• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    1 affordable home and frozen treat price controls are quite literally more than farage has to offer

  • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
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    I’m not from UK, I’m American. Is this legal? If “Count Binface” were to actually win the election, what would happen?

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      He would become a member of parliament and Farage would no longer be a member of parliament. He might have to take off the Binface costume to actually enter parliament though

      Count Binface has run in other elections before as a joke of sorts. It’s just that the major parties are not running anyone in this election. Farage resigned and then immediately ran for his by-election to pause the investigation into his 5 million pound crypto “donation” since the body doing it can only investigate while he’s a member of parliament. The other parties aren’t running so that Farage doesn’t get the narrative win of the byelection making him “vindicated by the people”

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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        investigation into his 5 million pound crypto “donation”

        Cheesus is literally every far-right populist on the whole planet greedy and corrupt?

        I mean there’s plenty other reasons to hate them, but greed without ethical constraints seems to be one requirement.

        • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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          Given that far-right politics are about domination and performative cruelty, being greedy and corrupt is consistent with its principles. Any far-right politician who wasn’t out for self-enrichment would be at risk of being denounced as “woke”.

    • mjr@infosec.pub
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      The comedian playing him could take the seat. Look up H’Angus the Monkey, former mayor of Hartlepool.

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    I thought the wanker from the reclaim was running, too?