Non-UK people should read up about Laurence Fox if they want a good laugh.

Some career highlights:

• Destroyed his acting career and his marriage by being an upper class right wing shit.
• Destroyed his subsequent gig as a right wing pundit on GB News by being too misogynist on air.
• Called some drag queens paedophiles after they called him racist. He was sued for defamation and he countersued. He lost on both counts.
• Stood for election as an MP and lost his deposit.
• Stood for election as London Mayor and lost his deposit.
• Tried to stand for election as London Mayor a second time and didn’t get on the ballot because he didn’t fill in the paperwork correctly
• Stood for election to the London Assembly and lost his deposit.

To be fair to him, on his first run at London Mayer, he did get nearly twice as many votes as Count Binface, a candidate who claims to be from space and wears a dustbin on his head.

Oh so you guys have your own variant of Vermin Supreme?

Novelty candidates are a highlight of UK politics - practically every high profile election has some.

The brilliant thing is that they’re treated as seriously as the main party candidates by the election machinery - they appear on politics programmes and appear onstage stood next to the career politicians during the results readings.

H’Angus the Monkey, the Hartlepool FC football mascot, even got elected as mayor of Hartlepool a few years back.

There’s an entire novelty party, The Monster Raving Looney Party, which has been going strong since the 80s, and fields candidates across the country.