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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:
And the results are in!
Nigel Farage: 22 239 (63.34%)
Count Binface: 9 455 (26.93%)That's even better than the polls suggested. In order for Farage to look good coming out of this, he'd have needed Saddam Hussein numbers (high 90s). Instead he barely managed twice the votes of the man with a bin on his head. That said, though, he did actually get more votes this time round than 2024, when he got 21 225 votes. So his base in Clacton seems immovable, but makes up only around a quarter of the electorate. It's not at all certain he's going to triumph again in the next by-election against more serious opponents. He's suffered grievous wounds to his reputation today.
Farage didn't even bother turning up to the announcement. It would have been a tough choice between how he'd look churlishly failing to show up and how he'd look standing up there among all the other joke candidates.
Thank you for your service, Count Binface 🫡