I've been wary of joke candidates ever since I watched that black mirror episode
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".[14] Finally!
This was achieved before the Uxbridge by-election. Which is pretty good going for a pub [1] built at the same time as the first European settlement in the interior of the continental US [2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_and_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_San_Juan_(Joara)
I don't think so! They signed a treaty to move the hand drier if he is elected but that has yet to take place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbartLXCYZo&t=91s
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#44There is something about this that makes me so very happy.
Sadiq Khan shaking Count Binface's hand during the London mayoral results announcement is rather touching. https://youtu.be/jkbX0DBhvKE?si=LAz-9-9JYM0N0EBy
He kind of did a service to Khan by beating the far right candidate.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly Count Binface not being in the House of Lords is some kind of administrative oversight?
The modern Lords is composed of a mix of Life Peers, who were sent there in their lifetime by the Monarch, generally in fact as a result of the government of the day (ie elected politicians) choosing them†, and a fixed number (from the pool) of Hereditary Peers, who have inherited this honour typically (but not always) from their father and so on, perhaps for centuries. Historically all the Peers could sit, today a f…
> a fixed number (from the pool) of Hereditary Peers, who have inherited this honour typically (but not always) from their father and so on, perhaps for centuries.
That's so incredibly embarrassing and anachronistic.