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The other parties boycotted the election, because unlike in America, they don't want to normalize letting someone win a legitimate election as a means to avoid
by vkou 2mo ago
The other parties boycotted the election, because unlike in America, they don't want to normalize letting someone win a legitimate election as a means to avoid serious sanction.
(Any country in which that sort of thing works is fucking insane.)
- nephihaha 2mo agoThey did normalise it by not standing.
- exe34 2mo agoNo, he was either going to lose to a bin or get back in the commons and have the investigation continue. Now it will continue. So no, playing along at his stupid games is what would normalise it. They will run at the next election in a few months.
- nephihaha 2mo agoFarage's game was to resign and get re-elected with a large majority, which succeeded. Only Count Binface came anywhere near stopping him doing that and offered a viable alternative. The parties who refused to stand allowed Farage to do that. Farage's shtic just now is that he has a democratic mandate, and that when the investigation starts, the people of his constituency are behind him. Binface was the only person who had any chance of stopping him being re-elected. In fact, as Binface rightly said, if they had elected him instead of Farage, there wouldn't be a second by-election in the future.
- exe34 2mo agoIt appears he thought the by-election would be a memory wiping device, and make the investigations go away. He had to drag canvassers from the Manchester mayoral election to come help him in Clackton because he was scared of the Count.