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Oop, sounds like Clacton's having another by-election.
One can only hope they don't vote for the joke candidate this time.
You'd think £1 croissants mandated by law would be a clincher, it's a real world policy that should speak even to bigots.
Croissants too foreign for the Clactonians. You've got to speak French to even say it out loud. £1 steak bakes and you've won for sure.
🤦 FFS, of course!
Socialist here. Don't disparage a good Greggs steak bake. A bit more than a quid, but still decent value.
Sadly, it's harder to find decent cheap croissants in this country. I've had far better for a euro in provincial French railway station cafes.
I'm not sure about the voters of Clacton. They had the chance to know how f-ed up Farage is, and they still voted him in. Which tells me that they have a majority consisting of idiots (who do not understand what Nigel Farage is doing) and assholes (who might understand what he is doing, but still vote for him).
Reform supporters for the most part aren't fans of thinking. They are scared specifically of people who occupy the same physical spaces as them who they see as not in their tribe, something which they learned from their parents most likely and then had reinforced by billions of pounds of propaganda via every possible media source the mega rich can access. Being concerned with anything beyond that requires effort which is not what they're in the business of. This isn't even said with judgement, this is just what's happening.
Reform supporters for the most part aren't fans of thinking.
Like GOP in the US, RN in France, AfD in Germany, etc. Right wingers everywhere love the stupid. Lack of education and understanding is the best fertilizer for fascism.
And they're all taking Russian money and getting help from the Russian troll farms.
Were Ukraine to drone those troll farms, you'd see a rapid drop in support for those jackbooted bulletheads across all of Europe and probably the US as well.
It’s more an Authoritarian thing than a Right thing, it’s just that currently Auth-Right is what the Epstein class are pushing.
The Khmer Rouge were as hard left as it gets, and the Cambodian genocide was almost entirely fuelled by the notion that educated city folk weren’t true Khmer.
Probably a wise angle to take. You don't have to be an open-borders advocating, staunch socialist to be against authoritarianism. Quite a significant straw man, even if there's visible correlation in modern times.
It's no coincidence that Russia is hard right, and so are its stooges in Europe and the US. Maybe theoretically they might support some left authoritarians too, but they don't right now to any significant extent.
Its like the us' mini me.
If you've seen the average Clactonian you wouldn't be surprised he got in the first place
If I had to live in Clacton, I'd probably hate everyone too.
Though a fourth of the voters in the by-election chose Binface, so there's at least a glimmer of hope that they're not all miserable tossers.
Is he going to have to run a campaign against himself again?
You forgot about The Bin
I think he was bin face.
That's Count Binface to you, commoner.
Count Osama Bin Face.
Not many people know that.
Oh wow a right wing populist candidate who thinks the rules don't apply to them.
that has to be a first
It was never a question whether this corrupt russian asset is corrupt, or russian asset. The only question is whether he’ll be finally punished for that.
Did the tower of London Fall down? He's a traitor, hang him
Then, head on a pike, as is tradition.
Here's hoping that a special election happens, wherein a credible politician like Count Binface replaces this piece of shit.
But Nigel is part of the in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, so it's fine, actually.
Figjam Garage strikes again...
You know, when I saw the Greens doing well in the polls and Reform ahead like a year ago, I knew it was a matter of time before Reform would scandal themselves out before any general election. Now the British public have to wake up out if this nightmare and stop voting Tory or Labour.
Not that I actually believe in electoral politics at this point...
Are there entrapment laws in the UK? Because it sure sounds like the undercover journalists, by offering their support and paying for the polls, were doing just that. Doesn't make the lack of reporting donations any less illegal, but still. Am I reading this wrong?
Entrapment laws apply to law enforcement, not to private parties.
It was a definite sting, but Farage is now on film agreeing to illegal foreign financing. It's unlikely he'll be prosecuted in this instance, but it certainly raises questions about the sources and legality of Reform's other donations.