Taking the piss out of politics

[Lindsayt]

At 2 minutes 37 seconds into the embedded video
"I've just been jostled by Lord Bucket Head..."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/election- ... -the-night

And optimist of the year prize goes to Jo Swinson.
"Jo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.
Ms Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared to 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50771123

Edit: added a photo of Lord Buckethead and Count Binface (courtesy of the BBC and Reuters):

[savvypaul]

Let's get Brexit done

Should only take about 5 years, now...

[CN211276]

Feeling very depressed and fearful about the future. The only consolation is that I am not young. That demented parrot squawking the and lies of Demonic Cummings will take us over th cliff edge. If there was any credibility in anything he said he would be a Norwegian Blue - in a ditch.

The dye was cast when Labour appointed an unelectable inept fossil as leader.

[slinger]

On behalf of the cosmos, I'd to say "well done Britain, you're now, officially, cosmically, fucked."

40 new hospitals
20,000 new policemen
50,000 new nurses.

The cosmos will remember those numbers. Make sure you do too, Britain.

[savvypaul]

I'd carried on campaigning on behalf of my local MP, who held on in Durham City, but I knew some time ago that it would be a bad defeat, overall, for Labour.

2 issues...appearing to not respect the Brexit referendum result, and Jeremy's leadership style / back story.

Any Labour leader has always had to overcome a highly biased tabloid press. Jeremy was raw meat to the press barons' attack dogs. A genuinely good bloke, and his policies would be considered mainstream in Germany and Scandinavia, but he was never going to be elected PM in a Brexit dominated election once he put forward a second referendum.

In the long term, this might not be a bad one for Labour to lose. Johnson must now own the 'Vote Leave' consequences.

[Ali Tait]

Perhaps so, but so do we.

[savvypaul]

I know, mate. With a large majority, though, Johnson has the ability not to pander to the ERG. We will soon know just how hard or soft a leaver he is ...

[ArloFlynn]

'For what died the sons of England, was it greed?' (to paraphrasre the words of Luke kelly). For me it's the most important question asked of today's politics.

[Lindsayt]

I'd carried on campaigning on behalf of my local MP, who held on in Durham City, but I knew some time ago that it would be a bad defeat, overall, for Labour.

2 issues...appearing to not respect the Brexit referendum result, and Jeremy's leadership style / back story.

Any Labour leader has always had to overcome a highly biased tabloid press. Jeremy was raw meat to the press barons' attack dogs. A genuinely good bloke, and his policies would be considered mainstream in Germany and Scandinavia, but he was never going to be elected PM in a Brexit dominated election once he put forward a second referendum.

In the long term, this might not be a bad one for Labour to lose. Johnson must now own the 'Vote Leave' consequences.

Carry On Campaigning. Sounds like a film featuring Sid James and Kenneth Williams. With double entendres about ballot boxes, polls, infamy etc
(this is the taking the piss out of politics thread, after all)

[Docfoster]

I know, mate. With a large majority, though, Johnson has the ability not to pander to the ERG. We will soon know just how hard or soft a leaver he is ...

I agree. Counter-intuitively, the size of the Tory majority is the one crumb of comfort for those wanting British politics to return to the centre.
A narrow Tory win would have kept Johnson in coalition with the ERG, and given Corbyn more wriggle-room to stay.
A large Tory majority massively reduces the relevance of ERG, and gives Labour the chance of starting to become electable again.
Entirely possible that Cummings / Johnson will go full-fat loon Tory anyway, and that Momentum / Labour will continue to prefer being an angry ideological protest movement to being a potential government. But at this stage, a Tory majority large enough to eclipse both the number of ERG MPs, and Corbyn’s credibility, opens up the option of a return to more moderate politics.