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0 pointsanigbrowl16y ago0 comments

The trend seems to go the other way in Britain - I notice several former Loony's now represent the Conservative party.

Funnily enough, when Thatcher was Prie Minister, she tried to pass a law banning joke candidacies, but failed. Besides challenges from Screaming Lord Sutch and various campaigners for lighter drinking laws, she also faced challenges from the dread-but-obscure Darth Vader lookalike, Lord Buckethead (Gremloids).

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pw0ncakes16y ago· 1 in thread

I remember when a nonexistent person won student body president in college.

jodrellblank16y ago

I remember when I could vote for "RON" in college.

It meant "Re-Open Nominations", or "I don't want to vote for any of you so let's call this a failed vote and we'll redo it in future. And we'll keep doing that until there are people or policies we positively want, instead of choosing the least worst option".

I miss that in 'real' politics. Imagine if everyone's default vote was 'nobody' and we had 'no government' until someone makes a party which is so good people really want to vote for it.

Would parties be any different then?

SandB0x16y ago

Who would get to decide if it's a joke candidacy?

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