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A Cunning Stunt - Can Count Binface Win? (www.standard.co.uk)
from dbtng@eviltoast.org to world@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 19:20
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Count Binface is the only candidate to declare he will take on Mr Farage in Clacton so far.

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and Restore Britain have all said they will not field candidates in the by-election.

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ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 08 Jul 19:32 next collapse

Please [insert deity here], let this happen. This would be soo fucking funny.

_stranger_@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 19:40 collapse

In the states we had this guy:

I sincerely hope your costumed hero wins this election. 🫡

jestho@lemmy.zip on 08 Jul 20:24 collapse

All new wars should now be fought with super-soakers and nerf-guns

in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Jul 21:12 collapse

Super-soakers full of LSD and MDMA.

cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 08:58 collapse

Shut this might even make me pro-war

in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 12:32 collapse

Might create an epidemic of pregnancies and STDs, however. Eh… It’d be totally worth it tho.

Andonyx@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 20:15 next collapse

I’m impressed by the quality of the outfit. You think Daft Punk introduced him to their guy?

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 02:37 collapse

He’s fukin glorious, isn’t he?

Corngood@lemmy.ml on 08 Jul 20:15 next collapse

he has promised to “build at least one affordable house”.

The oligarchs will never let him win

palordrolap@fedia.io on 08 Jul 20:27 next collapse

Binface could easily do better than Farage has. I mean, it's not exactly a high bar.

Farage barely shows his face there and almost never in Parliament.

You can guarantee that Binface would be more than willing to show up in both places frequently. He might even go so far as to represent Clacton properly. Perish the thought!

(I can imagine that if he won they wouldn't let him into the Commons due to not being dressed sensibly and then refusing to recognise him if he does so, because that's the sort of dirty trickery I'd expect from Parliament. So I'd be very interested to see what he does in order to comply with both directives at the same time.)

Olap@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 22:19 next collapse

Yes, I had the same thought. He could wear a shirt of himself perhaps, or perhaps plastic bin armour (which probably isn’t against rules, you must only surrender your sword). Or of course, de-mask during the acceptance speech and then request that his oath is taken solely with the costume, representing his mandate from the elected people of Clacton as a compromise. Or refuse his seat without the bin. Can hardly be worse than Farage in this regard

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 09 Jul 05:19 collapse

I’m fairly sure sentient toe fungus would be better that Nigel Faragey.

la508@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 01:28 next collapse

But would he rephase the traffic lights on Liverpool Road?

rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social on 09 Jul 06:37 next collapse

Showing his face is maybe not the best bar to set for Count Binface.

cynar@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:24 collapse

Didn’t Mexico have a similar issue a year or so ago?

Someone ran and was elected under his mexican wrestling persona. He attended parliament with his mask on. He insisted, since he was elected under his masked persona, he would attend parliament under it.

He originally did it because cartels had targeted MPs, and he ran on an anti cartel manifesto.

velma@sh.itjust.works on 08 Jul 20:42 next collapse

I read the title as “A Stunning Cunt” initially and I’m almost sad there wasn’t a glorious vagina here instead lol

rImITywR@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 21:06 next collapse

thatsthejoke.webp

velma@sh.itjust.works on 08 Jul 21:07 collapse

Well I’m a little autistic shrug

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 08 Jul 21:38 next collapse

Its ‘English rhyming slang’. Its supposed to look like that.

velma@sh.itjust.works on 08 Jul 21:40 collapse

Was I wrong to comment something funny then?

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 02:35 collapse

Well … no!
Nobody said you were wrong … right?
The point here is that you now know a new form of joke, the Cockney Rhyming Slang.
You can recognize it in the future. And you know, laugh. Or something.

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk on 09 Jul 06:47 collapse

Isn’t it more of a “Spoonerism”?

Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 06:57 next collapse

Yeah. From a character in a Dicken’s (?) book who swaps the beginning sounds of words. I think he’s called Captain Spoon in the book.

Something along the lines of Berkeley Hunt (you absolute berk) is more rhyming slang.

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 07:06 collapse

Huh. I think you are correct. It’s a quote from Binface, you know. Last line.
"Are they running scared from old Binny, or do they think that Nigel’s running a cunning stunt?”
Something about it sounds very UK to me.

Cort@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 08:06 collapse

Cockney rhyming slang would be like: mumble on the grumble.

Epp@lemmus.org on 09 Jul 05:44 collapse

Almost? I am very sad.

ottieplod@feddit.org on 08 Jul 21:24 next collapse

Cunning Stunt sounds very rude

Epp@lemmus.org on 09 Jul 05:44 next collapse

Agreed. I’m stunned!

FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 12:51 collapse

Is the Spoonerism intentional?

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 15:47 collapse

Ask Binface. It’s a quote. Last line of the article.

Fishnoodle@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 22:00 next collapse

Honestly, he put a lot of effort into that costume, and he’s not an elitist parasite. I say give him a chance.

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 02:45 collapse

UK’s Zelensky.
Not that needing a Zelensky bodes well for for them, but as you say, they could do much worse than a trashy man of steel with a sense of humor.

rimu@piefed.social on 08 Jul 22:21 next collapse

I love that a joke candidate has more chance of beating Farage than a real one.

I would love it even more if real candidates had a chance of beating Farage but let’s be realistic about the state of UK politics. I’ll take my love where I can get it.

tal@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 02:02 collapse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_PARTEI

Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative (“The Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative”), or Die PARTEI (“The PARTY”), is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott. The party kept these two seats at the 2024 European Parliament election.

Gork@sopuli.xyz on 08 Jul 22:58 next collapse

It would definitely be an upgrade from his current position as a Count.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 00:17 next collapse

I honestly hope Angine de Poitrine show up to play his election rally.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 11:52 collapse

Oh my god please yes!

tal@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 01:53 next collapse

x.com/CountBinface/status/2062106018058776948

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:09 next collapse

Finally, policies that will make a difference.

Cherry@piefed.social on 09 Jul 10:28 next collapse

They are not ideal, but he really could make a move as a disruptor to the powers that exist.

SacralPlexus@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:59 collapse

I was a bit concerned he had abandoned his previous campaign promise to build at least one new house until I made it to the last point. #VoteBinface

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 03:21 next collapse

I recommend a visit to his website. There’s not much there, but he promises more.
countbinface.com

And watch this. Count Binface slays.
This is … its good. Binface ruins this reporter’s day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCVt8IhJkA

Post election loss interview from Makersfield.
“More and more, I’m becoming the sensible, mainstream option!”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuLvAsrQpuI

It took me a while to find an interview with the real Jon Harvey aka Count Binface.
This is just about a year old. Not current, but quite recent.
If you are curious about this guy, here’s a good look at who he really is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYDRl_MTUhA

tal@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 05:03 next collapse

yahoo.com/…/nigel-farage-takes-fight-establishmen…

Nigel Farage takes his ‘fight with the establishment’ to the voters

Farage said his decision ‌to stand for re-election was part of a strategy of “sticking two fingers up at the establishment”…

It was at this point that Mr. Farage made the fatal decision that the best way to rally support from anti-establishment voters would be a one-on-one popularity contest with a man wearing a garbage bin on his head.

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 08:55 collapse

Jon is much nicer and more normal than Nigel, ironically

tal@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 05:19 next collapse

theguardian.com/…/clacton-byelection-likely-to-be…

Farage has sought to portray the byelection as a “people versus the establishment” contest, prompting Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, to describe Binface as the “people’s candidate”. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, even addressed his candidacy on the sidelines of the Nato summit. “I think it’s actually against Labour party rules to endorse another [candidate],” he said.

For the man himself, or rather the alien, it’s all come as a bit of a shock. The question of whether he might even win is one that he is reluctant to countenance. “It’s earliest days yet and there is a long old road to go, but if in the unlikely event that the humans of Clacton prefer me to old Nige, then I will do my very best to represent them,” he told the Guardian.

Farage is the favourite, but odds on Binface winning have been tumbling. Oddschecker, which provides betting odds from some of the UK’s most popular bookmakers, said odds on the underdog winning had been slashed from 5/1 into 7/2.

redwattlebird@thelemmy.club on 09 Jul 08:36 next collapse

If Nigel loses, does that mean that the fraud/money investigation against him is dropped indefinitely?

Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:06 collapse

Yes, it’s a parliamentary standards investigation. If he’s no longer a member of parliament then there’s no need to investigate him.

Fluke@feddit.uk on 09 Jul 15:01 collapse

Well, kinda. The NCA will still be investigating where all that money originated, as SARs were raised over most of the large transfers.

Not just toadman either, other high up members of Reform have been flagged for investigation because of suspicious transfers ending in their accounts.

Farage is hoping to distract the media from these investigations with the circus he’s putting on. If the focus stays on that money, Reform are fucked.

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 09:56 next collapse

Count Binface is the non-Public School educated non-posh cunt choice, even if he is a Space Count.

“A Count, not a Cunt”

LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz on 09 Jul 10:51 collapse

To anyone outside of the UK.

Public School is what you would call a Private School in the US. It’s “Public” in that anyone with enough money can go.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 12:13 collapse

A “Public School” in Britain is “public” in the same sense that the Ritz Hotel is “public” - if you can pay the £400/night you can use it.

When I lived in Britain I always felt that calling “public school” what most of the world calls “private school” was an excellent illustration of how at least the English culture was the most hypocrite in Europe (especially from the middle class upwards).

cynar@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:37 collapse

I think it was in relation to having private tutors.

The rich had a private education, with a few years at “public school” to make contacts and learn to socialise with their peers.

It predated universal education systems.

CovfefeKills@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 10:48 next collapse

Is there anything stopping politicians from other countries doing this why is it always the British?

cynar@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:41 next collapse

Mexico had a wrestler run (and win!).

dbtng@eviltoast.org on 09 Jul 15:42 collapse

I think they have some unique laws that anyone can stand in an election. I don’t know the details, but some commenters seem quite pleased and proud that the system works as it does.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 11:54 next collapse

I, for one, appreciate that actual UK reality has essentially become a Monty Python sketch.

Much better than our US ‘reality TV show’ President/reality.

CyroSignal@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 12:38 next collapse

Is this a troll ?

cynar@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:44 next collapse

It’s a very British style protest. Farage tried to turn an investigation/resignation/bielection into a media circus. The larger parties instead stepped aside to let the clown in to deal with him.

ohshit604@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 16:59 collapse

A vote for Vermin Love Supreme is a vote for the US Pirate Party. All hail Captain Boot Head.

Routhinator@startrek.website on 09 Jul 15:48 collapse

I read this as A Stunning Cunt… Had to read again.