There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
I mean...
Plus lord binhead is just out of view...
All of those had already been discussed by other people in the replies.
They make sense to me as joke/plural party candidates. We have both a Marxist/Leninist party and a Communist party. And they aren't joke candidates.
When I was 17, our mayoral race included a highschooler (18!!) who wore a mask of the incumbent mayor's face with the mouth cut out so she could make fun of his platform and record...
I am not very familiar with him. And called him the wrong name.
But he is a regular political candidate iirc. (And just out of frame on the right in that quoted image)
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I used to think that the election scenes from shows (like the second series of Blackadder) were hyperbole until the internet allowed me to see the actual lineups.
No. We don't. We probably should. Might help them be more humble!
We also don't make them all line up in a gymnasium during results-counting which feels like a loss, imho.
We let them have big gatherings with the rest of their party members instead. I once watched results at the pub with a Green.
