• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    18 hours ago

    I mean, sucks that they won but having that many votes go to binface does sour his whole plan. This was meant to be some sort of victory lap for Farage, but now its just sad.

    Good jorb!

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        13 seconds ago

        He has a certain charisma to a subset of people. It’s a similar effect as trump in the US, only to a smaller subset of idiots.

        The things he claims don’t hold up to scrutiny, but that doesn’t matter to some. They just hear the surface promises, and don’t think deeper.

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        3 hours ago

        People who are fucked by the status quo and wants something different… Erhn wait. Binface was on the ballot?

        Yeah apparently 62% of Clacton just hates anything not British, so they can’t vote for a spacefaring warlord

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          I suspect that a lot of it has to do with paid votes and/or manipulation.

          It makes no sense that people ALWAYS vote against their own interests.

          This is more likely.

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      16 hours ago

      This is also a really big stepping point for independents. Almost 30% of the votes for an effective independent shows that while some people may have considered Binface a joke, it’s pretty clear that his claims and asks are important to people. And those are claims and asks that other potential candidates are going to need to address if they want those voters.