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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 11:25am | IP Logged | 1
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The UK's version of Trump, well our Poundland version of
Trump, Nigel Farage, having been caught taking a £5
million bung from a crypto billionaire, and thus
potentially breaching parliamentary rules, resulting in
an investigation that could lead to him being suspended
from parliament, has done the honourable thing and
resigned as an MP.
Except, he has decided to stand in the by-election his
resignation has triggered. Which if he wins will
reinstate the investigation into whether he has breached
the rules.
So the other main parties, seeing this for what it is, an
attempt to stop having to answer questions about his
bung, and further bungs from a convicted money launderer,
which are getting him angrier and angrier in interviews,
have decided to not field a candidate.
So his only opponent will be our resident comedy
candidate Count Binface.
A sitting MP resigns voluntarily, decides to run as the
candidate in the by-election he has just triggered, all
other major parties refuse to field a candidate, and his
only opponent is Count Binface.
Politics in the UK.
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Trevor Smith
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I would give A LOT for Binface to win this.
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Dave Kopperman
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | 3
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Apart from his general odiousness, I have been unable to shake the idea that Farage looks like he was practicing Python’s ‘upper class twit of the year’ face in the mirror and got stuck that way.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | 4
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I too, would love to see Binface win.
It would be the best election result in the history of
elections.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | 5
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But if Farange wins, he can still be ousted if the investigation concludes
he’s guilty of wrongdoing, correct?
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | 6
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Yes. If he wins, the investigation starts again and he
can be suspended.
If 30% of the constituency agree, a by election will be
called
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Peter Martin
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I should think so. The Commons committee's rules should allow for the investigation to be re-activated once he wins. The investigation is currently suspended because of the resignation. Even if he somehow lost, they could still choose to continue it.
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Bill Collins
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British politics is a joke, and the joke's on us.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | 9
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So there’s still a decent chance he’ll be gone. At least you guys have that.
We got nothing. Everybody’s on our guy’s side…
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 08 July 2026 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | 10
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We need to find 30% of Clackton who would vote against him first. They
are the only people who get a say in this.
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