Ben Everard
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.
I’m almost slightly proud.
Ivor Hewitt@guffo makes your heart swell. ♥️
Ben@guffo It's awesome, honestly. The pomp and pagebtry of US elections belies a crumbling system that's teetering on the edge of outright fascism. Perhaps I'm misguided, but it feels like fascism can't do nearly as well when it's forced to share a platform with a man dressed as Elmo.
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.
eyajpng@guffo i only wish american politics would take itself this seriously
Also we have one candidate that I think approaches the level of eccentric you are speaking to.
I've seen Vermin Supreme and Lord Buckethead in the same picture, so they've met each other.
Odradek@guffo still team lordprotector larry, but ok with prime minister elmo
Ben from CDS@guffo Jamiroquai is looking his age, huh?
ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ@glenatron @guffo That’s my mate Nick.
Asta [AMP]@guffo but who is the muppet, and who is the man?
Condalmo.
glutto@guffo
I always thought the one episode of Blackadder with the election was mostly comedy. Turns out the joke is on me! This is far more interesting than the US election. It actually brings a smile.
I always thought the one episode of Blackadder with the election was mostly comedy. Turns out the joke is on me! This is far more interesting than the US election. It actually brings a smile.
lonely extrovert@guffo monster raving loony party?
Hilary@guffo seeing then-PM Rishi Sunak standing waiting for the results alongside a ventriloquist (with puppet) and Count Binface reminds me of the good that's in our electoral system.
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@guffo Just sent my American family Binface's General Election Results speech.
(Sorry about the Xitter link - only place I can find it)
@BonehouseWasps Excellent work!
@guffo I'm expecting some confused replies on the fmaily Whatsapp. 😆
Angie B@BonehouseWasps @guffo it's on YouTube as well
Yora@guffo America is a farce of a system of government.
The UK is a parody.
@guffo And now we are awaiting the ritual of a guy in a fantasy costume and a magic wand getting a door slammed ceremonially in his face.
Mori@guffo that’s how it’s done
Theriac@guffo
TLDR;
fat headed lawyer who will say he loves you to get a vote ousts petite billionaire who called a snap election so he could go off to challenge Musk to a VC off in the US but won his local election and now has to serve as a petite opposition seat warmer in Westminster.
TLDR;
fat headed lawyer who will say he loves you to get a vote ousts petite billionaire who called a snap election so he could go off to challenge Musk to a VC off in the US but won his local election and now has to serve as a petite opposition seat warmer in Westminster.
Dubi is here 
@guffo finally, a Silly Party landslide!
David Erik Nelson🪬
fuzzface@guffo Given what we have here in the USA, you have every right to be proud.
Bill, organizer of stuff
MJ@guffo Monty Python's "Election Night Special" skit has seemingly aged quite well.
Mathias Micheel@guffo which one is it?
@guffo it was the first time I really paid attention to UK elections and wow that is one hell of a weird country. When I read Harry Potter as a kid, it was all whacky and crazy and unbelievable, but now I think most of it is just standard UK stuff
Mike@guffo In America we have to choose between the guy in the hat, Elmo, or a guy with a carnivorous brain worm.
OGJester has moved@guffo I don’t know; at this point, as an American, I think I’d give the muppet a chance in office.
Minski@guffo Much more dignified than American elections.
sonicJazzMonkey@guffo but at least our government buildings aren't stormed by thugs that have been incited by the Losing candidate 🤣👍
Indistinct Chatter 🥄
McWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉@guffo When the US become the very same thing they vowed to abandon from.
Philip C James
stevenray@guffo congrats on the results!
People who impress as having no critical thinking skills stand next our winning politicians too, if/when those politicians are GOP. They don’t wear entertaining outfits, though.
VessOnSecurity@guffo Which one?
The Penguin of Evil@guffo There's something wonderfully British about an election photo with a muppet on the right and a muppet in front of the microphone
un teclado@guffo Which of them is your Prime Minister?
Josh Ourisman 
@guffo who’s the weirdo introducing Minister Elmo?
jbz@guffo Still remember a Brazilian politician that ran his entire campaign as Wolverine from the X-Men, another one ran as Rambo.
Not to mention mexican candidates doing dares 24/7 on Tiktok.
Óscar Morales Vivó@guffo It's good of the winner to let the other three candidates speak first.