• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    FWIW voter participation DID drop pretty catastrophically. Only around 44% - a drop in turnout of nearly 15%. And combined with the fact that all the other non-satirical parties skipped the election, Farage’s whole narrative of having a “mandate from his constituency” gets a fairly meaningful rug-pull. It’s obnoxious that he won, yes, but binface bested their previous record of votes received (308 - I heard the bin itself mention it in an interview a few days ago) by about 3000%.

    So, yeah, the continuing source of inspiration won, but achieved almost nothing of what he originally set out to do with this political stunt.

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      10 hours ago

      Well I guess that is a meaningful result then despite the tiny improvement, which by the sounds of it relative to Clackton, could be considered a large improvement when you look at the finer details. Lmao at the source of inspiration bit, hilarious and apt.