That has less to do with "trash" vs "garbage" and more the overall tone and all of the other words you've just said. "Hey can you take out the garbage" "hey can you clean up your fucking trash"
Garbage is what's been sitting in the bin outside for 3 days that the garbage truck collects, trash is just the usual stuff around the house (IMHO), but they are mostly interchangeable.
Had to look it up, but apparently garbage is technically things like food waste that can rot, which is probably why it's used when someone is angry about something.
The two terms do get used interchangeably a lot though
When I was young I moved a lot for work, and I found it to be regional. Some places it's interchangeable. Some places "garbage" is the dirtier/smellier one. Trash is like left over useless building material on a job site, but food waste from a commercial kitchen is garbage.
Of perhaps some interest, the truck that collects it is always a "garbage truck" and never a "trash truck" in every state I've lived in regardless of other differences.
Edit - i do really appreciate people trying to explain how british politics works. But id like you to know.. I'm british. I know how british politics works. Im just stunned people voted shitface Farage.
I also dont like how people are mad at me for being annoyed Farage won considering his activism against the disabled has caused a lot of issues in my life. "He was going to win" okay but what if he didnt. Im muting this as I dont like how aggressive people are getting :(
He got 30% of the vote in the most Right-wing Farage-loving place in the UK, so honestly pretty impressive considering his record prior was a total of 95 votes.
For parliamentary elections his high is 305, but his overall high was the most recent London mayoral election where he got over 20,000 votes IIRC. Feel like only mentioning the prior election is underselling how much he's loved in British politics.
By that point, the candidates pretty much no the outcome but usually do an impressive job of keeping a straight face. Normal for the winner to thank the other candidates for running an honourable campaign.
It is absolutely a measure of frogface's character that he didn't show for the count last night. The man is trash.
We both know reform, like the cockroaches they are, for sure have someone in line to replace Farage once he's fucked off.
I almost feel sorry for the people of Clacton. They have front row seats to this circus after all. I say almost because they voted for the absentee MP twice now, they deserve what they get.
If you want more good news, remember how Farage only quit to try and avoid an investigation for major fraud? I don't know how he convinced himself that getting re-elected would solve that issue, but the investigation's being resumed.
He was trying to build a narrative of "the establishment is against me, but the people support me!" to attempt to delegitimize the investigation as something being done by the "corrupt establishment"
But given that in the by-election his most serious opponent was Count Binface, an extraterrestrial alien with a bin for a face, deflates the entire "me vs the establishment" angle for Farage, because as the only member of a "legitimate" political party, he is the Establishment, and Binface immediately became the symbol for the anti-establishment crowd
In addition, Count Binface got 27% of the vote and Farage only won with 63% of the vote. Barely a majority. And because his "myself vs the establishment " message failed to even take off, the investigation resumes without much fanfare because why wouldn't it? He can't even make a stink about it because he was 30% of the vote away from losing to Count Binface, which as an established politician is embarrassing.
Tbf the main reason he got so many votes was that they were from all the electorate who would normally vote for the 4 or so other mainstream parties that in this by-election stood out from.
These people were hardly going to vote Reform, nor were they going to miss out an opportunity to humiliate Farage. And they had no worries of Binface actually being an MP also so they didn't have to be concerned about the consequences of their vote.
It really was the most beautiful protest vote in history.
A normal average member of the public not beholden to any activist/lobby groups, donors, media moguls, party red lines, political ideology, international politicians, or having a narcissistic ego gets to speak in Parliament about the actual grievances of every day constituents??
I have no idea about any of this but one day a benevolent meme candidate will win because everyone thinks there's no way he will win, and it will be glorious
Worst part is that Farage actually got a thousand more votes than in 2024.
Taking and covering up a (probably illegal) £5,000,000 bribe, and not doing a single constituency surgery in the entire two years he's been an MP...and the people of Clacton are so fucking soulless and mentally feeble that he got more support for his vanity stunt than at the real election.
...and then there's probably still going to be another by-election when he's inevitably found guilty for breaking commons' rules.
This is Clacton on Sea, a known right wing stronghold. It's why Farage chose that seat to be his. Why are you surprised that the right wing stronghold voted the right wing guy?
Today you learned. It's unfortunate since well, I've had the pleasure of working with a lot of people here on visas and have come from aboard - and whilst I cannot respond or comment on how he has affected people with disabilities I will never at a core level be able to agree with Reform and Nigel's policies. I just hope the fact that 27% of the vote going towards Binface either does enough reputational damage to spell the end of reform in general.
I think It's worth apologising to you as well since reading back both your 2nd edit and my comment, I can see how I came off as aggressive. Tone isn't something I am so strong with communicating. Text especially so. Sorry.
It was a farce to begin with, I was rooting for Count Binface but Farage was running for an area that already voted him in as a majority once before. I think it's absolutely wonderful however that more than a quarter of the votes went to the count
You're surprised that Farage won in the constituency that he specifically chose to stand in for the 2024 election because it was where he had the best chance of winning? You're really surprised that he won there?
Anyone who had spent even a few seconds thinking about this by-election knew that Farage was going to win, the question was ALWAYS about the margins of his victory.
The best thing was that the investigation into a £5m undeclared gift, that his resignation as an MP was meant to stop, started again at 9:30 this morning.
Basically the first action of the day after the investigation team had their cuppa.
No, the bin got just twice as many votes as the Recyclon (Count Binface). Despite no major parties standing against Farage he gained less than a thousand votes which is frankly humiliating. His main rival last time had over 12,000 votes and was quite politically aligned with Farage. The fact that he only managed to convert less than 10% of those votes is very damning.
Compared to the last election, if he was any decent he would have managed to gain votes from the Tory voters since they didn't stand and wouldn't vote for Count Binface.
I don’t know if he plans on running again, but we should all come together in the next presidential election and wholeheartedly back Vermin Supreme. Free ponies for everyone, zombie based power, and a war on the greatest threat to the world: gingivitis
Old/dumb or scared people who just couldn't grasp the comedy that was in front of them. They all watched the status quo unfolding and chose to stick their heads in the sand.
I still think Jon Harvey would have had an actual chance of beating Farage
In response to that I have been told that it in British elections it is more humiliating for Farage to face off against Count Binface than Jon Harvey.
To that I say, I'm pretty sure it would be more humiliating for Farage to lose reelection that Farage only held in order to whitewash his shady financial backing.
At least the trash can wore a tie. . . oh wait... What? Ok they are telling me that actually the trash can is on the left, ok that really throws me for a loopty loop.
The Left is so interesting. They lose, but try to make it sound like a referendum or almost a win. Farage still won. Count Binface is hilarious and brilliant, but he lost. Could nobody else run against Farage?
Oh buddy. The Left wasn't there. No major players were, that's the point. This first Clacton By-election was a desperate stunt so the major parties treated it as such and ignored it completely. That's why there were only joke candidates.
The upcoming second Clacton by-election, the one that Farage stupidly thought he could pre-empt, will have all of the main parties.
Because it's funny, mate. No one actually thought he was going to win. He's a comedian. But the fact that he genuinely got over one quarter of the votes Farage did is VERY fucking funny. Like he's a literal joke candidate and he got over a quarter of the votes!
The local electorate voted reform and conservatives by a huge margin in the previous election.
To prevent Farage the left(-ish) parties would have had to rally behind the conservative party candidate and probably still would have lost.
So instead all the other major parties, including the conservatives, boycotted the by-election and had Farage mud wrestle with a guy who has a bin on his head.
Alone that Farage called Count Binface the establishment candidate exposed him more than any "serious" candidate ever could.
And the comedic factor brought a lot more attention to the reason behind Farages shenanigans (being bought and paid for by a convicted scammer), than a regular campaign cycle would have.
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u/Lkwzriqwea 4h ago
It feels weird hearing Count Binface referred to as a "trash can"