That's it? Damn. Once again the English prove they are the worst people on the face of the planet.
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Clacton is very full of old retired people with conservative views. 25% of the vote in Clacton is excellent considering.
Farage has re-won his seat, receiving more than 22,000 votes in Clacton, on the Essex coast.
Binface had his highest share yet with 9,455 votes
Reminds me of the Obama Senate run in '04, where he was running against Allen Keyes and the people who voted for Keyes were used to define the term "Crazification Factor"
Really speaks to the state of British politics when you can lose an election by 30-pts and get excited about it.
Incidentally, reading speeches from George Bush Jr in 2026 really recalibrates my expectations for the country long-term. So easy to forget that this guy was an utterly brainless, dry-drunk, failson bigot, after his reputation got glazed through the Obama/Trump Era.
For added context, Keyes wasn't from the state. The republican party brought him in just to run against Obama. Like they wanted to say they had a black guy too.
Way to out yourself as being a clueless bell end.
The point wasn't to win. The point of any novelty or joke candidate is never to win.
(Also seriously, judging 57 million people from the actions of a single constituency. How Yankee)
I wonder if he was starting to worry he might actually win 🤣
As far as I know Count Binface is English (or from one of their colony in outer space), therefore your argument is invalid.
Count Binface needs to keep running
At this rate he’ll get 1100% of the vote the next time he runs.
I demand a recount! Clearly stolen election!
Vermin Supreme and Count Binface need to team up internationally and save humanity
I feel like having a pony could really turn things around for me.
So would better dental hygiene
He didn’t win?
Of course he didn't.
But that wasn't the point.
The entire point was to draw attention to the situation.
Anyone who seriously thought Binface would or could win. Knows fucking nothing about politics.
So while He didn't win the vote, that was never the goal. The same way it's never the goal to win the vote for any novelty joke candidate.
Binface's entire thing is to try and get people into politics.
“Of course”? Shame.
I didn’t expect him to win. But the political drama that is behind this needs urgent attention. Why did no one else bother to stand? Why did he get even 2 votes if he wasn’t a serious candidate?
But the political drama that is behind this needs urgent attention.
......... It has. It was being investigated before the election, and is being investigated again.
But more people now know about it, because a man with a bin for a face ran.
Why did no one else bother to stand?
Because this election was a stunt. So no major party joined in to give it credibility.
Farage resigned from his seat after the investigation started. And made claims that this election was going to make him "innocent in the eyes of his constituency" "people versus establishment" or some nonsense like that.
And now, a man with a bin for a face has stolen Farage's spotlight.
Why did he get even 2 votes if he wasn’t a serious candidate?
He's a man with a bin for a face. There were no serious candidates at least from a major party (I've not gone through all 34 candidates (a record by the way))