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spiderfarmer
When you over commit to a bit.
defrost
There have been worse candidates for Mayor of London and several of those have won.

Wait until Binface out McBoatfaces the Brexit vote, it's bound to happen .. eventually.

robin_reala
For reference for non-UK people: anyone can apply to be a Member of Parliament for your local area, assuming you can pay the initial fee (you get it back if you get enough votes). The prime minister (and other cabinet ministers) are also MPs for a local area. This means that you can get some fun photos on election day into the newspapers when journalists turn up to capture the results of the local vote for senior MPs. For example: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p07xt6k2.jpg
SideburnsOfDoom
Addendum: today (Thursday 2 May 2024) is local Election day, "in most areas of England and Wales" i.e. For London mayor, city council, etc.
asplake
By convention making today a quiet news day, politics-wise
defrost
> For example:

That unruly man child mid picture barely made an effort at cosplay :/

ben_w
Along with the obligatory "look at this idiot standing next to Lord Binface and Elmo!"

(The satirical news show Have I Got News For You would still say that even if it wasn't Johnson).

BoxOfRain
I love how our Prime Minister no matter how grand has to be re-elected standing next to a bunch of comic characters, it's a little moment of speaking truth to power in my opinion. You surely can't feel too big for your boots standing next to Count Binface.
FerretFred
I hope the Monster Raving Looney Part are standing: i'd love to see the Media cover a face-off between them.
mrlonglong
People like him make voting fun. It's what I love the most about the UK, the chance to throw shade at certain politicians in the Tory party. I'm voting Labour today to kick out the Tory PCC in my local area.
Rinzler89
Haha, yeah, wish the US would have joke candidates too. Oh wait, one of them even won.
tetris11
Me too, but I'm not hopeful for any meaningful change.

Labour will win landslide the next election, but won't undo much of the damage from the last decade.

No loan forgiveness, no new housing, no proportional voting system.

I hate that "tactical voting" is all we have.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF
You have fptp there too?
blisstonia
Yes, unfortunately. In the past the London Mayoral and London Assembly votes were Proportional Representation — but that changed this year.

General Elections in the UK have always been FPTP.

mrlonglong
The corrupt Tories changed the voting system for PCCs, now it's fptp. It's long past time we went for PR to put an end to the major parties' grip on power.
valdiorn
You know we're in trouble when I look at count binface and think "he's definitely not the craziest candidate running"...

Btw he used to be known as Lord Buckethead but had a trademark dispute over his name, and rebranded as Count Binface.

blisstonia
On the ballots today, the best logo (read: branding) was that of Count Binface.