant detail that doesn't match 1:1 but it explained everything for me perfectly).

I'm a but confused by the suspension system. So he could be suspended for over 10 days, does that imply he could be suspended for fewer than 10 days? Does this imply that you MPs actually show up to work on a mostly daily basis? In the US, I think our fucks only are supposed to work 10 days every 2 or 3 months. And they don't even show up for those days, that's why it takes so long to find senators washed up in nursing homes, we didn't even know they were missing.

Is the petition an easier thing to do over there? We had an issue in my small town with a city counciler and it required a certain percentage (lower than 20% I think) but it worked out to like 2500 signatures and it was deemed to be too much work, especially since an election was in like a year and a half. It cost Ohio over $6 million to get the weed on the ballot, I just looked up Clacton, looks like its about the area of a county and similar population (80-90k). That makes it make more sense, but that's still an insane amount of signatures, especially given that I think he's over half way through his term. How common are petitions? How quick are recall elections?

I'm not really understanding why the other parties wouldn't run - is it just to say, "he's not guilty till he's proven guilty but he hasn't sat through court to decide, so until then, we're presuming innocence" Something like that anyways?

Any idea how likely it is for Count Binhead to win? Like is this a legit shot or is he going to get maybe 20% of the vote and still embarrass Nigle?

Considering Nigel appears to have had a big role in Brexit, and the population seems light and rural, I'm going to assume that Clacton could have been replaced with [Ohio], [Utah], [Alabama], or maybe even [Florida] - which makes me believe the people here would rather elect a pedophile that someone that has their interests in mind. Is this accurate?

binface will be only one in parliament not wearing a mask