General News Thread

[Md9]

Farage finally has someone calling him out on stuff and he sh** the bed and throwing himself a pity party 

[Md9]

Now trump is bored of Iran he is now going back to wanting Greenland. Be Canada being the 51st state again next week 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

What a complete and utter waste of everyone's time and tax payers money.

Yes, he is

[CosbehFox]

Remember the fuss when Coutts wouldn’t give him a bank account? 
 

It’s become clear now why. They didn’t want any dirty money near them that he keeps receiving. Tice on the take too off the fraudster 

[hackneyfox]

What’s Tice done?

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, hackneyfox said:

What’s Tice done?

Received £1.5m via George Cottrill’s mother to his think tank / Reform. 
 

Both donations were flagged by the NCA and investigated 

[CruzNoir]

9 hours ago, Sampson said:

What a complete and utter waste of everyone's time and tax payers money.

In an ideal world, the powers that be won’t allow for the fraudster to dictate the process of a by election until the ongoing investigations have concluded.

 

Realistically the other parties just won’t run for it and leave the big racist fascist to it 

Edited Wednesday at 04:20 by CruzNoir

[OntarioFox]

Clacton has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever if it really does end up being Farage vs. Binface.

 

It's basically the Driffield election from this sketch at this point.

 

 

[TiffToff88]

1 hour ago, OntarioFox said:

Clacton has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever if it really does end up being Farage vs. Binface.

 

It's basically the Driffield election from this sketch at this point.

 

 

It's looking increasingly likely that it will come down to only Binface standing against him. Given that Farage got 47% of the votes at the last election there, and that some of his supporters there have grown some self awareness and realised he's nothing more than self serving pond scum, there's a very real chance that Binface could actually win if everyone who voted for anyone other than Farage at the last election does so again this time around.

Edited Wednesday at 07:57 by TiffToff88

[Footballwipe]

...And if by some miracle Binface did win, you know for sure their blame would lie with the "uniparty" and establishment politics who decided to disrespect Clacton voters by not running (aka they didn't run so the vote wasn't split for me to win)

[Brizzle Fox]

Good to see everyone's favourite man of the people sticking it to the establishment.

 

I'll raise a pint of real ale to that 

[davieG]

On 06/07/2026 at 21:24, Md9 said:

Nothing would be better than waking up in the morning to Belgium winning and Americans pretending they didn’t care anyway . He turns everything into shite 

[davieG]

[leicsmac]

Binface at 9/2 at William Hill, apparently. 

 

Even if he doesn't really look like winning, Binface simply getting close enough to make Farage take the opponent "seriously" would be damagingly embarrassing.

[LCFCJohn]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Binface at 9/2 at William Hill, apparently. 

 

Even if he doesn't really look like winning, Binface simply getting close enough to make Farage take the opponent "seriously" would be damagingly embarrassing.

It’d just never be a possibility with the other parties running.

 

I guess it comes down to whether more people will go out and vote in protest against Farage/Reform than support them. 
 

If it was my area, I’d definitely be voting Binface!

[Clogger_]

I'm all over £1 cap on croissants as a policy. Beats racism every day of the week. Go Binface

[Spiritwalker]

Hopefully one of the TV channels will put on a live debate between the candidates.

[Foxdiamond]

Staggering that working class people would pin their hopes on Farage

[Thommo]

VOTE COUNT BINFACE!!!

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, Clogger_ said:

I'm all over £1 cap on croissants as a policy. Beats racism every day of the week. Go Binface

Does it apply to Pain au Chocolate too? Still voting Binface like but croissants are a bit dull! 

[leicsmac]

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be given the death penalty in the UK, given a posthumous pardon/commutation. 

 

Darkly ironic that the last use of an absolute punishment (death penalty) against a woman in the UK has now been shown to be a miscarriage of justice. Shows how flawed the entire system always was.

[Foxdiamond]

3 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be given the death penalty in the UK, given a posthumous pardon/commutation. 

 

Darkly ironic that the last use of an absolute punishment (death penalty) against a woman in the UK has now been shown to be a miscarriage of justice. Shows how flawed the entire system always was.

Don't think she helped herself at the trial. Not exactly a miscarriage of justice as she did shoot the bloke but the death sentence as you say reduced to imprisonment 

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Don't think she helped herself at the trial. Not exactly a miscarriage of justice as she did shoot the bloke but the death sentence as you say reduced to imprisonment 

And how many others, I wonder, saw the gallows that shouldn't have done?

[Foxdiamond]

5 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

And how many others, I wonder, saw the gallows that shouldn't have done?

Evans, Bentley, Thompson spring to mind. One off the surprising cases is that of Hanratty that many thought not guilty only for DNA evidence years later proved he did murder Michael Gregsten and almost kill Valerie Storie

[leicsmac]

10 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Evans, Bentley, Thompson spring to mind. One off the surprising cases is that of Hanratty that many thought not guilty only for DNA evidence years later proved he did murder Michael Gregsten and almost kill Valerie Storie

Quite right. 

 

Just goes to show that absolute punishments cannot belong in an imperfect system, unless someone considers the idea of "collateral losses", however small, acceptable.