Farage is doing some "i can win against the establishment" thing and labour gave up before even trying so now Count Binface is the only opposition of Farage
BREAKING: Labour says it won't stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election
As it stands, only Count Binface will run against Farage
They are trying to silence him
๐จ NEW: Parliament has confirmed Count Binface will not be allowed to sit in the Commons wearing his space costume and bin head
Farage vs Count Binface: hard-right leader's UK poll gambit
London (AFP) โ British anti-immigrant politician Nigel Farage faces the embarrassing prospect of going head-to-head with perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a by-election after he decided to quit parliament.
His surprise move threatened to backfire Wednesday after other heavyweight parties confirmed they would not contest the vote for Farage's seat in southeast England.
Count Binface, a self-described "intergalactic space warrior", is the only other person to have said so far that they would run.
there was no way he was going to be seriously censured for this, but he got so fumed by reporters asking basic questions he's thrown an insane heap of magnification on his case.
i don't expect much from the parliament ethics board or whatever but i bet they'll pursue the harshest slap on the wrist instead of the routine one had he not acted out
No but he's built his entire brand on accusing everyone else of corruption. Europe? Corrupt bureaucrats that do nothing. Parliament? Corrupt. Expenses fiddlers? Corrupt. He's had a word to say about every single one of them while holding himself up as Mr follower of the LAW.
The british public responded really strongly to the expenses scandals and anything that skirts closely to "breaking money laws in british politics" stands to completely fuck him over in the view of a lot of the public.
His whole shtick has always been attack politics too. But you can't do that shtick if everyone's response is to laugh at you and say "what about YOUR finances? lmao".
This isn't just his credibility with the average public either, it's his credibility in the right itself with all the wolves circling as the entire right doesn't know wtf it's doing now that the tory party is obviously cooked. There's like, 4 tory parties now or whatever all wanting to be the next one and they see Farage as a barrier to their ascension. He's not just under attack from the left of him but also from the fractured right, it's possibly the weakest position I've ever seen him in.