I’m Tired And Everything HurtsAmerica: This is our Prime Minister winning his seat in parliament
I cannot express clearly enough, genuinely, with no sarcasm, how normal this is.
Mendie 
For two seconds yesterday as I was watching South Swindon announce, I confused Buckland with Buckethead.
Even so, a Yankee like me, should probably not need to know about that in the least.
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Not even sure what to call this.
Apparently the political parties have, like block print, basic bold single color logos. Almost akin to Wingdings.
Labour has... A rose? Conservatives have like a big tree?
A yellow dart arrow? A cog wheel? A bigger fatter arrow?
Is there a directory of these icons in use tonight? Perhaps with a synopsis of each party?
As a Yankee, I can appreciate more than a two party system. But, when do we approach too many parties?
@Mendie_Taoma I’ll have a look to see if I can find anything when I get home
Thanks.
Matthew Walton@Mendie_Taoma @guffo the Conservatives switched to a big painterly oak tree some years ago when they attempted to rebrand themselves as environmentally responsible.
Reform UK is a big arrow, alternatively it's a house lying on its side, tired of their unrelenting crap. I find it distracting at the roadside.
Labour is a rose, a very old symbol for various things in the UK.
Liberal Democrats use a stylised dove in flight.
The Green Party is the Earth as the centre of a sunflower.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE"stylised dove": Libby the bird of freedom
Virginicus
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@Mendie_Taoma @guffo how it works here (Sweden) is that anyone registering a party can run, but only parties getting more than 4% country wide get a seat in parliament. As for symbols we are very similar to the UK.
Gnomigut@WhyNotZoidberg @Mendie_Taoma @guffo almost the same here (Gernany). Parties have to get more than 5 % of the votes to get into Bundestag.
Lappenjammer@theVedek
Yeah but they need a lot of supporting signatures to be eligible to stand at an election.
Not too many independent candidates due to that.
@WhyNotZoidberg @Mendie_Taoma @guffo
PeteAny parties is too many parties.
As #GeorgeWashington said:
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Farewell Address - Saturday, September 17, 1796
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
econads@Mendie_Taoma @guffo
In the election I just participated in in Germany (admittedly local) there was about 10 A4 pages of close typed names, of which you could pick 48. The federal election was simpler.
In the election I just participated in in Germany (admittedly local) there was about 10 A4 pages of close typed names, of which you could pick 48. The federal election was simpler.