Thinking Too Much

Adham Alkhatip (Forward Party) (I've never heard of the Forward Party but they seem to be chill)

Rejoin EU (no candidate named yet) (single-issue party. self-explanatory)

Ollie Granger (Independent) (local guy. unclear at this stage what his politics are)

Reality TV star Luke Worley (independent)

Piers Corbyn, Jeremy Corbyn's conspiracy theorist brother

Lawrence Fox for the Reclaim Party (one of the splinter groups for people who think Reform isn't racist enough)

Kai Stephens (British Democratic Party) (this is another fascist party. i can only describe his vibes as like. Hitler Youth. google him and tell me im wrong.)

The Monster Raving Loony Party (no candidate declared)

Robert Pownall, who stands in elections dressed as a fox in order to. ok he is also self explanatory i think:

Pierre Poilievre, Canada's official opposition as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and a weaseldick who's literally never held a real job in his life, ran for his usual riding in Ottawa and ran into the Longest Ballot protest. There were 91 names on it and he lost to his Liberal opponent.

Poilievre then had to punt some other poor sucker out of their riding in Alberta to get any seat at all. Politically, in Canada, this is akin to losing a soccer game and demanding your 5-year-old cousin give you his place on his team for the next game.

The by-election ballot for the Alberta seat had 213 opponents.

Been watching through the old documentary series and it's a fascinating timecapsule of technology and attitudes on top of the still-gorgeous film, but because it's portrayed the way it is it's hard to tell what is being actually Studied-studied vs Fucked Around With.

Current guess is everything is documented, photographed, filmed, recorded, joirnaled to hell and back, but since they're at sea for so long someone else was maybe doing that writing and theorizing? Maybe? But there's also a lot of dead time on the boat so I could believe they were writing up a storm in-between dives too.

Also Rod Serling only has one setting, and it is not nature documentary narrator.

"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.

"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

an important thing to know about Count Binface is that he was previously Lord Buckethead, pictured here with Theresa May in 2017.

Lord Buckethead previously ran against Margaret Thatcher in 1987 and against John Major in 1992. Lord Buckethead ran for the Gremloids party.

Officially all Lord Bucketheads are the same Lord Buckethead who went away for a while and returned; however, it has come to light that Lord Buckethead (1987, 1992) and Lord Buckethead (2017) were two different guys under the bucket.

Following the 2017 general election the original creator of Lord Buckethead (not either of the guys who had worn the costume) asserted his legal rights over the character and 2017 Lord Buckethead acquiesced. and so, Count Binface came into being.

In the 2019 general election Lord Buckethead and Count Binface both ran against Boris Johnson, Binface as an indepent and Buckethead having joined the Monster Raving Looney Party. (NB this Lord Buckethead was a third different guy, not 87/92 Buckethead)

Lord Buckethead won the race but has not stood in an election since whereas Count Binface has been very prolific, running in two mayoral elections, two by-elections, and one further general election in 2024: