#nigel farage

At midnight, on the 12th of August, the first cylinder shot across the void landed in Horshell Common near Woking.

Yesterday, there was a Solar Eclipse which definitely wasn't a spaceship bloating out the sun as it travelled across the UK.

And today, I'm about to go vote for a 'man' who says he's from Sigma IX, leader of the Recyclons, and is standing against a known scam artist (several in fact), and an assortment of fascists, nationalists, and opportunists.

Les électeurs de Clacton-on-Sea se rendent aux urnes ce jeudi pour une élection partielle hors norme. Avec 34 candidats en lice, jamais un scrutin britannique n’avait vu autant de noms sur un bulletin de vote. Les 79 785 électeurs inscrits dans cette circonscription de l’Essex ont jusqu’à 22 heures pour élire leur prochain député. Un bulletin de vote record Le bulletin de vote s’étend sur 90…

I don't actually have a Bluesky account but this morning I noticed that the trending widget on that site now shows full headlines instead of keywords and the topmost is currently a claim that Nigel 'Frogface' Farage of the Reform Party has won the Clacton by-election that he called as a publicity stunt.

This is improbable not because it's necessarily an unlikely outcome but because polling opened less than half an hour ago at time of me posting this.