Majority: 12,784
Turnout: 44.4% (-14.3 pp)
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can’t believe clacton went with the joke candidate.
In his best election to date, he got 300 votes. 9K+ is amazing.
More importantly, he got his £500 back:
The Clacton result was the first time that Count Binface has retained the £500 deposit candidates are required to make to validate their nomination.
It is repaid if a candidate polls more than 5% of the total number of valid votes cast in the constituency.
Great, now back to the investigation.
I’m glad to report that the standards committee reactivated the investigation less than three hours after the results this morning
Frog is scared of election days and investigation days
Love it.
Can’t believe so many people voted for a joke candidate that he got 2/3 of the vote.
two thirds of voters chose a bin in human clothing
Today should have
beenbin our Bindependence Day :(Sad, i was hoping for: “in with the bin, out with the trash”
What’s the best out come of the committe? They suggest he’s unfit and launch a recall petition. That petition, somehow, is signed by 10% of his constituents, and we get another by-election? Can they suspend him for duration of his term?
Is a vote of no confidence viable, I genuinely don’t know. Can the commons just say ‘fuck that cunt’ and kick him out?
I dunno, I need some good news and UK politics is sadly lacking.
Parliament holds the full sovereignty of the United Kingdom. So it could pass a law that bars people found responsible for misconduct from serving as an MP. It could also pass a law saying “
Bobby SandsNigel Farage is a criminal and criminals must not be MPs.” But like all acts, the question is whether it can do that without being seen as undemocratic. Parliament could pass a law tomorrow that abolishes democracy and turns Parliament into an appointed body. It’s never a question of whether Parliament can do it, but whether Parliament should do it.And in full respect, I do think that Farage is a criminal and a fascist and should not be an MP. But my opinion does not matter, and neither does yours.
Remember, this man is the leader of a political party which until recently, if the polls are to be believed, was slated to govern after the next election. Can you disqualify him, regardless of his scandals and crimes, without seeming undemocratic? If the public wants to support a criminal, is it undemocratic to ban them? If you do ban him, but do not abolish democracy, will that just cause him to become even more popular? If so, will his successor actually abolish democracy when they get into office?
Putting Adolf Hitler in prison did not kill his movement. It made him even more popular, and he killed democracy in the Weimar Republic. Prosecuting Donald Trump did not kill his movement. It made him even more popular, and he is killing democracy in America. What do you think banning Nigel Farage would do?
Hence my last line. I need some good news, and UK politics is sadly lacking.
I don’t think the committee’s result is going to be scathing enough. Even if it is, I don’t think the petition will gain enough signatures. Even if it did, I don’t think Farage loses the by-election.
Even if it could, I don’t think parliament would kick him out. Even if it did, I don’t think Farage becomes less popular.
It’s all a bit shit.
