His "Ich bin ein binliner" speech was inspirational. The NHS could use a trillion dollars a week.
The fact that there are thousands of people who believe a man with a bin on his head is more "establishment" than a man who takes donations from aristocrats is beyond me.
Clacton is famous for its fuckwits.
Count Binface is the establishment, he is a Count after all.
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the british mind needs to be dissected and studied
...polls in the constituency say 75% want Farage to win and 20% want Count Binface to win, but across the UK, 20% want Farage to win and 30% want Count Binface to win.
Clacton must be a really shitty place
It's a seaside town with extreme levels of poverty. There's very little immigration indeed but it has grown.
They go for Farage because he gives them a scapegoat and a promise of change, and nothing got much better for them in the last few decades so they don't see the point of voting for the major parties. It's a protest vote. Farage the cheating billionaire's voice found a constituency desperate enough and poorly educated enough to give him a shot.
BBC have been platforming and legitimising his crap for years and years, giving him more screen time than any other politician in this history of British television and instead of pointing out where he's factually incorrect (like they used to do decades ago), they just say "Labour disagrees" and he just says "well they would".
Is Farage friendly towards BBC?
Usually populists aren't into balanced media reporting.
Oh no, it's unrequited love on the part of the BBC.
WDYM? Farage loves BBC but they don't love him back?
No, no, the BBC do their level best to put him on screen as much as possible and softball any challenge to his lies. Farage is unmoved by this and will shaft the BBC and badmouth them whenever the mood takes him.
What's that got to do with the BBC?
The Alberta of the UK.
All hail His Binness
If he wins, can he deport Farage and say it's cause Farage hates Britain and Brtish values?
Do you think Russia would take him? I know they always need warm bodies.
The way you libs always find some tortured way to make everything about Russia is fascinating.
The way you folks get so triggered anytime anyone says anything about Russia is fascinating.
Torture, like the kind I'm subjected to when I remember that Drumpf is the president?
I'm a liberal, you're a tankie, hurray everyone's labelled now nobody has to think. Back to memes and hating life.
Okay, I called you a liberal because that is what you clearly are based on observation of your swallowing US state department talking points uncritically. But why do you call me a tankie? Is it a tankie thing to point out the west's weird obsession with everything being a Russian plot or Russia being supposedly desperate for bodies for their asiatic hordes and human wave tactics?
Is it a tankie thing to point out that the US backed Nazi infested Ukraine government is pressganging people off the street into an unwinnable ware against an overwhelmingly superior force?
Is it a tankie thing to point out that if Russia was the genocidal boogey man that liberals depict it as that they would have flattened all of Ukraine and done the genocide you all accuse them of?
Is it a tankie thing to point out that all your leaders are complicit in this imperialist nightmare even your fav socdem politicians?
Is it a tankie thing if I support the right of self determination for people in the Donbas who have been subject to literal pogroms for over 10 years?
Honestly I will give you one point: Russia is not serious about denazification because if they were they would have intervened in 2014 when the US and NATO backed Nazi coup happened.
If basic understanding of reality makes me a tankie, so be it. Or you could just look at my pfp idk.
You people don't even recognize when you are treading down the same nationalist path that other fascists have done time and again.
they would have flattened all of Ukraine and done the genocide you all accuse them of?
Lmao, you actually believe the Russian military is capable of that? They couldn't take Kyiv even before they had to started reusing WW2 equipment.
Have you compared the industrial capacity of Ukraine compared to Russia? Do you really believe that a nation that much smaller is actually winning?
If Russia was the genocidal force you claim they are they could have literally glassed Ukraine without consequence. The reality is that that privelege is only afford to western backed powers like Israel.
What a myopic view on warfare, "big country big, eat smaller country", because a smaller country has never repelled an industrially superior foe before. I honestly don't know how you can look at the current situation and think Russia is doing well. Why aren't they using that industrial capacity to build enough air defence to stop the drone attacks on their oil refineries? They've been happening for a year now, it should be easy for Russia and it's well managed, large indusial capacity, right?
Oh no I've been pressganged into an unwinnable debate by the CIA, the facts and logic are tearing me apaaart aieee
We should take off and nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
We got tactical smart missiles, phased plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got knives, sharp sticks...
We should try those first. We're the ultimate badass.
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