Why is it atypical? It’s a joke candidate running against a populist right wing politician with some real support. It’s exactly the kind of societal commentary this community finds interesting

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anonymousiam 8 hours ago | parent [-]

What's most interesting is that the "joke" candidate was put forth by the other parties, because they know they cannot win a fair election against Farage in his district. They're hoping for another "Boaty McBoatface" outcome here, but their strategy will fail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

	▲	MattPalmer1086 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Farage resigned to try to avoid the parliamentary standards committee over his undeclared millions in income. He framed it as letting the voters decide. That's not how it works - its a pure PR move. If he wins again he still gets investigated. The other parties declined to stand candidates as they did not want to play Farage's silly game - they want to investigate him.
	▲	mxmilkiib 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		what are you on? Farage resigned their seat because they got 5 million they didn't declare and wished to avoid parliamentary procedure, instead saying "the voters should decide", and the other parties knew it was only a PR stunt so declined to take place, because there will be a by-election (yet another £200,000) that will happen anyway once the undeclared gift gets him booted.