alt Hacker NewsIt’s fun and games, but you have to bear in mind that joke candidates never expect to win.
It’s entirely possible that every anti-Farage voter could coalesce behind him. Upon winning, he would have his name and face be publicly known. He would attract a huge amount of (global, even) media attention. He would suddenly have a serious job with real responsibilities. And he would have the unbridled rage of everyone in the UK who has decided that 100 years of the Tory/Labour cycle has run its course and meaningful change is needed. To give an indication of the electoral weather, Reform UK has led the national opinion polls for more than a year.
I’m not sure he has the balls for all that, but we will see.
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> a serious job with real responsibilities.
this is an election for members of parliament - its not like the 650 of them all do stuff most days
It wouldn't be the first time a novelty candidate has won an election.
H'Angus the Monkey[0] won the Hartlepool mayoral election in 2002 and the man in the costume served three terms before the mayoralty was abolished in 2013.
Gosh, why does this sound familiar to me?
> Upon winning, he would have his name and face be publicly known.
His name is already public, it’s on Wikipedia
>And he would have the unbridled rage of everyone in the UK who has decided that 100 years of the Tory/Labour cycle has run its course and meaningful change is needed
Binface is a better protest candidate than Farage for this purpose. Reform is worse than the status quo, hard as that can be to believe.
>He would suddenly have a serious job with real responsibilities
It would probably be worth reminding Farage of this. He has one of the worst attendance records as both an MP and an MEP, and indeed seems to have spent a lot of his time as MP outside the UK.