Great Googly Moogly It's All Gone To Shit

yeah Tegan tells Nyssa & Adric about drop bears but Adric (doesn't trust Tegan on literally any subject) goes and fact checks her and comes back like 'I looked up drop bears in the TARDIS library and they don't exist'

but then the Doctor is like 'actually not a lot of people know this but drop bears are real. I encountered one on a visit to New South Wales in the late 19th century. Fearsome creatures.'

And Jack and Daniel are just:

"no"

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

The inescapable blackhole