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Bearly Politics is reporting that Ipsos has found more people want Count Binface to win than want Nigel Farage to win

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Ipsos has found more people want Count Binface to win than want Nigel Farage to win

Faragian Farce Day 5: Winning Isn’t Enough Anymore

Why Nigel Farage may still win Clacton, but lose the only contest that really matters.

It appears we now have a date for the Clacton-on-Sea by-election. Tendring Council has announced that the election will be held on the thirteenth of August, which is, by my reckoning, just over a month away. I initially thought it was going to be around the sixth, but another week doesn’t really change the fundamentals. It just gives us another week or so to watch the increasingly surreal political drama that has become the Faragian farce unfolding in public.

Faragian Farce Day 5: Winning Isn’t Enough Anymore, The Bear, Bearly Politics

Police officer dismissed over basketball row now running as Reform UK candidate in Mendip by-election

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A FORMER police officer who was dismissed after a “misuse of his position” in a row over a basketball is now standing as a Reform UK candidate in a council by-election.

Stuart Ball was dismissed from Avon and Somerset Police in 2019 after a “ridiculous and disproportionate spat” with Sports Direct staff over a basketball which, a misconduct panel heard, culminated in him making criminal allegations against the store’s manager.

Mr Ball insisted he had not been treated fairly and the issue had been “blown out of proportion.”

Now he is hoping to be elected as the first Reform UK councillor on Bath and North East Somerset Council in the by-election for the Mendip ward on July 3.

Police officer dismissed over basketball row now running as Reform UK candidate in Mendip by-election, www.mnrjournal.co.uk

Deadline looms to register to vote in £27k by-election after Reform councillor quits

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The by-election is expected to cost taxpayers £27,000

The deadline to register to vote in a by-election triggered by the resignation of a Reform UK councillor after just a fortnight is now looming. People in Eccleshall and Gnosall have a week to register to vote in next month’s Staffordshire County Council by-election which is costing taxpayers £27,000.

Former Eccleshall & Gnosall councillor Wayne Titley was one of 49 Reform candidates to be elected onto the council as the party secured a landslide victory on May 1.

But just two weeks later he resigned after coming under intense online criticism of social media posts attributed to him, including one which called for the Royal Navy to shoot at small boats in the English Channel.

Deadline looms to register to vote in £27k by-election after Reform councillor quits, www.stokesentinel.co.uk

Meet Reform’s ‘regretters’: the councillors quitting just weeks into the job

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Reasons range from dodgy social media posts to not being eligible to stand in the first place

Over 600 new Reform councillors were elected in the May 2025 local elections – and many seem to have been unprepared for it.

Reform is seeing an unusual number of councillors resigning in their first few weeks in office. In each case, this will trigger a council byelection costing in excess of £20,000.

Meet Reform’s ‘regretters’: the councillors quitting just weeks into the job, informuk.org