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[–] 88 points 4 months ago (12 children)

If Count Binface wins, he'll never be able to show his face in public again.

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  • [–] [S] 50 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    He'll shirk back into his hole for two years and then pop back out as the leader of the new right-wing insurgent political party "Rejuvenate Britain" or something.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I read some speculation today that British election law might be interpreted to mean that if Jon Harvey wins the election as Count Binface, then he would not only be permitted to wear the Binface costume and persona while sitting in the house but he would be required to. Since it's Count Binface that the people chose and gave the mandate to, not some regular old human schlub named Jon Harvey.

    Presumably there'd be nothing wrong with him taking it off when not on official business and having a secret identity that way, but for votes and whatnot he'd have to don the cape and bin.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Is there a nationality requirement for the position?

    Count binface is not British, he is a space alien.

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  • [–] 79 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    People of Clacton, do the funny thing please!

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  • [–] 156 points 4 months ago (29 children)

    Binface has 4-1 odds to win, so there seems to be a very real chance he wins this election.

    Which would be absolutely hilarious.

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  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    It's Count Binface. For now. I don't think that a peer can serve in the House of Commons, so I think that he might just have to give up his title and serve as Binface if elected.

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  • [–] [S] 65 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    "Count" is not a valid title in the British peerage. The equivalent rank in the UK is "earl". Though if he wins, I think it'd be a moment of immense cultural significance so he should immediately be elevated to the Lords as a life peer, just to make the title official. He can be Britain's only living count.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    searches

    Hmm. Apparently in said system, the wife of an earl is a countess.

    searches more

    Ah.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl

    The Norman-derived equivalent count (from Latin comes) was not introduced following the Norman Conquest of England though countess was and is used for the female title. Geoffrey Hughes writes, "It is a likely speculation that the Norman French title 'Count' was abandoned in England in favour of the Germanic 'Earl' [...] precisely because of the uncomfortable phonetic proximity to cunt".[7]

    I imagine that Count Binface simply doesn't fear such proximity.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm going to take this opportunity to ask a very off topic question:

    Did you give up kagi?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Nope. But I did discover that is based in Serbia, and I felt that I couldn't recommend it based on that (e.g. if there were privacy issues, I'm not sold that the legal regimen would be strong enough for much to happen to the company).

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (15 children)

    Who is offering 4:1 odds on Count Binface? The major betting markets have him at around 8% last I checked earlier today.

    Edit: This is about gambling odds not polls

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/who-is-count-binface-nigel-farage-clacton-by-election-b3011663.html

    Four to one is the odds I've seen quoted in the news, where can you get 8%? I'd take that bet for sure.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (11 children)

    polymarket, for your depraved bets

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Please, for the love of God, do not conflate prediction markets with polls.

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 4 months ago

    Ironically, you've confused a conversation about odds with one about polls.

    It's not about polls. We're talking about betting odds here. This is a gambling conversation. They said that Count Binface winning is paid 4:1, meaning an implied probability of 20%. I asked who is paying that, because it seems like that's far too low of a payout, giving Count Binface too high of an implied chance of winning.

    If a candidate is being beat 4:1 in the polls, their betting odds would probably be 100:1 or higher.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I'm currently wondering if I trust Polymarket with my data enough to take that bet, because he's definitely got better than 8% chance.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Not something that I've looked into, but if there are multiple futures markets with substantially diverging odds, I'd imagine that one could arbitrage that by placing opposing bets on them and provide a guaranteed win.

    That being said, not familiar with how the payouts are computed and updated on them or what the market operator takes.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You can bet with crypto on there so you don't have to actually give them your information because you can just use an anonymous crypto wallet. It used to be a lot better before it was commercialised. In the past, all the markets were fee-free, and it was just your typical degenerate crypto gambling site. Now they've started charging fees on most of the markets, and they advertise everywhere so it sucks. Now they're a for-profit enterprise or something and act exactly like any other scummy casino operator.

    But the payouts are done algorithmically on the blockchain so you can be sure that winning bets are indeed actually paid.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Now I need to work out how to use a crypto wallet. Or just use my actual name.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 4 months ago

    You can use the Metamask browser extension. Polymarket runs on a token called USDC, which you can buy from Coinbase for US$1 a pop with no fee (and also sell it back for $1 for no fee).

    I used to use Polymarket a lot because it was previously filled with crypto bros and MAGA idiots who would vastly overvalue stupid bets (like "Will Canada join the USA") and provide easy money. But I haven't used it for a while, so I don't know if that's the case any more.

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  • [–] 195 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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    Clacton has never been an important place in history. For the most part, Clacton was an irrelevant back corner that nobody cared about.

    The people of Clacton have been giften an unique opportunity to change that forever. If Clacton votes for the intergalactic space lord Count Binface, the name Clacton-on-Sea will never be forgotten.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The BBC interview with Count Binface yesterday was really good.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I set my hopes on Count Binface. Although if he actually wins, he will face an interesting challenge in parliament. As far I remember, hats (and probably helmets, too) are not allowed in the House.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Sinn fein just don't turn up - can't he do the same?

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like his novelty would wear off if he actually appeared in Parliament. He'd probably be told that the costume won't be allowed and then become an abstentionist in protest.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Don't be pessimistic. Look up Martin Sonneborn, MEP. He got voted into the EU parliament in 2015 with his purely satirical party "Die PARTEI" and is still there, because he does a comparatively good job. While still being satirical.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    But the decision was quickly dismissed by his usual sparring partners. The UK’s main political parties – the ruling Labour Party, the right-wing Conservative Party and the centrist Liberal Democrats – all announced they would boycott the Clacton vote.

    What would happen to the election if Farage was the only candidate?

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Then he's guaranteed to win and will be declared elected.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    And the investigation into him by the ministerial will continue

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, so this is to prevent any distractions from the investigation. Got it.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    Pretty much, also means Farage can't claim that the people have shown they don't care about his money because he was voted in a second time.

    What can happen is if Farage wins, the investigation continues and there's a very real chance he'll be suspended so another election will be called.

    Each election costs about 450k of public money, so Count Binface can say that just by electing him and him doing literally nothing, he's saving the public nearly half a million quid.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    At least there's one candidate who isn't pretending it's not a clown show.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I’m sorry, not from the UK. Which one is the trash can?

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The title should have been: Farage, left, fighting a trash can.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago*

    I think they could do some great campaigning with a little bit of real effort:

    • have people walking around campaigning for him dressed as binmen and cleaning up trash

    • some art work of binface overhead throwing farage into a bin, "clean up Clacton, bin Farage. Vote Binface"

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Why isn't the HMRC investigating and taking money from him. If I owe HMRC 50 pence they will fine me and want every penny but politicians can launder billions of pounds and not a peep from the scumbag HMRC.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    do they think that Nigel’s running a cunning stunt

    This is deliberate, isn't it? He wants people to think "Nigel’s a stunning cunt"? Good one

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    This timeline is bonkers

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    corrupt piece of shit he is. Hope Count wins

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    let's hope the Count can kick the cunt to the kerb

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Lord Buckethead (briefly) went on Last Week Tonight.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVz5vgqBhE&t=981

    I feel like Count Binface should stop trying to dodge the international press and do so himself.

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  • [–] [S] 56 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Lord Buckethead and Count Binface are one and the same person, the actor had to stop using "Lord Buckethead" for IP reasons.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Prog metal guitarist, for anyone wondering.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    In an interview, Harvey said it was Buckethead in SpaceBalls, the film, that was the issue

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    he will lose to heads of cabbages like most current PM of uk.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Clown vs. Clown = EPICNESS

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'm in with the Bin.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Putin not giving you enough money?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Nothing in the article suggests Farrage is going to lose this election, or even that the stunt has failed per-say. He's still getting invites to TV shows in order to regurgitate is fascist agitprop. There's no indication that the Labour government will pursue prosecution in a way that would disqualify him from high office. And Reform UK remains poised to sweep Parliament regardless of the BinFace vanity campaign

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