So Binface lost? What happened to all the Internet energy, likes, shares, and blog and social media posts?

Maybe Farage was always destined to win.

mulderc 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Farage was always going to win, but he also ended up losing, as this showed Reform to be weaker than it looked before the election. His vote count was basically the same as the last election with 22,239 yesterday compared to 21,225 in the 2024 election, even though he had no competition from the major parties. Count Binface was able to get 27% of the vote, similar to what the Conservative Party candidate received in 2024.

Farage wanted a huge mandate from the voters and got at best a tepid response and then he didn't even show up for the vote count and cancelled planned events. This was an embarrassment for him and reform and might mean a very likely future by-election could be much more competitive than it was before all of this.

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choult 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He was, that is solid Reform territory.

But Farage did not get to control the narrative of the situation ghat _he_ created - instead managed to beat a man with a bin on his head.

Well done, Nige.

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Glandalf 11 hours ago | parent [-]

BBC’s the State media, run by British Intel. THEY create the narrative, and we know what they think of Farage and Reform.

	▲	nephihaha 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The BBC has had Nigel Farage on constantly. He is one of the most frequent guests on BBC Questiontime, their flagship political programme for at least fifteen years. He is partly of their creation.
	▲	rapind 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Wait, so you are saying that Farage did not receive an undisclosed £5 million personal gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire? Or he did, but any reporting on it is obviously the deep state ganging up on him?
	▲	sebastialonso 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Uh, so you Brits have this kind of chaps too?

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rapind 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> What happened to all the Internet energy, likes, shares, and blog and social media posts?

I suspect this is sarcasm? Farage did underperform and Binface did exceed expectations so... I'm not sure whether or not that's due to internet energy or not, but it certainly went well for Binface... and more importantly, increased attention on the crypto corruption.