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 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.
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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