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as a matter of traditional British courtesy, Johnson acknowledged the candidates he defeated to comfortably retain his parliamentary seat west of London.

"I thank my fellow candidates in all their glory, Lord Buckethead, Elmo ... forgive me if I don't identify them all," Johnson said.

He wasn't imagining things.

Lined up alongside the besuited Johnson and his more traditional political foes were:

  • a man dressed as a furry red Sesame Street character who called himself Bobby Elmo Smith;
  • Count Binface who wore a silver garbage can over his head and an improvised suit of armor;
  • Lord Buckethead, who donned a similar receptacle, colored black, and a matching cape.

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[โ€“] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd argue that Bojo is also a joke candidate.

[โ€“] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago

And Liz L. Truss*.

*L stands for Lettuce.

[โ€“] Sasuke@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the only difference here is the joke candidates don't win

you had prime minister boris johnson

Exactly. We could have had Corbyn FFS.

[โ€“] letsgo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blimey, it was just one experiment with a dumb blond. Let it go already. At least we came to our senses and didn't elect that pillock a second time.

[โ€“] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have prime minister Kid Starver

[โ€“] frazorth@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The two points to that are

  1. It is still supposed to be the left of the two main parties.

  2. All of his talk about positions before the elections was a lot more left than the actual execution

For context, I voted Green because I don't like Labour. But I wouldn't hold what they are currently doing against Labour voters, as none of this was promised by them.

But there are a lot of Americans coming in here after voting for facism, that told everyone they wanted to fascist, and trying to explain how we are bad. At least our politicians lied about their actions.

So please explain more about how you voted for Nazis but we are bad. I'd love to hear more.

[โ€“] peto@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I do sometimes wonder what the world would be like if we just gave it to whoever worked hardest on their costume.

[โ€“] Emperor@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago

Cosplay Parliament.

[โ€“] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would unironically be an improvement.

[โ€“] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

I welcome our new overloard, count binface.

[โ€“] Darkard@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Count BinFace is the only man I trust with this country's future.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mature, have you seen how Parliament acts.

[โ€“] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

I totally want my US congressional representatives to holler out a big "NAY!" Sometimes that's the mature thing to do.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elmo only got 8 votes? Recount!!!

[โ€“] expatriado@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

he only counts until 10, so when reaching 11 count resets to 1

[โ€“] Haus@kbin.earth 11 points 1 month ago

Missing a cabbage.

[โ€“] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

How is Johnson not a joke candidate?

[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't see the difference. We both have Elmos. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

But they are on very different ends of the naughty-nice-scale u.u

[โ€“] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elmo trying to wiggle into UK politics, too? ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

No, the other one.

[โ€“] jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

FPTP mature???? It's the dummy's version of democracy.

[โ€“] PanArab@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I hope Elmo wins

[โ€“] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Steven Mangan is a very Tory-coded comic actor.