NWOS WILL BE REAL IN LATE 2026

When the flirting comes with consequences

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

How Apollo took on clients who brought him nothing but trouble and still sympathized with and fought for them-- with Wocky's condition and Machi's fear as a child alone in a foreign country and Vera being manipulated and almost dying. He still fought for them even when Wocky confessed to murder and when Machi was revealed to have been lying and involved in smuggling and when Vera refused to even talk to him. He gave Wocky a reminder that his father cared and allowed him and his father a chance to mend their relationship, he looked at Machi and saw the scared little kid he was and decided to help him and apologized to Lamiroir for not letting him go free, he worried over Vera and cried when he found out she was okay and fought for her even when everyone thought her condition was hopeless and she wouldn't even live to see her Not Guilty verdict.

How Apollo, who could never be someone other than himself even if he tried, who puts his foot in his mouth and can't lie to save his life and cries over others' well being and lashes out when he's angry and is frequently disrespected, saved everyone in the end by facing down against Kristoph, his mentor, who embodies all the things Apollo isn't. He's a liar, he puts on a mask and cares about his reputation and image more than anything, he hides all of his emotions under a cool façade that earned him the title of "the Coolest Defense in the West" and the respect that came along with it, and how without all that he's nothing but a shallow, pathetic sore loser who ruined and took lives because he couldn't fathom the idea of somebody being better than him while Apollo remained as a beacon of light and the honest, impulsive, emotional and kind person he's been since the start of the game.

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