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Nigel Farage started a byelection for himself, as a political maneuver to prove he still has the people's support after a recent scandal involving taking a lot of undisclosed money from some crypto billionaire, in an area his party dominates.
Seeing it as a sham, every other party has stepped out, leaving the race entirely between Nigel Farage.... and Count Binface. If every other party potentially votes for Count Binface, he'd win with 60+% of the vote, meaning there's a non-zero chance he takes the seat of the next anticipated Prime Minister, which would be unbelievably funny.
No matter how it goes though, it's taken Nigel's decent political maneuver, and turned it into an absolute farce. There's no pride in barely beating Count Binface, this is the most political coverage he's ever gotten and it's honestly pretty devastating for Nigel Farage's reputation. Here's hoping he wins, which would be even better.
Farage quit because he was under investigation for taking a bribe, and he can't be investigated while he's not an MP. This circus is playing into his hands because people are forgetting about the bribe he took, which was the number 1 political story for weeks before this.
There are 34 candidates standing though, including "names" like Rupert Fox. Most of them are nobodies and Fox will only take vote from Farage, so Binface is still the one to beat.
One candidate is a fish stick.
Haha that's amazing!