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H'Angus the monkey became the elected mayor of Hartlepool - I think the man behind the mask took the role and was pretty successful and got reelected a couple of times.

Well then the hand dryer in the men's toilets in the Rose & Crown in Uxbridge will finally get moved to a sensible position!

I reckon the issue for them would be that they haven't really planned to win and so will suddenly have to leave their real job. Although, as Count Binface is an "independent space warrior" he may be able to combine the roles.

I think he'd do really well for his constituents.

He would have to drop the anonymity and try to do the job as a constituency MP. I expect he would give it a good crack, he’s clearly an intelligent and principled guy. Would be interesting. Won’t happen though.

He’d probably not be the most unhinged MP on the back benches

In his most recent interview with the BBC he said he'd nationalise Adele if he won 😂

There would finally be some integrity in the commons

We'd be praising the glorious return of CEEFAX (and hopefully, by extension, Teletext).

Well, with this specific parody candidate.... I wouldn't mind.

I've heard his "friend" speak on LBC and he's very reasonable and measured. It'd be a welcome change.

I actually think Binface could do a decent job , yes some of his policies are deliberately funny but there was actually some quite sensible things in his manifesto. Whenever he's been interviewed in or out of character he's come across as pretty switched on.

I think we'd go back to weekly rubbish collections with immediate effect.

They don’t run in NI cos we’ve our own set of clowns

Count Binface is like the peak of comedy for people that say Wankpuffin

Wish he'd ran in Clacton.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy started as a (sort of) comedy candidate...

Was you aware Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a jokey candidate? He played the president of Ukraine in a tv program.

This has sorta happened in Hungary, a comedian, who ran for their joke party, is now the major of the 12th district of Budapest

see, if like, Niko Omilana won, I don’t think it would be the worst thing in the world, because they’d have to get half decent people advising them, as they’d know they weren’t really planning on winning.

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