Count Binface Lifts The Lid

Count Binface Lifts The Lid

Crunch Time!

It's a UK General Election. It's the Politicolympics!

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Count Binface
Jul 02, 2024
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Greetings Countbinistas!

Well, well, well. Election week is finally here. And after six long weeks of campaigning, what have we learned? Rishi Soon-Axed is terrible at politics. Sir Keir Starmer’s dad was a toolmaker. And Sir Ed Davey loves watersports. (Of the non-sexual variety, I hasten to add. I have no reason to believe that the Russians have any kompromat on him. He’s clean. At least he was until he dived into Lake Windermere.)

In other words, things are pretty much where they were. The only big change I can detect is that Nigel Farage started off saying he would do one thing (not stand) and ended up doing something else entirely (standing in Clacton). Which in itself, paradoxically, also no change at all.

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