Farage has re-won his seat, receiving more than 22,000 votes in Clacton, on the Essex coast.
Binface had his highest share yet with 9,455 votes
Reminds me of the Obama Senate run in '04, where he was running against Allen Keyes and the people who voted for Keyes were used to define the term "Crazification Factor"
Really speaks to the state of British politics when you can lose an election by 30-pts and get excited about it.
Incidentally, reading speeches from George Bush Jr in 2026 really recalibrates my expectations for the country long-term. So easy to forget that this guy was an utterly brainless, dry-drunk, failson bigot, after his reputation got glazed through the Obama/Trump Era.
the GOP can continue to score bitching points with their base
The joke of the last 30 years has been the GOP crying "The media is against us!" through louder and larger corporate media megaphones with every passing election cycle.
But the punchline is that bitching about the media being mean is now a central function of federal government. Nothing fucking works because all the top leadership positions are occupied by professional whiners.
Company A starts what we’ve discovered is essentially an inbreeding program, with extra steps.
The Habsburgs prove you can keep grinding on for a while even when you're inbreed to shit. But the notion that you need to inbreed in order to get ahead in business is borderline superstitious. Rather, large and entrenched businesses have the luxury of doing this inbred bullshit so long as their social networks can support a steady business income from monopolized industry and captured markets.
Company A: "We're done with this DEI shit. Fire everyone browner than a paper bag and promote only the most nepotistic failkids during White Boy Summer"
Company B: "We're going to continue hiring and promoting on merit and... oh wow, we've got a bumper crop of talented, motivated LGBTQ and POC suddenly lining up outside the door."
Like…we can’t just write off everyone else’s misery and suffering because you personally found a way to avoid it.
The degree of privilege required to even entertain making a living as a YouTube starlet is astronomical.
And, again, free video hosting and distribution! That's why 99% of people put videos in YouTube. You can host something and pass it around without needing a self-hosted solution to manage it.
Enlisted recruits are barely more than indentured servants under modern US law. There's really no depravity the state can't subject you to while on deployment. And no way to escape from mandatory re-enlistment under Stop-Loss policy.
Maybe military servicemen would be treated better if they had they same kind of union representation as postal carriers and cops.
Maybe the self-proclaimed labor-friendly Dems need to talk about giving soldiers the right to withhold their labor and negotiate proper terms with their employers.
Hey! Good news. We're important enough to be appeased now. We're not just getting blamed whenever Dems shit the bed electorally.