alisonborealis (she/her): 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.

Is it common for UK politicians to wear best in show ribbons like they're horses or dogs??

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.

No thoughts about the 7 foot tall guy holding up a literal L, or the ventriloquist dummy like this is the world’s weirdest pageant?

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...

pisstaking is crucial to fair discourse

100! The university joke candidates regularly won, iirc. Especially when Your Mom ran for president. And Space Moose.

Don’t joke about space moose.

No jokes. Space moose ran for SU president. Although it is not reported here. En.wikipedia.org/wiki/space_moose

en.wikipedia.org

Amazing

It truly was. Some election pageantry I understand. I didn't know about the rosettes. Everyone here just seems to wear colour-coded ties/accessories.

we have the rhinoceros party for joke candidates

Oh yeah, I always forget about them. And the cannabis party... though I think they may have disbanded since legalization.

I’m up at the cabin and had a lovely day of boating and fishing and brats and beans. What’s a lord binhead?

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) bsky.app/profile/mart...

The Monster Raving Loony Party no doubt... But where's Count Binface?

Happy 4th!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Count Binface: ‘Adele is a creative powerhouse and one-woman GDP boost. Which is why I pledge to nationalise her’www.theguardian.com The comedian and candidate for Rishi Sunak’s Yorkshire seat on reintroducing Ceefax and beating the far right

There was also previously a Lord Buckethead. So you might have been combining those.

The more I learn about English politics, the more I understand Douglas Adams.

I present you with: Count Binface

It's such a professional costume!

It is this time... it was jankier previous elections

Well, one expects political experience to bring a certain level of polish...

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