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In an interview with Jeremy Vine, The Count was challenged on the general requirement for people to not wear hats in the chamber. His retort was that it's also generally required to declare donations.
I saw that. It was amazing. He said something along the lines of if Nigel can get away with not declaring donation then he can probably bend the rules to allow a costume in parliament.
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"
I enjoyed his interview with Andrew Marr.
Marr: "Are you actually going to fight a serious door-by-door, street-by-street campaign?"
Count Binface: "....No."
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
His promise to build one affordable house would out perform the entire government.
His trillion dollars a week to NHS was a dig at Brexiters who promised £200M a year to NHS, which never happened.
350 million a week. That was the lie they sold.
Make your vote Count.
Unfortunately, in Clacton...
In the 2016 referendum, an estimated 75% of those who voted chose to leave the European Union.
That was a decade ago; quite a lot of those voters have passed away.
What in the hell is that title?
prefer is a transitive verb, wins is intransitive.
They've changed "[they] ...(would).... prefer [he] wins [it] than Nigel (does)" to "[they] prefer [he] wins [it] than Nigel" which is still correct.
Too bad! What most people want isn't important, just whatever this inbred town of boomer yokels thinks!
Unfortunately, this is a national poll. AFAIK, there is currently no specific poll with only Clacton 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.
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.
So there is now a chance?
How much of that public actually lives in Clacton?
Farage won Clapton with 45% of the vote with multiple candidates. That same showing this time would lose him the vote. Which would be hilarious because not only would it unseat Farage, it would also be the fifth by-election they failed to win.
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
Really hope he win, it will be better than Farage in every possible way.
His costed budget is to fund NHS at a trillion dollars a week and to build one affordable house.
I'm already voting for him, you don't have to sell it to me any more
The British monarchy needs to be abolished and then recreated around Count Binface.