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[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

And here's the thing that a lot of short minded people missed.

Count Binface was never going to win, but that was never the point. If you seriously thought that. Then you need to get your head checked.

The entire point, was to make a farce out of Farage's grandstanding.

That's why no major party ran, the probe would happen anyway.

And guess what, it worked.

Count Binface was everywhere going into this election and everywhere coming out of it.

Binface won.

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Unfortunately, this whole thing sounds like another Trumpian story where everyone goes "it's all over for him now" and he just keeps chugging along.

[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 43 points 11 hours ago

I’ve taken no public money

Letting politicians accept private funding is arguably worse, as it beholds them to private interests.

[-] Seimhe@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

He knows this. The phrase is deliberate misdirection.

[-] ivan@piefed.social 6 points 11 hours ago

What’s funny is that politicians job would be to get salary from public money to represent public will.

So that’s an admission of willing to say whatever for money from whoever, hence why this bastard loves Russia and Israel among other things.

[-] HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 27 points 10 hours ago

I've heard Count Binface is saying there was confusion at the polls. Voters could not tell the candidates apart as both are filled with garbage.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago

So the joke candidate lost and Count Binface won, exactly as predicted.

[-] aarch0x40@piefed.social 13 points 11 hours ago

Farage also faced criticism for failing to turn up to the Clacton count in Essex, saying he had been told by police of an organised attempt at disruption

Maybe the could have snuck him in a catering truck.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Put him in a pot of slowly boiling water. That frog-faced fucker would have thought he was in a jacuzzi.

[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

The guy was being investigated for corruption so dropped his seat and triggered this circus. And they voted for him again.

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