America: This is our Prime Minister winning his seat in parliament
I cannot express clearly enough, genuinely, with no sarcasm, how normal this is.

@guffo

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.

@guffo

I couldn't tag you. So I'll copy paste.

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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 @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.
@WhyNotZoidberg @Mendie_Taoma @guffo almost the same here (Gernany). Parties have to get more than 5 % of the votes to get into Bundestag.

@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