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Funny time in politics.

Mitch McConnells' probable corpse is floating about in uncertain journalistic waters

Ann Widdecombe, former Tory minister and reform UK member has died

And Count Binface, an intergalactic warrior, is running to stand against Fascist Farage in a by-election.

Interesting times

weedle-testaburger

I'm chomping at the bit to see the inevitable footage from clacton of farage's sham of a by-election where he has to stand on a stage alongside a bunch of joke candidates in funny costumes, claiming he's a real serious politician while looking like the one human actor in a muppet movie

wondersmith-and-sons

Which of the following moments in British politics was funniest?

David Cameron allegedly fucking a pig (2015)

Theresa May Brexit deal sees worst parliamentary defeat of any British PM (2019)

Dominic Cummings' social distancing scandal is named #Cumgate (2021)

Matt "Eat Out to Help Out" Hancock caught having affair with his aide (2021)

MP resignations reach critical mass under Boris Johnson (2022)

The Queen dies 2 days after meeting Liz Truss (2022)

Liz Truss who doesn't outlast head of lettuce (2022)

Nigel Farage has to run in by-election against Count Binhead (2026)

I'm American and I never read news from outside of my country

Something else entirely (I'll tell you in the tags)

Remaining time: 6 hours 31 minutes

Note: don't let your recency bias decide this, actually think back to what was the objectively funniest time on the internet.

peridotic-table

The UK having some weird political stuff going on (local fascist fights a bin - and might lose), only to look over the pond and see the US apparently doing Weekend at Bernie’s with a senator. Interesting times indeed.

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victusinveritas

tiggymalvern

For context, Farage is bring investigated for funding irregularities that could result in him being removed as an MP. Farage responded to this by resigning and forcing a by-election in which he will run again. His plan was to win and say, 'Look! You can't remove me! The people want me!'

The other political parties all declined to field candidates, leaving Farage to run unopposed. Apart from Count Binface. Farage can either claim a resounding victory over Binface, or even funnier, Binface can put up a good showing. Either way, Farage looks like the idiot he is.

weedle-testaburger

for anyone who's wondering what the fuck is going on in british politics rn

apollos-archief

the insta user who came up with "refuse reform: recycle" as a count binface slogan deserves a nobel prize btw

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luke-naberrie

nigel farage resigning to try and delay the investigation into him and immediately restanding for election in the same constituency, only for every single major party to say 'yeah nah have fun pal, see you back at work for the investigation' and refusing to entertain him is hilarious enough on its own.

the fact that the only person running against him is fucking count binface, who is promising to build one (1) affordable house, is hysterical. and he has a not zero chance of winning.

the-great-kraken

newsreader just had to genuinely ask this man "why would an intergalactic warrior want to stand for election in clacton" unserious fucking country

mephostophilis

are non brits aware of count binface.

camillejamal

[canada] count binface is the funniest guy and because of that i would vote for him if i were british

charlesoberonn

There's a non-zero chance that a prominent British fascist will lose his parliament seat (in a by-election he himself called) to a man wearing a garbage bin on his head.

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d00zy

I watched a few Binface videos, yesterday (about 20 of them I think). Half of my YouTube recommended feed has been Binface since

vaders-georg

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

vaders-georg

the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves

vaders-georg

i regret to inform both you beautiful people that this isn’t going to go how you think it will

vaders-georg

spiff fans (also known as “spiffies”) insist that the two decommissioned venator-class destroyers spiff purchased, the bad blood and the reputation, are for diplomatic purposes that benefit the rebellion. jedi’lors have concocted theories that she served on both ships during the clone wars and was respectful of every clone that served there, despite her courtship of a gravball player that thrice advocated against the clone veterans being granted natural citizenship

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all goofing aside I don't understand the urge to reimagine Tay'lor Allisoarn Spiff as a secret Jedi fighting for the rebellion when the rebel alliance is literally like overflowing with women fighting the empire. Gara and Ke'Cha and Mileu and Halcey are right there. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't like Taylor but why would you hang all your hopes of taking down the empire on her

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Isn't Lady Gara a force sensitive?

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Hence why I put her in the list of famous force using women who are in the rebel alliance?

(okay ignore the fact I've put an image in here but this is ops icon)

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#im sure op has this post muted by now but Ur icon is so real op

The icon is because of this post

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btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik tay'lor spiff is a jedi but like. why is she y'all's only force using rebel icon when there are all these other force users in the rebellion???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

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Hi OP here I most CERTAINLY DID NOT SAY TAY'LOR SPIFF IS A JEDI???

(based on this post)

vaders-georg