Standards watchdog resumes Farage probe as rivals slam needless byelection
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Letting politicians accept private funding is arguably worse, as it beholds them to private interests.
He knows this. The phrase is deliberate misdirection.
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.
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.
So the joke candidate lost and Count Binface won, exactly as predicted.
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.
Binface got a quarter of the votes, no? That's not nothing.
A quarter of the votes and the vast majority of the coverage.
International media covered the election. Not because of Farage and his politics. But because a man with a bin for a face is running.
Binface stole the spotlight from Farage's stunt.
Maybe the could have snuck him in a catering truck.
Put him in a pot of slowly boiling water. That frog-faced fucker would have thought he was in a jacuzzi.
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.
The guy was being investigated for corruption so dropped his seat and triggered this circus. And they voted for him again.
Same as trump. He mismanaged the pandemic to the tune of about 800.000 excess deaths, plus all the other crimes, and he won even bigger the second time. Despite what echo chambers on lemmy tell us, people out the really support these clowns.
Yes, they like the ideas. Those ideas feel right to them. And consequences of those ideas, because most don't work in practice, get blamed on the implementation, ideally blamed on some scape goat. Then they'll vote for the next one promising those ideas.
Trickle down economics. Aaaany day now...
There actually was not a real chance. As said all other candidates stepped down. By winning he just hands himself back in for investigation and if or when found guilty teller he will have to step down. It’s better than martyring him.
The Brits are famous for self-loathing.