Danny Keeling 🌱

@NewhamGreens Membership Officer, @thegreenparty Councillor for Stratford 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Count Binface is actually going to put Nigel Farage in the bin.

[Mary-Ann Russon @concertina226]

Two weeks ago I booked tickets to see @CountBinface performing live in London, which seemed like a quirky fun thing to do 🗑️

Then Nigel Farage and the media furore happened, and somehow I randomly ended up being the only journalist in the audience last night at the sold-out gig (many journalists had begged to attend to no avail, apparently) 😅

The veteran journalist John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar interviewed him live on stage in the style of Jeremy Paxman and then it was opened up to the floor.

Overall, it was a very funny gig - John Harvey seemed to view the whole week is rather surreal. I think some of the best material he’d planned for the gig he’d already used on air, so he was literally ad-libbing satire on the spot based on what questions he was asked, which is pretty impressive given that the room was also not air-conditioned and so we were all sweating in close quarters for an hour and 20 minutes.

I also met one of his supposed supporters, who has been funding him at the rate of £3 a month for the last 15 years 💷 (in answer to the, “who is funding him?” question)

Here are some gems from the night 💎:

- Count Binface clearly really detests Nigel Farage

- Count Binface pledges to put David Attenborough on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square

- On the topic of AI stealing creative content and taking over our jobs, Count Binface wants to “stop the bots!” and thinks we should break into OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s house in the middle of the night steal his DNA to create a “Sam Altman AI”

- Count Binface admits he is “weak on uncontrolled immigration” given that he is an alien that travelled to Earth to stand as a joke candidate, but he says that he is holding back the rest of the spaceships from invading Earth 🚀

- However he did admit that he is an intergalactic space warrior who is bent on dominating mankind (I’m kind of up in the air about whether Clacton should vote for him now)

- The Count Binface helmet does come with some sort of cooling device, but sadly he left it in the dressing room last night before the gig 🫠

- Overall Count Binface said that he just really cares about democracy, and he doesn’t think we should count on him to become a member of Parliament or any other kind of statesmen. In fact, he would like to get only *just* enough votes to prevent Farafe from being elected.

- He just feels it’s important for the public to have the option to spoil their vote in order to express displeasure at current policies and politicians

- And John Sweeney has challenged Nigel Farage to submit for a live onstage interview (highly unlikely, methinks)

P.S. Do get in contact if you would like to use any of the images and videos that I captured last night. Yes, I do need to be paid, legal action will be taken if you use it without permission 😊

#CountBinface #JohnHarvey #NigelFarage #JohnSweeney #Clactonbyelection #UKpolitics

[LBC @LBC]

Who funds Count Binface?

@Lewis_Goodall has an answer...

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The Met Police is conducting a criminal investigation into at least £500,000 donated to Reform UK by the mother of convicted fraudster George Cottrell before the 2024 election

[Mothin Ali @MothinAli]

Admitting that the British government knows war crimes are being committed would trigger a legal duty to immediately halt arms sales.

https://t.co/qG7ocFqXFY

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

What’s that, @DaleVince? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is infuriating crap.

He says:

“There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.”

He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale.

He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act.

[Nicholas Cecil @nicholascecil]

New @ElectCalculus poll shows @ZackPolanski
Green Party winning in Barking, East Ham, Leyton and Wanstead, Walthamstow, Stratford and Bow, Islington South and Finsbury, Queen’s Park and Maida Vale, Vauxhall and Camberwell Green, Hackney South and Shoreditch...and more... https://t.co/CBspbPScLo

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🗳️POLL | Greens lead amongst under 50s 👇

{ 18-49 }
🟢Grn: 25% ( +14 )
🔴Lab: 20% ( -23 )
➡️Ref: 16% ( +5 )
🔵Con: 15% ( +2 )
🟠Lib: 14% ( - )

{ 50+ }
➡️Ref: 32% ( +14 )
🔵Con: 23% ( -11 )
🔴Lab: 16% ( -11 )
🟠Lib: 12% ( +1 )
🟢Grn: 8% ( +4 )

Via YouGov, 22 June (+/- vs '24)

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Labour donor Dale Vince has pledged to fund Count Binface's campaign against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election

[@SabriSun_Miller]

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🗳️BREAKING | The Green Party has confirmed it will not be running in the Clacton by-election.

This means the contest will be between:

➡️Incumbent MP Nigel Farage (Reform)
⚪️Perennial candidate Count Binface

Plus a handful of minor parties.

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

@ZackPolanski @JackDunc1 No

[Loïc @Fremond_]

Politically speaking, this is the correct course of action for all major parties. By triggering this by election, Farage sought (much like David Davis did in 2008) to demonstrate the public are on his side and that his constituents don’t care about his alleged financial misdoings.

By refusing to engage, the major parties deny that legitimacy. The only more insulting thing could be if voter turnout in Clapton was comically low.

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

@SVunny52957 Just asking why are you just a bot that insults and reposts gambling ads

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

How much money for this by-election? (1 ward for local council is £25K+)

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Current Nowcast Projection for Clacton:

➡️ RFM: 48.5% (+2.3)
🌳 CON: 19.2% (-8.7)
◼️ RES: 12.0% (New)
🌍 GRN: 8.2% (+4.0)
🌹 LAB: 6.2% (-10.0)
🔶 LDM: 4.6% (+0.2)

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

@SVunny52957 Sorry I am not understanding your language what is a “fuckwit”

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

Will truly be funny if no one but binface stands and he loses.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will not stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election

"We're not standing in a fake by-election"

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

@CountBinface @CllrAlexCatt If you win will you build a spaceport to ensure your next candidate will run against Reform UK?

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

Think what is more interesting is @CountBinface when they win, do we meet Duke Compost or Lady Recycling?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Count Binface says he will stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election

[Danny Keeling 🌱 @Dannny_K]

@Jools2775 @ZackPolanski WAIT! Is it grifting for £5M still? That sounds like lobbying the establishment to me.