Reform, and the death of the Tory Party

[Stevo 666]

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Ears burning?

 

[Pinno718]

Yes, there are dozens, if not more, right wing 'influencer' types who are now digging into his real life and presenting him as a 'woke' liberal leftist that hates his country and mocks all "working people".

MAGA playbook, page 108.

 

[presta]

There's a real danger Count Binface will win.

Dale Vince is offering to fund him:

View: https://x.com/DaleVince/status/2075629929081774374

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Dale Vince is offering to fund him:

View: https://x.com/DaleVince/status/2075629929081774374

As much as I like the idea of him losing, my worry is that if Farage did, he'll go away stoke up a load of sh!t for a few years and reappear with fresh momentum at the next GE. I'd rather he stayed an MP and continues to face the Parliamentary Investigation and some long overdue media scrutiny.

 

[Pross]

As much as I like the idea of him losing, my worry is that if Farage did, he'll go away stoke up a load of sh!t for a few years and reappear with fresh momentum at the next GE. I'd rather he stayed an MP and continues to face the Parliamentary Investigation and some long overdue media scrutiny.

Fresh Momentum sounds more like a Corbyn party to be honest. Don’t see Farage joining them. Right-wingers like ‘re’ at the start of their party so maybe he’d come back rejuvenated.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Dale Vince is offering to fund him:

View: https://x.com/DaleVince/status/2075629929081774374

The irony is that, if Count Binface is bankrolled by a well-heeled supporter of another political party, he will become just like Farage and the rest of the Establishment and will lose the whole point of standing. He should continue to get his funding from crowdsourcing sites, which will increase rapidly because of all the publicity, and politely tell Vince to get lost.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Fresh Momentum sounds more like a Corbyn party to be honest. Don’t see Farage joining them. Right-wingers like ‘re’ at the start of their party so maybe he’d come back rejuvenated.

Refresh Momentum. Sorted.

 

[Beebo]

The irony is that, if Count Binface is bankrolled by a well-heeled supporter of another political party, he will become just like Farage and the rest of the Establishment and will lose the whole point of standing. He should continue to get his funding from crowdsourcing sites, which will increase rapidly because of all the publicity, and politely tell Vince to get lost.

Exactly.
Binface has already said he won’t go door knocking and probably won’t do a postal campaign.
So other than personal expenses to get around, what does he need?
A crowd fund could easily raise him £50k. Which would be more than enough.

 

[icowden]

They appear to be genuinely scared of Binface.

I love that Wootton seems to be presenting as a major scoop that he can use Google and Wikipedia.

I mean - seriously?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

Count Binface​

Jonathan David Harvey (born May 1980) is a British scriptwriter and author who participates in elections as the novelty candidate Count Binface, an "independent space warrior" who wears a large bin-shaped helmet. Harvey previously stood as a similar character, Lord Buckethead, but was forced to create a new character due to a dispute with the filmmaker Todd Durham, who owns the Buckethead character.

From there he's googled Jonathan David Harvey and found that he has his own website.

It's hardly investigative journalism at its finest.

 

[briantrumpet]

I love that Wootton seems to be presenting as a major scoop that he can use Google and Wikipedia.

I mean - seriously?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

Count Binface​

Jonathan David Harvey (born May 1980) is a British scriptwriter and author who participates in elections as the novelty candidate Count Binface, an "independent space warrior" who wears a large bin-shaped helmet. Harvey previously stood as a similar character, Lord Buckethead, but was forced to create a new character due to a dispute with the filmmaker Todd Durham, who owns the Buckethead character.

From there he's googled Jonathan David Harvey and found that he has his own website.

It's hardly investigative journalism at its finest.

I like it that he presents it in the persona of a teenage girl.

 

[BoldonLad]

Exactly.
Binface has already said he won’t go door knocking and probably won’t do a postal campaign.
So other than personal expenses to get around, what does he need?
A crowd fund could easily raise him £50k. Which would be more than enough.

A spurious thought perhaps, but, it did occur to me that the hundreds, possibly thousands of supporting "jokes" on Social Media, if valued, in terms of their impact on his campaign, could he end up breaching expenditure rules, plus, if some of them have a foreign source, breaching whatever rules there may be about foreign support.

 

[icowden]

A spurious thought perhaps, but, it did occur to me that the hundreds, possibly thousands of supporting "jokes" on Social Media, if valued, in terms of their impact on his campaign, could he end up breaching expenditure rules, plus, if some of them have a foreign source, breaching whatever rules there may be about foreign support.

Expenditure is about what he spends, not about the value of retweets and memes. Similarly the rules around foreign support about about money from foreign donors not free publicity.

 

[BoldonLad]

Expenditure is about what he spends, not about the value of retweets and memes. Similarly the rules around foreign support about about money from foreign donors not free publicity.

Yeah “spurious”

 

[icowden]

Yeah “spurious”

what's spurious about people enjoying someone making a complete arse out of Farage?

 

[BoldonLad]

what's spurious about people enjoying someone making a complete arse out of Farage?

I don’t have a problem with it, not being a Nigel fanboy.