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Hawkeye 1.02 "Hide and Seek"

#Hawkeye #Kate Bishop #Clint Barton #Fangirling #MCU

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#Foggy Nelson #Karen Page #Daredevil #MCU #fangirling

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RDJ vs Giggles

#fangirling #marvel

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fuck you context, no one needs you.

#bucky barnes #mcu #fangirling #fuck you context

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And I thank you for it!

#daredevil #fangirling #no apology necessary!

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I would like to know where chapstick and hair ties go when they drop off the face of the earth

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They go hang out with the socks and tupperware lids

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And my biros.

#hilarity #where is my stuff

#LeadershipContestFlashbacks

I'm half expecting Boris Johnson to pop up and say he's willing to join the leadership contest.

Or at least for Nadine Dorries to try to nominate him.

(Andy Burnham needs 323 to be unbeatable)

#UK Politics #Leadership contest #Andy Burnham

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there will now follow several weeks of trying to work out how pedantic to be about discussions of UK political procedure.

- Count Binface is not the only person standing against Farage; other comedy candidates (the MRLP) and some fringe parties (Laurence Fox's Reclaim Britain, Rejoin EU, whoever the fuck the Forward Party are) have expressed intention to stand a candidate. That said, Binface has a lot of recognition and is increasingly becoming a national treasure, so it does look plausible that he'll catch the momentum, helped significantly by getting his statement in early and the news cycle picking up on it as he was available and well known enough to get people interested. Practically speaking this looks like a two horse race but that's perception, interpretation and narrative, not literal fact.

- Nigel Farage stops being an MP when his resignation is accepted (via the procedural instrument of being appointed a Crown employee, which is legally incompatible with holding a seat in Parliament), regardless of whether or not anyone stands against him. (I've seen it claimed that the other parties not opposing his reelection means he remains an MP so the investigation continues, but - I said pedantic - even if the by-election is totally unopposed he stops being an MP now and then starts again after the election process, and some parts of the disciplinary process can't happen in that gap).

More pedantry to follow when I go "well that's not strictly accurate" at something else.

#uk politics

It's Illegal to Resign from Being an MP in the House of Commons

It's been illegal since 1624. If you want to resign, you have to get the Chancellor of the Exchequer to something called an office of profit under the crown, of which there are two remaining - the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. These are entirely ceremonial, come with no salary, no hours, and no work. But if you're holding one of these offices you can't be an MP, because the crown is seen as having undue influence over those offices and, thus, over a member of the House of Commons.

Wouldn't it be funny if the Right Honourable Rachel Reeves refused to let him resign from being Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead? She won't, but still.

#UK Politics #UK Law #Nigel Farage #Farce of a By-Election #Rachel Reeves

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OK so nobody is running in the Clacton By-Election because: 1. If Farage Loses, he avoids the investigation into his £5 million donation. 2. If Farage Wins, he will be investigated, found guilty, and forced to stand down, after which another by-election will happen where all the parties will run. Basically, they want Farage to not avoid being investigated. But one person is running, seemingly to Mock Farage: Count Binface. All of this leads to the possibility of an objectively hilarious scenario: Count Binface Wins the election.

#UK Politics #Clacton by-election #count binface #the hero we need #nigel farage

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Calico out there putting tuxedo on the mats

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#Important Kitty News #Kitty knows judo #hilarity

Today (08/07/26) In UK Politics

Professional shit-weasel, Nigel Farage, announced yesterday that he is resigning as an MP so he can stand for re-election in his constituency of Clacton in what he is trying to frame as the People vs The Establishment.

This is because Nigel Farage is up to his ears in trouble for being unable to explain away to the satisfaction of the Parliamentary Commission why this five million quid he was donated wasn't officially declared, as it was meant to be. Naturally, he and his party are claiming no-one did anything wrong.

It may be that Nigel didn't realise that the Parliamentary Commission will simply continue their investigation into this should he be re-elected, it might be that he was hoping to be re-elected with a huge majority so he can paint himself as the people's champion being harassed, harangued, and brutally attacked on all sides by The Establishment, an amorphous blob at the best of times but in this case otherwise known as The Rules.

HOWEVER, in a shining example of cross-party cooperation, every major party has declined to run a candidate against him.

In what might be THE most British response to the fuckaboutery of politicians since we were all willing a lettuce to last longer than Liz Truss did as Prime Minister, Count Binface has decided to run against Nigel Farage.

And we appear to all be here for it.