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delichontoday at 5:53 PM14 repliesview on HN

Some of his planks:

  * Cut your taxes, and raise everyone else’s.
  * Nationalize Adele.  
  * Build at least one affordable house.
  * Hold a referendum on whether Pluto should regain its planet status.
I see the attraction.

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epistasistoday at 5:57 PM

Please don't forget one of his longest standing and most important planks:

* move the hand dryer in the Crown & Treaty pub in Uxbridge to a more sensible location.

This YouTube video shows just how dire the situation is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbartLXCYZo

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marcosdumaytoday at 6:54 PM

Some of the winner's planks:

  * Pretending that an election should decide the result of a corruption trial.
Yeah, Binface jokes are more attractive to me too.
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d4ngtoday at 7:16 PM

Do we have any English lawyers here who can comment on whether it may actually be legal to nationalise Adele (the person) under English law? ChatGPT says it may be possible through an act of parliament, but I’m unsure whether I can trust ChatGPT in this case.

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Findecanortoday at 7:34 PM

Long list here: https://meettheuk.substack.com/p/a-complete-list-of-count-bi...

I could get behind most of them, actually ... were I to live in the UK.

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BigTTYGothGFtoday at 7:55 PM

> Nationalize Adele

I'm old and out of touch, my brain confused Adele with Alizée and thought that was a little aggressive for a foreign policy.

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simonwtoday at 7:13 PM

I've been trying to think of a UK musical act that works as well for "Nationalize Adele" and I've got nothing.

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MrsPeachestoday at 6:48 PM

Surely his post popular policy has to be :

* capping the price of a 99 flake ice cream at 99p

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dijksterhuistoday at 6:55 PM

Some discussion about the manifesto pledges in this interview, which is utter binface gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBh7uGwxmU

some extras

    * apply nurses pay to MPs
    * bring back ceefax
    * rename london bridge after phoebe waller
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vascotoday at 5:58 PM

Every election should have a funny absurdist person like this absorbing all the blank and null votes to give the other candidates more incentives to convince the electorate.

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tootietoday at 6:21 PM

Cap the price of Wigan kebabs at £2

sorokodtoday at 7:17 PM

Ich bin ein binliner

einpoklumtoday at 8:19 PM

Binface's most important non-platform items are:

  * Take millions in funding from shady crypto-billionaires.
  * Use anti-immigrant demagogy and lies.
zemtoday at 7:29 PM

honestly he should have won on his main if unstated plank, "not be nigel farage"

onion2ktoday at 6:36 PM

You missed the biggest one:

   * Not Nigel Farage