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[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 hours ago

Rob Pownall revealed to Metro last week he was planning to stand in the vote in an effort to draw attention to the plight of British wildlife and Farage’s support for fox hunting.

Oh, I genuinely thought this was going to be a furry thing.

[-] justaman123@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

It can be both

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Every furry event I've ever been to is a non-profit event with the proceeds going to an animal or human rights organization, usually with a fundraiser auction at the end.

[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh, that's really sweet!

(To be clear: I'm not casting shade on furries with my comment, nor implying that there isn't an overlap between furry subculture and animal rights. I'm just saying that I was expecting the story here to be someone fursuitting on main and was surprised that it wasn't.)

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

'I'm not a furry but' --every person that is about to announce their fursona

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago

It certainly looks like a furry thing tbf

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Not with a cheap aliexpress suit like that

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Now now that's a little gatekeepy.

[-] cadekat@pawb.social 1 points 57 minutes ago

You 100% definitely do not need a suit to be a furry, but if you're gonna get one, have a little pride...

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 37 minutes ago

He's got the rep tie and the ribbon to customize it, that's a sona in my book if the foxxo wants it to be.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 hours ago
[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I mean, literally yes, since that's how we got the term

[-] Naich@piefed.world 76 points 5 hours ago

Count Binface is the only serious candidate.

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 44 points 5 hours ago

If anyone that can vote in the Clacton election is reading this I have a request.

Please do the funny thing, I need this, keeping up with the news is so dark and this would make so many of us so very happy for Count Bin face to hold a victory press conference.

[-] justaman123@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm not from there but you know considering the mess we're in why not? Although I do think that it would be really funny if he took off his head and it was that Donald Trump Goofy haired fucker

[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 30 minutes ago

I'm not from there, but I looked it up and we do actually know who Count Binface is under the mask; he's a comedian named Jonathan David Harvey. He seems better than Nigel, anyway.

[-] xangadix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Not from there either, but I second this. I really think we all can do with a good laugh at Farage s expense

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 17 points 5 hours ago

I hope that count binface runs on a policy of requiring candidates that resign and then run again as being responsible for the election cost.

And, of course, that investigations of impropriety don’t pause when there is a reeelection. Rather they become more transparent, releasing all available information that is pertinent.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 6 hours ago

The more this temper tantrum by-election turns into the circus, the funnier it gets.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

is he coming back as elephant or lion? which are more circus appropriate

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Everyone knows it'd be a tiger

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