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Count Binface has a letter in today’s Times! 😂

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MayBee70 Thu 16-Jul-26 00:35:28

A taste for whimsy

Sir, James Marriott is clearly no fan of my putative run to be the next MP for Clacton (“This tedious British whimsy belongs in the bin”, Jul 14), describing it as “enforced jollity”. Enforced? Au contraire. It's called democracy. British democracy. It will be up to the good folk of Clacton-on-Sea to decide what belongs in the bin, and I for one can't wait to find out. If you've got a problem with that, Moscow and Beijing are but a plane ride away.
Count Binface
Prospective parliamentary candidate; Sigma IX

Padstow13 Thu 16-Jul-26 00:33:42

Count Binface possesses something Farage does not - the traditionally quirky Brit sense of humour.

But maybe one of his dodgy crypto-coin millionaire donors might buy him one?

MayBee70 Thu 16-Jul-26 00:19:56

I must copy it so I can add it to the letter I cut out of The Observer years ago from Screaming Lord Sutch when he was leader of the Loonies.

Witzend Wed 15-Jul-26 22:19:25

wendyann23

If I lived in Clayton he’d get my vote.

Your autocorrect is evidently doing the same as mine - trying to insist that Clacton should be Clayton!

Maremia Wed 15-Jul-26 21:25:11

Absolutely 💯

wendyann23 Wed 15-Jul-26 20:37:53

If I lived in Clayton he’d get my vote.

Witzend Wed 15-Jul-26 20:30:04

Evidently replying to a sour piece about him:

‘James Marriott is clearly no fan of my putative run to be the next MP for Clacton. (‘This tedious British whimsy belongs in the bin’) describing it as ‘enforced jollity’.
Enforced? Au contraire. It’s called democracy, British democracy. It will be up to the good folk of Clacton on Sea to decide what belongs in the bin, and I for one can’t wait to find out. If you’ve got a problem with that, Moscow and Beijing are but a plane ride away.’
Count Binface
Prospective parliamentary candidate, Sigma X.’